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Design
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01.27.12Form inspires FunctionSome late update on my workshop at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel. I was invited to hold a one week workshop during the Forum, an interdisciplinary working week. For the workshop I was able to recruit students from free art, industrial design and spatial strategies. The task was to question the form follows function principle and developing it towards a "form inspires function" paradigma. Basicly it´s time to rethink this, anyway. The aim of the workshop was to create a digital ready made out of 3d scanned all day objects. For the scanning we used 123D-Catch. These objects had ...
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01.27.12Listen to my RadioLast march, yes last years march, I held a one day workshop with pupils from the Berggruen Highschool in Berlin. I got support from the students Katharina Bredies, Amelie Hinrichsen and Fynn Freyschmidt to host two 12th grade classes in one big room at the university of the arts Berlin. The kids were invited by their arts teacher to design a radio that only plays one station, the designers favorite station. In the end the radios had to display the characteristics of the owner and his or her favorite station through their material, colour and shape. Tricky task for the ...
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11.17.11Goldner Anker ArtworkOver the last three month I was working on the artwork for the new record of Dresden based poostpunk band Goldner Anker. The project includes LP sleeve, CD digipack, posters and shirt designs. I tried to create a fine but still raw and basic atmosphere within the motives. Less metaphors, no symbols, all very plain and open to interpretation. I used portrait photographies of the three band members, cut them to slices and rearranged it into a new face. All analogue with scalpel, ruler and gluesticks. The final reprography was shot by Jens Beyer and Armin Bronco. The font is ...
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06.21.11Space to Space LectureI am invited to give a talk about the space to space paradigm at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel Germany. This talk will feature plenty projects that link between spatial input and spatial output. Few of these projects are well known, some are surprisngly new and one or two are by myself. The lecture will take around an hour and starts next tuesday 6pm at the faculty of interaction design. If you are around: drop in!
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05.10.11Sketching in Space in DresdenThe Sketching in Space project has been exhibited in my alma mater in Dresden during an exposition on the function of design in cooperative processes. Boscij Piatza and Alexander Müller, two students from the university redesigned the sketching tools and helped to set up the objects for the exhibition. Currently the both work intensively with the Fraunhofer Institute Berlin to advance the sketching application towards better integration in design processes! I will keep you updated on the progress! It feels good to leave the project a bit and handing it over gives me the opportunity to research more about the ...
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10.31.10Schwarmlabor - The BookAfter more than one year it´s done: the documentation of the Schwarmlabor / Swarmlab project from summer term 2009 is available. The book features all the projects and workshops that took place during the whole term, including the processing and arduino workshop. It also contains an exclusive imprint of the talk given by Prof. Niels Werber about transnational swarms and essays by Prof. Axel Kufus, Prof. Gesche Joost and Prof. Dr. Ingo Rechenberg. The whole editorial and design work was done by me during the last year. Below you can flip through the pdf and if you like you can ...
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09.29.10SMSlingshot at MediaLab PradoWe are back from a short but very intense and inspiring trip from Madrid. We had the opportunityto show the SMSlingshot during the white nights festival at the MediaLab Prado. It was the first time we used the new graphic engine and a LED facade as hardware. What to say?! It worked out very smoothly, no problems and the people enjoyed the performance very much. By far the best message that have been shot during the whole project. Thanks madrid, espacially carles, daniel, monica and nerea for making it possible!
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07.19.10kicking the post out of modernFlights go on wednesday, nothing is packed, everything is dismantled and a slight feeling of stress is coming up. But as always everything will work fine and we´ll be standing at Tegel with three realtime working SMSlingshots ready to be shown at the museum of modern art Sao Paulo, a perfectly worked out keynote lecture for the FILE symposium and enough sound, books and happy vibes to stand the long flight to brazil. As you might now allready know, we are invited to show our SMSlingshot project during the FILE electronic art fesitval in Sao Paulo Brazil. We will show it ...
