Ist´n it?!
Got a bit crazy about this Illu – a mass made of certain pictures, stories and thoughts i had coming into my mind over the year 2011. Will send it to my family and friends soon. Hope they like it. I´m quite happy with the result though.
If you want to have a wallpaper for your computerscreen just contact me and I´ll send you one…

You can also download 2 closer stills from the ‘piece’ as wallpapers in the Freebie-area!

Yes, it ended up to be a bit darkish. Wanted to play with light and lighteffcts. I guess, this is all about winter, the END of the year, and cosy christmas-feeling – oh and of course – we are in the world of ‘Menina‘.

And thanxs again Abduzeedo for your great inspirational Tutorials – they have been responsible for a big part of my improvement.

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A lil x-mas special offer – since there are offers everywhere – so why should i stand behind that saesonal trend?
These wallpapers refer back to my latest entry: X-mass(acker)

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And further down there you´ll find Albert aka Ali!
Feel Free to download the Wallpapers i created for iPhone 4 – 640 × 960px – now that I´m a proud User of iPhone 4s. Well then, Siri: Take the Ali – you will get along swimmingly with him – he is charming, sweet, smart and very brave.
This is also a next step in developing the character of ‘Albert Kruger‘.

‘Virtual Window’ was the name of this installation at the Exhibition Stand of the Deutsche Telekom this year at the Ifa.

The interactive device iPad was located 2m in front of the screen/window.

This is the Look at the Fair.

The Principle of the Virtual Window.

The cover of the window could be opened in real from the iPad.

The iPad in use.

The Look of the Virtual Window/Screen.

The Try to show the use of both devices ;)

Impressions of the 3D-generated Rooms of the house.

Nice’n’shiny is the design of the buttons i created for the iPad-Application. Each room got one color for orientation.

This is a Re-Use of the Design I made for the Cebit 2011 (Telekom Stand) last winter. A gigapan of enormous dimensions ;) compressed on just one screen and aplied to a single-touch-application. This ‘Panorama der Visionen (Panorama of Visions) has won a ”Red Dot Design Award‘ this year.

Something of the meninaverse – she is like cute.
The basic idea was to combine all the meninas with each other – either through the things she is holding or the content itself. This peice is meant to be a poster out of different parts, which you can collect.

That might be a dream becoming true of one of my best friends. His wish was a ‘Menina’ just for himself. A rocker one. And because both of us are miss lewis-fans, it was pretty clear to me, that it ought to have some relations to juliette…. The illustration is still in progress. You can see the color adjustments i made. Having relations to a real rockin’ human being let me exchange the feather. I think, it fits well in front of the recycling toiletpaper i used for the background.
There is still a cord missing. And yes, it is on purpose, playing the guitar up-side-down . ‘Menina’ is just too cool to do it the standard way. The guitar is a left-handed one, Jimmy Hendrix used to play.

The whole piece.

Besides other nice multimedial Design Projects I´ve worked on for the Deutsche Telekom Stand at Cebit 2011 – my main Project was the conception and design of a gigapan. Yes;
another gigapan of enormous dimensions ;).
This one ‘Panorama der Visionen’ (Panorama of Visions) won a ”Red Dot Design Award‘!
Please watch the explaining video.

You can find more pictures and descriptions about the project ‘Panorama der Visionen’ (Panorama of Visions) here.

On my last trip to Indonesia, we met nice surfers, who became friends. They also have a shop, where we try to get postcards to wirte our families. But niether there nor in the rest of Sumatra we couldn´t buy any. We now changed this. At least our freinds in West Sumatra will have a collection of postcards to sell now.

To promote the offers / activities of the youth & cultural center ‘SBZ Rostock (Suedstadt / Biestow)’ – i designed a postcard, which can be sent properly or just being kept to collect or to pin at the fridge – whatsoever!
The character’s heads from their logo were the starting point of the whole illustrative process to find a style.

BlueDIRECT – Die intelligente Benzindirekteinspritzung.
Mercedes-Benz hat auf der Automobilmesse in Paris 2010 2 neue extrem leistungsstarke aber vergleichsweise auch sehr effiziente Motoren vorgestellt. Die Summe der angepassten und optimierten Technologien und Bauteile werden anhand von grafischen Schittebenen der Motoren gezeigt. Jede Acrylscheibe zeigt somit ein Bauteil in realer Ausführung und über die Grafik dessen genaue Positionen und Funktion im Motor.

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BlueDIRECT – Die intelligente Benzindirekteinspritzung.
Die neuen entwickelten V6- und V8-Triebwerke mit BlueDIRECT-Technologie sind hoch effiziente Benzinmotoren mit modernster Direkteinspritzung, Downsizing und Turboaufladung.
V6 – Der Effiziente
Das neue V6-Triebwerk beeindruckt besonders durch geringen Verbrauch. Ein Technologiepaket, u. a. mit Start-Stopp Funktion und Benzin-Direkteinspritzung der dritten Generation, sorgt für verblüffend niedrige Verbrauchs- und Emissionswerte. Und das bei einer auf 225 kW (306 PS) gesteigerten Leistung.
V8 – Der Leistungsstarke
Der Hightech-V8 erzielt – von zwei Turboladern beatmet – mit 320 kW (435 PS) rund 12 Prozent mehr Leistung als sein Vorgänger. Aus weniger Hubraum. Das Drehmoment steigt ebenfalls, und zwar um satte 32 Prozent auf 700 Newtonmeter.

Das gleiche Prinzip ist auch in der Monitorbespielung wiederzufinden. Durch das Bewegen eines Sliders kann sich der Besucher zwischen den verschieden Konstruktionsebenen durchbewegen und somit den Motor komplett von vorn bis hinten analysieren und nachvollziehen. Medial werden die Optimierungen der Bauteile noch durch erklärende Videos vertiefend erläutert.

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Usage of Futura Font in various cuts for various contents.

Single-Touch Application.
Text is moving with ‘overlay’ effect to the background image. On the ‘move-over’ at the upper side of the screen, the menu appears. On click of one of the buttons, the text-movement stops, thumbnail arrange themselves to the actual content.

“In the days of sailing ships, sailors had to be rope-tying experts. For the safety of the ship and crew, knots needed to be correctly tied. On a fully rigged ship, several miles of rigging incorporated thousands of knots. There was a different knot for every chore. Tying knots became a craft in itself carried out during long months at sea. Knot boards served as useful training references as well as object of pride.” Knot Board History

Design of the Promotional Poster / Flyer / Print Ad of the Kitesurfclub.

Before “boatoon.com” made their final decision of who should design the portal for them – they asked me to make a rough sketch of the website. Even if they took another designer to develop their commercial-sailing-website at the end, i decided to post my layout here, because i kind of like the style and it makes the work worth it.

Design and Conception of several multi-media-applications for the Telekom exhibition stand at Cebit 2010.

The Multitouch-Table contains a menu which is based on the real physical movement of a grasland. By touching and tousling certain flowers the actual menu with subnavigation appears – then you chose the link you want to go to.

Have a look at the multimedia presentations of the Grass-Touch at Cebit 2010 here, which was created with sedna technology.

A so called ‘Gigapan’, which is basically an extremly large picture, filled with information located in different areas of the picture (Gigapan). By zooming in the picture, you explore the area and find many more information. The appearance of the Information in depth depends on the priority. It works hierarchically. The hidden Information shouldn´t be that important to get as the obvious, which is easier to find by area. Because this technology of displaying information is so new and innovative, there are still some experiences to make with.

This Multitouch-Table contains a ‘Gigapan’, a vector-based Illustration – showing a kind of universe, we called it ‘Infoverse’. You find several galaxys displaying information. This ‘Infoverse’ was already created and shown at the ‘IFA 2009‘. For this Cebit it was addapted to the specific design requirements and to the up-to-date-status.

Have a look at the sedna-based multimedia presentations of IFA 2009 here, which was created with sedna technology.

An impression of the stand.

In 2009 i was part of the design team, who created the stand of the german telekom at the trade fair IFA in Berlin. I designed a Giapan for a multitouch application, which is basically an extremely large image (400000 px x 400000 px) you can ’surf’ through. By sliding with your hands on the MultiTouchTable you are able to rotate or to scale the content…

Have a look at the multimedia presentations of IFA 2009 here, which was created with sedna technology.

Backgroundscreen for the press conference

Backgroundscreen for a special event (visit of some winners of the olympic games)

Backgroundscreen for the Team-Start-Up

Backgroundscreen for the celebration for the middle of the period of time (loopable animation, with changing light situations, which represents a day) – Cut-out-Stencil-Look

I´ve illustrated these two typo-versions of the expression: “Keen Tähn in Muul, aver la Paloma piepen”.(en: No theeth in the Mouth but whistling ‘la Paloma’ -> an old seamans shanty) It´s low german, which is spoken at the coast, where i am from -> the coast is related to the sae and all the activities out there. So, it was obvious, that i had to find nice and fitting keyvisuals to help focussing on the content of this Expression.
It’s very funny as well, if you speak it out loud in Low German ;)

V -1-

V -2-

V -2-Detail

Thanks again, Alex for this great Tutorial.

A Journalist and Editor asked me to design her personal Business-Website. The task was to create a relation between a typical look of a newspage and a simple, fresh and clean feel.
I used a colorcoding for each section in the menu to pretty it up a bit – especially because in the page will be no pictures displayed.

Even the favicons turn into the color of each section.

and so on and so forth …

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5) Navigate the provinces of Belgium and discover the beers produced in each region.

6) Travel through time and explore Belgian beers by historical timeline.
(Some beers are inspired by recipes from the middle ages and even further back in history!)

11.2009

My Friend Franz Geil* aka Antoine.(*Franz Geil = France Gall / Geil = horny! ;)

He wanted to be shown as a typical 60’s french Chanson singer. In those days, they played around a lot with color shapes and forms and put the protagonist right in there. I tried to do it with Franz Geil. Fortunately he had some old pictures of him, posing for the exact purpose.

I created a sort of graphical modular system to be able to create the upcoming posters in the same look.I used the french flag in combination with the german colors for the general color shading and of course a beer (THE german stereotype, nobody is embaressed about).

This way also he will be able to create his next posters by himself, if necessary. It will be easier and faster but similar to the rest.

Punctually to the Valentines-Day-Celebrations i was asked by the Kerlin-Boys to design a Poster for their ‘Liebes Lieder’-Party. 3 music acts were meant to play their. Of course i was there too. Unfortunately the police came after the first act and crashed the party. They made us leave the place. So we decided spontaneously to find another place where we could continue what we’ve just
started. To our surprise we could convince the owner of an austrian Restaurant ‘Masopust’, who was just about to close. The whole delegation of the Kerlin-Valentines-Party had an even more special and very lovely evening. It’s all about Love, isn’t it. Thank you ‘Masopust’ for your hospitality. We recommend you. Update: Unfortunately it had to close. So all we got is the memory of a bueautiful time there.

This is a selection of the newest posters i created. Some of them have been exhibited recently in the Kerlin Café.

-Albert Kruger-

-Japan-

-Svetlana & Natascha-

-Franz Geil-

-The Alien-

-The Dudette-

-The Shopping Car-

-The Asian Power-

-Wann ist wieviel genug?-

It was great to have the chance of showing some of my work. Unfortunately i haven´t got much time to collect the illus in a way of a certain concept. It will run better the next time. I´m sure there will be a next time.

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11.2009

Logo and Powerpoint Template-Design for a Java-Course and IT-Training Company.

Young Talents, that´s what we are or want to be.

Redesign of the brand Allianz Global Investors. Design and Conception of the updated Styleguide of various media – such as: Print, Online, PPT, Communication Style. Further Information about the project will be posted soon.

For the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung i was asked to design a book for the 60-th aniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The book is filled texts about the progress and development of the work on 60 Years of Human Rights.

The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran.
International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, curated and organized by Amirali Ghasemi and Serhat Koksal,chose Istanbul as its first station .The idea of this independent, low-budget exhibition started out both as a critique of the situation in Tehran, and of the international “biennialization” and ”gentrification” process .
Featured works by artists from different countries from all around the world, selected from an open submission call, which has had an overwhelming response.Berlin was it’s 2nd station.

Logo

Poster

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