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Stitch – personal shopping application

The mobile lifestyle is no longer a futuristic idea. Moble devices are omnipresent and not reserved for the technology affine anymore. Mobile applications are therefore used on a daily basis. They are designed to make your everyday life easier, but also more enjoyable. So why not take advantage of this digital revolution and combine it [...]

panorama shots

Sound laboratory v2

in conjunction with a concept for an animated movie, a few tracks have been created for a first insight into the flow and emotions given by the acoustic landscape. published on my artist website beatpoet.de: soundscapes

Protected: a journey to asia

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Protected: iplabs portfolio

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New World

My matt painting for the 3d and enviroment class at my university. I started with some rough speed paintings to find an idea for the colors, the mood and the composition. After i’ve been happy with one image i started to add details until im happy with it. The final image took me around 20 [...]

Sound laboratory

My semester project for the sound laboratory class. It has been pretty hard and also a good experience not to create music when creating sound. The topics have been splited into 3 Parts: Part one, the experiment: Kommunikationsstörung In my case, as a designer, sometimes, i get to the point where i fall into trade [...]

iPad App – Digital Newspaper concept

A concept Design for a digital iPad version of the german newspaper “Die Zeit” (the time). The basic concept is to give the user the full ability to configure all favorite topics and concentrate on the news itself. Through a timeslider, the user can get an overview of full hours, days or weeks where news [...]

iPad App – VJ Software

My semester project for interaction / interface Design. A VJ concept for an ipad application used to mix and edit videos for live presentations. View the pdf presentation / documentation (german): download pdf

Observer

My semesterproject in 3d and envirent design. My first complex model. took me around 80 hours from concept to the final rendering.

Identification

A Project for the crossmedia class at the university. About 1500 handdrawn layers in 15 hours.

Event Community concept

A concept for an Event management community. Concept & Documentation

Ancient sound, abstract on black

Ancient sound, abstract on black. the original image was ancient sound, abstract on black by paul klee. i changed 5 formal properties, the dimension, the colors, the surface, the canvas size and moved it to another media. Due the short time i had to break down a couple of ideas to get it done for [...]

Ancient sound – prerender

Dead of the death

Personal Illustration. The linework was created with pen & paper, photoshop for the coloring job.

Minamp

A Winamp skin, designed for good readability. Software: Photoshop Download

Bassdrive Tunes

BassDrive is a 24/7 drum and bass radio station featuring live shows with guest DJs, as well as broadcasts from venues all over the world representing the best of drum and bass & jungle music. BassDrive is also a new record label promoting US drum and bass. Screendesign and help with html/css implementation for the [...]

cologne at night

Various locations in Cologne at night.

Vinyl is better

Typo Poster project at FH Trier, derived from Stefan Sagmeister’s Things I have learned in my life so far. I’ve learned so far that vinyl is always the better choise when i comes to music. Software: Illustrator, InDesign

voices of space

click on the image to start the gallery. Project for the application at FH Trier. The task was to Design a concept for a animated film based on images by René Magritte. Originial Image: Voices of Space Its a story about a observation drone, build the wrong way and lost in a world not made [...]

Face of Rufus

roots

a spontanious photo i have taken at the rhine in cologne. Canon 40D

turtle time

A Digital Painting for a book theme.

Deep Sea

Digital painting training.

Inbetween Worlds

just 4 fun. Software: Photoshop, Canon 40D

Alien Queen

Different. Software: Photoshop, 3ds Max

Traffic Jam

Use your bike. Software: Photoshop

Different World

Maybe in a Different World, sizes have changed. Software: Photoshop

Good Morning

The Trainstation in cologne, too early in the morning. Software: Photoshop, Canon 40D

Lost

sometimes i feel lost. Software: Photoshop

Moss

energy flow.

Volksgarten cologne

Click on the image to start the gallery. Photos for a CD-Cover and Photoseries for a website.

molten gold

Visual construction of an acoustic experiment.

Digital Girl

Software: Photoshop, 3dsmax, Vray

Bassdrive Wallpaper

Wallpaper for Bassrdive Radio

cologne desert

Poster series: Is this where we are heading?

The No Show

Logo design for the no show radio show in Japan. Software: Illustrato

lust 4 wine

Screendesign for www.lust4wine.de

lgc

Mockup for Liquid Gas Consultancy. Software: Photoshop

Metamorphosis

cloudy sky

The photos have been taken on the way back from Sun&bass festival in Sardinia 2009.

selected

fictitious magazine cover design for a school project.

orbid-sound

Webdesign for the speakercompany Orbid-Sound. Link: Orbid-Sound.de

Headphones

Material and Modeling training with 3ds max and vray.

3d mushrooms

Testing the vray displacement modifier.

Bridges

Architectural pattern in cologne.

Space Invaders x-mas special

i found an old game project on my harddrive and i thought i could share it. Created with Flash about 5 years ago. Music by Christian Morgen stern. R.I.P.