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WALLPAPERS

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active desktop   html wallpaper:
    b i k e   u n d e r   t y p o

challenge: prepare a snapshot in 1280x1024,rgb windows desktop wallpaper size. spell-mutate the names of heavily frequented folders on the hard disk and in the net. nestle them against the background's contours and apportionment. setup a html page with a map for links .

footage: pocket camera snapshot of katha riding on an excentered bike at the amusement park in geiselwind.

technique: perspective streching, weird masking, darkening colour distorsion, typographic efforts featuring text bending, additional form layers.

style: unobtrusive, dark background with distinct white typographic objects. group strips for customization. two colour flavours :)

bike under typo and others ready for download at the wallpaperball!

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active desktop   html wallpaper:
    f a d e   n o

challenge: arrange personal motives in a 1280x1024,rgb windows desktop wallpaper and setup a html site with a map for links heavily frequented folders on the hard disk and in the net.

footage: four photos of alexander fekete, the blausand logo, an photoshop errative text output, a camcorder snapshot of my face, a webgrab of an aral gas station, one of the "gloomy-sunday"-leadsheet and some typography.

technique: basic retouche, keying, masking.

style: very balanced crowd, appearing spaced and integrated. supplying plenty of buttonable attractions.

fade no and others ready for download at the wallpaperball !

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desktop - wallpaper:
    r e k l a m e

challenge: blend the three footage groups for a desktop wallpaper in standard sizes.

footage: orchid scanned off a freecard; sketch of what i take for a pupils hoemwork showing ingeborg bachman's poem "reklame", interwoven by his/her additional stunning ideas; some scans of early blausand logo sketches.

technique: only basic adjustments of contrast (levels) and some placing/scaling. simple multiplication-blend.

style: lyric. a wallpaper in the classic connotation of the word. the logo sketches match with the poem only owing to the ball pen style. decent authentic black scanning border.

reklame and others ready for download at the wallpaperball !

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desktop - wallpaper:
    m 9 n d f u k c

challenge: conglomerate the latest private outputs in a 1280x1024,rgb windows desktop wallpaper.

footage: björk post album cover, 9aged björk playing flute, björks rune tattoo, shaded blausand logo, again some disturbed text output (from m9ndfukc), the latest results of my video rendering project, three "game of life" artworks, my "liquid kölsch" beer brand suggestion, the astrogirl logo, the neon of the adult bar round the corner, some awful fractal experimentz output, and one of nine tiles of the warholed katharina held, "warHeld".

technique: every and any single motherfnkcing trick you can imagine.

style: fnkcing crowded but yet so friendly and airy, the tool bar appears exactly under the orange game of life layer, use it with "actual transparent windows"! m9ndfukc is not designed for active desktop, but uncheck the "display desktop icons" and use quick launch bar instead.

m9ndfukc and others ready for download at the wallpaperball !

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5 ...there are, however, some more wallpapers versions of graphic works at the wallpaperball!

CD COVER WORKS

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CD cover: b l a u s a n d   ö r l i w ö r x

challenge: design of a 14-page booklet for my own debut CD.

footage: tons of paintscans, photoscans, webgrabs, and of course w i l d typography.

 

see also the blausand örliwörx audio-page.

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CD cover: melchior McElch's finest I

challenge: design of a 10-page lyrics booklet for a 17-track all-time-favorites compilation.

footage: 10 photos by alexander fekete. 4200 modulated characters of monotype corsiva,

technique: multiplied attractors and multiple offsetting (front), photomontage, crossing and heavy color matricing, (booklet). 70 hours of photoshop engineering.

style: seemless, frameless, epic, tragic, and absolut inconsistent. almost but not quite entirely unminimalistic. perfect thanx to the footage ;)

see also the melchior McElch's finest I audio-page.

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CD cover: melchior McElch's finest II

challenge: design of a front and backsleeve for an MP3 compilation. may be i'll recompile this disc some day to be really selected stuff.

footage: photo of janina, typographic expenses

technique: layer dubbing going divergent ways with each: blurry filters vs. edges detectives, colour boost vs. reduction to pure contrast. and i love this square cycles filter.

style: while the front cover is keeping an eye on weights of areas, balance of contrast and strictness with attractions, all this smoothiness is being shattered on the flipside. although enough properties are shared, eg. colors, expression of the face, amounts of each color. the graphic complexity follows the function of the backside: more detailled information about the content.

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CD cover:
kinderponcho - pädagogik der gewöhnung
    (melchior McElch's finest III)

challenge: design of a complete lyrics booklet artwork.

footage: nasty polaroid of silke, a few small additional webGrabs, two fonts (reporter and overexposed).

technique: dubbing techniques again. tricky reduction of colour consumption by "grey removing boost" filter.

style: reduction is the key. mainly one bitmap is used for the background of booklet and backside. only two fonts show all the lyrics within two sides without violating laws of layout clearness.

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CD cover:
    the MAGIC brute - juhle's grätest

challenge: express design of a front and backsleeve for sophie "MAGIC brute" dumont's sister's birthday compilation.
no expenses, time limit: about 90min.

footage: by chance i had a scan of sophie's ID-card photo. blausand logo, font: rubber stamp LET.

technique: streched a copy of the scan, radial blur, mask.
another copy went through square oscillation, blended my shade into it. typo, bend, shadow, done.

style: i had not much of a choice for the photo, so it looks a bit like "wanted dead or alive". font to match. even the tracklisting is somewhat between snotty - if not illegitimate...

don't miss to listen to the three tracks of the MAGIC brute on the juhle's grätest audio page!

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CD cover: heimbarMucke 2001

challenge: design of a fancy 6-page CD-booklet containing the tracklistings of 126 MP3 tracks. processing snapshots of life in a famous student bar onto a memorable artwork.

footage: chosen heimbar-anthems as shown at their own web-gallery (which is down at the moment).

technique: hours of footage manipulation (create space for typography, eliminate unsexy backgrounds, nonlinear resize, etc.), heavy typography skewing.

style: textlayers projected on any area (adept or inadept) of pretty random party-snapshots.
(ok: pretty, random.)

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ARTWORK

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artwork: d o n n a   q u i c h o t a

challenge: merging two motives of the same person on one canvas and get a cineastic bodylandscape.

footage: two photographs of high beauty by alexander fekete.

technique: creating three quite different appearances out of the same source. extroverting footage compression. typographic expenses.

style: at the movies. romantic and epic, though surreal and odd.

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artwork: s o   m u c h   f o r   k i n g   t u t

challenge: stick photos taken @gizeh 9/2001 together and process where funny.

footage: several seriously savage series of tour photos, taken in an

technique: creating three quite different appearances out of the same source. extroverting footage compression. typographic expenses.

style: various. psychedelic. documentary. skurril. genuine.

see also the trippy trip-story page white man on a bicycle

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artwork: b e s t   f r i e n d s

challenge: collage of best mates

footage: four difficult saturday night snapshots, showing the two of them.

technique: make use of the positive information the photos supply. provide digital help after hardware make up attempts.

style: fantasy, due to a painting in the footage background, grabbed and reskewed. hits the subject. the girls wanted something veeeery fancy.

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artwork: g a e t a n o   m e s s i n a

challenge: enhance...

footage: ...a family photo in front of a famous milanean shoe shop...

technique: ...by fading in enlarged portraits and a typo to reach the...

style: ...neokitsch. exactly matching the desires. what d'ya say about the hairy tree, huh?

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artwork:   j o s e f   m e n t h

challenge: restore and colorize a press picture of my grandfather from a faded newspaper .

footage: griddy grey on cheesy yellow, folded twice but at least large enough.

technique: merging the 600dpi-scan over a layer with colour fields, using "hard light"-mode.

style: surprisingly does not remind of cartoons, nor of lichtenberg, but yields a modern, with the modificated print grid almost fine attitude.

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artwork:   w a r h o l   b a b e

challenge: that great polaroid just screamed for my personal pop-art marilyn.

footage: smaranda, as we know her in unbeatable outfit and in shopping mood. polaroid by alexander fekete.

technique: define five large fields and colourize them differently, complementary but matching. improve impact with filters.

style: walterBenjamin+1.

note that my second warhol experience is mentioned below: warheld

 
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artwork:   c o m i n g   u p   n e x t   o n   MTV

challenge: transposing katha held. she's doing a great job!

footage: two pocket snapshotz of her kathesty. on of biting brillance, on of sexy dynamic blurriness...

technique: painted a tv from scratch. complicated masking, complicated slating, complicated speaker output visualization.

style: yes, she can style.

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artwork:   w a r h e l d

challenge: had to become my second, much better pop-art marilyn.

footage: pocket snapshot of katha: live, wild, erotic.

technique: define five large fields and colourize them differently, complementary but matching. nine colours, each appearing once per area. elaborately fine-tuning for equal impact.

style: walterBenjamin+2.

 
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artwork:   be r l i n o v a

challenge: scan a relic of the berlinova festival 2003, and put together a digital souvenir. originally, i wanted to embed protraits of some girlz i met there, but no foo...

footage: found object - an eastern german fish can, festival logo from website.

technique: twist and shout on all channelz. my beloved squareOsc.FX

style: iridescent fish, man!

 
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artwork:   s k y R h y n e

challenge: kingsize collage of aerial views - extreme dimensions.

footage: eight apparently paired but in fact slightly different pocket photographs of the cologne riverside, shot 2003 by winnie w. from within the zoo cabin crosslift.

style: smartie organic, but fairly distracted. rather techy than natural.

 
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freecard:   p i l z s c h a f t   e i n g a n g s p r i s e

challenge: let a friendly portrait photo of winnie w. meet these adhorrent words: championship enterprise.
construed into german they sound like two diametrically opposed venerial diseases.

technique: layer dubbing, colour matricing.

style: yuckiest colours, scariest clipping, most poisenous typo.

 
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t-shirt: p r a g   silvester 2000/01

challenge: design of a funny t-shirt for the parttakers of a silvester trip.

footage: eight scans of cheesy party-photos, showing those.

technique: masking expenses, cascading in different color-shades and a portion of typography.

style: tarantinesk, that. donnowhy.

 
 
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LOGO and CI design

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c o m p l e t e   C I,  l o g o,  f o n t:

 

 

 

challenge: CI for myself... how blausand came to look like blausand.

 
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logo: l i q u i d   k ö l s c h

challenge: hybridization of two logos: my favorite beer brand, mühlen kölsch and my favorite club, liquid sky cologne.
result: pan colonian gargle blaster...

technique: vectors, baby! everything had to be vectorized first.
liquid kölsch is the first artwork represented entirely in vector layers.

footage: scan of the original beer bottle label.

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C I,  l o g o,  f o l d e r:
g u r u   m u s i c   s c h o o l

challenge: complete redesign of the CI, including design of a new logo and production of the current lecturing programme.

workflow: first logo sketches on paper. hours of vector juggling. consulting. proposal of colorset and layout. integration of programme notes and bios. frills. consulting. test prints, feedback, finishing, print.

footage: photo material provided by GMS. fonts:

 
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typo/logo: f e k e

challenge: name logo design by means of typography.

technique: properties of each letter had to be exactly trimmed. playing around with overexposed look, different fonts and spacing ensued versions of varying legibility and/or style.

 
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textilTypo: l i e b l o s

challenge: typographic design for a sweatshirt.

footage: bicoloured sweatshirt, black cloth, white cloth, yarn... fracture font. my brother's favorite vocable: loveless.

technique: print typo outline on paper. loosely sew together clothes and sheets to be cut out together. tightly sew cloth letters on sweatshirt.
 
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ALSO RUN

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layout: s t a r l i g h t   e x p r e s s

challenge: arrange some quickly downloaded material to a fancy musical voucher.

footage: grabs from the musical's website.

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hardware collage:
    c o m m e r c i a l   e x p e r i e n c e s

challenge: publish the smalltalk of topstars at the set of star wars...

footage: clothing ad, film still, babe.

technique: scissors and fix-o-gum. like we didit then-a-times.

 

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