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New “work” from us featured in German newspaper “Welt am Sonntag”.
Rolling Stone Magazine and German newspaper Welt am Sonntag asked us to design a cover for the most discussed CD in Germany.
No, I’m not talking about the new Tocotronic album, which entered the German charts at number 1 this week (we already designed that cover). There is another CD which gets even more press these days: The “Steuersünder”-CD, which contains data of 1500 people who commited tax fraud by stashing away some million Euro in Swiss bank accounts.
Above is our proposal. Below our “Artist Statement” (in German):
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Some more critical thoughts regarding the ongoing hype around tablet computers.
Some days ago, I wrote a post compiling some concept videos for Tablet Computing I found interesting and exciting. Still, I can get pretty euphoric about the hype and especially for designers interested in newspaper and magazine design, no matter how diffuse and indefinite things still are at present, it could become a very promising platform to keep up with.
If there’s going to be hardware from players like Apple and Google, this will definitely lift handheld computing and touch interaction to the next level and leverage mainstream adoption – with the potential to heavily influence how readers are consuming digital content.
But nevertheless, as with any kind of hype, we should not forget to take a look at some drawbacks. So, in addtion to these really exciting videos from the last post, here’s a collection of some more critical aspects, summarizing different thoughts I found on the internets during the last couple of days.
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Three commented examples of what Tablet Computers could look like in the near future.
So it looks like 2010 will be the year of Tablet Computers and E-Readers. The rumors about an upcoming new Apple device keep on spreading, large publishing houses are already presenting concepts and prototypes. Whenever and whatever exactly happens, it will definitely speed up the process of mobile overtaking desktop usage.
We have compiled and commented three promising concepts.
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Some notes and a line graph regarding the website for German rock band Tocotronic.
The ecosystem of a rock band (or any kind of active musician or artist) drawn as a line graph looks something like this:
When you’re working on a band website, you have to take this into account. A strategy you can see quite often is separating a regular artist website from temporary promotional microsites supporting record releases. Sometimes it’s just news on band sites, pointing to an external URL somewhere on the label’s website. And sometimes, artist websites change radically from release to release.
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We’re celebrating the first anniversary of tweetwrappr.com with a Special Edition featuring eBoy gift wrap paper.
Today is the first anniversary of tweetwrappr.com, a Twitter-based mashup experiment we conceived, designed, coded and launched on a single day on December 19th 2008. We’re celebrating this with a Special Edition, featuring eBoy’s marvelous Giftwrap Set designs as Tweetwrappr’s gift wrap paper of choice for the next couple of weeks.
A big Thank You to eBoy! You should definitely go to their online shop and hit that lovely BUY button all over the place, there’s plenty of great work to admire.
Here’s a short tutorial on how to use a Nintendo Wii Remote to control Apple’s Keynote presentation tool using OSCulator, a great little tool to connect (un)usual controllers to software.
We had our first experience with using a Wii Remote during a presentation we gave at the Typo Design Conference 2007 in Berlin. At that time OSCulator, the software we were using to pipe the controller data coming from the Wii Remote buttons and sensors to the software, was quite buggy for that purpose and using it on stage was a bit adventurous.
In the meantime, we were using the Wii Remote rather for some experiments with music software. But last Thursday, I decided to use it once again – this time with Apple’s Keynote, our current tool of choice for presentations. I downloaded the latest version of OSCulator and quickly set up a pretty basic configuration for controlling the Keynote presentation with the Wii Remote.
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Books, toys, a dollhouse, a portable computer and a pair of shoes – here’s an unordered and mixed up list of great design-driven (or driving) products of 2009.
I wanted to write this post since quite some time now but successfully procrastinated. I finally assembled some of the products that excited me the most this year – in no particular order. Enjoy!
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