2003: My very first encounter with Doyald was on the back seat of his Lexus. No, he didn’t sit next to me – he sat in front of me. He was driving Petrula and me to the first Y-Conference in San Diego I ever spoke at.
Fresh off the boat from Berlin I had no concept [...]
Surprise #1: real cowboys/-gals still exist.
Surprise#2: there is a thriving culture of cowboy poetry out there.
Surprise#3: it’s beautiful and relevant.
Last weekend I had the pleasure to present Anthem, a short movie at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. This piece was part of two exhibitions on contemporary cowboy culture I designed together with [...]
“The TED prize for 2011 will go to the graffiti artist JR, who has made a name for himself by plastering downtrodden neighborhoods around the world with colossal photographs.” nytimes.com, Oct20, 2010
A great testament to the power of graphic design on an environmental scale I think. Intriguing to me is also the relationship between high impact [...]
Three years in the making, our eCloud art installation finally took flight at the new concourse building at the San Jose International Airport, gateway to silicon valley. A hovering cloud of 108 feet length made up of 2900 individually controlled LCD pixels animated by real-time weather data from 100 international destinations attempts to bring back [...]
Very proud to report that our very own Kurvenmeister Doyald Young rocked TypeCon 2010. Late apex – verrry dangerous!
Early in March when I was setting up the Berlin studio I saw a bike with mirrored wheels leaning at a tree on Torstrasse. Little did I know that it belonged to a series of urban interventions by Olafur Eliasson, pointing at his first solo exhibition in Berlin called Inner City Out.
The show in the [...]
More bliss from my beloved home town: another dear friend just sent me the link to this simple yet highly effective urban media intervention: Project Farbenmeer is a public art project aimed at visually tracking Berlin’s traffic. Volunteers spilled gallons of water-based paint on a busy car crossing, which was then distributed all over the [...]
You can tell your best friends by by the thoughtfulness of their gifts. Enter Holger Zeh, the guy who sat next to me in the entry exam for Visual Communication at the University of Arts in Berlin. Back when the earth cooled, the wooly mammoth still roamed the divided city, and we still listened to [...]
Race cars AND graphic design — to me there is hardly a more interesting combo. Graphic designs that cheerfully violate any graphic design rule they teach you in school, in this case mostly because they were conceived by non-designers.
In this book, author Sven Voelker sacrificed his own collection of toy racers to paint them flat [...]
Did you know that clouds actually have doors AND lamps?