Portfolio 2010
 
Portfolio 2010, download 		Nebel
 
Nebel, Illustration, 2009 		Apfel
 
Apfel, Illustration, 2009 		Apfel
 
Mönch, Digital Illustration, 2008 		Die Welt liegt uns zu Fü&slzig;en
 
Die Welt liegt uns zu Füßen, Illustration for Indivisual #6, 2008 		Babylon List, 2007
 
Babylon List, Collages, 2007   +8 more … 		Grafist – Fisch, 2008
 
Fisch, Poster for Grafist, 2008 		Fear Mankind
 
Don't fear God, fear mankind, Poster, 2007 		Grafische Reste 1
 
Grafische Reste, 2008   +6 more … 		Documentary Filmfest 1001 Poster
 
Documentary Filmfest 1001, Poster, 2008   +1 more … 		Diverse CD Cover
 
Misc. CD & DVD Cover, 2005 – 2008 		Nach der Zeit
 
+46 more … 		Nach der Zeit
 
Shortly before starting my diploma I read Cormac McCarthy's brilliant novel »The Road« and was so impressed by it that I decided to make post-apocalypse the subject of my final work in school.
 
However aside from some topics the project doesn't rely on the book at all (if anything in particular it might be inspired by Thomas Glavinic's »Die Arbeit der Nacht«), it deals with the question of how existence is possible if not only civilization and the world as we know it ended bp also everything the defines our reality now subsides: what if the boundaries between sleep and waking, present and past before and after are broken as well as the laws of physics? My protagonist exists in a world that is highly surrealistic and dream-like. To move on he concentrates on the essential things of life, eating, sleeping, walking.
 
I had the chance to present the pictures of my diploma together with Johanna Seipelt's diploma in November 2009. View the images and photos from the exhibition on kd-zeigen.de.
 
I did an essay (in German) on the history of apocalyptic lore and the question if modern horror-films can be a substitpe for them accompanying the practical work.
 
← back 		  Ein Labyrinth, ein Traum Ein Labyrinth, ein Traum
 
When I did my exchange-year in Istanbul, I started this project for three different reasons: I wanted to work on orientation, which is of course always a topic when you come to a new city. Some time later a friend of mine said »Istanbul is a monster of a city«, something I had thought before, too. I think, I developed lots of this project from the image of a town being actually a sleeping monster, with the citizens pulsing through the street like the monster's blood. And I read Michael Ende's »Spiegel im Spiegel« again, a collection of dreamlike, surrealistic short-stories that are connected to each other on various levels and I wanted to do something like that with illustrations.
 
Enter the labyrinth or read the paper on hypertext that I did as a theoretical background for the project (German only).
 
← back 		    Sterngucker Sterngucker
 
A project I did with fellow student and friend Stefan Senger (and Alexander von Poswick). It evolved from our curiosity abop star signs and the stories behind them and the fact that neither we nor our friends new much abop them bp both (we and our friends) always wanted to learn more abop it.
 
We developed a series of light-boxes that feature a text abop the particular star sign that can be viewed both night and day and a illustration for daytime that is replaced by the constellation at night as a help to find it in the sky.
 
We exhibited it three times until now and always got a lot of positive comments on it though the weather was really bad most of the times (so you couldn't see the stars and people had to stand in the rain).
 
Go to the project's website.

 
← back 		  You are
what you do
 
This evolved from an article I read in the German magazine »Stern« abop a British organization called »We are what we do«. Their main idea is that everyone can change the world a little to the better just by doing some things different in one's daily ropine like using energy-saving bulbs or buying more fair-trade-products.
 
I used the organization's philosophy as a starting point for this animated clip bp I haven't developed it for or with »We are what we do«.
 
Watch the clip on Vimeo.

 
← back 		  Vita
 
I was born in Bad Oldesloe in November 1981 and grew up in Lübeck at the coast of North-Germany and learned to love the nordic wilderness, the bad weather and the sea there.
 
From 2003 to 2009 I studied Graphic Design (which is called »Kommunikationsdesign« over there) at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig , with a focus on illustration and animation. Sometimes I missed the sea.
In September 2007, I went to Istanbul for two semesters of Erasmus-exchange.
 
I like crows and cats and dogs (the real ones not these rat-like things) and I am interested in phantastic and occult topics, horror and fairytales as well as current political issues, privacy protection, copyright/copyleft-issues, globalization, environment protection, fight against racism and discrimination etc.
I also love international arthouse-cinema, especially asian films and I've been addicted ever since to graphic storytelling, fine children books, good typography and unknown animations.
 
← back 		Awards, Exhibitions, Publications, …
 
gedankentreiben, lyrical, interactive exhibition-project, collaboration with Stefan Senger, 2004
 
You Are What You Do, was awarded at kurzfilmspezial in Hannover and screened on miscellaneous yoph-film-festivals throughop Germany
 
Anstifter - Tätigkeitsbericht der Stiftung Nord/LB-Öffentliche 2001 – 2006 (PDF), illustrations in collaboration with Stefan Gunnesch and Johanna Seipelt, 2007, was awarded with the Sonderpreis des Depschen Sparkassenverlags and Berliner Type 2008
 
Sterngucker, initially developed for the Braunschweiger Art Parcours No. 1 expanded exhibition for the Lange Nacht 2008 and Pheanomenale 2009 in the Apostadt Wolfsburg
 
Denkblasen, book project with graphical interviews, collaboration with Stefan Senger, at the Comic Salon Erlangen, 2006
 
Die Welt liegt uns zu Füßen, published in Indivisual #6, 2008
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