Nebel, 2009

Apfel, 2009

M&ouuml;nch, 2008

Die Welt liegt uns zu Fü&slzig;en, 2008

Babylon List, 2007

Grafist – Fisch, 2008

Fear mankind, 2007

Grafische Reste 1, 2008

Grafische Reste 6, 2008

Ein Labyrinth   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 delevoped 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, sorry).   ← back

Sterngucker   A project I did with fellow student and friend Stefan Senger (and Alexander von Poswick). It evolved from our curiousity about starsigns and the stories behind them and the fact that neither we nor our friends new much about them but both (we and our friends) always wanted to learn more about it.   We developed a series of lightboxes that features a text about 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« about a British organisation 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 routine like using energy-saving-bulps or buying more fair-trade-products.   I used the organisation's philosophy as a starting point for this animated clip but I haven't developed it for or with »We are what we do«.   Watch the clip.   ← back

Vita   I grew up at the coast in North-Germany and learned to love the nordic wilderness, the bad weather and the sea there.   Since 2003 I live in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony and study »Communication Design« at the University of Fine Arts, with a focus on illustration and animation. Sometimes I miss the sea. In September 2007, I went to Istanbul for two semesters of Erasmus-exchange. I went to the school there as little as possible and made great progress in autodidactic learning.   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, globalisation, environment protection, fight against racism and discrimiation 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

Impressum   Responsible for this website: Jonas Laugs, Moltkeplatz 9, 23566 Lübeck Tel: +49 451 62 16 67 E-Mail: post@jfml.eu   When not otherwise stated all works on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License, which means you are free to share this content when crediting my name, Jonas Laugs, and/or linking back to this site, jfml.eu.       Links   Basti, Bengü, Forrest, Ina, Johannes, Jooki, Stefan, Tom, …   ← back