The Loft from lwz on Vimeo.

My lovely, wicked, zubzero-cool friends and collegues in Vienna a.k.a. LWZ created a really nice vid to present Vienna’s fresh party-location The Loft in an appropriate way!

It all began with some freelance jobs. Now it became something new, non-business, arty-farty… where we can create stuff the way we love to.

Or to describe us like we would do it in our press-release:

LWZ is an independent collective of (un)employed academics that share a rural character, a favor for botch-ups and a passion for visual lapses & beer.

Have a look once in a while to see what’s happening in the Linke Wienzeile.

Website: maxkickinger.de

Max Kickinger, a Salzburg-based composer and sounddesigner asked me to create him a new identity.
It was important for him to get an identity that’s not connected to any trends neither should it create the feeling of a big sounddesign studio with hundreds of employees. His name and personality should directly influence the identity and describe him as a person. So we spend some mornings in our favourite café in the city of Salzburg chatting about ourselves, ideas, everyday-stuff, coffee, wine, and future plans. I really enjoyed it and soon the main concept was ready to be visualized.

A bold and solid yet timeless typeface with some characterising changes became the main logotype. Next to it a “subline” provides the basis for individuality and personality. Max has got the possibility to change that line to his needs to create a statement with his name. Varying from the most serious line “music + sound design” to some more individual ones like “und Moritz”, “loves to hear from you” and “will make you dance” the stationery developes personality.

Colourwise we sticked to his former colours black, white and yellow to keep some continuity but I tried to spice things a bit more up. So now his letters are completely yellow at the back and his envelopes are completely yellow at the front.

Besides the printed matters I also created a wordpress-based portfolio website. It is separated into a business (white) and personal (black) work section. Combined with custom typography and some fancy lightboxing he got a smooth running easy and fast to use website.
To continue the personalized statements Max also has the possibility to enter matching lyric-quotations which are randomly displayed at the top of the website.

visit Max: maxkickinger.de

I like neon type. My camera shot that image on my way home from work.

On the first of March I started working as designer at robinizer design studio in Hamburg.

It’s great!
I’m now looking for a nice flat to have an appropriate space to welcome visitors and you can add this city to your future couchsurfing-trips :)

2010 started great.

Hey there!

Besides sending out applications I just finished two small projects (web/print):

• Love, Hope & Faith is a charity-concert dedicated to help people around the world (and based on wordpress)
• JG Transportservice will get your precious cars to the right places (and uses custom fonts)

More news, more work-updates and maybe some surprises soon!

2009 was a busy year.

Loads of freelance work filled with great projects and nice people to work with. I really enjoyed it.
Since I give snow(boarding) top priority at the moment you will have to wait for the new year to see all the projects (some hints are above) documented in detail.

I am really looking forward to the next year. New jobs, new experiences and new opportunities. That’s what I am hoping for.
I wish you all the best, enjoy the days off and boost your energies while going snowboarding, travelling, etc.
At least that’s what I will do.

Thanks for this year and see you in 2010!

I just added the fifth music project to the work section.

It’s a complete visual identity containing printed matters, a website and a bit of motion design. It’s documented quite detailed to give you a good impression how I developed the identity.
I also updated the SLAM project with some new spreads from the recent issues.
Hope you like it.

Website: fifth-music-com

fifth music & sound design is Matthias Hacksteiner. He basically does – you’ll be surprised – everything that’s connected to sound: sound branding as well as compositions for motion graphics or different video formats. Recently he even finished his first album.
While his album was produced under the alias amongst giants he needed an identity for his company fifth music & sound design to give his professional work a proper appearance and setting.

fifth is a musical expression describing the sequence of five consecutive notes. That became the foundation for the identity developement. In addition to that the musical system is based on five stave which led me to extend the five circles into rounded lines.
For the typography I tried to quote the appearence of musical symbols like “forte fortissimo”, “piano” or “mezzoforte” but kept it a bit more quiet…

I also wanted to connect to the modern and innovative sounds fifth is producing for his clients with the clean subline and the different translations.

To complete the identity I generated (based on the number 5) some key visuals for being used in modern media implementations. Starting with a CD/DVD label I also used them as a random background-element on the website or for animated graphics. Since they are quite a nice eye-catcher they could also be very well used for t-shirts, caps, stickers et cetera in the future.

For the showreel I brought the logotype and the generated lines to life to create a simple opener, outro and separator. The sound (from fifth music & sound design of course) underlines the animations very well!

[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

Using type on websites has always been quite a pain in the neck for me. Implementing custom typefaces with flash (sIFR) might seem like a proper solution but there are often problems displaying them – particulary since the adblock plus extension for Firefox is gaining more and more importance (which I think is totally right). So for the fifth music website I used a technology that was totally new to me: typeface.js This is a font rendering script based on javascript and works out just fine!
The website is based on wordpress to let Matthias keep you up to date easily and write interesting stuff on his weblog. Have a look at www.fifth-music.com

Finally here are some close-ups from the printed matter to give you an idea of the great paper Matthias and I chose for his stationery.

Stay tuned for some updates in the work section!
I am currently finishing the fifth music & sound design identity and there will be some new spreads I did for the recent slamzine issues.

of April. Looks nice how they put it all together.

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