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.

www.designerreisen.eu
Eiga Design

Silberstern Luxusautovermietung

Wedding website for Teresa & Florian

Website for Kathi’s Conjure me project (only flash-programming)

Website for the Schopenhauer school in Vienna

I am proud to announce the successful relaunch of my online-portfolio.
You now’ve got the pleasure to see my recent projects in full colour and with a lot of juicy details!
In Addition – since everything is based on Wordpress and is highly dynamic – this website will be regularly updated with relevant news and projects.
I tried to keep it clean, informative and to add a personal touch to the descriptions as well as to other details. Chances are that you will notice them while exploring the website…

The reason for all of this is mainly because I am looking for a permanent employment. But also my idea of a lasting and more up-to-date portfolio/online presence pushed me.

If you’re missing the good ol’ times you can still read through the old blog-entries at: blog.floglaser.at

So have fun, enjoy, leave me a message & employ me!
Cheers!

P.S.: If you are in the lucky position to find a mistake or something’s not working properly: please drop me a line.
Oh and another thing… you are always allowed to correct my poorly written english and tell me what’s wrong. Thanks!