New piece, worked quite a while on the style and tried to find new ways to do things.

it is a basically a photocollage with the wireframes added in illustrator.

it is up for voting as a shirt design at design by humans via [link] , so if you like it please head over there and support!

Vote at DBH

no matter how big the obstacles, never give up. inspired by the awesome gunm graphic novels.

Well, finally my cooperation with Dr. Nachtstrom is complete. Check it out either here

or on youtube via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq1eS8WHKCU

Don’t forget to watch it in fullscreen in hd

walter (aka dr. nachtstrom) is responsible for the crazy techno sound and your humble narrator is to blame for the visual experience.

A little rundown on the video: 32 gig of data, most clips composed in adobe aftereffects, some 3d elements rendered in maya, and arranging and effects added in adobe premiere. Working time on my side: approx. 40 hours, maybe more.

Hope you like it!

well my friends, in the summertime usually people go on vacation, i for myself decided to launch a crazy project called ‘Ritual Decay’, a cooperation with my good friend Dr. Nachtstrom. We noticed that we are that similar in some of our musical and visual tastes that it would definitely be an interesting experience to start a project together.

we are just in the process of finishing our first multimedia track called ‘Overseer’. It will be a wild audiovisual experience, i can promise you that much

Here some pictures to tease you a little bit further:

expect the video in high definition pretty soon, stay tuned!

What is it with this attraction on dystopy? Can’t say for sure, but i believe for me it has something to do with my childhood – growing up in the 80s and 90s where you got swamped with movies about the end of mankind. mad max, terminator, mark 13, all these impressions did leave a mark with me.

Nowadays the end of the world moves a little bit further away, we don’t have the overpowering nuclear thread like it was at the 80s. Nonetheless the interest in the downfall of society is still there. Its interesting for us in a weird way.

Little sidenote: I would not survive the apocalypse too long, i guess. Not good with guns, can’t run fast and the skills that i have are probably not that relevant – not sure about the need for illustrations and design in the modern wastelands.

Here some illustrations i did covering the topic, got plenty of these, stay tuned for some more.

cybertoyz: chaos theory – outside booklet

cybertoyz: chaos theory – outside tray

retractor: no resistance – cover

retractor: no resistance – inside booklet

those who read my journal carefully will remember that i mentioned that i did some shirt designs for public beta. well, good news, the stuff finally got printed and can be purchased via their webshop. there are tshirts and hooded vests of both my androids and cybergoddess design, and they look really neat. i am happy. the quality of the shirts is top notch, so if you want to get your freak on, check them out

direct link: androids t-shirt
direct link: androids hooded vest

direct link: cybergoddess t-shirt
direct link: cybergoddess hooded vest

i was thinking about making shirts for a while, so its a happy coincidence that zoran and gabi from public beta approached me with their inquiry. doing artwork for shirts is a tad different from my usual approach, so it was interesting to see if i can adjust to the requirements. all the design was done in adobe illustrator.

One of the frequent topics i always come back to is cyberspace – for me there is still this idea of the abstract world of information, in which we are immersed and have unlimited freedom – so bascially its pretty much everything that the internet isn’t.

my inspirations for this kind of artwork are the wonderful and deep cyberpunk novels by neal stephenson and william gibson, the crazy artwork of the computer game rez, and everything else that i find fitting.

there a a couple of albums i did with this sort of theme, for now i want to to present you two albums for digital psionics, psionic substance and psionic moove.

One of my most favorite album artwork i created so far has to the first album i designed for soda ash. the  premise was excellent, meaning there were little guidelines except for a bladerunnereque retro scifi feel that the album should have.

Soda Ash – Tech Noir Cover

Soda Ash – Tech Noir Inlay (1)

Soda Ash – Tech Noir Inlay (2)

Soda Ash – Tech Noir Inlay (3)

Soda Ash – Tech Noir Outside Tray