For The First Couple Of Years

And for you to go through it, if you’re going through it right now, if you’re just getting out of that phase or if you’re just starting off and you’re entering into that phase, you’ve got to know it’s totally normal and the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.

Although Ira Glass in the video I recently came across is talking about video production and storytelling, in his remarks the analogy to the situation I'm confronted with as a young designer who's up to start his career seems very obvious. So there's a huge volume of work waiting to be done, right? ... read

Blu Did It Again

I already posted some videos by Buenos-Aires based street artist Blu. And again he impressed me with one of his new motionpaintings he did in collaboration with David Ellis who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Entitled COMBO this video again produces the dense impression we know from pieces like MUTO. It's impressive how Blu and Ellis conduct the interaction between the imaginative paintings in a state of continuous transition, the spaces of urban dementia those living images are taking possession of and the playfully developing narrative layer supported by a minimalistic and well-directed sound-design. ... read

On Teaching Design

The thesis presentations are finished. My time as a student of visual communication has quickly drawn to a close. And whenever a phase of life comes to an end and great change is in the air, a time of retrospection and summing up begins. What did I learn? ... read

Hello Hello,

To push the part of original content at visualattitudes.com I'm currently working on the concept for an interview series titled Hello,. I consider this series an important addition to the content I usually post here as these interviews are intended for introducing you to attitudes of other creatives who work in the manifold fields of visual arts.

Focusing on topics like design process, the role of the author in the different fields of visual culture and the people's personal sources of inspiration, a set of defined questions will allow to compare and contrast the diverse interviewees' attitudes due to concrete and briefly outlining statements.

Of course I've already a list of candidates in my mind who I'll be apporaching within the next days and weeks. Nevertheless, if you know someone whose attitude you consider very interesting or you always wanted them to be asked some stupid questions: let me know! ... read

Illustrative Berlin 09

After it had taken place in Zurich and Paris the last years, the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts known as the Illustrative returns to the place of its birth this year: to my beloved Berlin. Established in 2006 the festival annually

… celebrates the illustrative arts, presents new talents and trends, exchanges ideas, marvels at progressive technologies, and rediscovers forgotten styles.

For the fifth time works of more than 60 artists ranging from drawing, graphic prints, painting and monumental mural collages to graphically inspired 3D-illustrations, book art and animation will be shown in the festival's exhibition. If you are interested in getting an idea of the current developments in illustration arts, the merging of infinite materials and techniques in widely unprecedented combinations, there is only one place to be from the 16th of October to the 1st of November: ... read

Graduate Exhibition of the Academy of Art and Design in Basel

Finally - and hard to believe - the opening of my own Graduate Exhibition is near. A good reason to advise you of the possibility to see the results of the thesis projects my fellow students and me were working on for the last few months.

From Friday, September 4th to Sunday, September 13th all graduates (BA and MA/MFA) of the Academy of Art and Design UAS Northwestern Switzerland will show their projects at the Exhibition Center Basel, Hall 3. Our Visual Communication Institute will be just one of the represented disciplines the academy provides courses of studies in – like Interior Design and Scenography, Fashion Design or Fine Art.

So if you are interested in exploring the output of young creatives or you just want to see my tower installation with your own eyes, you are heartly invited to stop by. And don't forget to join the party after the vernissage! read