Hi, my name is Jan. I am a graphics designer based in Cologne and currently studying communication design at PBSA in Düsseldorf. The following is part of my work I did at PBSA and some freelance work. You can find my CV here.
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Heimat
I walk slowly. At a steady pace. I am not in a rush. It smells like food, tapas. I hear conversations, but I don’t understand them. Glasses clink. I turn a corner. A big street. A loud exhaust, from left to right. Wait, flash, turn. The light turns red. It smells like coffee. Someone staggers…
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Spaghetti Nights
Spaghetti Nights is a song by the band Vampire Empire. A music video was also made for the song. The scenes from the music video were shot at the Kokett Bar in Cologne. Photographs were also taken to accompany the music video, capturing the atmosphere and mood of the song.
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canjou.cc
Carbon road bikes are among the most popular models on the market. They are particularly notable for their lightness and flexibility. Compared to aluminium, carbon offers much greater comfort. In addition, carbon is resistant to dirt and moisture. However, as a material, it has one major disadvantage. In the event of a fall, the material…
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Chaos & Order
Chaos & Order combines the artificial with the natural. Grass is the element that spreads, grows over everything, covers it. The artificial particles behave similarly, but have a completely different aesthetic. They appear much more orderly, following a clear flow that dictates their direction. The grass grows freely and wildly, but also depends on a…
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Gravity of Light
Gravity of Light may sound paradoxical at first, because light has no mass and therefore no gravity. However, the light of the sun has always determined the rhythm of our lives, is the object of human fascination, muse and source of mystery. It guides our thinking and being, just as it guides the orbits of…
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Tango in the night
Tango in the Night was an attempt to translate the mood of Fleetwood Mac’s album cover ‘Tango in the Night’ into a 3D scene. The lighting, the sense of space and the slight liveliness are particularly characteristic of the scene. A feeling of emptiness and abandonment arises, but is occasionally interrupted by signs of life.…
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Päijän Boats
The task for this project was to develop accessories for Päijän boats. A Finnish company with long heritage which produces paddle boats. Päijän wanted to expand their product portfolio with useful rowing products. One of the main products was a rotating seat at the rear of the boat. It had to be detachable, stable and…
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X-Stove
The task for this stove was to have a portable stove which could be easily used in hiking or camping environment. Especially when all other heat sources except wood are exhausted. Furthermore the stove had to be easy to assemble and resistant against wind. The stove was manufactured from 0,5 mm stainless steel which is…
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Art in Movement
For this project we were asked by FALKE ESS (German sports manufacturer) to come up with a trade fair booth concept which could be used in B2B and B2C marketing. The booth should represent the core values of FALKE aswell as a narrative. The whole project was made as a contest where the best concept…
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Aus neu mach neu
This poster resulted from a more in-depth look at how Amazon recycles and uses its products which have been sent back. I modified a German phrase as my slogan. The image from the poster itself shows how the sent-back good are being handled.
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Intersecting dimensions
This project was an interactive animation which displays the intersecting of the dimensions behind and in front of the screen. The hand follows the viewer’s movement. We made this possible by tracking the viewer with a Kinect Azure. The tracking motion gives the impression of the hand coming to life and intersecting the dimensions of…
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resilient & agile
Those are two attributs which fit fish fairly well. But there is something which they fit even better. The fishing net. That is why its fishes biggest danger. this leads also to our biggest danger. the climate change which gets empowered rapidly by the fishing industry. the whole destruction of the ocean will lead to…
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Conifere furniture
The Detmold-based company „Conifere“ is planning to professionalize its advertising and public relations due to a large number of new customers. The nine-year-old company was founded by master carpenters Dirk Wigner and Sven Maylan and now employs 32 people. In addition to the workshop in Detmold, the company recently opened a showroom in Paderborn. Due…
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Buir & Manheim
These are two villages near Sindorf which have been heavily influenced by the mining of coal by RWE. This photo series shows the impact the mining had on the villages and the population. In Manheim people even had to abandon their homes for RWE to mine coal. Some people still try to live there under…
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Polaris
Polaris presents the sensory experiences of touch. A simple touch that can be felt far and wide. Kinetic energy that continues and transfers. A twitch, a press, a rub. Far-reaching consequences that are noticeable and visible. When these sensory experiences meet sound, an environment is created that can be experienced far and wide.
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Dream State
This is a particle simulation exercise I did for improving my Blender skills. I wanted to create an organic matter which feels like having it´s own sense of tactility. The close-ups are supposed to create a deeper connection between matter and viewer.
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Avalon Garden
The year is 2120: humans have successfully colonized Mars and more than 10,000 people can call the red planet home. The survival phase has also been completed and Mars has become a base or place of residence. Earth is changing drastically due to climate change, making Mars an attractive home for many. Human needs and…
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Metamorphosis
Metamorphoses are always happening. Transformation is part of the environment. They offer a very special fascination when something becomes a new, unexpected thing. Just as a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, one would never expect its final form. This was also the challenge in this frame-by-frame animation. Two random, independent objects are to undergo a…
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Thunderstorm
The Thunderstorm project deals with the vastness created by reverb and space, especially in electronic music. The aim was to make this vastness visible. I was particularly inspired by songs by Artbat and Township Rebellion. The animation was created in Blender using Geometry Nodes. Nodes make it possible to create randomly generated lightning bolts and…
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All-Over Seriality
In the painting ‘All-Over Seriality’, I arranged the graphic and calligraphic elements from Blaqk’s works in an all-over layout and designed the background with elements of seriality. However, this seriality is repeatedly interrupted, similar to Esther Stocker’s works. Blaqk’s works mostly consist of the same graphic components: geometric shapes combined with calligraphic elements. These different…
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Extraterrestrial
The work Extraterrestrial arose from the idea of bringing a distant world to ours. The smartphone was to serve as a portal. The object, as an artefact of another species, was intended to suggest a distant world governed by different cosmic laws. Distortion and curvature override our laws and reveal a different perception of space.…
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Treevision
Treevision was an exploratory approach to combining nature and technical aesthetics. This work shows the natural object in the context of digital data transmission. Cables, synapses, connections. At the same time, the tree also communicates through its roots and scents. A connection that appears technical but may also be entirely natural. The design was implemented…
