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EDITORIAL WELCOME TO THE 12TH ISSUE OF JPEOPLE BRAND FILE WE HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED YOUR CREATIVE TIMES.

“3D Rat” by Banksy

If you grew up in an urban space like Berlin city - the only constant note to you is: Change. Urban creatives are forced to accept the fast pace. Streets, buildings, parks, playgrounds and other surroundings switch faces like we are changing clothes. Modern construction-sites look like massive art-installations and it becomes a visual tattoo for our inspirations. Everything will be done, nothing will be finished. This seems to be a lifetime slogan. Still our passion is driven like the restless traffic everyday. JPEOPLE Brand File is a creative observer and practitioner and JPEOPLE loves the power of change. Every issue is a unique, timeless evidence of how we take the challenge and handle the changing atmosphere. That’s why we choose to pick a relevant topic for this issue which shows us the main change in our society and creative behaviours. If we use all of our senses than we have one big feeling right now - The World is 3D!

If we use all of our senses than we have one big feeling right now * The World is 3D! * Our Artist Features will introduce amazing and new views on 3D. Every technical invention for our modern entertainment is based on the third dimension and every man-made creation tries to be even more REAL. How artists master this challenge by using different approaches and technologies you will find in our Goodsense section. The JPEOPLE fashion editorial will show you the “True Legends Collab”. With exploding liquids, we have produced a unique and fascinating fashion spread with the aim to capture the creative metaphor of the euphoric soccer movement by combining new fashion with the latest of light stroke photography and post production technology. With “Once upon a time” and “Coupling” we are also introducing a new and fresh insight into fashion. Last but not least we will be celebrating the relaunch of the creative network DROPMOBILE.NET by introducing some of the performing artists with a fine selection of their 3D works. We really hope all of you will enjoy this new 3D issue! Che André Bergendahl

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EDITORIAL

INDEX

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JPEOPLE ARTISTS FEATURES

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Erik Johansson Faiyaz Jafri Janne Kytt채nen Kurt Wenner Mareen Fischinger Mate Steinforth Qian Qian

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GOODSENSE The World is 3D

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Covering 3D inspired Artworks in the fields of Photography, Streetart, Sculpting, Beamart and Paperworks

FASHION Coupling Exploding Liquids Making of

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Art Shock Real funk for real people Quitting the ordinary Discovering the hidden tiger Rare prints anyone? Vans still off the wall

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Once upon a time

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ARTIST FEATURE ERIK JOHANSSON FAIYAZ JAFRI JANNE KYTTÄNEN KURT WENNER MAREEN FISCHINGER MATE STEINFORTH QIAN QIAN

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ERIK JOHANSSON describe your individual style

“SURREAL IDEAS REALIZED IN A REALISTIC WAY” < />

Inspiration is something that Erik Johansson finds in the works of Salvador Dalí, m.C. Escher Or René Magritte. His refreshingly creative images are adeptly arranged photo compositions with love for the detail. Initially these seem to depict scenes and moments from everyday life. Only a closer look reveals their surreality and charming wit. You get to see scenes like the following: Evidently a man is trailing a length of material. But looking closer it turns that the fibered thing is in fact a highway. Erik is currently still busy studying interaction design at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. Considering his age though he has already made a name for himself

as a young creative with great potential. Everything started out 10 years ago with his first digital camera that he got at the age of 15. Since he had always enjoyed drawing by hand and working with computers it was only natural how he started modifying pictures of his friends and family. Another thing that hasn’t changed up until today is that he likes to take the photos for his modifications himself if possible. Finding quite a precise term for it Erik simply describes his works as “surreal ideas realized in a realistic way”. Recently Eric’s body of fantastic imagery has amazed his fans, but it also made people think, reflect and share their feelings in countless blog-entries and comments.

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Where do you live: I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I moved here 5 years ago to study computer engineering. Where do you feel at home? On the Swedish west coast. Describe your individual style/work. Surreal ideas realized in realistic way. What methods, tools or techniques do you use? The photos are created in my head, I then work with my camera and computer to realize them.

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Site before: “Long Road” left: “Arbete” right:: “Gravmaskinen”

Why are you doing what you do right now? I do it because I feel like I have to real-ize ideas that I get, my personal projects are my creative outlet. But also because it’s a challenge to realize ideas as real-istic as possible.

What/who inspires you at the moment? Right now I am working with a personal project about twisted perspectives and M.C. Escher is a big influences for me in these photos. How do you come up with your ideas? I don’t really try to come up with ideas, they come to me. And when I think of something good I make a quick sketch of it. Sometimes the ideas are to hard to realize because I don’t have the material or resources.

How did you get started? As I got my first digital camera when I turned 15 I started to modify photos of friends and family. After a few years I bought a better camera and started to do more serious manipulations. I have always been drawing since I was a kid, and I think my photos are similar in a way.

What would you like to do that you are not doing at the moment? Have more time to realize my personal projects. What stops you from doing it? Other things that take up my time, like sleeping, eating and studying.

What were you doing when aged 15? I got my first digital camera and ex-perimented with different techniques both in the camera and computer.

What is beautiful? Intelligent people

What/who are your influences? My daily life and things around me, I get ideas from almost everywhere.

What is ugly? Thrown out Christmas trees in January.

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What kind of people do you find interesting? People who follow their dreams

Describe your typical day. Every day is different, since I don’t work full time as a photographer I just work when I have to. Describe a perfect moment. When the first frame photoshoot.

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What are you wearing right now? Acne shirt, cheap monday jeans, Imagine a day in the mind of someone else. Who would you like to be? Salvador Dali

What was the best thing you ever did? When I decided to buy a DSLR-camera which made me begin to do the kind of photo manipulations that I do today, thanks to my dear friend Eric.

Any special events you are going to show up at during the next couple of months? No, I am doing my master thesis at a company as the last part of my studies. So I will be quite occupied with that for the next months. But I hope to do some exhibitions by the end of this year and I would love to live and work in Paris for a couple of months.

What do you like to spend money on? Photo equipment and things that are cool but I don’t really need. What would you never spend money on? Gambling

Five albums you love: [Ingenting] - Tomhet, idel tomhet Bob Hund - Jag rear ut min själ Justice - † Detektivbyrån - Wermland White Stripes - White Stripes

You could live without? TV You have to have? A computer and camera

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Top to bottom:

Erik himself Erik’s parents his friend Eric who introduced him to photography Erik and his girlfriend

his sisters and his best mates

Four books/zines you like: The Alchemist (novel) Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Various Photo and Photoshop magazines Three websites you have bookmarked: www.deviantart.com www.worth1000.com www.strobist.blogspot.com From top to bottom — His parents, Eric and his girlfriend, the guy thad made him start photography, his sisters and his best freinds frm home dressed to kill

Two movies that impressed you: The science of sleep Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain 30. Your favorite artist, designer or photographer: M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali and Rob Gonsalves. ▲

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Right: ”Lina”

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FAIYAZ JAFRI describe your individual work

“I CALL MY WORK “HYPER UNREALISM”, A COMBINATION OF VIRTUAL SCULPTING AND VIRTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY” < />

Left: “Amidala”

“Oh, how cute!” Is what you will automatically think as soon as you get to see the bambi. One of the recurrent creatures of Faiyaz Jafri’s. Less cute, therefore a whole lot more sexy is what you could call the other figures the 41-year-old Dutchman designs - which is the reason why some of his exhibitions may only be entered by people at the age of 18 and older. The naked, Barby-like female bodies that appear like glossy plastics as well as staring doll’s faces or even Star Wars masks like the Stormtroopers. Jafri created his first computer-based illustrations in 1987 after recognizing that unlike him these incredible machines were capable of drawing perfectly straight lines without difficulty. The scarcely developed technology at the time was exactly Jafri’s thing. Especially later when more advanced

software suddenly enabled people to recreate perfect bodies this became clear to him. It simply turned out as the exact opposite of what he wanted to do since his almost pictographic style lives on reduction, the slickness of surfaces and stainlessness of lines and shapes. Still the figures seem extremely lively. In a strange kind of way they embody and communicate a high degree of attention and proximity. It is their creator who breathes life into them for sure. These characteristics of his work and style, which he also likes to call “hyperunrealism”, are what led the way into various collaborations with internationally renowned companies and also helped him to exhibit his works around the globe. By the way: The latter even comprises video installations and sculptures by now.

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Fullpage: “Thomas”

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left, clockwise: his sketchbook his daughter in his office Fayaz and his chldren working in the office Siu Yin und Fayaz

right: “Monochromatic”

Where do you live & why did you decide to live there? I live in New York, because I always wanted to live there.

What were you doing when aged 15? Being a depressed New Waver.

Where do you feel at home? At the moment I don’t really know.

What/who are your influences? Dick Bruna, Moebius, Manga, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, comic books, Sci-Fi, Popular culture, mass media, to name a few.

Describe your individual style/work. I call my work “Hyper Unrealism”, a combination of virtual sculpting and virtual photography.

What/who inspires you at the moment? My children How do you come up with your ideas? I think it has something to do with questioning and reconfiguring everything I know, see and like.

What methods, tools or techniques do you use? My work is mainly created in a virtual 3D environment. I use 2D and 3D imaging software, a mouse and a keyboard.

What would you like to do that you are not doing at the moment? Teaching

Why are you doing what you do right now? I wouldn’t know what else to do

What stops you from doing it? I have not found a school that wants me to come and teach.

How did you get started? Somewhere in 1996 I took my portfolio to all the ad agencies and magazines in Holland I could find. Within one week I got my first paid job doing a visual for Nike.

What is beautiful? Mathematics

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What is ugly? Stupidity Describe your typical day. Get up at 10AM, drink tea, yoga, check email, play with my kids, surf the web, create stuff. 12:30PM Make lunch, create stuff. 6:00PM Dinner (my wife is the best cook ever), do dishes play with my kids, create more stuff. 6:00AM Go to sleep. Describe a perfect moment. Mental clarity, it doesn’t happen very often though. What was the best thing you ever did? / What do you like to spend money on? Technology, books and music. What would you never spend money on? Expensive cars You could live without? I wish I could live without sleep. You have to have? Mental and visual order. What kind of people do you find interesting? Difficult, complicated and smart people. What are you wearing right now? Something black and non descript. Imagine a day in the mind of someone else. Who would you like to be? Vega Spring Jafri or Sky Jafri, my children. Any special events you are going to show up at during the next couple of months? I have not planned anything yet, If I have the time I would like to go to Pictoplasma this april in Berlin. Five albums you love: Autechre - “Incunabula” Pixies - “Doolittle” Led Zeppelin - “2” Tikiman - “Showcase” Lou Reed - “The Blue Mask”

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Four books/zines you like: Neuromancer by William Gibson The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, WIRED

Left: “Natural Plastic” Right: ”Walt and George”

Three websites you have bookmarked: Dropular, FFFFOUND!, Tumblr Two movies that impressed you: Star Wars IV, Paris Texas Your favourite artist, designer or photographer: Jean Giraud aka Moebius. ▲

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Left : “Riot lamp”

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JANNE KYTTÄNEN “I AM VERY COMPUTER GRAPHICS DRIVEN. I WOULD MAYBE BEST DESCRIBE MYSELF AS A DIGITAL SCULPTOR.”

“Freedom of creation” is the tuneful and flowery name finnish designer janne kyttänen’s company. In short F.O.C. And considering the fantastic design objects that Janne and his 7 members of staff have brought to fruition one immediately has to answer that the name was truly well chosen! Lamps, enlightened objects, appearing like oversized flowers and plants, glowing comb and blossom motives and not only can you feel a nature-inspired vibe, it really all looks entirely elemental, artless and even foreign in a good way. The perfect accuracy and symmetry which do not only inhere in the enlightened objects but also in numerous other interior accessoires by F.O.C. emanated from high-tech 3D-software and laser printers. With the help of these the objects can both be designed and manufactured very quickly and correctly.

Within the field of 3D printed designs Janne and his team belong to the pioneers. Even though at first glance the 36-year old himself seems rather conservative in terms of style the reality is another one: Once you get to realize how complex his work actually is you will get the feeling that you are dealing with a “creative punk” in fact. Especially pieces like the “riot lamp” that comes with a lamp-shade ornated with barbwire, demo banners and small fighter jets or the so-called “punchbag” whose handles are clearly imitating brass knuckles fall into that category. These works all prove that Janne really finds pleasure in provocation, too. And that in turn under- lines the otherness of his objects in a believable way!

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From top to bottom: Janne and his team at FOC “Kazan” Scale-Model

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Where do you live & why did you decide to live there? Amsterdam. I came to Amsterdam for my design studies and to play professional squash. Where do you feel at home? Underwater when diving Describe your individual style/work. I am very computer graphics driven. I would maybe best describe myself as a digital sculptor. What methods, tools or techniques do you use? I use the computer with a 3D software and 3D printers to produce my work Why are you doing what you do right now? I just came back from Christmas holiday and I am going through a mountain of emails. How did you get started? I found my calling about 10 years ago and I am still on that path. What were you doing when aged 15? Mainly playing squash and being operated due to too many sports injuries. What/who are your influences? Nothing really. I create my own destiny From top to bottom: Janne himself

What/who inspires you at the moment? Facebook. I am addicted.

Janny with his friends at a diving trip Interior shot, featuring some of Janne’s sculpturs

How do you come up with your ideas? I can’t explain it. They just do and I can just wake up in the middle of the night with ideas. What would you like to do that you are not doing at the moment? Design buildings. What stops you from doing it? I am waiting for the right technology to get built for it. What is beautiful? Beautiful women. What is ugly? Can’t think of anything ugly. Describe your typical day. I am constantly thinking and constantly creating, so i guess my days are pretty similar, but always filled with different new ideas every day.

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Describe a perfect moment. Taking a picture with a beautiful girl. What was the best thing you ever did? I haven’t done it yet. What do you like to spend money on? I don’t really buy stuff. I put most of my money in travelling. What would you never spend money on? For stuff that has no value for me. You could live without? Stuff. You have to have? Love

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From top to bottom: “Riot” lamp in action “Dahlia” lamp

What kind of people do you find interesting? The ones with a brain who also create their own destiny. What are you wearing right now? Jeans, sneakers and a sweater. Imagine a day in the mind of someone else. Who would you like to be? Dalai Lama Any special events you are going to show up at during the next couple of months? IMM fair at Cologne in January. Five albums you love: My Berlin photo album, My Facebook photo album and the latest albums from la Roux, snowpatrol and LCD soundsystem.

Two movies that impressed you: Earth Inconvenient Truth

Four books/zines you like: books: all from Thomas Friedman. Movies: all from Tarantino

Your favourite artist, designer or photographer: There are just too many. I recently went to an exhibition from Massimo Vitale. Amazing photos. ▲

Three websites you have bookmarked: Ffffound.com dezeen.com coolhunting.com

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Sculpture Design for an Onitsuka Tiger Campaign

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KURT WENNER describe your individual work

“I CONSIDER MYSELF A CONTEMPORARY CLASSICIST” < />

The fact that kurt wenner spent almost half his life in italy is thoroughly well imaginable when you examine at his works. Although he calls himself an American artist the motives of the tridimensional chalk drawings that he has been creating on streets and trottoirs around the world for decades often depict the imposing the traditional beauty of European classicism. Besides comic-like pin-ups in swimming pools and other pop art motives like Coke bottles one frequently succumbs the impression that the ground is opening, revealing an abyss that turns out to be something like the nave of the Sixtine Chapel for instance. At the age of 16 Kurt Wenner decided to become a professional artist. Among other things the architecture of the grand mansions in his hometown Santa Barbara and the ruling Hippie culture of the late 60s inspired and influenced him to do

so. Only a year later he got started by saving up the money that would be required to afford a college place later on. At the time he did so with the help of smaller graphic jobs. One of his first clients was none other than the NASA. They had noticed his outstanding talent for perspective drawing: Diagrams and sketches for space travel were still being drawn by hand back then. Wenner got to develop his individual style later on after moving to Rome to study European classicism. Ever since he has been passing on his broad knowledge of geometry, perspective and illusion to y generation of younger illustrators. For Wenner the job ladder held some major clients in stock; among them Disney, Lexus or Kraft Foods and even pope Johannes Paul II.

Left — “Office Stress”

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Where do you live & why did you decide to live there? We have just moved to Friday Harbor on the San Juan Islands (between the US and Canada). For the last 25 years we have lived in Italy. The reason for the move was to transition my son into an English based educational system before he is at the university level. Until now, his education has been in the Italian schools, and Italian is a very small language base. Where do you feel at home? I probably still feel more at home in Europe, although I enjoy the enthusiasm and “can do” attitude of the US. Describe your individual style/work. I consider myself a contemporary classicist. My main goal is to discover historical aspects of western European art that are ignored or neglected. I try to use them in an original way that challenges my contemporary audience.

Kurt himself “Satyr” detail

What methods, tools or techniques do you use? I use a wide variety of tools and techniques, both two and three-dimensional. I do everything from publicity to architecture. It has been one of my goals to gain experience in a wide variety of media.

left: “Alllegory of water”

Why are you doing what you do right now? I have moved to the island to develop educational programs and related products. I am trying to transition a bit from my publicity work, which has become so popular as to cause an imbalance in my artistic goals. How did you get started? I decided to become a professional artist at the age of 16, although I had done artwork my whole life. I earned my money for art school by working in graphic arts starting at 17 years old. I also did my first mural commission at this age. My first important job was for NASA, (the National Air and Space Administration. I got the job by being able to do very difficult perspective drawings. At the time, all the diagrams and paintings for space missions were hand painted. I really began to form my own style when I left the U.S. for Rome, Italy. There I studied European classicism and began to think of ways to make the tradition contemporary.

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What were you doing when aged 15? I was preparing to be 16, when I would start being an artist. What/who are your influences? More than any particular artist, I was influenced by the culture that created the Italian renaissance. My work was grounded in trying to understand the principles and ideas that created that tradition. What/who inspires you at the moment? I am inspired by the change that is oc-curring in human perception. With the in-vention of computer graphics, there is a great desire to conceive of images as spatial structures. This is as important a change as the proliferation of photography, which created a desire to see the world as flat shapes. My work therefore has a greater appeal to the younger generation than it did to the last one. How do you come up with your ideas? Most of my ideas begin with a geometric idea I wish to express. What would you like to do that you are not doing at the moment? My goal has been to create educational materials based on my knowledge of history, perception and technique. This has been very hard to achieve because the concepts are outside of the current educational structure. What stops you from doing it? I am very good at doing things that I can create from start to finish. Projects that require sponsorship, (because I cannot assume the production costs myself), or large distribution networks have been more discouraging. I still work on these projects, but progress is slower than I would like. What is beautiful? My favorite quote is that “beauty is the promise of happiness”. To me, happiness is maintaining my family and moving forward on my Dharma. A beautiful thing is something that makes me want to create. What is ugly? For me it is difficult to imagine anything more ugly than banality. The sight of buildings or neighborhoods that lack regard for aesthetics is extremely depressing to me. Describe your typical day. I wake, I work, I sleep. Describe a perfect moment. Going to sleep after spending completing a satisfying work.

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left: “Dies Irae” painting

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What was the best thing you ever did? The best experience of my life was moving to Italy to study art.

Except for teachers, I don’t think people need to be interesting, just enthusiastic. Artists and writers need to be interesting, but not necessarily in person.

What do you like to spend money on? My goal is to get a large format Epson printer. Most of what I would ever buy would be materials that help me in my work.

What are you wearing right now? I am wearing jeans and a decent button-up shirt. This is because I am giving a talk today. Otherwise I would be in a sweatshirt.

What would you never spend money on? I think I would not spend money on any kind of status or branded item, watches, cars, etc. I like other luxury goods such as art and antiques as well as a great garden, but I know that I am not good at maintaining these things. I miss the food in Italy.

Imagine a day in the mind of someone else. Who would you like to be? I would like to be a realized Yogi for a day. Otherwise I would only be exchanging my Maya with somebody else’s. That would be nasty. Any special events you are going to show up at during the next couple of months? I will probably be doing some event in the next month or two, but I do not yet know what.

You could live without? Noise and distractions, facebook, twitter and email spam.

Five albums you love: Cecilia Bartoli, The Vivaldi album Stradella, San Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Lo Frate N’Namorato Paisello, Il Mondo della Luna Salieri, Falstaff

You have to have? I have grown very dependant on my Mac. It is hard to imagine I spent decades without it, or anything like it. What kind of people do you find interesting?

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Four books/zines you like: Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness Anthony Yu, Journey to the West Michael Dibdin, The Black Lagoon Three websites you have bookmarked: Ebay Wikipedia Google Two movies that impressed you: Movies are mostly entertainment for me. I like them to be madcap more than impressive. Perhaps “A Fish Named Wanda” and “8 Heads in a Duffel Bag” were impressively crazy. Your favourite artist, designer or photographer: Giulio Romano ▲

“Fall of Icarus” painting

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MAREEN FISCHINGER describe your individual work

“IT IS THE WHOLE PACKAGE” < />

“Times Square” panograph

The highly professional photo series presented on her website are suggestive and impressive. The 26-year-old communication design graduate based in Duesseldorf especially amazes her viewers with her “panographs”. Each photo series shows a well known place or building. First she takes a large amount of photos from one point of view and then she puzzles them back together creating colossal mosaic-like collages. It is a technique she coined and established all by herself. The finished works are fascinating sights with an urban flair which have led to a lot of media attention and even wangled an exhibition in Paris for her. She herself does not want to limit her work to architectural photography though. On the

contrary: It is her avowed goal to become a famous photographer like her role model Annie Leibovitz. As that suggests Mareen also shares Leibovitz’ interest people and fashion. And the way she stages both can definitely be a little more extra-vagant, the light a bit more pitiless, the main issue being that it has to be somewhat particular and non-reversible; just the way that we have come to know Mareen’s work by now. At present the young photographer and artist still acts mainly in Berlin and New York. But taking her creative openness into consideration it is more than likely that it won’t take long for things to pick up elsewhere, too. We keep our fingers crossed for her!

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“Hôtel de Ville” panograph

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Where do you live & why did you decide to live there? I have lived in DĂźsseldorf these past five years, moving here when already having started studying design. The city is the capital of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia, though we have less than half a million inhabitants. I do not need every establishment to exist twenty times in my city, two or three is enough and it feels a little more pre-selected than in an actual megacity. Still, DĂźsseldorf has a great infrastructure and is very central. You can get anything you need and are close to a lot of other cities of importance. What I am still missing is a larger group of the narrow demographic who I can get very comfortable with, but maybe I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t looked closely enough. Berlin and New York both can give me those people - but at the moment, I feel like one in a million there. Where do you feel at home? I see myself as a fast-adapting individual. Be it a place or a practice, I like understanding and getting into new things, making the best out of the new experience and working it in with my current self.

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Describe your individual style/work. Since I have a general design background, I claim to have an overview and am able to take over a large role in every project. I can go from idea to art direction to building up and taking the picture to finding the best fit to post-production and publication. Of course, I am glad to take help where I can and work with an assistant, make-up artists and stylists, models, actors or dances and maybe graphic designers. It is the whole package. What methods, tools or techniques do you use? Brain, eye & hands are my most important tools. The equipment I use to create photos in my studio or on location are strong strobes, a nice digital camera, comfortable photo editing software and my computers. Why are you doing what you do right now? I am trying to express what comes to me from inspiration & thought and make it into something that is visible to everybody. Inside me, I have a strong need to talk to other people and the visual form is the most pleasant for me.

Left: Mareen and her intern Vera Behind the scenes fashion shoot with her assistant Stefan

How did you get started? As a kid, I drew with pencils, got into painting as I grew and at around around 15, the camera had me: I was referred to as the girl who always brings her camera. I still painted a bit until around age 19 or 20, but then photography took over completely.

Right: Mareen at her studio with her panographic works in the back

How do you come up with your ideas? By looking around me and taking everything in. Listening to people talk, and living life. Sometimes I can transfer my own life or a series of eventsinto the picture. I also have friends located everywhere who I can call and talk about topics. That always helps when putting one and one together. I then sketch and look for material of existence to try to make something new.

What were you doing when aged 15? I was getting ready to leave my country and spend a year in the U.S., where I found unexpected appreciation and spur for my work at a very talent-oriented and modern high school. What/who are your influences? Oh, I wish I could name someone here - because it can be anything at any time. The strongest influence was that of the own pressure I put myself under, that of trying to be good at what I loved doing. This light and congenial pressure originated from being around people I loved and my education. It should be easy to understand for people with a similar mindset.

What would you like to do that you are not doing at the moment? I would like to travel around the world more and also see places that are said to be a little too dangerous. What stops you from doing it? I don’t want to go all by myself, but can’t plan far ahead right now because of an everchanging project situation at the studio. Most people I would travel with are either in the same situation, need to plan further ahead or aren’t interested in the same places as myself.

What/who inspires you at the moment? I am inspired by the future, by nature and man’s elaborate accommodation in it. And the behavior of individuals - but then again seen in general, if this makes any sense... I try to focus on situations that make you look, that make you as a viewer stop and transfer them to your own life.

What is beautiful? Sunlight, which I am definitely deprived of, a nice caffè latte, the feeling of respect & trust.

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What is ugly? Small talk, empty phrases, greed and gossip. Oh, and some sea food dishes.

with a good read. What was the best thing you ever did? Listening to my intentions even though everything and everyone else says I am doing the wrong thing and then seeing it work out.

Describe your typical day. I get up at around eight and have a nice latte that I take to my desk with me. Here, I go through email correspondence etc. My assistant Stefan or our intern comes in at nine and we start working on whatever project is in the pipeline, it might not be the same for everyone. If there is a photoshoot, we set up that and do it in the studio or where ever else. For lunch, we sit together and talk; there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a certain time for a break, and we know when we need one. A couple of lattes later, the official workday ends whenever we feel like it can. It naturally gets more quiet towards the night. The pleasure of being your own boss and working project-based is that you can work when you got the power to do it and take time off when it is needed.

What do you like to spend money on? Things that make life and work more comfortable. What would you never spend money on? Things that make nothing better and are merely status symbols. You could live without? No more reoccuring headaches, please. You have to have? Space and open areas, as in rooms decoration, but also as in personal space and privacy.

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What kind of people do you find interesting? People are interesting to me when they have the ability to create something new out of what they take in from their environment, when they can make the fast connection back and then actually bring whatever they talk about to life - possibly in unconventional ways.

Describe a perfect moment. Barbeque at the beach with friends as the sun is setting (I try to do that every so often) and sitting outside on the studio balcony that is located in the middle of a city but has the flair of a Southern-European vacation home,

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What are you wearing right now? Sounds like a kinky phone sex question! But to easily defuse the situation: I am wearing a light beige cardigan over a bright red top that matches the chair I sit in almost too well. Skinny black pants, glasses.

Imagine a day in the mind of someone else. Who would you like to be? Annie Leibovitz, for her vision and the power to make so many story-telling photographs come to life. Any special events you are going to show up at during the next couple of months? My vernissage in Paris. Galerie Bailly Contemporain is showing most of my Panography work from 2006 until today, including many new pieces. Most other plans of mine are made at short notice.

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Right, clockwise: her studio in Düsseldorf Playboy advertorial shoot for t-home Mareen with her friends at the famous “Casting Alley” photobooths working with a model contest

Your favourite artist, designer or photographer: I say Erwin Olaf, although I don’t like everything he does just because it is his work. ▲

Five albums you love: Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever ago Francis & the Lights - A Modern Promise Ólafur Arnalds - Eulogy For Evolution Sophie Hunger - Monday’s Ghost The XX - XX Four books/zines you like: Gregory Crewdson - Beneath the Roses Franz Kafka - Das Werk Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead various design magazines, e.g. 125 Magazine Three websites you have bookmarked: My flexible to-do list at teuxdeux.com, the dict.cc dictionary and doodle.ch for easy scheduling.

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Left: “Sevens” panograph

Two movies that impressed you: Das Leben der Anderen (The Life of Others), 2006 / The Game, 1997

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MATE STEINFORTH describe your individual work

â&#x20AC;&#x153;MY STYLE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS GERMANâ&#x20AC;? < />

The Hannover/Germany born 32 years old Mate Steinforth is a designer and director based in Berlin. In his teen years he became active in the computer arts subculture known as Demoscene. Eventually he began working as a graphic artists for computer games. He studied graphic design in Hildesheim, Germany and Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain. His early professional work was focused on animation, particularly the Performance art of VJing. Under his VJ alias of mateuniverse, he has toured Europe. He performed at various art and electronica events with his animation work being screened at festivals and on TV.

In 2002, he moved to Madrid to work as an Art Director in the design studio Juan Dela Mata. In 2004 he moved back to Berlin where he worked as a freelance motion designer/director. In 2006, he moved to New York to work for the production company PSYOP. In 2009 he moved back to Germany to head up the Berlin Branch of the motion design and animation Label Sehsucht. Next to his professional work he always tries to spend time on collaborative projects, directing animated shorts and short clips. Some of his works include the projects PSST! Pass It On 1+2 and Advanced Beauty.

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Styleframe for a Pitch for HSBC Bank, done at PSYOP

Where do you live & why did you decide to live there? I live in Berlin now - again, finally. I always wanted to life in Berlin. When I finally succeded in 2004, it was just a brief interlude before moving to New York. Now, I’m back - hopefully for good.

anymore. Even back then, I wanted to move to Kreuzberg. So now, coming back, I really wanted to move there - turns out now everybody wants to live there too. So lit was a bit difficult to find a flat in Kreuzberg. In addition to that, the office being in Prenzlauer Berg at Schönhauser Allee, the way to work would have been quite long from Kreuzberg. Now we found a really cool flat in Prenzlauer Berg. I don’t really feel at home here - yet. A lot of strollers! I though it is a cliche but it feels like it’s really the case. Well maybe it’s just about growing up.

Where do you feel at home? I still have to readjust to the city. It’s changing quite rapidly, not unlike New York. A lot of places feel familiar but unknown at the same time, because a lot has changed in the last years. When I was living in Berlin for the first time, it was in Friedrichshain. I quite liked the are, but no it feels like it’s a lot of tourism going on with a lot of young kids, stag-gering through the streets drunk. Not so my thing

Describe your individual style/work. My style has been described as ‘german’. First I took as an offense, a bit. Now I can see why people might come to this impression. I think

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From top to bottom: Styleframe for an Infiniti Spot, done at PSYOP/MassMarket Styleframe for a Red Bull Pitch, done at PSYOP/MassMarket Styleframe for a Nike Spot, done at PSYOP

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my style is pretty clean, accurate. That’s probably german. So far I didn’t purposefully try to develop a particular style, it just came out like it was. Looking back through the work, it does feel like there’s connecting elements between the individual pieces. It was quite a funny experience, when I lined up all the stuff I did in chronological order. Then I could see that there are certain themes at certain times. Now I try to focus on a personal style more conciously. I’m not sure yet if this is a good thing though, because sometimes it feels like it is a bit restricting. If I want to try a new style, I keep thinking that it might be too far from my usual style. So I’m a bit undecided about that - keeping it diverse and experimental or trying to develop one signature style. The former is probably more fun, while the latter is probably more commercially viable. What methods, tools or techniques do you use? I used to draw a lot, now I do pretty much all the design work in photoshop, some times with a little help from 3D. But basically it’s all collages. Still, a lot of times I start scribbling about and then take it from there. The ideas develop as you draw, or as you move things around. It’s a combined ef-fort of thinking and doing. Why are you doing what you do right now? The feeling of being inspired by someone is something pretty powerful. I always hoped to be able to give that back. So I Cassann try to do work that inspires people, try to engage with the design scene and help it evolve. Unfortunately this goal always needs to be balanced by economic factors, but in the end, it’s still the goal. So it’s part making a living and part trying to inspire people. Hopefully the bigger part is the inspiring part. How did you get started? I started playing/working with computers at an early age. The first thing I did with my first computer was to draw ascii pictures. The interest developed from there. The first computer I had was a C64, which had 320x200 pixel resolution in monochrome or 160x200 in 4 colours. Pretty basic, much lower then even he cheapest cellphones today. Next to the computer stuff I always drew a lot. What were you doing when aged 15? I was involved in a phenomenon called the Demo Scene on the Atari ST. That eventually led to doing 2D Pixel Artwork for Computer Games on the Amiga.

Styleframe for a Red Bull Pitch, done at PSYOP

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What/who are your influences? There are too many singular influences to name. Drawing and Illustration are a big influence. Old fantasy art used to be an influence way back. Then came graffiti. Comics a little bit along the way, maybe - but not really. All the while drawing, illustrations. Then 3D computer graphics and animation. It all comes together in the end. Nowadays all the stuff is on the internet, online. So there’s the influences.

What was the best thing you ever did? / What do you like to spend money on? I generally don’t like to spend money at all. What would you never spend money on? Cosmetic Surgery. You could live without? I can live without a lot of stuff, actually. Less is more. When I came back to germany, my iPhone didn’t work here, because it’s sim locked to AT&T. OK I could’ve jailbroken it, but I was too lazy, so I got my old phone again. And what a relieve! Not being able to check internet and eMail everywhere calms you down.

What/who inspires you at the moment? The idea to evolve beyond style and somehow incoporporate more conceptual ideas into the work. Trying to get over the urge to make everything look polished and clean. Besides that, I’m really getting into the technics andtheories of movie making. I’ve gotten more and more interested in this in the last years.

You have to have? Coffee in the morning.

How do you come up with your ideas? In the case of commercial projects, there’s always a brief in the beginning. That means that big part of the idea is already thought up. That obviously makes it easier - as a designer I have to think about how to communicate those ideas visually. As a director it’s pretty much the same thing. It’s just different media. For personal projects, it’s a lot harder. It’s basically experimenting along a certain area of interest and sticking with the stuff that works - visually.

What kind of people do you find interesting? People who know interesting stories. Ideally those peoples are good to bounce ideas of, so you can have a thread of related stories bouncing back and forth. That way you can talk about stuff the whole night through, moving from one topic to the next. My favourite topics are technology and the end of the world. What are you wearing right now? Finally the snow is melting away, so I don’t need to put my spikes to my shoes anymore a relief! Unfortunately my shoes went bust through the winter month, now they have a huge hole in them. Guess I have to buy new ones, but no time to do so.

What would you like to do that you are not doing at the moment? More experimental work again. Actually having more time to get down and design again. I’m sill working out the balance between organizing and designing/working. What stops you from doing it? It’s a lot of shit you have to think of if you run a company.

Imagine a day in the mind of someone else. Who would you like to be? When I was in school I used to play this game. I imagined to be someone else and what I would do. Luckily I didn’t feel like doing this in quite a long time. So I guess being myself is sufficient - which is something I’m really happy about!

What is beautiful? What is ugly? It’s the same thing. Describe your typical day. Alarm Clock rings at 7:30. Not getting up until 8. going to work at 9:30, grabbing some fruits and yoghurt. Checking emails and then being busy with those emails till 12 o’clock. Phone rings all the way. 13h lunch. In the afternoon pretty much the same. Ideally in between I get a little designing and experimenting done. Guess it’s time to hire an office manager.

Any special events you are going to show up at during the next couple of months? I will be giving a presentation about the work of SEHSUCHT at the FMX Conference 2010 in Stuttgart. The talk will include a lot of behind the scenes and making of stuff from some past and new SEHSUCHT projects.

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Styleframe for the first PSST! Pass It On Project, initiated by Grow Design Work bottom left Plush Toy of the Pass It On Monster, done by my Mother bottom right top Myself on the Set of a Spot for SEHSUCHT, Hamburg Nina and Myself with Nico from Boolab in Barcelona

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clockwise: My mother and father My lady Nina Myself with my father in the car

Five albums you love: I like the mixtapes by WTF Pandaclub and the ones around the Trouble and Bass crew - Diplo, Drop The Lime etc. Four books/zines you like: Two weeks ago I discovered the books by Cory Doctorow. Of course I knew the name, but I didn’t realize that next to Boing Boing he also published books. His science fiction stories are very well written, I can absolutely recommend them! I read the short story compilation ‘Overclocked’ and am now starting ‘upload’. Other than that I read a lot of non fiction books. A book which I learned a lot from is the classic ‘Lighting and Rendering’ byPixar’s Jeremy Birn and of course ‘The art and science of digital compositing’. All time favourite author needs to be Douglas Adams.

Your favourite artist, designer o photographer: Same answer as for the movies - an incredibly difficult and probably not so interesting question. The last weekend I bought a book on illustration which contained some brilliant illustrators! Tomer Hanuka definitely being on of the most impressive among them. I just love his stuff. ▲

Three websites you have bookmarked: blog.sehsucht.de motionographer.com bloglines.com Two movies that impressed you: Those questions are always the most difficult and the least informative in interviews ;) There are so many movies that are impressive, when somebody asks me something like that I tend to black out. Recently I went to a screening of student films at the Berlinale which impressed me a lot! The production value of those student productions were inredibly high and the ideas and screenplays were very good as well! The last movie in which I was totlly immersed was definitely Avatar. I went to see it in IMAX, which is quite an experience in itself. I didn’t expect the movie to be any good, really, but I was captured by this intense experience. Another movie which I didn’t want to see at first but then turned out to be quite good was Inglorious Basterds. Tarantino is a very good storyteller!

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QIAN QIAN describe your individual work

I LIKE TO BE CLEAN AND SIMPLISTIC. A MIX OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL MOTIFS WITH CONTEMPORARY CHARACTER DESIGN. < />

If it had been up to Qian Qian’s parents he had probably become a diplomat since he himself did not really have a clue of what to do after school. So basically there was nothing to complain about his parents’ suggestion. But once he attended the Beijing School of Diplomacy his qualities rather consisted in learning English and playing the bass guitar in a rock band than studying political sciences and economy. Qian simply was not interested but still clever enough to figure out that his career chances in the field of diplomacy would not be the highest later on. So he started to look out for alternatives. Far from being overambitious, therefore having good deal of pragmatism and intuition at his disposal - “I was interested in websites, they were somewhat still a new thing and it seemed to me that it couldn’t possibly be so hard to get behind the workings of all that.”

So he got a computer and simply started to work things out by trial and error. Armed with his Mac Qian also began to learn the basics of graphic design and finally enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in order to study digital media design there. In Edinburgh he eventually found a fitting environment not just limiting him to graphic design but also offering an extensive knowledge of cross-media design. It was exactly this what he considered necessary for him and his work to develop properly. In addition to that the contact with students and professors of architecture and other sciences of his faculty were very important to Qian to fully unfold his abilities. Being in his mid-twenties he was surely the university’s youngest lecturer at that time.

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Clockwise: view from his Brooklyn Office Qian in Portland Qian’s cat Qian in chengdu, china

Where do you live & why did you decide to live there? As right now, I’m living in Brooklyn, because I love New York City.

What/who are your influences? Too many designers and artists influenced my work, but the following are what influenced me as a person: Guns N’Roses, Kurt Cobain, Suede, Forrest Gump, Top Gun, Beijing.

Where do you feel at home? Brooklyn. Describe your individual style/work. I would say my illustration work is a mix of Chinese traditional motifs with contemporary character design. When it comes to typography and interface design, I like to be clean and simplistic.

What/who inspires you at the moment? My wife and cats. Nature. How do you come up with your ideas? They come beyond my control. I wish I know. What would you like to do that you are not doing at the moment? I want to spend a month driving across America.

What methods, tools or techniques do you use? Computer.

What stops you from doing it? Work.

Why are you doing what you do right now? I like design.

What is beautiful? Beautiful is naiveness and innocence.

How did you get started? Bought a PC laptop and messed around in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash in college dorm after other room mates went asleep.

What is ugly? Ugly is greed. Describe your typical day. Work, eat, sleep, repeat.

What were you doing when aged 15? I was studying very hard, trying to get in the best high school in my home town.

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“The Cage” — Part 3 & 8

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Five albums you love: Use Your Illusions 1&2 - Guns N’ Roses Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins Suede - Suede Disintegration - The Cure Different Class - Pulp

Describe a perfect moment. When my mind is empty. What was the best thing you ever did? There is no particular one. What do you like to spend money on? Home.

Four books/zines you like: I don’t read books. I like Monocle and Tank magazine.

What would you never spend money on? Never say never. You could live without? Taking New York subway, drinking soda, watching TV.

Three websites you have bookmarked: nytimes.com butdoesitfloat.com contemporist.com

You have to have? Music. Love. Money.

Two movies that impressed you: Forrest Gump Top Gun

What kind of people do you find interesting? Pure and young.

Your favourite artist, designer or photographer: Artist: Cai Guo Qiang I don’t have a favorite designer or photographer. ▲

What are you wearing right now? A CBGB t-shirt and a pair of worker pants. Imagine a day in the mind of someone else. Who would you like to be? Stephen Hawking Any special events you are going to show up at during the next couple of months? I don’t know. Maybe Coachella Festival.

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“Big fih” “Mao Mao” “China Shadow”

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THE WOLRD IS 3D

GOODSENSE — THE WORLD IS 3D WELCOME (BACK) TO REALITY

Nowadays you have the feeling that a big marketing gag will shower your senses.

never would think of in real life. Thanks to the power of marketing - we always think we know what we need. That is why we gamble and reach for the limit. Since the limit isn’t the sky our approach is to develop some new high-tech tools to look behind the sky into the ‘third dimension’. new slogan of our lives is: Anything is possible! Let us have a closer look. We created this world in our heads a long time ago but now we realise that we already live in this world with many invented characters or idealised avatars. We design them with our feelings and

see seems to be in a different dimension. People want to get lost to find ‘something’ somewhere else. The simple fact that we don’t have control anymore gives us the big wish to control something somewhere else. Virtual worlds like games and internet societies real world. The New Media is brainwashing innovative content. Popular television series seem to plant little hints for a meaningful life. Somehow we are prepared to use our knowledge and sense in a different way with high-tech tools but these worlds fulfill some dreamy needs w e

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style attitude, morality and sinfulness. We are living in a media made 3D world! We all remember the famous hologram film sequence in Star Wars. The cute robot R2D2 beamed a hologram of Princess Leia on a table and she asked Obi Wan and Luke Skywalker for

the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 2000, are quite common nowadays. Also 3D imagery is an integral part of virtual reality systems. In addition to film and print, 3D technologies have proven themselves as effective, eyecatching tools for point-of-purchase displays and video production. Since last year YouTube is available in 3D and the iPhone has its Jitterpic 3D application. Discovery Channel (USA) wants to launch a 3D Channel for TV. The opening game of the Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa will be broadcasted in 3D in selected US movie theatres. Humans are focussing more and more on large format cinematic experience in widely scaled places in a wide scaled places. We need to get an entire atmosphere around us which attracts more senses then just our sight. Now the most successful 3D movie of all times is called surprisingly: ‘AVATAR’. Of course - since we know that we can not save our real world anymore we need to escape through our alter egos our Avatars. That is the 3D escape-experience. The billboardquaking film by director James Cameron, who already dumped us into deep water with his drunken titanic attitude - is shot entirely on the terrific Pace’s Fusion 3D camera system to bring it on a wider screen in an IMAX 3D experience. The look and feel of the movie is awesome, specially in 3D. We want to own this reality so local creative’s all over the world fall in love with their urban environment and And, of course, we want to enlighten them with 3D animations, too. A new type of artist is born - the ‘urban screen beamer’. City surroundings become

like: Wow, how cool is this?! If only it was really possible! 25 years later MTV marked the first live performance of the world’s most successful “virtual band“ the Gorillaz. Damon Albarn, singer of the britpop group Blur, and Jamie Hewlet improved the development of the most incredible 3D technology for their stage-perfomances after every gig. They are using the Musion Eyeliner System to beam three-dimensional, holographic, animated cartoon characters on stage. Musion Eyeliner is a unique high-definition video holographic projection system allowing spectacular freeform 3D hologram effects to be projected within a life stagesetting using Peppers Ghost technology on a special reflecting foil. In the end the mind of the audience created the 3D illusion from this tricky projection. 3D (or Stereo) photography is about as old as the medium of photography itself. Basically, it involves taking two photographs of a scene, with some horizontal displacement between the two photographs. It was a very popular form of home entertainment in the Victorian era. Later, there were revivals in the form of 3D movies in the 1950’s and as Viewmaster reels for children. In the 80th we had the sensational premiere of Spielberg’s Jaws in 3D. Television tried to screen in the anaglyphic mode. Believe it or not Hugo Egon Balder was a pioneer with his erotic quiz-show ‘Tutti Frutti’. Today IMAX movie theatres have been built all over the world. Everybody knows the famous 3D goggles. Stereo cameras are part of the equipment up at the International Space stations and the Nasa made spectacular 3D images on mars. 3D sections in magazines, such

creative craft already as ‘beamvertisement’ to get a different consumer attention. Besides all the dead pasted walls and billboards the “attraction” of beamed media is that we have the chance to employ moving imagery strongly interacting with the observers in

some sort of 3D experience. So keep your eyes open and look carefully into the surrounding (third) dimension.

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STREET ART HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN EXTREMELY LIBERAL AND PROGRESSIVE FIELD. Arisen from a subculture, by the people, for the people without limitations,inviting to participate. Besides Ron English, considered one of the fathers of modern street art. Street artists have all sorts of backgrounds - some are still from the graffiti scene, others have worked as graphic designers, illustrators or artists. They all discover the street as an open space for democratic expression. They are actively defining it, setting new benchmarks, creating fresh styles and helping urban illustration to liberate from its sole reduction to graffiti. Street art has become an accepted art form with a democratic character and a reputation it even owes partially to its commercialization The stage of this “art for everyone” is especially rich in the metropolitan cities around the globe: For some it already begins the very moment they leave their house, when the apartment door clunks shut and a tag in the hallway catches their eye.

Same when you are heading down the stairs, out in the street, to the next news stand, down into the subway. A whole world opens up to the versed observers and remains secretive to others. Metaphorically spoken: When the pen or the can encounters the howsoever exaggerated surface colorful signs and writings will appear. But their coded beauty won’t expose its meaning to everyone! So effectively the third dimension of street art can be interpreted in two different ways: It is either the meaning, the hidden message beyond the sign, symbol, font, image, etc. or it is quite literally an areal expansion turning it into a three-dimensional object. Within this type of street art the two main figures Zasd and Akim in Berlin distinguished themselves exceedingly also enhancing time as a substantial factor in their works.

left page: Was ist Zast?; ZAST, Köln/Berlin, 2005 VG-Bild, Thomas Bratzke 2005

page before: “Earth” by Crss, nomoresleep.net

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right page, clockwise zast-o-magnetic; ZAST, Berlin, 2003 courtesy of urban-art.info ZAST Williamsburg, NYC 2005; courtesy of urban-art.info Ron English “Obama”-Seris in Boston SpArrows; by ZASD, Hamburg, 2007 courtesy of urban art info HOME OF ZASD & ACIM; Chinatown, NYC 2005; courtesy of urban-art.info

Not only do the Berlin-based writers Zasd and Akim incorporate time and spatiality but what their tag or graffiti also regards is the particular person that was situated in the place of its incurrence when the artwork was made . “I understand the word as a body, the extension of my personality into space. This way my name turned into a symbol.” says Zasd for instance. And he literally has his messages turning into solid, three-dimensional objects. Through its message the individual is still present where it has long gone physically.

This way the urban landscape becomes legible for a writer like the wilderness is for skilled gamekeepers. Besides that Zasd and Akim actually implement their street artworks spatially in common urban spaces that all of us get to see every day. The seemingly asiatic symbols, graphic characters or ideographs made from styrofoam, wood or carton are attached to walls or under bridges. Imagine their materiality and threedimensionality as an exciting aesthetic supplement. Still a rare eyecatcher yet to become discovered by other street artists!

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left page: Lightwritings by Tofa

LIGHT WRITING – THE FIRST STEPS TOWARDS AN INDEPENDENT EXISTENCE Over the years the forms of expression of a subculture developed new facets, forms and ideas. Street Art always had a liberal spirit which made this unfolding of a sheer endless creative potential possible in the first place. The generic term street art soon united more and more very different streams. This growing spectrum of art forms was already far-off from the beginnings that were still dominated by tagging and graffiti covering trains and house walls. Light writing is still a rather new stream in street art. With the help of any light source the writer is able to “write” his tag or message in mid air.

Practically the tags are not there. Only through time exposure the streak of the light can be averted. These new light graffiti bear a unique fascination. For their creators like the artist Tofa this is an effect which is harder to produce than it may seem. As a matter of course what is invisible is hard to control since it requires a blessed spatial sense and lots of imagination! It is both the a hurdle and also what makes up the excitement of light writing. It is a constant strife against randomness and a certain amount of inaccuracy.

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KLUB 7

right page, top to bottom all artworks by KLUB7 3D-illustration for “what!What!Records” “The City” Becks Expieriemce Berlin 2009 “STUDIO 8” cars

Ingo Albrecht aka Diskorobot is a member and founder of the international artist collective “Klub7”. He has a Graffiti and Streetart Background and the urban streets still feed his daily inspiration. He is using his analog skills and mixes handmade collages, hand drawn comic characters and very experimental typography, structures and designs. The virtual possibilities of “Augmented Reality“ are fascinating for him, but he believes in the real human need to create something with his own hands. At the end you need to have a creative result which you can discover with all your senses. That is the real third dimension for him and artists like Zasd, Akim or DAIM. The handcrafted preparation of the elements and objects which “Klub7” manufactures have so much love in the details that they would not have the same grasp in a digital world. Even on photographs these objects communicate a completely own organic atmosphere of authenticity. Modern creatives got already conditioned to the perfectly simulated computer representation and lost the sense for a real haptic experience. But the virtual manipulation offers just one solution without a real emotional grasp. All the ”Klub7” members use their computer skills just as an additional supporting tool to develop a new dimension for their handcrafted artworks. They take 3D for “real”.

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process he was the only one who could see the developing work and experience it at the same time interactively in the area. Only after the transmission of the footage on a screen the artwork became visible for others. The artwork in an “Augmented Reality“ offers possibilities and challenges that have never been there before - neither for street artists nor for us as observers. DAIM has already been occupied with sculptures ever since his time in Switzerland where he went to college. Today he feels assured in an assumption he already expressed back than: The future of technology and art will develop towards 3D. Apparently he has been proved correctly after all. Thus light art has separated from its origins. It has detached from its former surface and is now increasingly being recognized as a stream in contemporary art. This development is also what paves the way into legality. DAIM also has few concerns that light art will alleviate the sociocultural dimension of its big brother street art: Nowadays street art comprises many different facets and styles and the manual tools such as spraycans, stencils, eddings. Their attraction will always exist and will surely not become extinct.” After taking this close-up look at the status quo of technical progress and its manifold potentials changing the media, the people, their communication, creating new forms of art and changing cultural aspects we know for sure that things will remain exciting not only in the near future!

AUGMENTED REALITY In context of the project “nextwall” from the advertising agency Jung van Matt, the student Nina Barusch developed a completely new technology by merging the work processes of classical tagging and light writing with a digital tool. In order to present the digital tool, the graffiti artist DAIM was taken on board. DAIM is a street artist who is particularly known for his fun experiments. He was one of the first to include the third dimension into his graffiti. And he already did so from the very beginning on. He creates two-dimensional writings on a surface - but to the viewer it seems almost as if he could hurt himself any time on one of the pointed corners and edges which seem to rise up from the DAIM’s imagery. For DAIM this project offered the possibility to show his art in a whole new context. It gave him the chance to actually create a spatial piece of work - a fascinating challenge. Equipped with a pair of digital visor glasses and a digital spraying tool which can change color, width and intensities he sprayed a three-dimensional piece of light graffiti into the open space. During the work

left page: “Nextwall” - Augmented Reality Graffiti by DAIM Canvas by DAIM

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right page, top to bottom DAIM himself in front of one of his large Paintings. various Artworks by DAIM

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Left & right: paperwork figures by Shin Tanaka

NEW STYLES, NEW CONTEXT, SAME PASSION Already back in fall 2006 (JPeople6) we talked to the Japanese artist Shin Tanaka about figures of his like “T-BOY”, Spiky” or “Gritty” (that also inhabited the inside of our cover) all of which were entirely made from paper. What he also told us was, that his work with paper, glue and scissors was deeply rooted in Hip Hop culture as well as the local graffiti scene of his hometown Fukuoka. Just like Tanaka there are many artists that are searching for new and uncommon canvases these days. Many times it is this moment where even those who generally tend to work rather graphically are beginning to let themselves in on an experiment in 3D. Tanaka is a good example for that but he also represents all those tired of of the limits of the second dimension.

Originally though he had aimed at working with more expensive and less flexible synthetic materials like vinyl for instance. Eventually chance and the sheer absence of alternatives led Tanaka into a surprisingly lasting liaison with paper which turned out to be just right for him. Maybe it is just because of us and because of Tanaka - who has sensitized our perception - or the popularity of paperwork in art and design has literally come as a bombshell in the past three years. Since the interview we are sensing an increasing deployment of three dimensional paperworks all over the place.

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What is even more striking though is that on the contrary paper artwork formerly only known within the borders of the gallery context - think of paper artists like Jen Stark and Yuken Teruya, Helen Musselwhite, Peter Callesen, Richard Sweeney or Alex Merz - has rather managed its breakout now moving on to all sorts of new spheres. It is being used in coherences ranging from music videos for electronic performers like David E. Sugar (namely the video “Chelsea Girls” directed by Peepshow Collective) to the electoral campaign TV-spot “Wums!” that Germany’s Green Party had in use for the EU elections in 2009. Also think of all the handmade paper objects used for aka-aki’s new cell phone game and of course a considerable amount of designers who have been integrating Origami and other original folding techniques to valorize their work aesthetically, develop more exciting and fun packagings and to multiply the number of perspectives that the viewer can take. A perfect example for that is architecture student Mui-Ling Teh with her insane miniature paperbirds, -cranes and so on. Working only with her bare hands, scissors and tweezers she has been creating smaller and smaller pieces up until today where some are as tiny as 2mm in length. Depending on the complexity of her Origami pieces each one takes her between 10 and 60 minutes to fold. Others even leave the handicraft work to people like us merely delivering an unfolded 2D-model of what is to become a three dimensional shape with a bit of time, devotion and… well, some skills, I guess. And why actually not? Doesn’t 3D imply more interaction anyway? So why not just start with that one step earlier?! In the end we probably all bring at least some experience from our childhood days. With a little luck you will even come to realize the pleasant contemplation that goes along with a nice paperwork-session. Meanwhile also keep your eyes open for the exciting new paths paperwork artists like Yulia Brodskaya and Jarrik Muller who are currently exploring typography’s different three dimensional display formats with the help of paper.

Of course there are those long-established protagonists of the art world like the Berlin-based artist Thomas Demand, who has already been building 3D-models for his crime scene photographies for over ten years. But one should note that it was not until last year that Demand’s work received the grand appreciation of a larger public in the form of a retrospective at the Berlin National Gallery.

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Left & right: 3d Typeface by Jarrik Muller

THE FUTURE OF TYPE WITH JARRIK MULLER Let us keep in mind: Papercutting is an art that has a history which dates back more than 2000 years. The Chinese as the inventors of paper were the first to explore this unknown territory quite naturally since they had also been cutting leather sheets and thin copper foils up until that. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry we are not planning to dig out some ancient parchment papers now. What we are trying to get at is the fact that this long tradition reveals that it is becoming harder and harder to create truly innovative works using paper as an exclusive material. Because of this rather common knowledge we found it even more astonishing to see how clever contemporary artists are handling the material.

As we immersed ourselves deeper into the matter one current especially stuck out for us: Paper as the sole component of threedimensional typography. As we are all used to the fact that letters are nothing more than components in a system developed to visualise language we usually do not question why they mostly remain flat on the paper. The young graphic designer Jarrik Muller did ask this question. After realizing that there were definitely more ways of viewing typefaces he went a long way from there in order to create his first three dimensional typeface. That is correct, you can touch the letters, turn them upside down or look at them from all sorts of angles.

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Now the beauty of it is that Mullers type-face remains easy and pleasant to read but in terms of playfulness and interactive potential it will probably beat any typeface that you have known so far. The Amsterdam-based graphic designer whose work has only been featured by a handful of magazines is yet to be discovered by most people. After all of what designers and typographers have been doing with type Jarrik Muller is confronting us with a whole new approach. Even if we take a look at successful people who have already worked with papercut typography, such as the Russian-born graphic designer Yulia Brodskaya, Muller’s work still constitutes a true breach. Brodskaya’s work is delicate, sometimes a little cheesy, but always technically brilliant. She worked for The New York Times, Starbucks and others and it is definitely unlike anything else in the scene. As oppose to Muller her letters are often formed by recesses in the paper or simply by positioning the cutouts vertically on their subfont - whereas each and every one of Jarrik Muller’s letters is a fascinating object in itself. Imagine holding your name or any other word in your very own hands. Imagine an encounter with a slogan or keyword on a skyscraper facade bending around its corners. Allowedly, the latter remains a vision for now. But who knows what’s still to come. As it has undoubtedly been an inspiration to us we hope that this strong and bold, yet not clumsy looking typeface will be exactly that to artists and designers as well as architects and people working in the various fields of technology. All those who are already bursting with curiosity should check out the following pages and order a free copy of Jarrik Muller’s 3D typeface poster!

Left: 3d Typefase construction kit

Right: “Black Busty “King Kong” “Laziiiiii” all by Jarrik Muller

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left page “Festival of Light”, Berlin 2009

FROM VIDEO TO LIGHT ART AND PROJECTED IMAGERY “A burning candle is filmed, the image is projected onto the backwall and the sidewalls. In these projections, the three basic colours of the video are deliberately shifted so that they appear next to each other.” This is the accurate video description we can read next to youtuber kostja1985’s video of Nam June Paiks closed-circuit installation called “One Candle” which he filmed earlier at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. Taking a closer look at Paiks work one quickly realizes that Beamart can be viewed as a logic follow-up and extension to video art. Many have declared Paik, who died four years ago, the undisputable founder of video and media art. ARTnews magazine even elected him most influential artist of the 20th century. Nam June Paik basically started out as a member of the Fluxus in the early 60s. A few years on he became interested in

soundinstallations creating his own with the help of modified record players and microphones. In 1973 he already anticipated some of the characteristics that would become typical of later music videos with “Global Groove”. From there Paik moved on and on until his revolutionary work even featured multimonitor-videoinstallations with all sorts of technical manipulations one could think of at the time. Not even the aftermath of a bad stroke tying him to the wheelchair stopped his creative power. And we agree: It’s people like him who have paved the way for beam art - meaning projected video art, visuals and slogans on facades, inside clubs and of course on numerous museum walls. With the help of movie, video, slide and overhead projectors once sparse concrete walls have turned into projection screens.

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right page, top to bottom Lightwriting by Tofa

“Paint my House”-Festival curated by Skudioptics, 2007

“Festival of Light”, Berlin 2009

To an increasing degree we are witness-ing how clubs and prominent buildings, public events like festivals and convent-ions, fairs and exhibitions are becoming the scene of what we now know as beam art. Well, let’s not rush it: Beam art is not even a Wikipedia-listed term yet. Still it is already hard to imagine a city like Berlin without its annual “Festival of Lights” for instance. “Berlin illuminated” is the slogan of the event. If you have not had the pleasure to witness it with your own eyes - imagine it like a parade of colors and shapes; patterns are projected and countless floodlights are creating marvelous columns of transparent white all-around town. Speaking of festivals - there is also “Lichterloh Festival” where also so-called light writers like the group Lichtfaktor have already performed. The genius of their work especially reveals itself in their complex videos that one can hardly put into words. What Lichtfaktor proves impressively is an optical illusion allowing them to create drawings, tags and writings in mid-air. But light writing was already invented over a hundred years ago by non other than Pablo Picasso. It first moved back into the limelight in 2007 when the American telecommunication company Sprint Nextel launched an ad-campaign using the technique. Ever since that one of the most fascinating subtypes of stop motion animation and beam art has been gaining more and more public awareness slowly but steadily. The technique is often also being referred to as light painting or light drawing. What it basically comes down to is that the artists capture the light’s movements through a 4-30 second time-exposure in short videos, stop motion films and photos. Besides Lichtfaktor the lightwriter Tofa (Chris Noelle) definitely ranks among the protagonists of the scene - and that has it’s reasons. Sometimes gaudy, sometimes hazy his work comprises enlightened people or building silhouettes, abstract shapes and wild, graffiti-like tags, beautiful color gradients and other illuminations of the urban space in the night-time. No wonder he was already invited to “Übel und Gefährlich” in Hamburg, Sweat! Club, Leipzig, Tresor in Berlin and many other locations. Beyond that another very interesting concept is what the group klub7 came up with. They have been drawing images they projected on various objects in all sorts of different spaces.

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Go check out the Lichtpiraten, Laserpainter, the Paint My House flickr stream or projectionsonbuildings.com and you will both be amazed and instantly see that light writing and projected light can have a very similar look. But just to make this really clear: The main difference is the fact that projections unlike light paintings are no optical illusions. They are really there, on walls, buildings and what have you, whereas light writing only becomes visible after time-exposure. All you will see is some weird people waving with their flashlights while turning them and off here and there. An example for an artistic approach that you can see live though is Jenny Holzer’s poetic projection work. Nevertheless it has also been exhibited in places like the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. But especially projections are usually not housed inside buildings. To a greater extent her oversized sentences like “You are my own”, “I smell you on my skin”, “No one told me” or “I see you” rest in the sky, on meadows, squares, sub grades, buildings. Expect them in those very prominent places where you can’t overlook them. Rome, New York, Rio de Janeiro or Singapore - the list is long and impressive. But even more so are the photos and memories that remain. So, what is beginning to show when comparing Jenny Holzer and, say, the light writer Tofa, is the fact that beam art has manifested itself as a diverse genre that is fully independent from other art forms by now. On the contrary: As we might have indicated before beam art is interweaved much more with club- and pop culture than with the arts nowadays. Of course VJ-ing is one of the main factors why that is so - and there is no doubt that the latter is a phenomenon that originated from club life in the first place. Take the unabashed BerlinBeamBoys aka Los BerlinBeamBoys Visionary System aka Dark Fader and Ray Beams for example. According to their own assertion TheBBB work with rhythmic graphics and electronic imagery either presented as a VJ-performance, an installation or as an urban intervention. Since 2003 they have been around and literally all about from Berlin to Tokyo continuously working on those rare moments of synaesthesia between image, sound, space and crowd. It is quite obvious that it would only be half the truth to deny that ever since successful VJ’s or the previously mentioned Sprint Nextel campaign have been around beam art has also developed its commercial side with companies like abraxas vision designing “extraordinary appearances and communication strategies”.

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Faivel aka 5L Nomad for “Paint my House”Festival, Trondheim

One of the las big brands to take advantage of the eye-catching possibilities of projected visuals was the American textile manufacturer Eastpak. What has already been filed under the term beamvertisement assumed a definite shape in Eastpak’s campaign with an animated Santa Claus skating through city streets all over Europe. Produced by V8films, the 30 second spot was projected onto houses, fences and walls with the help of a high-performance beamer installed on top of car. By now also Lufthansa and Amnesty International have used this offbeat kind of Guerilla Marketing. Subculture and business still seem to be sniffing each other. It is as if two animals were just getting to know one another. The breeds couldn’t possibly be more unequal! However it has become clear that this is not an obstacle. It is a chance for artists to canalize their ideas, reach a bigger audience and get the necessary cash to work on autonomous projects. The brands on the other hand gain in authenticity and originality, plus they have to worry a little less about lagging behind the Zeitgeist. And the Zeitgeist of 2010 embraces beam art for sure.

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INTERVIEW WITH BERLINBEAMBOYS Since when has the beam art scene in Berlin been in existence? Well, if we’re speaking of digitally generated visuals in the context of clubs and street art it probably all started in the late 90s. That was the time when notebooks and beamers became portable and especially reasonably affordable. Which were the first locations where visuals, visual art or at least projections of some kind were to be found? The club “WMF” was definitely pretty cuttingedge. But I’m also sure that “Labland” at Kurvenstar, “103” in Monbijoupark or “Camp Tipsy” were among the first. How did the whole thing slowly pick up? Some of the more progressive clubowners realized that visuals offered a chance to upgrade their partyspaces artistically. Overall those were also the people who organized the illegal parties and festivals at that time. Who were/are the protagonists of beam art in your opinion? Visomat, Pfadfinderei, Safy Sniper, Telematique, Berlinbeamboys / Visionary System, Philip Videogeist, Tofa and in that woman at the first 103 Club in Monbijoupark, she also did amazing stuff. Unfortunately I forgot her name. But she should definitely be mentioned! Which outstanding beam art performance burned itself into your memory? There was this one outdoor-beamaction we did ourselves. Berlinbeamboys on Teufelsberg. I can’t really describe it. Simply check out the video: vimeo.com/5662697.Surely other people have done incredible performances as well. But I simply can’t overlook them all.

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BerlinBeamBoys in action Milan (Pixelpropaganda), Torge & Christoph aka Ray-Beams & Dark-Fader Torge preparing his GuerillaBeamEquipment

Which new styles are developing and where can beam art still go in the future? For example the true mergence of tone and image: For instance with the help of maxforlive, vvvv, processing or other things could be interesting. Referring to hardware especially HD- und 3D-beamers and holography are not bad. More encounters with different building facades including techniques like sensor systems, interactive media, amoled surfaces, 3D mapping on facades, glass fibre reinforced concrete - I think I could easily come up with some ideas there. Technically - what is indispensable? Indispensable are definitely videomixers, playback sources and of course beamers/ projectors are essential in any event!

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THE BEAUTY OF THE BEAST!

left page: New Swine Flul by Luke Jerram right page: HIV by Luke Jerram

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Dear Luke, I just saw a photo of your glass sculpture of HIV. I can’t stop looking at it. Knowing that millions of those guys are in me, and will be a part of me for the rest of my life. Your sculpture, even as a photo, has made HIV much more real for me than any photo or illustration I’ve ever seen. It’s a very odd feeling seeing my enemy, and the eventual likely cause of my death, and finding it so beautiful. Thankyou.

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left page: “Pluto” by Nils Hartmann, nomoresleep.net

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right page, clockwise: “Nike Room”-Edit by Timo Boese, Lowerground.com “Stellar” Pt1 & Pt2, by Timo Boese, Lowerground.com “Erste Liebe”, Philipp Boyd, www.dropmobile.com/ersteliebe

MORE SELECTIVE 3D WORKS As the popularity of the virtual worlds will grow, we have conducted a visual survey among the performing artists of DROPMOBILE.NET. This new creative network is gathering leading artists from around the world with an interesting focus on mobile usage.

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page 92 clockwise: “Sketch” & “Power of Love” by Mathias Gephart “Starlex” & “Roses” by Citpelo

page 93 top to bottom: “woooooow333 pt 23” & “woooooow333 pt 24” by metal_insects

this page, clockwise: “last wood city” by Christian Rothenhagen “Rosie get dressed & “slurrp” by Em&Peter “vector fox” by wachtmeister

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ARTHUR MOLE The incredible “Living Photographs” of Arthur S.Mole were often realised in his pictures by assembling tens of thousands of soldiers, reservists and other members of the military and arranged them to form massive compositions. He choreographed thousands of soldiers into formations such as the Liberty Bell and the Statue of Liberty. The key was to photograph the people from a place where the lines of perspective would resolve themselves into intelligible images. Executing photographs using such large numbers, and relying on lines of perspective stretching out more than a hundred meters, required a week of preparation and then hours to actually position the formations. If we try to organize and coordinate a photo project like this nowadays, it is not possible to understand how Arthur Mole actually realized his pictures without all the high-tech performance and technology we are used to work with today. Mole must have had a really good sense and a talent for 3D-imaginations in his mind. That especially becomes clear when regarding how Mole considered all the necessary requirements of perspective changes despite the incredibly large locations where he took his photos. The monumentality of this project somewhat overshadows the philanthropic magnanimity of the artist himself. Instead of prospering from the sale of the images produced, the artists donated the entire income derived to the families of the returning soldiers and to this country’s efforts to re-build their lives as a part of the re-entry process. So let us spend an applause for this creative and social “3D-photo-pioneer”.

right page: “Eagle” by Arthur Mole

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from left to right: “New York City” “Babel” all images by Andreas Freitag

IMMERSION Entertainment cities like Las Vegas function on the same principles as Disneyland. The perfect spatial illusion is the representation of exact abstracted themes. During the 90’s, city themes have become the established concepts for hotel complexes. Miniaturized or disneyfied replica of cities like New York, Rio, Paris, Venice and others have been built along the Las Vegas Blvd. In the dessert, water is one of the most valuable elements. Immersed and completely surrounded by it, the view opens up to the inside of the pool. The space appears geometrically

familiar even if persons are tumbling like in weightlessness. The surface of the water divides the inside from the outside like a ceiling. The distorted image of the shrunken cities, refracted by the water, is raising above the inner space, disconnected like the view of a heavenly scene in a renaissance dome. Andreas Freitag’s deliberate montage, made out of hundreds of single images, is an optical illusion of the reality, a condensed moment of a stretch of time, a 360 view visible at once: A Tromp l’oil of the Tromp l’oil.

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THE WORLD IS 3D

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SKATEBOARDING.3D For about three years german artist Sebastian Denz has been travelling through out Europe to shoot a series of 3D photographs which have been shown in various magazines and exhibitions. The actual prints have an impressive size of 2,50 m x 1,25 m. No matter if you skateboard or not, let the 3D glasses take you on a visual journey to another world. The images will captivate you by their magic of fascinating details and full dedication to the moment.

from left to right: Scene 3, Gabriel Engelke (Switch Ollie), France 2006 Scene 16, Jerome Campbell (Backside Nosepick), England 2007 Scene 17, Stephen Roe (Caveman Boardslide), England 2007 Figure 8, Scott Bourne Le Havre, France 2006

Page 98,99 Ferit Batir (Downhill) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Detail Rinteln, Germany, 2007

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SCOTT H. BOURNE

The Stonecutter’s Cunt It was the first of February when after an extended day of errands Caroline and I began a short trek across Paris to the Rodin Museum. We arrived just 45 minutes before closing time. Being that it was the first Sunday of the month the museum was in fact free, and filled like a bar before its closing hour, and much like drunks in search of a last drink, people were rudely rushing about the palace. Although the gardens are one of my favorites amongst Paris, I had never been inside the actual museum, always sideswiped by the Doorway to Hell and then led off to admire the rest of the madness. Being that I loathe crowds or scores of people pushing towards the bar in a fight for one last drink, I suggested that we see the gardens once more. Caroline insisted we go inside, and soon I found myself once again hypnotized not only by the magnitude of these works, but by the softness of stone when touched by the right stroke. As I walk the rooms of this fabulous mansion I am saddened to think that the time of this sort of sculpture has past. In the lobby we have walked by a horrible plastic form that is supposed to represent modern man, but in fact has only insulted him. An enlarged larva that turns ‘round itself like the ego of the artist that created it. We do our best to ignore it, but stumbling across two other similar sculptures reveals that it is in fact a chair designed by Marc Newsome, another man masquerading as an artist has simply hacked the chairs into pieces, and reassembled them into these large monstrous larva. Even worse, he has named them Laocoons after the famous sculpture done by Rodin. Modern man never ceases to amaze me, has he no dignity? Turning my attention back to the artwork I am once again overtaken by the form, beauty, and torment of not only Rodin, but of his lover Camille Claude. Each an every stroke is a river within itself flowing over the rock to make its cut. Much like man is born from the hand of God, so too are these creatures birthed, but from solid rock. The beautiful body of a woman twisted with a horse to create a mystical form. Two bodies born into one. As we examine the creature’s hips it is not hard to lust after it, to search for its orifice, to not wonder where to enter it. Claude’s hands, faces, noses, are a perfection of feminine detail. I imagine that she could

cut a perfect vagina from rock, and the clitoris would be soft. I conjure up visions of her slumped over a marble slab, and with each strike she releases an orgasm. The guards have begun to rush around the place urging us to leave. It’s last call for the museum, and each, and every sculpture appears to be locked in a kiss, an unbreakable stone embrace. We lag behind wanting to join the orgy. I am rightly drunk on lust, and want to stay, and become a part of the rock. We walk the streets, take in a movie, and then head home for dinner. At night we stare out the windows at Paris. Neither one of us can believe our new apartment. Down below a wonderful park. At night the slow drum, and easy hum of the streets as people make their way in the night. The two of us lie in bed, and watch as the wrought iron bars from the balcony combine with those from the windows, and our corner apartment becomes the inner workings of a clock. Shadows running around the inside walls, over the high ceiling and white skin of the apartment. It moves in perfect time with the traffic outside controlled by the streetlamps. We make love with the lights off, and I watch as the patterns of the city race across her naked flesh. There will be no curtains, no drapes, no shades, the room will stay this way, lit by the lights of the night, the heart beat of the city, the noise of the human machine building, and burning itself. Night takes us, in the morning when we awake, Paris is covered in snow, she becomes a Claude piece, a heavenly beast of which will die in a matter of hours, like a dream in the mind of a child. The room glows in an extraordinary illumination. The world below is pure and white. Caroline slips on her heels from the night before, and steps out onto the balcony in nothing more than her panties where she claps her hands in childish delight before darting back into the warmth of our apartment. Then, stands freezing in front of the heater with a cup of hot tea. I am unsure how I could better enjoy my days? A living sculpture here to lie by me, the perfection of human form only accentuated by what I saw yesterday, and the white of the streets like a rock still not cut by human touch, which turns the world below into flesh.

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COUPLING

Maria (with brown hair): Dress: Stine goya, Shoes: Urban outfitters

Sophia (blond hair): Black dress zip: Minimarket Shoes: Monki

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Annette: Denim shirt: Monki Sequim evening blazer: Stine Goya High waisted short: Mini for Many Glasses: Mykita Necklace: Bolsos y Bolsas

Jonathan: Pullover: Carin Wester Trousers: Wood Wood Necklace: Stylists own

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Maria: T-shirt/laces:

Urban Outfitters

High waisted short: Mini for Many Shoes: Urban Outfitters Necklace: Stylists own Sophia: Lamelle Blouse: Minimarket Pink underwear: Stylists own Shoes: Monki

Gabrielle: High waisted silk pants: Henrik Vibskov Necklace: Bolsos y Bolsas Bangle: Stylists own Johannes: T-shirt: Stylists own Wide pocket pants: Henrik Vibskov Checked scarf: Monki

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Annette: Dress: Stine Goya Necklace: Malene Birger Hair-Band: Stylists Own

Jonathan: T-shirt: Henrik Vibskov Trousers: WoodWood Necklace: BolsosyBolsas

Concept & Photography Jonna Rutanen Photo Assistant Oliver Ajkovic Concept & Styling Amandine Cheveau Hair & Make-up Svenja Hohlt Thanks to: Bolsos y Bolsas bolsosbolsas.blogspot.com Katri Inkeri 109

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TRUE LEGENDS COLLAB THE GERMAN “SOMMERMÄRCHEN” INSPIRED THE WHOLE WORLD WITH ITS ENTHUSIASTIC AND VIBRANT ATMOSPHERE.

Now, four years later we are all eagerly awaiting the continuation of this fairy tale when the Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa will kick off this summer. But apart from all expectations the World Cup and the matches will arouse excitement all over the world. Since public viewing has established over the last years, the feeling of belonging together turned the matches into real mass-events nobody wants to miss. The other phenomenon which makes events like the World Cup so exciting and amusing for everyone is the love and sympathy for the teams. We all have our favourite team and player, and in times like these we want to show it! Every nation has its own way of showing their support for their home-nation, whether it is by colouring their faces and hair and prepare themselves with scarfs, wigs, hats and other crazy accessories or just by wearing a reticent t-shirt with a small emblem. This year we can look forward to some really new things. One of it might change the

art of viewing sports entertainment forever: The 3D technology is now on a stage of development that offers the chance to see the games in a three-dimensional way. No wonder that the opening game of the World Cup will be broadcasted in 3D in all American IMAX theatres. Inspired by a match that moved the world, Nike created the N98 Track Jacket which stands for “National 1998”, notably paying tribute to the 1998 Brazilian National Team. The design takes off from the debut Brazilian team kit by Nike, tapping the classic zip-front track jacket’s deep heritage as a true icon of sports style. In addition to that 6 great artists from around the world designed their alternative National Team Kits celebrating the beautiful game of soccer in a way that connects to fans dwelling at the intersection of sports and culture. With Exploding Liquids we have created an exclusive preview of the signature pieces for this summer. All styles presented by German actor and model Tyron Ricketts.

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Jacket:

Nike Sportswear N98 Collab Jacket “Brazil”

Shirt:

Ucon Acrobatics

Jeans:

Firetrap

Sneakers:

Nike Sportswear Air Maxim Torch

Laces:

Nike Red – Laces www.nikefootball.com/red

Watch:

Triwa

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Jacket:

Nike Sportswear N98 Collab Jacket “South Africa”

Trousers:

Firma

Sneakers:

Nike Sportswear Air Max 90 Current Moiré

Laces:

Nike Red

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Jacket:

Nike Sportswear N98 Classic

Shirt:

Ucon Acrobatics

Trousers:

Firma

Sneakers:

Nike Sportswear Air Max 90 Current MoirĂŠ

Laces:

Nike Red

Headset:

Urban Ears

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Jacket:

Nike Sportswear N98 Collab “England”

Jeans:

Firetrap

Sneakers:

Nike Sportswear Air Max BW Gen II

Laces:

Nike Red

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Jacket:

Nike Sportswear N98 Collab Jacket “France”

Shirt:

German Garment

Trousers:

A.D.Deertz

Sneakers:

Nike Sportswear Air Max 90 Premium

Laces:

Nike Red

Socks:

Happy Sox

Watch:

Triwa

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TRUE LEGENDS COLLAB

James Jarvis While British graphic artist James Jarvis is best known for his playful illustrations and contributions to the designer toy phenomenon, he takes his sports seriously. At first glance, his interpretation of the England crest stays true to the national archetype, but up close the designs are all Jarvis: his heraldic lion flashing a trademark googly-eyed grin. Jarvis drew from medieval woodblock prints for inspiration, and the “10” on the chest is traditionally reserved for the most beautiful players of the game.

Nunca Inspired by Incan symbolism and a primitive style of graffiti called “Pixação,” Sao Paolo street artist Nunca crafted a unique Brazilian kit that connects the people of the favelas to the sport they hold dear. Five stars within the otherworldly, eye-like crest symbolize Brazil’s five championship wins, and Nunca’s hieroglyphic handwriting and pattern (lining the hoodie) connects the kit to the ancients in a modern way.

Delta Graffiti artist Delta, aka Boris Tellegen, has created a geometric world with his art that is a colorful reflection of the constructivist movement that brings to mind both block-like cities as well as pixelized digital environments. A rabid football fan, he was especially excited to play with the colorways on The Netherlands’ new kits. His artwork for the assortment is an extension of his blocky visual language: The boxy mascot is a simple-yet-dynamic running man, the crest is a cubic puzzle of numbers, and the font is unlike anything before it – heavy as concrete, but somehow agile through its italicized forwardlean.

So Me So Me, nee Bertrand De Langeron, is an acclaimed illustrator as well as the art director of Ed Banger records, one of the world’s most cutting – edge labels. Since 2003, his album art and music videos have come to embody the eclectic world of Ed Rec, adding complimentary visuals to their innovative sounds. His contributions to the France kit exhibit his pop art sensibility and tongue-in-cheek style. The colorful mascot and crest feature a simple character that’s a parody of the stereotypical Frenchman – complete with a tilted beret and manicured moustache. The pattern is a brick-like repeat in vibrating red, blue and black and the hand-written font features rounded edges, adding to the kit’s playful vibe.

Mister Cartoon Calling himself “Mister Cartoon,” this Los Angeles street art legend and tattoo-master (eminem,b-real,50cent) has had a strong relationship with Nike for many years. His detailed black and white drawings are highly sought after in the music world and beyond. When presented with this project, Cartoon jumped at the opportunity to work on a uniform that would represent the country he loves. His eagle mascot is tough as nails, with a halo of stars and a look in his eye that says, “Don’t mess with the U.S.” On the crest, “USA” is written in Cartoon’s modified version of old English and scrolls remind wearers of the visual language of tattoos art.

Kronk Kronk is an emerging designer/illustrator from Cape Town. His work is colorful and whimsical, a collision of rock poster rebelliousness and wry pop culture references. His contributions to the South African team kit are the most intricate of the collection, with an insanely detailed crest embroidery, a bubble lettered font, a kaleidoscopic illustrated, and a cartoonish mascot who seems to be in constant motion. Is he a footballer breaking away on the pitch or a fan blowing a horn in the stands? They are one in the same in Kronk’s mashed-up world.

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Jacket:

Nike Sportswear N98 Classic

Shirt:

Mazooka

Trousers:

Firma

Sneakers:

Nike Sportswear Air Force 1

Laces:

Nike Red

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Jacket:

Nike Sportswear N98 Collab Jacket “Netherland”

Shirt:

Ucon Acrobatics

Jeans:

Firetrap

Sneakers:

Nike Sportswear Dunk high

Laces:

Nike Red

Eyewear:

Mykita

Headset:

Urban Ears

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Photography: Photo Assistant: Styling: Hair & Make-up: Sublime Artists: Model: Creative Direction:

Tobias Schult Felix Holke Jennifer Hahn Agnes Olszanski Andreas Freitag Andrea Hildebrandt Tyron Ricketts Che AndrĂŠ Bergendahl

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MAKING OF by Chris Caliman — watch it on Vimeo

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CASIO

ART SHOCK A silent attendant

There are two kinds of people. Those who always rely on public time designations in train stations, pharmacy stores or city councils and those who like to make sure that time is always with them. Carrying a wrist watch is a habit that tells a lot about people and their characters. The world of watches has been a signifier for individual style, unusual preferences or simply traditional taste. The brand Casio founded in 1974 has established itself as a label with a wide range of products and yet a uniqueness that has been popular among manifold customers for more than three decades. Again and again we could witness how Casio managed to surprise and push the boundaries of sleek design. At the same time people enjoy the fact that every Casio watch is so pleasant to wear you hardly notice it is there. Even some of the bigger models like the ones from the G-SHOCK series have been customized to fit the requirements of your everyday life with ease!

To get your free SKORE183 Artprint, send: “Drop Shock” to 72755* or visit www.g-shock.de

G-SHOCK MEETS SKORE183 Within Germany the city of Munich is fairly well known or rather ill-reputed as slightly decadent and wealthy in a way that is partially close to ignorance. Born to this environment in 1983 Sebastian Pohl quickly became aware of a deep nonconformity towards the socio-cultural status quo. Also known as SKORE183 the talented young man went from being a graffiti hero in the city’s subculture to being a successful designer with a maverick portfolio still riddled with social criticism and hidden messages.

From top to bottom: Skore 183 Artprint Shock Art-Exhibition, BrightTradeShow Ffm/Germany 2010 Skore 183 himself

* Free Dropmobile Service available in Germany. Operator charges. Mobile phone numbers will not be used for advertising purposes

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G-SHOCK various models from 5500, 5600 & 6900 Series € 99,- up till € 129,-

Now here comes SKORE183’s connection to Casio: Both have joined forces in order to mount a limited art print collection to mingle and process the distillate of the artist’s creative potential and the look of the classical G-SHOCK model.

The sum thereof is an exhibition comprising 40 unique art prints as well as other paintings and photographies by Sebastian Pohl aka SKORE183. www.skore183.com

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FUNK

REAL FUNK FOR REAL PEOPLE Off to new pastures

Sometimes all it takes to start something new is the will to do things differently than everyone else. At least that is how things got running for optician and de-signer Dieter Funk back in 1992. That year his new label FUNK IN CASE started off with an unwearable but doubtlessly appealing collection of sunglasses. Media attention given the hype picked up quickly when even celebrities like Lenny Kravitz or Brad Pitt discovered the label for themselves. Soon FUNK began to broaden their range also offering sports glasses. And not only were they sweeping the sports market in an instant, as a matter of fact enthusiasm knew no more limits industrywide. Shortly after setting new benchmarks in the mid 90s the third generation of FUNK turned out more classical than its forerunners but also not shrinking away from skating on thinner ice with their relaunch of classic aviator glasses.

From top to Bottom: Varous Funk ads the Funk store

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Funk glasses taken from the collections: Funk Royal & Funk Food&Schuster

The millennium change was a byword for the launch of the clothing line FUNK wear and FUNK equipment for bags. In 2002 Dieter Funk went back to the lab and what came out were the first FUNK royal optics models. What finally came together as a collection in 2005 were glasses disposing of a great utility value and only finest materials such as acetate, steel and titanium. It was the perfect match between extravagance and functionality and right in tune with modernity. Then in 2009 FUNK FOOD appeared. Those are “Pommes Schranke”, “Banana Split” and other fresh and appetizing sunglasses. Interestingly the company is really serious about the their FUNK FOOD products being absolutely fresh. No kidding, but that means nothing else than that the glasses all “expire after one year”. No chance to wear them any longer than that! Or who would want to risk them turning all green and moldy?!

To enable customers to do so the models are all moderately priced. Promise! Our times are increasingly dominated by a widely spread urge for uniqueness. So the company’s slogan “Don’t Uniform Yourself” hits the nerve of time once again. People are seeking and appreciating individuality more and more. What also proves the fact that the label seems to be on the right track is that numerous artists ranging from singer Peter Fox to Karpatenhund or even Miss Platnum and Turntablerocker are wearing in love with their designs. This year will be special to FUNK in many ways: Above all we are looking forward to as many as 45 new models about to be launched to the market. Will be presented on shows in MIlano, Kopenhagen, New York and Zurich in March/April 2010. Moreover another specialized optician in Kempten will be celebrating a grand opening in April. Stay tuned for more!

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LEVI’S

QUITTING THE ORDINARY Set your summer style free!

To breathe life into these catchwords, UNISEX and WHITE is the focus of the Levi’s spring/ summer collection. On the one hand the socalled “Boyfriend-Look” marked by loose tops and skinny jeans still defines the Levi’s clothing-line, on the other hand the color white signifies innocence, new beginnings or even a blank sheet of paper, the free thinker and the individual expression through clothing. At this the label concentrated on their core-product-groups: The “famous four” five-pockets with seasonal details, trucker jackets, graphic-tees and check-shirts. Center of Levi’s inspiration was Berkeley University in the 60s. Supposedly, the student’s light heartedness and their will to change something was incomparable.

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Taken from the Levi’s Spring/Summer 2010 Collection

So here are the keywords girls should keep in mind: skinny jeans, skirts tight at waist, overalls and hotpants combined with XL-shirts or chemises and checked blouses.

Another highlight is the new boys jeans line “Coloured Denims”, which pledges a new coating with fresh and summerlike shades. After that grey winter we have just been through this is an absolute encouragement to choose some color! Available from March on in dark red, blue and foresty green in two different cuts: the classic 501 or the skinny 511. And leaving the best for last: Those lovely pieces of denim are as unbreakable and authentic as their big brother - the “Blue Jeans”. So let the spirits be free and go get levised!

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ONITSUKA

DISCOVERING THE HIDDEN TIGER Onitsuka Tiger and the Ogura Tansu Story

As our experience clarifies something great often originates out of something very small. In Onitsuka Tiger’s case it was the vision of an ordinary man called Kihachiro Onitsuka, who wanted to give new hope to young people after the war was over. His theory was that doing sports would let them gain vitality and lust for life once again. At that time basketball was most popular. The only “problem” or rather challenge here was that thus far people had played the game barefooted. And this is exactly where Onitsuka came in! Now 61 years after its foundation we would like to reveal what makes Onitsuka such a big shot apart from the fact that it has a history. For instance I suppose that nearly every city slicker must have come across one of the oversized sneaker sculptures that the company commissions every year. Each and everyone of them is inspired by a certain form of Japanese art or craft. The four of them are all telling different stories guided by Japanese traditions and values.

making of Ogura Tansu Sneaker

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Sumi Windbreaker

€ 130,-

Coolidge

€ 90,-

TSURI Jacket

€ 400,-

Carrack

€ 100,-

MEXICO 66 DX

€ 100,-

The latest one bears the promising name Ogura Tansu Sneaker. What now follows may be astonishing. And, yes, “Samurais, sneakers and sawdust” is an absolutely well chosen title! Established 226 years ago, the traditional Japanese wood shop Ogura Tansu Ten manufactures custom-made chests. For Onitsuka Tiger the unusual collaboration resulted in the design of an outsized Tansu sneaker made from Kiri tree wood. Catch the sneaker on its journey to different flagship stores around the globe or get a glimpse of it online where it has been recreated with the help of a huge photo collection.

As you can see Onitsuka Tiger’s creativity and constant longing for new and seminal ideas has and will not come to a sudden end. Now the Tansu sneaker is transporting the spirit of this company and its traditional roots into a new age. In a nutshell: It is hard to find another enterprise as rich in history, yet modern and innovative as Onitsuka Tiger.

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R AY B A N

Surprisingly Ray Ban was brought into being when US Air Force pilots needed protection against dazzling sunlight during World War II. Looking back on a history that began in the late 30s Ray Ban is not only a company with longtime experience but also the birthplace of a special pair of glasses which went from being a myth to being a legend. Up until today the enterprise takes a leading position on the world market. And the list of people who have worn their Ray Ban’s with pride through all the decades is long: Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong are getting in line with Elvis Presley, Peter Fonda, Jackie Kennedy and Arnold Palmer, just to name a few of them. That’s the solid evidence that the look and feel of Ray Ban has been expressing freedom, independence and authenticity ever since.

RARE PRINTS ANYONE ? Never hide again with Ray Ban’s

From top to bottom: “Subway”, “Flowers” & “Stripes” RayBan 2010 Campaign graphics

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RaBay RarePrint Edition Modells: Subway, Stripes & Flowers

Since 2006 the company promotes itself with the slogan “Never Hide”. The campaign “Rare Prints” started off just recently under exactly that aspect. The company was looking for different illustrators each of whom was to create a unique, handmade, numbered, screen printed poster based around a pattern from the “Rare Prints” glasses collection. It was their intention to choose illustrators only who had already reached a celebrity status within the screen printing poster world, because their famous limited edition pieces are always very hard to find.

The current collaborations with various renowned artists also include the founder of design and illustration studio MWM, Matt W. Moore, as featured in JPEOPLE 11, who is based in Portland, USA. He creates colorful digital illustrations in his signature “Vectorfunk” style. A style he has been cultivating for years. He combines shapes, textures and patterns with all kinds of colors so that “the viewer’s eye will dance”. The glasses can be purchased with the limited design prints either on the in- or the outside of the body. Other styles of this year’s collection are “Subway” (New York subway maps), “Stripes” (à la 50s), “Flowers” and “Comics” - each of which is available with different colors on the inside! Can it get more versatile than this?

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VANS

VANS STILL OFF THE WALL New skates, new streets, new trends

When we look back at the history of Vans we notice that this label has achieved a striking development since its foundation in 1966. Van Doren Rubber Company that solely sold skate shoes in their beginnings developed into a successful brand which receives credit all around the world by producing not only shoes but also sporting goods and clothing. Already for a long time Vans has not been just a label for skaters. Vans has become a lifestyle! From top to bottom: Modells: STREET & CHUKKA LOW Lanie Alabanza, Hellz Bellz

Let us just unwrap the upcoming spring/summer highlights which we have eagerly awaited by now. Vans separated their girls footwear collection into three categories: “Skate” which is mainly defined by efficiency, wearing comfort and style in one, “Street” which has a bit more attitude and “Trend” which is right on point with what’s in fashion. Obviously there is a pair of Vans for each kind of girl! Be it the “Chukka Low” skate shoe, the “Forty-Four Hi” street wear or “Sophie” which is part of their trend line.

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Clockwise: HELLZ BELLZ Sophie Strap € 80,CHUKKA LOW

€ 65,-

WELLESLEY Strap

€ 70,-

SOPHIE

€ 65,-

HELLZ BELLZ AND THE REDEFINITION OF FOOTWEAR

It is not only the new trendsetter “Sophie” that captures our attention - Vans is perfectly prepared for the summer to come. And so they simply showcase their first major street collaboration for the girls line: “Hellz Bells”, the brainchild of Lanie Alabanza tested in 2005 on New Yorker streets and now finally ready to be worn all over the world.

So-called “Sophie Strap” and “Hadley Zipper” are the two prototypes manufactured with premium materials only. These pairs of shoes are supposed to represent character, individuality and sexual empowerment. Wearing them means to refuse adaption, rewriting the rules, tearing down boundaries and gaining new self-confidence. Unified all in one these shoes could be revolutionary!

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