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portfolio february 2015
Dirk Fiedrich Koelner Design Akademie February 2015
Well, my name is Dirk Friedrich and I‘m a freelance graphic- and webdesigner based in Cologne. I studied at KĂślner Design Akademie and are going to take my BA studies in October 2015 in Middlesex University, London. Besides very simple and puristic graphical art my personal obsession is my clear, comic anspired detailed way of illustration.
Please feel free to visit my new online portfolio at www.designarr.de for even more up to date artworks.
DIRK FRIEDRICH
Freelance Designarr Graphic- and Webdesigner
During my studies I took part in several startup communities and projects, so as Gameuropa. The project was founded to create a Community-Webpage for ‚Gamers‘ made by ‚Gamers‘. The team consited of more than 23 people from Germany, France, Spain, Hungary and Austria. Sadly the developing team fell apart after almost six month due to some major issues.
GAMEUROPA Logo Design Typography
The Logo Design and Typography were made just by using simple shapes.
CHRISROXX Logo Design Typography
The font construction as well as the graphical elements were made in Adobe Illustrator.
CHRISROXX - A former collegue of mine who is now selling his techno / trance music. A simple, light and futuristic font was created which was broken down to a simply typographic logo. Supportive, very neat graphical lines forming abstract, seemingly metallic shapes, were used on his first single cover ‚titanium‘.
GUMGUM
Packaging Desing Blueprints & Photography
This packaging design was rethought and redesigned during my final projects at the Kรถlner Design Akademie.
This is a chewing gum packaging design which was developed during packaging classes. I contains up to 20 chewing gums and resemples the shape of a human jaw. It is, except for the chewing gums of course, entirely made out of coloured cardboard.
DAS BROT Illustration Ink on Paper
‚Das Brot‘ - One of Wolfgang Borchert‘s most famous short stories illustrated during my second semester at the Kölner Design Akademie. I tried to reflect the story‘s dark, unpleasant and depressing atmosphere by creating the very strong black and white contrast. Additional I tried to avoid facial expressions to establish the deep emotional distance of the two protagonists.
While repainting my sketches with black ink the markers went dry very quickly. I kept going with the half dried markers because they added this grundgy style to the project wicht supported the theme.
This designs was made for an Indie-Game Review Platform named Indie Reviews. I tried different apprauches until I finally merged the capital letter with the rewind Icon for better results and stayed with that. Nevertheless the captital can still be used as standalone watermark, logotype or brand sign.
INDIE REVIEWS
Corporate Design Website & Logo Design
Indie Reviews was a small startup I tried to support with my graphic and illustrative works.
This illustrative artwork is part of my animated short music clip ‚99‘ which I created during my final semester at Kölner Design Akademie. All illustrations are completly drawn by hand, digitalized and brought to life with Adobe After Effects. Music by Christopher Freimann, Aachen.
99 MUSIC VIDEO Animation Illustration
To see the finished project also check out my new online portfolio website at www.designarr.de.
MINEFRACTION PROJECT Corporate Design Ingame Photography & Illustrator
You may visit the mainly finished web site on www.minefraction.com for an extensive impression if the work.
This is the corporate design for a pretty well done Minecraft gameserver I‘m supporting. It‘s gamemode is dealing with a zombie survival theme wherefore I came up with the ‚open-skull‘-logotype. For the web site design the server staff and me worked together very closely to create a very puristic and pixelated web page which resembles the blocky old fashioned game style very well.
This designs was made for an Indie-Game Review Platform named Indie Reviews. I tried different apprauches until I finally merged the capital letter with the rewind Icon for better results and stayed with that. Nevertheless the captital can still be used as standalone watermark, logotype or brand sign.
INDIE REVIEWS
Corporate Design Website & Logo Design
Indie Reviews was a small startup I tried to support with my graphic and illustrative works.
THE ORGIN OF SMELL Illustration Brochure Design
In this project I took responsibility for the majority of illustrations used in the final version.
Together with some student collegues I developed a small brochure for children dealing with the production of perfumes and the used techniques during these processes. This project was actually meant to be printed and published by Farina ‚Eau de cologne‘.
Except for the name ‚hybris‘ the brief was to create a logotype for a imaginary magazine. I thought of it to be like a fresh and modern, very artificial and entertaining magazine like the VICE magazine. Therefore I created this very simplistic logotype with some kind of standalone or watermark in the shape of the two initial letters ‚h‘ and ‚y‘.
HYBRIS MAGAZINE Logo Design Corprate Design
The typeface was alternated and modified with Adobe Illustrator.
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