FAST FORWARD

Hey guys... what do you think? Who's faster?! ;)

THIS IS HOW TO BECOME EVEN BETTER WHEN ALREADY HAVING BEEN CRACKING GOOD FOR THE LAST THIRTY YEARS!

GREY SKY, BOLD RED LETTERS

BUNGEE JUMPING

ONE MONTH A DAY

Servus! It's done, day after day for one month and we've arrived to our second anniversary!
One shot a day is one month old! ¡Gracias!
Un abrazo,
Mati.

SEASONS CHANGE

MONDAYBLUES

Lovely colleagues.

WENT OUT BIKING IN THE AUTUMN SUN

DITO, SCHÖNES WOCHENENDE!, SAGT NISCH, DER PICKLIGE FISCH

SEÑIOR BANANAS DICE: ¡BUEN FIN DE SEMANA, HOMBRE!

ABSTRACTION

Night lights from an office building, as seen from a bus in motion... and yes, the image has been rotated. Whatever, end of the day, this looks closer to The Matrix type-design introduction, than to what it really was.

EXHIBITIONS

No, not exhibitionism!, I said exhibitions. Today I've run into a bunch of them. Firstly on poster design from Peru. Great, quite witty, witty ideas (first image); secondly on street art and graffitti (last two images), within the clean white walls of a museum, quite unexpected, oder? ¡Saludos! http://centroculturalrecoleta.org/

FLOW

»P IS STILL FREE« ...

... don't have the faintest clue why this picture reminds me of that old song by KRS One?

Actually it should remind us of the Speicherstadt, Hamburg's historic quarter next to the habour!

Hhhm – so I guess I am probably going to listen to some old-school Hip-Hop the next days, while thinking of moldy warehouses ;-) 

Strange combination!

»... The girlies is freee-eee, cause the crack cost moneeeey, oh yeaaaah! ...«

(KRS One – P is still free)

ON MY WAY

I've started a photography workshop today, my creative lifesaver to enjoy. I'll develop my own theme... what will it be... I have no idea, but it's out there, and within myself, so off I go.

TUFAN KEBAB ***** HAUTE CUISINE EN HAMBURG

Salut!

Found this picture in my archives – as I couldn't make one today!

Just returned from beautiful Prague (having caught a bad cold) and after another tough working Monday there will also be not too many words from Hamburg today!

Just will get an exquisite meal – even though it is not supposed to be as excellent as from Tufan Kebab ;-) and then drop dead to sleep!

Good night ...

n

THERE SHE GOES

UNTITLED

SCARY...

People in Munich are kind of crazy, aren't they?!

ICEBERG

I've defrosted my refrigerator.

LOCOMOTION

PAZ

Hoy.

GOT SOME TICKETS

Yippeyhdappydoooh, after 3 missed concerts I finally got hands on tickets for Paul Weller!

For those who don't know him, go to: 

http://www.paulweller.com/home.php

Should be fun ...

n.

MHMMM... LITTLE TIRED

SLIDESHOW TEST

Tonight I was trying to figure out how to embed slideshows to our blog!

Pasting a slideshow from flickr I found as one working option which even seems to be rather quick and convenient. Still there are problems in resizing the content properly – if you take a close look you can see there's a pixel too much at the bottom of the picture! What I also don't like is that the slideshow stops when running through once instead of running in a loop! Thirdly but most annoying to me is the fact that if you do a wrong click you are redirected to flickr and I'm afraid there is no way to disable this option whatsoever!

I think the only pretty way to have moving pictures is to embed flash files which should work also quite simple! Found a script for that somewhere on the internet but I'm too tired to try it right now ...

Please take the poll to say if we should work on it or not!?

Good night ...

n.

ADVERTISING GRAFFITI

Yeah, they really did it – Converse tagged the whole Jungfernstieg train station!

Visiting http://www.converse.com/connectivity you will learn that the brand celebrates it's 100th anniversary – congratetulations!

No other than Sid Vicious, Nina Hagen, Thomas D. or Pharrell are supporting this beautiful campaign!

So just get out an old pair of chucks from your drawers and kick it!

INSPIRATION III

As I'm interested in it maybe you are too – at least little enough to check some inpirational stuff on automobile design, 3-D animation of prototypes, podcasts/videos about design processes etc. on this site:

http://www.carbodydesign.com

INSPIRATION II

Packaging and product design by Nature, by far the best global branding consultancy. Saludos.

INSPIRATION

I cannot not see it quite well from this part of the planet, but the London Design Festival may be another interesting source of inspiration, starting this coming 13th September. Even though I don't know anybody who's been there to assure you it is in fact inspiring... the London design-standard may be just enough.
http://www.londondesignfestival.com/Default.aspx
I've been to AGIdeas in Melbourne, Australia, a long time ago, and it also was an "All things design" event, despite it's differences. Melbourne is well designed as Hamburg is, in terms of how "livable" it is as a city, yet sunnier.
http://www.agideas.net/
Argentina has develloped some great design events too, though I could not attend many of them. Honestly, there's good and bad stuff anywhere, as far as I've seen. We all can design both. And "bad" design is so useful sometimes, it should be . I did have the chance however to attend on 2001 the outstanding "TipográficaBuenosAires", on type and design: we were able to chat personally with the lecturers within brakes. Interaction, real people, that makes a difference.
http://www.tpgbuenosaires.tipografica.com/introduction.html
¡Saludos!

THE DAILY DOSE OF INSPIRATION

As the title says – get inspired here: http://www.en.fubiz.net

HAFENCITY TODAY

Wow, what a building site! Everytime i take a lunchbreak to see what has happened to the quarter next to Interbrand I'm totally amazed!

Here you can follow up the recent years major changes: 

http://www.hafencity.com/webcam.php?language=de

HAVING SOME FUN

GOMORRHA

Definitely want to see this movie: 

http://www.gomorrha-derfilm.de

(Sorry Mato, couldn't find a good version of the English trailer)

NUMBERS

Números-02: I don't know why, but suddenly I feel like buying myself a refreshing drink... Whatever. "Disponible" means "available". Saludos!

NUMBERS

Números-01: "You look so beautiful, we should go out, would you give me your number?"...

SO TIRED...TOO

Tough week is over, I am tired, however I feel happy. I recommend the beautiful film "珈琲時光", or "Café Lumière". I've enjoyed it really much. ¡Buenas noches!

http://www.screenrush.co.uk/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=57412.html

EVENING LIGHT

22 x 11 cm. Mixed media (light emitted by a distant burning object, layed over a cemented canvas).

SO TIRED...

huuuuuh... conferences... conferences...

GLASSCANDY

Hey guys,

just found glasscandy on myspace! I somehow like, what she plays – you probably don't ;-)

Nevertheless here's the link: http://www.myspace.com/glasscandy

750 FOUR

I think logotypes from vintage Japanese motorcycles just rock!

Saiyonara!

LAST NIGHT...

On my way back home from cinema. You don't miss a thing,
if you don't be able to see the movie "ZOHAN"...

But it's kind of funny - in a common way ;)

GOOD NIGHT HAMBURG

STENCILLED

This man's stencil is nicely done. Even if I am not into stencilled artwoks, it has a clever outline, with intemediate tones too. I wonder who he is, met him at calle Superí esquina Lacroze, a month ago (my today's contribution is not fresh, maybe this is why he looks at you, worried). Hasta luego señor...

ON THE WAY BACK HOME

I went for some drinks with Reto and should say hello to both of you.

Good night – zzzzZ!

I'VE FOUND ONE

Here's a huge advertisement with no big brand on it!. Which is fantastic. Marketing would say "No brand, no gain", or "El logo, grande". But I look forward to finding more of these, they would make the urban and communications environment less exasperating, a bit more livable, for living creatures like us. Salú!

HOT WHEELS PT.2

Just fund another tuff ride in my neighbourhood – so I guess protective mimicry is quite en vougue right now ;-)

Have a nice day ...

Niels

SERENE MOON

The moon is at peace, nobody could ever fake its symbol. Buenas noches.

LITTLE IRRITATION

I was on a shopping tour in Munich's Innenstadt.
And look, what I've found... What would you do, as Mr. Jobs?