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Lighting Design Award for Telekombridge

2011-06-09T09:38:36Z

IALD Radiance Award for lighting design. In cooperation with LICHT KUNST LICHT we designed and animated the video content for the integrated LED installation.

The bridge was constructed due to a lack of options to cross the road to other Deutsche Telekom Buildings. There was no way in several hundred meters for Deutsche Telekom employes in Bonn, Germany to cross the road. A railroad track and a four lane road blocked the way across.
As a result they constructed this pedestrian bridge.

The LED installation is the main visual attraction of the bridge. It has around 444.000 pixels over both sides and uses a very bright LED technology that works during night and day times.
The idea of our video theme was to visualize the energetic connection between both sides. A group of typical Telekom digits makes its way across at a normal walking speed. More and more groups of digits start its way across, coming from both sides. On collision they emit a short flash of energy. Depending on the viewers perspective it may seem as if the digit groups follow the people on the bridge.

From the beginning our goal was not to make this architectural installation to one of the typical advertisement screens. The idea was to make a subtle video content that supports the idea of the lighting design concept.

Video produced by btf

Light pollution

2009-08-12T14:35:29Z

Since some years the discussion about light pollution is growing and countries are even changing their laws to prevent this kind of pollution. But what really is »light pollution«? Again, I decided to write a seminar paper about this topic.

I focused my analysis of light pollution on the city of Cologne, Germany. To visualize imagery I made a website with more information. I must say that photos are not the best indicator for light pollution but there are some good charts about how much light is burning every night on earth and how it developed in the past years.

Click here for more information.

Here you can download the paper. Again it is written in German.

Cheonan Architecture Visualization

2009-01-15T00:01:16Z

With Lichtkunstlicht we worked on an animated visualization of a complex, two layered media facade of a new Galleria store in Cheonan, South Korea.

Daniel, David, Julian and me met at our new production studio in Cologne. We had to complete the project within six days, so we had to start immediately. Fortunately Julian already worked on the 3d model of the building so we didn't lose too much time during our main production phase.

The idea was to previsualize a facade concept of the light design agency Licht Kunst Licht. The architects from UNStudio designed a facade consisting of two layers. Each layer has its own structural bearing so that the facade seems to be transforming while the spectator changes his perspective. LichtKunstLicht's concept was to seamlessly integrate an invisible media facade between the two layers. LEDs, placed on the inner side of the outer facade layer, projected their light onto the milky inner layer. Over the main entrances of the building a high resolution facade is also seamlessly composed into the architecture. There is also a smooth transition between the high resolution and the low resolution parts of the facade.

It was very important for the design concept that the integration of the facade would serve the art of the architecture rather than operating as a screen for information or advertisement.

CHEONAN production team

The final visualization:

Test your color IQ

2008-11-03T02:07:47Z

Have you ever tested your perceptivity of color? An interesting test can be passed at the xrite color IQ test.

Somehow I was fascinated. The test was fun to do and cost me several minutes – dragging and tossing each color field from left to right and vice versa. I ended up, getting this screen:

Needless to say, I am a bit proud. Nonetheless, I see the problems with this method of testing ones color IQ.
This little test maybe a fun game to train your perception of colors. But it is unsuitable to compare the results with other peoples ability to sort little motley squares – unless you perform the test at the identical display! A display calibrated with high contrast should make it easier to score well in this test.

Furthermore, this test does not tell anything about a persons ability to chose suitable, harmonic colors or to deal with color composition, which would be the real intelligence of colors.

Despite all these aspects, the interaction with this small application was kind of enlightening for me: As a designer (or artist) I should be able to handle the technical part of colors. I should be able to sort colors in matters of hue, saturation, brightness. Otherwise I will not be able to work reliable and reasonable with this important segment of design!

Persons working in the area of screen and/or print media should know the basics about color models like the RGB- or CMYK color models.

via Michael Preidel's esse est percipi – http://qxm.de/

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