Debut album cover for Rhein-Main electro pop rap band "Öge, Bilal & Lu".

Client: I Love UZ Productions

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Situated in the misty overlaps between Drone, Doom Metal and Serial Music, with a tendency towards a Black Metal atmosphere, is where the RUIN project of Berlin painter Martin Eder explores the grim frontiers of contemporary music.

The album (published onViva Hate Records) is the result of a piece recorded with the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop at the Sophiensaele Theater in Berlin in April 2010. The piece is multi-layered, and consists of experimental blocks of sound, noise, rhythm and melody. IIt can be conceived of as twelve parts, in which the listener is presented with a dusky, dark piece of chamber music. The imagery of the project as a whole is sparse. Like the woven layers of sound, we created a project that was synaesthetic in direction and worked with twelve audible materials.

The outcome was a combination of twelve printed materials, together forming a black square made up of machine oil, vodka, fat, blood, soap, aspirin, tobacco, metal, ground bones, cigarette ash, soot and salt, printed both on separate sheets of card board as well as layered altogether forming a black square on the album cover. The finished product can not only be felt by the thick 'paint' job, but smelt as a strange mixture of oil, blood and soap.

Client: RUIN, Berlin

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After a split-7" release on Siluh, the debut album “Planet, Planet” (Klimbim Records/Cargo) put the spotlight firmly on the Berliner lads from Elyjah. For us it was clear: this CD is fantastic. Both playful and atmospheric, it leaves a lasting impression. To ensure that that message was conveyed to the customer, we fired pellets at all two thousand covers. They circle like planets around a fixed point. Returning to a time in which men had morals in their hearts and cloth handkerchiefs in their trouser pockets, we put the band in Herr von Eden suits (styling: Leena Zimmermann, production: Kieran Joel) and then printed the large-format photos shot by Norman Konrad by hand.

Typographically, we continued this theme with two typefaces from that time period: Memphis, from Emil Rudolph Weiß (1929) and the wonderful Wieynck Gotisch from Heinrich Wieynck (1926) were put into use on an old Heidelberg printing machine. The “shooting” didn't stop there. In the video for the single “Wired Song” (director: Hagen Decker, camera: Cüneyt Kaya), exploding light bulbs dance around the band like shooting stars.

client: Klimbim Records

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The 2007 debut album "Kolorit" from one-man project Landscape Izuma was a great success for the Austrian label Siluh Records. The resulting remix colloborations (with Alec Empire and B.Fleischmann, among others) now find their rightful as part of a special edition 12" record with accompanying CD.

We took the name "Kolorit" quite literally and created a simple die-cut cardboard case. The record and CD were held in place only by coloured elastic bands, but were still well protected. The minimalism of the tracks was complemented by plain typography and the use of only black ink.

Client: Siluh Records

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Just in time for the Berlin's photo fair “Update”, we designed a portfolio poster for the international photo and illustration agency “Anja Wiroth” which comes with a custom air-sealed sed card box.

Client: Anja Wiroth Agency, Berlin

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Who isn’t a member of an indie band? For the design of the 7" EP “The U in Us”, we were.

Client: Kate Mosh

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The invitation to the press events accompanying the product launch picks up on the product name and brings cold into play. We created cold packs printed with a thermosensitive ink, so that the invitation text could only be read for around 15 minutes after the activation of the pack.

Client: Silk-Relations GmbH, Berlin

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Before the launch, the brewery from Bremen provided the first “Beck’s Ice” beer bottles to the trade press. The transparency of the mixed beer drink — a world first — was foregrounded in the design process. The bottle rests in a perspex plate with a recessed silhouette of the bottle, and is held in place by a clear heat shrink wrap. In the attached press pack, each paragraph is printed on a separate piece of clear film; the attached CD is also largely transparent.

Client: Silk-Relations GmbH, Berlin

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The boys from Delbo make wonderful, unconventional indie pop. For a long time it wasn’t clear how the 2006 album “Havarien” (Loob Musik) should look: the music seemed too finicky to be translated into colours. That problem turned out to bethe perfect solution: a design which is invisible, apart from the band name and album title, and whose contents only slowly show up as it gets dirty. Anyone who can’t wait can simply make use of a pencil. Once again, a big thank you to the label, who made it possible to use such a design (no logos, no credits) for a release on a major distributor (Universal).

Client: Loob Musik

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Type all over and not a single photo. That was the aim of the design for products to accompany the album “Breakfast Epiphanies” from Berlin band Kate Mosh (Nois-O-Lution/Indigo). For the LP/CD artwork, we cut thousands of letters out of black paper and glued them together into lines.

with Jörg Walter (Groupe Dejour).

Client: Kate Mosh/Nois-O-Lution Records