There are undoubtedly easier topics for an exhibition than bringing the key elements of the liberal-democratic constitutional order closer to high school pupils: that, however, was the challenge of a competition which was decided in our favour. Together with TheGreenEyl (interaction design) and Björn Meier (exhibition architecture), we created a travelling exhibition which will be visiting the schools of Saxony from 2009 to 2015. With the help of interactive exhibition elements, it introduces pupils to this complex topic. The weightiness of the material is lightened by detailed illustrations from Jörg Hülsmann and Kheira Linder. Cartographic elements were provided by Ole Häntzschel. The text materials, specially tailored for young people, was developed by Ariane Hendrich and Andrea Schaufel.

A band on a journey, in large and small trains. For this video of “The Band On The Edge Of Forever” we thought of the sea at Rostock, the home town of the band. As production designer working under the fantastic guidance of director Hagen Decker (Crossing Pictures), we filmed on the (model) trains in Hamburg’s “Miniatur Wunderland”, the world’s largest model railway. That footage was combined with extra shoots in regular trains to create the impression of a perfect wonderland journey...

Check out the final video here and have a look behind the scenes.

Production: Kieran Joel; DoP: Hagen Decker and Tanja Häring.

Client: GIM Records

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The exhibition “Bodenschätze” (“treasures of the soil”) presents Saxon mining riches in the form of archival material from the Bergarchiv Freiberg. We designed the permanent exhibition, which can be visited at Freudenstein Palace in Freiberg, as well as a travelling exhibition with mobile exhibition stands to travel around Saxony. In Freiberg, in the palace which has been wonderfully redesigned by AFF Architekten, an exhibition room with in-built exhibition cases was used. A lavishly illustrated book to accompany the exhibition was published (by Mitteldeutschen Verlag) at the same time to provide a offer a scholarly perspective.

Client: Sächsisches Staatsarchiv/Bergarchiv Freiberg

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Director Hagen Decker , director of photography Philipp Kirsamer and producer Kieran Joel wanted to create great cinema for the #1 single release “Allein Allein” (Universal) from the Dresden pop band Polarkreis 18, and for that they needed a great landscape. We travelled with them to Jondal, Norway and were responsible for the production design. The performance scenes were shot in Berlin. The result was not only a great video, nominated for “best music video” at the Echo Awards 2009. We also learnt that the weather on a glacier changes approximately every three seconds…

The video is here.

Client: Universal Music Deutschland

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As a designer you always try to do something different: That's why we yelled “yes” when writer and director Hagen Decker asked us to do the production design for the new video clip for Berlin's new indie hope “Kate Mosh”. Our task was to stage a whole showcase of the band — under water. So we started diving... All scenes were shot on two nights in Hamburg's Arriba-Bad.

Director: Hagen Decker, Producer: Kieran Joel , DOP: Roland Fritzenschaft

Check the video here.

Client: Kate Mosh

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For the 7th time, the State Association of Music Schools in Brandenburg organised the Festival of Music Schools, the largest event of its kind in Brandenburg, with around 40000 visitors. From 13th to 15th July, the town of Spremberg in southern Brandenburg played host to 2500 young musicians across eight stages. The diversity was reflected in both the colourful design and in a ingenious individualisation concept: every festival participant ordered and received a unique t-shirt, the colour combination of which could be chosen on the website beforehand. Using a workflow agreed with the textile printer, unique prints were created so that every t-shirt had a different colour combination. The participants looked just how the event was: colourful!

Client: Landesverband der Musikschulen Brandenburg e.V.

For the fifth time, the spawning pool in the FEZ grounds in the Wuhlheide was the location for the SEEFA Festival. Together with Daniel Franke and Akitoshi Mizutani (WeAreChopChop), we projected the stages, which were situated on the water, with live visuals. As in previous years, live picture material shot with hand-held cameras in the stage areas was used.

Clent: Sinnbus Records

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Homo Bellicus is an international exhibition of contemporary art. From 29th June to 9th July 2007, more than 50 works of all artistic style and from countries as diverse as Iran, Israel, the USA, the Lebanon, Germany, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia were shown in the former Bewag substation in Berlin’s Osloer Strasse, which today is the the Christania Centre for the Creative Industries.

When choosing the artworks, the jury paid particular attention to those which attempted to artistically approach the theme of war without falling into the usual political or moral categories. We translated this into our design by creating an excavation site with nails, thread and the bones of an organic chook. The desire to show new perspectives on the old theme of war also manifests in the ambiguity of the exhibition poster.

Client: Gold und grüne Wälder

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The basic idea for the video was simple: as the concept for the CD/LP “Breakfast Epiphanies” used only type, the video for the single “Amourette” should be full of letters too.

For the shoot in the venerable Marlene Dietrich Hall in Potsdam’s Studio Babelsberg, we snipped more than 700 letters out of polystyrene, painted them pink, and built a circular construction of the entire song text around the band.

The video was a co-production with Crossing Pictures (director: Hagen Decker, camera:Lars Petersen); the making-of can be seen here.

Client: Nois-O-Lution Records

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A dome-shaped stage on the water, completely enclosed and with only live visuals and live videos projected from outside. We took care of the live visuals and the extensive slide projections for the second Seefa Festival (then called Sinnbus der Seefahrer, “Sinnbus the sailor”) from the Berlin label and collective Sinnbus.

Client: Sinnbus Records