Kristina Schneider
Art Direction, Code & Illustration

May 31

A couple of weeks ago, Jens asked me to join him in creating give-away shirts for Music Hack Day Berlin (long and enthused post here). First we convinced the team to drop the shirt idea and instead produce tote bags – which are not only cheaper and less effort (one-size ftw), but also much more useful than the 100th tech event shirt that you will only ever wear for sleeping. Second, we grabbed our pens and settled in the sun for some sketching.

Music Hack Day Berlin 2011 tote bags by Jens and Kriesse

We wanted to do something pretty enough so that people would actually wear it, which means NOT having huge event and sponsor logos all over the place. Luckily the organizers Johan and Roel and the sponsor Spotify were in line with that. Still it needed to have a link to the event, so we started brainstorming around music, hacking, sound. We came up with spelling the name of the event in morse code, and experimented with translating a piece of morse code in musical notation. Since we failed in doing that accurately enough, we created a simpler graphic abstraction of the code. It then got screen printed on the bags and turned out really nicely. Look at happy Jens:

Jens


The Music Hack Day attendees seemed to like it, not a single bag was left after the weekend. You can download and print it yourself, though. Sanid even made the effort to re-translate the code into sound and share it on Soundcloud.

May 12

Together with my friend and coworker Alexander Lang, I organize a workshop “JavaScript for Designers”. We both found that a lot of webdesigners  know how to code their designs in fine, standard-compliant HTML and CSS, but are struggling as soon as it comes to JavaScript.
This one-day-workshop aims to provide webdesigners with a basic knowledge of programming and gets them started enhancing their webdesigns with JavaScript.
The workshop will be held on July 15th 2011 at co.up in Berlin. So, if you are a webdesigner and want to take your skills to the next level, sign up now!
Mota Italic Gallery
Berlin gets a new gallery to showcase type, letters, and typography in both art and design. A lovely addition to the local type scene. Be sure to visit them at Schliemannstraße 34, Berlin. Opening party on May 18th, 6pm.
via dingeundsachen

Apr 27

Dirty Gold are providing my office soundtrack this week. Perfect for keeping the balance between excitement about your work and longing for a sunny weekend with lots of doing nothing and having the sun shine in your face.
Thanks for pointing, Malte.

Apr 25

Muster F

Apr 24

Happy Easter everybody! Have a nice, sunny sunday.

Apr 05

I just returned from my three week road trip from Texas to Los Angeles and all the way up the coast to San Francisco. I saw a lot of palm trees.

Mar 01

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