Kristina Schneider

Serious update later.

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:51:55 +0100

Serious update later.

In love with those pictures of a previous version of Berlin....

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:26:00 +0200

In love with those pictures of a previous version of Berlin. Greyness, concrete, Schnellimbiß.

westberlin

László Moholy-Nagy, View from the radio station tower, Berlin,...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:13:53 +0200

László Moholy-Nagy, View from the radio station tower, Berlin, ca. 1928

Photo

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:42:46 +0200

Photo

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:53:49 +0200

Sunday Longboarding at Tempelhof, Berlin

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:34:40 +0200

Sunday Longboarding at Tempelhof, Berlin

The Embassy, State 08

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:58:11 +0200

The Embassy, State 08

So the new The Rapture record is out.

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:18:00 +0200

So the new The Rapture record is out.

UX UI UX UI

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:52:37 +0200

UX UI UX UI:

electricgecko:

A moodboardish blog on interfaces. You know it’s well worth the follow the second you know that Ben Pieratt is doing it.

For those who haven’t seen it yet, my friends at Gidsy just...

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:50:11 +0200

For those who haven’t seen it yet, my friends at Gidsy just published the first part of their handbooks, a nice approach to make FAQ/help pages more appealing. Actually, this is not appealing, but outstanding. Check out the beautiful scroll effects!

Splendid work, guys – Berlin startups got next!

False Arms

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:52:17 +0200

False Arms:

Just another moodboard thing, this time sorted by colour. Also check out Benjamin Critton’s other work.

Coworking Hack Day

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:42:00 +0200

Recently some friends from my coworking space asked me to join them in organizing a Coworking Hack Day – A weekend of bringing together new people, collaborating on fun projects and hacking a better and more beautiful work place. Of course I was in!

So save the date: Coworking Hack Day is happening on August 27/28, 2011 at co.up coworking space, Berlin.

Besides the 24 hour hacking, there will be workshops and some other surprises. We’re hoping for a diverse crowd with varied interests, whether that be crafting, lighting, art, hardware, photos, webstuff, arduino, making mate, or anything else. Already excited to see the outcome of this! Updates will be published mostly on twitter, so if you’re interested, follow.

In collaboration with Sarah Bernhard, I made a poster for the...

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:46:06 +0200

In collaboration with Sarah Bernhard, I made a poster for the second edition of SOVA , Martin’s self-published magazine. They just arrived from the printer and you can order them now here.

There are still some tickets left for our workshop JavaScript...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:02:33 +0200

There are still some tickets left for our workshop JavaScript for Designers. Book now and get a 25% discount with the code SSV!

Takenobu Igarashi. Via grainedit

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:02:44 +0200

Takenobu Igarashi.

Via grainedit

Music Hack Day Berlin 2011

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:48:00 +0200

Last weekend (May 28/29) I attended Music Hack Day in Berlin, an event where programmers, artists, designers and all kinds of creative people meet and team up to hack anything related to music – web apps, instruments or as in our case, street art installations.

The Hack Day took place at the Berlin MTV HQ, nicely located at the Spree River. First I was worried about spending the beautiful sunny weekend inside hacking, but the amount of good people, the creative energy and the exceptionally well organized event (thanks Roel and Johan!), were well worth it. We even got a surprise midnight cupcake delivery, and a mascot pug! Within little more than 24 hours, almost 50 projects had been created. Among my favourites was Eigendrums, a hack that turns your body into a drum machine. You can trigger drum samples by clapping, hitting on your chest. etc. I also really liked sleev.in, a tool to quickly share your favourite album of the moment with a little personal note, like insta.gram for music. You should check out the complete list of hacks here.

The project i was involved with was Music Haekel Day. A couple of days before the event, Claudine and me decided we wanted to craft something out of old audio tapes, transforming the material into something new while preserving the sounds recorded on it. So we brought a bag of dusty tapes and some crochet hooks to the venue and were soon joined by Alex, Alex, Joel, Jeff and Guido. The better half of Saturday we spent teaching each other how to crochet and discussed what the project actually is about. In the end we created little installations out of the crocheted tape all over the building and at several spots in the city. Each installation got a QR code attached to it, which could be scanned with a smartphone. It then opened a Soundcloud page with a snippet of the sounds that were once on the tape. You can also see and listen to the project on a website we hacked together last minute: musichaekelday.org.

I left the event heavily inspired and amazed by the creative output and communication. Some take aways are…

Berlin is bursting with talented and motivated people forming a buzzing tech scene right now. The EuRuKo/EuRuCamp after party later that weekend was also proof for that.
Getting out of your usual field of practice and creating something fun with people from other disciplines helps you staying creative and motivated. Also, teaching each other stuff is important. Little is more rewarding than introducing fellow designers to Git. Or Crocheting.
Happy and relaxed organizers make a happy crowd and an overall awesome event.
More tech events should be about actually making stuff, not only talking and presenting. So that’s something we are currently discussing for our up.front events. More about that soon.

Music Hack Day Bag

Tue, 31 May 2011 12:48:00 +0200

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.

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:

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.

Together with my friend and coworker Alexander Lang, I organize...

Thu, 12 May 2011 13:06:00 +0200

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,...

Thu, 12 May 2011 12:02:00 +0200

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

Dirty Gold are providing my office soundtrack this week. Perfect...

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:29:59 +0200

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.