Touch is becoming a rare commodity, and with it comes the consideration: how often and to whom can I shake hands, who can I hug, caress, cuddle up to? Therefore physical togetherness is constantly simulated through artificial virtual connections such as in video calls. The physical intimacy remains a dreamy idea and fantasy, from which no danger emanates. The 3D modeled hands address this dichotomy between the search for connection and closeness and the danger of real contact with foreign bodies. Their skin is covered by a thin, shiny layer, so that the realistic-looking hands appear artificial and absurd when you look more closely. The font is a self-designed 3D font that is covered with the shiny, incarnate material of the hands. With their rounded serifs, the letters seek proximity to one another or curl up.

Initially, the player has 90 seconds to listen to 5 short snippets from a song and to remember the order. These are only played by clicking on the colored circles. If he has already listened to all the pieces before the time runs out, he has the opportunity to skip the countdown and continue.

The next part is about getting the circles in the right order. The music can no longer be played, the player has to remember which colors of the circles belong to the respective song sections. He_she has 30 seconds to do this, but can also submit the solution beforehand. If the correct order of the song was not guessed, the level has to be repeated again. If the order is correct, the song is displayed and played. Then, you get to the next level.

The level of difficulty increases with each level. The colors differ less from each other and the order is less easy to identify. There are a total of 5 levels. When the last level is over, the game starts over. The game is optimized for mobile phones in full screen mode.

I developed and designed the game using only HTML, CSS and Javascript for the course »Internet technology« during the wintersemester of 2019/20.

Developed by a research team from the company Nvidia, »GauGan« uses a style transfer algorithm to create photorealistic images from segmentation maps. Each color in an image represents a landscape component e.g. tree, house, water etc. Without knowing the exact outcome, I created exploding flower bombs, rainbow-hurricanes and animate waters. The project evolved during the course »creative filmmaking« in my communication design studies.

For the first time we as the Captcha team prepared a new kind of virtual festival with the topic »habitat«. We decided on this topic as a way of expressing the expansion and development of living and working spaces in rapidly changing times during the pandemic.

The Captcha Logo is redesigned for each year but always keeps the original form of a slanted »C«. The black background for both the logo and the website represents the seemingly infinite space that is provided to us by virtual realities. The fine lines of the logo and lightweight fonts resemble topographic maps. The prominent and complementary colours blue and red are creating an early internet aesthetic.

With his art and performances, he broadened the definition of the term music and encouraged listeners to focus their attention on tones and sounds that are beyond their perception and the expectations they have of music. The intermingling of the shapes and colors of the levels of these posters symbolize the complexity of sound. Because every sound often has not just one source but at least two, three, or more. It has its own quality, texture and timbre.

You watch what is happening on the street and hold yourself back. You become a passive observer, always one step away from retreating inside and letting the door fall back in the lock.

The idea of VDW 2020 is to bring people together in a virtual space where they can move around in different exhibitions while having a natural sound and (if they are using a VR headset) spatial experience.

For the hub provided to us, we placed the 3D model of the exhibition centre »Mannheimer Kunstverein« into the platform Mozilla Hubs creating an entangled exhibition dynamic: in the real life exhibition, that could be entered digitally in the »Virtual Festival Headquarters«, we projected the virtual exhibition next to the original artworks that were created by our festival participants.

The shape of the »C« , the Captcha logo, is elongated into a shiny chrome metal pipe that is quickly growing. It eventually stops evolving, when it is viewed from the right perspective and it forms into its original shape.

If you want to see the full 3D model of the elongated “C” from all sides on your phone you can use the AR Scene Viewer, that I implemented, and place the shape wherever you want (it only works for Android browsers).

The project was developed as a part of the course named »3D visualization«. I used Cinema 4D for the modelling, animation and rendering and AfterEffects for cutting.

Despite her impressive œuvre, which captures war history and preserves unique moments at the frontline, the memory of Gerda Taro faded after the second world war. Her photographs were often falsely assigned to her partner Robert Capa and his agency »Magnum Photos«; until her achievements were finally recognized after the appearance of the »Mexican Suitcase«: a box with thousands of exactly dated photographs that can be ascribed to Taro.

The visitor is guided through the aftereffect of her unsparing and documentary photography while passing through different room stages – going from a dark room with high contrast lightings, to closely converging pale walls and ultimately a wide and bright yellow room.

I used Cinema 4D for building the 3d model of the gallery in the »Port25« in Mannheim and TwinMotion for the final rendering. The concept and implementation of the exhibition evolved in the course »communication in space« during the wintersemester of 2019/20.

SneaKing is an app that helps passionate sneaker collectors, also called sneakerheads, keep track of their wide sneaker collection and gives them the opportunity to chat and trade with others of the community. The user interface is structured like a social media platform where you can follow users and explore their accounts. At the same time the app is a marketplace that gives you the opportunity to discover new trends in the community, buy and sell sneakers.

If you are not sure about buying a shoe, you can add it to your favorites list, so you can look at them later. The user account sites are divided in a feed, where you can post pictures of how you style your sneakers with an outfit, and a “shoe cabinet”. The shelves give you an overview of your collection and let you classify your collection by style, color, brand etc.

The visual focus of the app is on the sneaker: the preview images are big, the design is minimalistic and the font is relatively small. The pictures and graphics are slightly rounded, which gives the app a dynamic look. The thin lines separate contents elegantly yet clearly. We decided on the bright colors green and purple, as together they make a sporty, fresh duo and are reminiscent of 90s sneakers and windbreakers.

The prototype of the app “Sneaking” was developed in a group project with Cathrina Priem, Bianca Radlbeck, Alicia Sophie Trinkaus and myself as part of the course “Interface and Networking” at the University of Applied Science Mannheim.