Articles / Tutorials / Covers

In the golden issue 03.10 of the magazine weave onformative was responsible for the cover design, that is the result of an eight page tutorial about collecting and visualizing data we wrote for the same issue.


Weave 03.10 blogpost
Weave Data Tutorial

For the issue 05.10 of weave we did not only make the lasercut cover for (»Making of« blogpost), but also wrote a six page article about different digital fabrication technologies and products using them.

Weave 05.10 blogpost
»Making of« blogpost

For the issue 02.11 of the magazine weave we wrote a six page tutorial about programming for android using the »android for processing« framework.

Download Source Code

For the issue 05.11 of weave we wrote a seven page article about the form of meta data: »Immaterials – Data between visibility and invisibility« and also did the cover with an illustration of invisible electromagnetic fields, this project shapes fictional data using the photographic technique of procedural lightpainting.

Immaterials project

Together with Till Nagel we wrote a six page article on collecting and visualizing geospatial data, and how it influences the perception of our environment for the issue 06.11 of Weave Magazine.

Links of the projects and maps that were mentioned in the article can be found on the Weave.de website.

»Neue Sichtbarkeit« blogpost

Using an iOS application, developed especially for the creation of the cover, we designed an edition of three magazine covers for the issue 01.11 of PAGE Magazine by analyzing and interpreting the data of the iPad’s motion sensors and turned them into abstract visuals of the user‘s movement in space.

»Making of PageMove«

Reviews / Comments

For the issue 6.10 of the magazine weave we wrote an update of the review of processing books.

For the issue 04.10 of the magazine weave we wrote a review of several processing books for the category »do it yourself«.

For the issue 01.11 of the magazine weave we wrote a short comment on Microsofts Kinect and the development of open source drivers.

Thank you Apple! For the issue 04.11 of the magazine weave we wrote a short comment on Apple collecting personal GEO data using the iPhone.

Apple GEO-Data Linklist

Our projects in magazines

The design magazine page published an interesting article named »Dekodieren und Dekorieren« (Decode and decorate), in which our work for the cover series »Project M« in cooperation with Projekttriangle was shown.

In the issue 02.10 of the magazine weave we were asked to take part in a easteregg special. A photo of our studio with several hidden eggs was shown on a doublespread-page.

UK computerArt magazine wrote an article about »New experiments in digital Design« in their 189 issue and tried to explore how new technology can help turn creative visions into reality. We talked about hacking the kinect and our »Fragments of RGB« project.

In issue 08 of Page magazine Fuenfwerken CEO Holger Schmidhuber is talking about Annual reports for non-profit organisations and the Annual Report for Helmholtz Zentrum Munich

We were invited to create the »08.11″ Opener for the UK edition of the Tech Magazine Wired.

PAGE Magazine wrote a two page article about our »corporate imagery tool for Actelion Pharmaceuticals«.

Page Magazine wrote a two page article about our Generative Artwork made for Montblanc in the 02.12 issue.

Two of our projects, »Fragments of RGB« and »Immaterials« were featured in the second issue of »Some Magazine«, a new magazine between design and art published by Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle.

Our projects in books

In the book »Data Flow 2″, published in 2009 by Gestalten Verlag, our project SMS Plant was featured (page 156). By the way a pretty cool book: a good collection of data graphics.

Articles / Tutorials
Generative Gestaltung

In the 2010/230 issue of the design magazine “form“, a five pages long article titled “Generating Graphics” appeared in which the new design discipline – generative design –
and especially our homonymous book was presented in detail.


form no.230
download article

In the issue 01.2010 of the magazine page two processing turorials were published. They were taken out of our book»Generative Gestaltung«: chapter P.3.2 (Schriftkontur) and chapter M.5 (Baumdiagramme)

Reviews
Generative Gestaltung

In a review “Weave” magazine puts out our book “Generative design” in its 06/09 issue.

With the promising sentence “Do you wish to start a voyage of discovery into a new world?” the design magazine “page” started an entire page long review about our book “Generative design” in its 1/10 issue.

The Austrian design magazine thegap wrote a very good review about our book »Generative Gestaltung« and even raffled some of our books.

Interviews
Generative Gestaltung

ORF Radio asked us to give an interview about working with generative methods for the broadcasting »matrix – computer & neue medien« with the topic »generative art«. Richard Brem interviewed Benedikt Groß and Julia Laub at the conference »Typo« Berlin.


broadcast: Sunday, May 30th, 9:30 pm
arrangement: Richard Brem
broadcast station: OE1 orf.at

Silvia Werfel, free journalist for design, interviewed Hartmut Bohnacker and Julia Laub about generative design for the magazine »Deutscher Drucker« at »Typo Berlin« in May 2010.The article was published in June 2010 in »Deutscher Drucker« and in August 2010 in the magazine »viscom«

pdf downloads:
Deutscher Drucker 2010 21/018
viscom 2010 14/15