For the first Street Gig this year we had a home game – Umspannwerk in Kreuzberg. My part was the usual Street Gig multimedia setup, and the location light design. We braved the snow to get everything up and running on time – and had fun doing it! Max rocked the house with a great stage show.

Client was Skudi Optics & Event GmbH.

Photos to come!

For the German launch party of music-streaming portal Deezer in February 2013, I designed the light and video in the Haus Ungarn (former .HBC Club). We customized some LED-columns to give them the Deezer Equalizer look and used these as a stage background for The Foals. VJ Kiritan Flux was on hand for some great visuals on the screen installation in the foyer.

Photos coming soon!

Nothing to do with the London Olympics (although I would dearly loved to have been involved in Danny Boyle’s fantastic Isles Of Wonder) – this was a production in the Berliner Olympiastadion, a fashion show for Camp David. Our job was to illuminate the side of the stadium behind the stage – the tiers were to be divided up into accurate colour fields that reflected the different elements of the Camp David collection. This was a job for Vexs’ 7KW Über-Projectors – the projection distances were between 80 and 120 meters, the picture size roughly 30×60 meters – each colour field was made up of two soft-edged projections, so the colour matching was a big challenge. But after so much work on video installations this year, it was great to go analogue again.

A cooperation with Spreefunkeln / Daniel Margraf & Vexs / Mark Stalschus.

For the eighth time, it was a pleasure to be asked to design the projections for Telekom’s only incentive programme. This year, we were responsible for the 3D video-mapping on stage for the award ceremony – and we had a lot of fun doing it! The big challenge for me was to incorporate all 350 winners’ names with sound cues into the mapping; we also had the fantastic A-Blok from Paris doing live digital painting – they had to be patched into the system too. We also provided the sound design for the whole show and managed to design Samsung’s films too!

As the scupltures that served as the projections surfaces were being custom-built in Spain, we decided fairly early on that we wanted to work with MadMapper – that gave us the flexibility to react to changes in the sculptures on site. Especially as all the video material was fully rendered in uncompressed full-HD. We had a separate system for the award ceremony, running through a DiVentix mixer; the digital painters ran through the mixer too.

It all ran like a dream! Definitely a highlight this year – many thanks to the great project team at Telekom and Do It for trusting us to do something different.

My part: Art Direction; Project Management, technical projection design.

Client: Skudi Optics and Eventdesign GmbH

Thanks to a fantastic team:

Markus Heilmann for the amazing 3D-animations

Klaus Singer for the last-minute support with 3D-animating

Fred Bordfeld for the mapping expertise and VDMX programming

Bram Van Der Poel for the music & sound design

Thomas Irmscher and all Geier-Tronic for the fantastic & uncomplicated technical support and Wings programming.

Wow, what a night!
Our task was the projection mapping onto the facade of this fantastic old Prussian fortress, and the usual Street Gigs branding – flexible right up to the last minute. Fred displayed his usual strong nerves and built the whole video set-up in VDMX – played the whole mapping show on the fly. Respect!

The Subways played a brilliant set (fantastic live band) – support band The Toyotas were great too.

Customer: Skudi Optics & Eventdesign
Client: Telekom

Video: Fred Bordfeld