the last 6 weeks i took part in a workshop that found place every wendsday (with some interruptions). the workshop was conducted by roland sips, who also gives lessons in illustration design on the acadamy i am studying at. the assignment (or directive) was to make a stillive picture, related to those from the year about 1700, but somehow translated to 2007. therefore the workshop was called "stillive '07". we should create the relation for example by using a modern content or objects in the picture, but still letting it be influenced by it's predecessorss for example by including something like the "death", what was an often used topic in the old stilllife paintings. we could use different printing techniques, like copperplate engraving or linoleum-printing (i used that).
i tried to get a connection to death, perhaps you see it yourself. if not i can explain:
i showed modern things that can lead to it. drinking and driving, burning because of smoking in bed or unhealthy living causing a heart attack or something like that.

aki festival 2007

this is just asmall supplement, the aki festival is a bit ago now, but i thought i should publish the pictures and didn't know where else to place them. they are from the aki festival 2007 "de kleine utopie", that is a week in which you can take part in one of many different workshops that are offered, organized by the academy i am studying on.
i took part in a workshop for skateboard-design and street art. it was really nice, even tough i did not have much to do with this year's topic "utopia". above you see the results of the whole group's work.
we mostly worked with spray cans and stencils, and also did some stickers this way, that we spreat in the city.

i finally finished the cook book (more or less)! took longer then i tought, i had to rework the symbols a lot. first i tried to get them related to each other with the hands, as you see above, but ina (my teacher for graphic design) thought that was too complicated, and that i try to get a simpler connection.
now, i did that by giving them all the same shape somehow. for quick i have two different symbols, a leopard and a boomerang. the leopard looks better and is more obvious for quick, but the boomerang fits the shape better. i'll ask ina about that.
above you can see what the final site shoul look like roughly. i picked the glass-illustration for the recipe, because "crème blûlée" has a hard hull, that breaks like glass when you crack it with the spoon.

i also made a small flash game when we should try around with buttons a bit. it's very simple, try to find out the right code.

i have made an animation with my name for an assignment for the aki, in which we should do that in flash in black& white. i thought gray should also be ok, but it actually wasn't. so i also made a new one, which is the upper one.

this is a photo-serie i made for a photography workshop guided by ahmet polat. we could conceive our own topic for the serie and mine was perishability. i wanted to show, that it's something really natural and how the human fights it.
by now i think that perhaps less pictures would also have been enough to express the meaning, i'll think about that till the werkschau.