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Interactive Research Table at Erik Spiekermann Retrospective

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In recognition of Erik Spiekermann being awarded the German Design Award for his outstanding contribution to Design in Germany, the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin will be exhibiting an extensive body of his work.

We are pleased to display our interactive research table at the show. The multi-touch interface offers an insight into Erik Spiekermann‘s network of partners – visualizing relations between them and a multitude of works.

The table was developed by the designers network Plural (Kilian Krug und Severin Wucher in cooperation with Markus Lerner).

»Erik Spiekermann – The Face of Type«
23. März – 6. Juni 2011
Opening: Tuesday, 22 March 2011 · 7pm

Bauhaus Archiv
Klingelhöferstraße 14
10785 Berlin

Further information and pictures

Project website:
was-war-deutsches-grafik-design.de

Interactive Berlin map in the Red Town Hall, Berlin

On 26 January the Governing Mayor, Klaus Wowereit, inaugurated the table in the foyer of the Berlin town hall.

On 26 January the new interactive “Be Berlin” table in the Berlin Town Hall (Rotes Rathaus) was inaugurated by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit. The table in the shape of the city of Berlin shows sights and stories of the Be Berlin campaign on a satellite map. Visitors can explore facts and figures and zoom into places like the Brandenburg Gate, the Olympic stadium or the new Airport Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI). The ART+COM patented multitouch surface enables many users to explore the content at the same time.
I created the screen design and the programming at ART+COM together with Felix Hardmood Beck (exhibition design/draft/consulting) and Hermann Klöckner (consulting).
This saturday evening the installation is open to the public during the Long Night of Museums. Felix and me are going to be there throughout the evening from 6pm to 2am in the night to answer your questions. We’re looking forward to seeing you there! Who can’t make it on saturday night or doesn’t happen to be in Berlin, can have a look at the table on each day the Town Hall is open to the public.

Interactive BeBerlin table
Foyer in front of the coat of arms hall (Wappensaal)
inside the Berlin Town Hall (Rotes Rathaus)
Entrance Rathausstraße
10178 Berlin Mitte
Long Night of Museums
Saturday, 31/01/2009
Further details and video on the project page.

3D image search

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3D Photo View3D Photo View is a new intuitive image browser for viewzi.com.

Viewzi is a new and highly visual way to search. Being one of the search options, 3D photo view is a whole new approach to image search, allowing you to place several searchfields in a 3D space. The image results will get arranged around and between the searchfields. The engine also displays images related to several searchfields and related tags.

Programming in Flash ActionScript 3/Papervision. Concept and design in collaboration with WHITEvoid. Commission, production and art direction by WHITEvoid.

Artschoolvets.com launch & vernissage

artschoolvets.comArtschoolvets.com, a fashion website featuring an online t-shirt store is going to launch this Friday, 25. January. The exhibition and the store will be open from 26.01.–10.02.2008, 10–18h in Brunnenstr. 65, 13355 Berlin. The opening will be this Friday from 7pm.

I co-designed the website with Floor5 and programmed it with an individual content management and shop system.

OSRAM Reactive Sparks

osram_reactive_sparksI just created a new display for OSRAM Seven Screens in Munich on behalf of ART+COM, Berlin. OSRAM Seven Screens is an installation of seven double-sided vertical screens in front of the OSRAM main office in Munich, next to the highway “Mittlerer Ring”, one of the most congested roads in Munich and Germany.

For the display Reactive Sparks, the traffic on the street is tracked in real-time; each car creates a spark which moves across the screens. The Waves in the lower part of the display represent the amount of traffic in the past few minutes. More traffic results in higher waves with faster movement. The installation conveys the idea of energy and movement and translates it into a visual representation. The warm colours create a warm spot in the gray winter landscape. The display will run until April 2008.

I designed the display in collaboration with ART+COM and realized the programming in Java and OpenGL.

» Reactive Sparks documentation

T-Mobile MyFaves Icon Generator

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T-Mobile MyFaves Icon GeneratorI recently finished the animation programming of an icon generator for T-Mobile. Users can create their own avatar and download it to their mobile phone via bluetooth. You can play with it in many T-Mobile shops, mainly the T-Punkts.
The design and project management was done by Mutabor, Hamburg.

Update: The MyFaves Icon Generator won the IF Award for Communication Design and the Red Dot Award in 2008.

Norwich Textiles online

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www.norwichtextiles.org.uknorwichtextiles.org.uk just went live. It’s a comprehensive website about textile culture, art and technology in the City of Norwich (East England). It features an extensive history section, interactive textile trails, educative resources, visitor information and an online image database.

It was designed and developed at Studio Bec by Gero Grundmann and Markus Lerner for Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service and Norfolk School of Art and Design.

New portfolio online

If you were ever wondering, what I was doing during the last weeks and months, here’s the result: my new portfolio website is finally online.

Panta rei (everythings flows), like the Greek say. So the news are now going to be available at www.markuslerner.com/news.

Blog actually sounded like somebody choked on some bad stuff, so the new stuff will be continued from here: NEWS. Nothing more and nothing less. No homage to another hype. Something most people will understand. And even if they won’t understand the content, they at least get the picture.