Ambient Control

The Ambient Control application was a very playful tool to control the light- and audio-set-up of the room. With RGB controls people were able to change the color of the lights. Also there was an animation sequence programmed for the lights which could be altered with various sliders. For the audio Strukt created a simplified step-sequencer that allowed people to add or take away layers of sound. Additionally there was a permanent audio track running built out of 3 layers. Using a 2-dimensional control people were able to individually mix the 3 layers to create a unique audio experience.

 
Pecha Kucha Presenter

The Campus Tour was accompanied by speakers talking about the topic of energy in more or less abstract ways. Strukt was also granted a 6min 20sec slot in the series of Pecha Kucha talks, which Tanja and Gregor used to present the making-of of the RWE Power Table. The presentation software had 2 modes, one running an autmated slideshow and one granting a manual control of the slides. Slides were either skipped with buttons or gestures. Also the slides were mirrored on a second screen.

 
DJ- / VJ-Control

For the more entertaining part of the day the audience was invited to select their favorite tunes with a very advanced multi-touch juke box and a fun to use VJ software. While one can skip through the singles of different genres, another user can apply audio effects and filters or rearrange the cue list. Another area of the user interface was dedicated to the visuals shown on the secondary monitor. The user was able to create audio-reactive blobs, change the color of the objects and the room and also move objects around with 3d controls.

 
Some more impressions from the tour:

Stage Set-Up

 
Print Work

Strukt is responsible for the corporate identity of the festival. This task incoporates the creation of a logo, a design and layout guideline, and a trailer to announce the festival.

The trailer, created under the direction of Michael Seiser, is a mix of video footage (shot with a Canon 7D) and animated typographic elements. It contrasts the analog real world with virtual digital elements, which finally form the NODE logo.

Here are some pictures from the shoot:

NODE10 is organised by Node e.V. in cooperation with the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the vvvv group, notably David Brüll, Ingolf Heinsch and Strukt’s Thomas Hitthaler.

The 5-minute trailer opened the event on June 16 2010 at Semper Depot Vienna:

With the trailer Unit F celebrated its 10th anniversary and the 30 winners of the Austria Fashion Award from 2000-2009 and introduces the 2010 awards at Semper Depot Vienna. Strukt was also responsible for the live visuals, curated by sound:frame festival, and the projections of the nominee videos and winners during the show.

In a tight production schedule of only 6 days a stage was built in our studio, where our animators could set up and film various objects on spinning mirror stages. With two projectors the content, videos, text and live generated images from vvvv were projected onto the objects.

Thanks for artistic direction to Albert Handler (moodley brand identity).

Behind the scenes during the production.

‘Lightrails’ is a light sculpture with the intention to re-define and re-interpret the exhibition room. An easy but effective mapping technique was used to create seamless projections on both sides of the object. Light-beams were triggered by the visitors and ran through the room, following the surface created by the sculpture. Each ‘reflection’ of the light-beam was accompanied by sound. The speed and brightness of the beam was directly influenced by the force the visitors used when triggering the beam stepping on pedals on the floor. This also influenced the volume of the sound-effects. The audio signal was played back on a surround sound system that allowed a spatial positioning of the sounds and created a truly immersive experience.

The sound-design was courtesy of Digitalofen Audiobakery, which also created the ambient sounds that were pervasive through the room. As usual, we used our favorite real-time multipurpose toolkit to create the installation. The projectors were provided by concept solutions. The construction of the sculpture was kindly supported by INDAT and the whole project was hosted by the sound:frame festival and financed by departure.

Thanks goes out to all of the mentioned organizations and all the individuals that helped us to realize this project!

Announcement of Lightrails in the sound:frame program:

The corporate identity for sound:frame was created by Leo Lass of depart.

Strukt was commissioned to conceptualize, design and realize four interactive stations and a custom video-player. Strukt developed custom-built physical interfaces like valves and levers to enhance usability and make it more fun for visitors to explore the installations. For these installations Strukt developed the interaction concept, graphic- and motion design, as well as the sound design. Strukt implemented the stations in Adobe Flash AS3 using Arduino boards to read the rotary encoders and levers.

House Configurator

This quiz allows two visitors to create an energy-efficient building, where they can not only decide how their house is built, but also see how their daily behaviour influences the energy and CO₂ consumption.

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

Energy Game

How much energy does it take to heat a cup of tea? Or even a pot with 5 liters of water? At this interactive station visitors can explore how their physical activity translates into heat by moving the three levers.

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

Flame Game

It is quite a challenge to find the conditions for an optimal flame. By turning the valves, visitors can regulate the fuel and oxygen supply to achieve the optimal flame inside the pre-combustion chamber.

Temperature Game

At this station visitors can discover how wind and humidity influences the subjective temperature. The portrait screen above the three control valves shows two characters that change their behavior, outfit and surroundings corresponding to the setting.

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

Video Player

In the foyer of the museum a custom-built video player was installed, that allows a configurable news-feed and a custom play-list. Strukt programmed this application in vvvv.

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

The first game Strukt produced is called “Solar Land”. The visitors can place solar panels on a map of Upper Austria, guessing where they would be most efficient according to the altitude of the sun in the area. After all items are placed, the participants can start a simulation of the insolation over the duration of an entire year. The game shows how much energy is produced during that period of time, and the top simulations are listed in a high-score. The results encourage people to discuss their decissions and to play the game once more, using the knowledge they gained to reach a better score.

Also a new adaption of Strukt’s Media Tree software is in use, providing multi-media content about Upper Austria’s rail- and roadways, as well as water and tourism in the region.

Every year, MIDEM hosts a large number of live concerts and it is famous for it’s rocking parties. Austria organized a concert with Valerie, Tanz Baby! and Parov Stelar and asked Strukt to provide live visuals. We chose to give each act it’s own visual background with the goal to interpret each musical style individually.

The basic idea was to light up the black and white striped office wall by mapping the architecture with multitple projectors. The program developed by Strukt is scripted in vvvv and is scaleable to any number of projectors and any architectural shape. Several different visualisations have been realised already, amongst it a Pac Man animation as well as moving stripes, and more are in development. The content could also be made interactive, reacting to people passing the ground-floor offices.

The hardware is courtesy of Concept Solutions Vienna.

In the foyer of the venue Strukt realized a projection cube showcasing the new corporate design sujets. While the guests enjoyed drinks and food photos were taken and placed onto the cube with headlines by the agency in real time. After a while, when the party progressed, the cube turned into a audio-reactive equalizer, a disco-cube, controlled by Strukt VJs.

Screenshot with 3 open info boxes

Struktable running the Mediatree Software

Struktable at the Mediafair Vienna

From October 30th to November 3rd Strukt will be on location in Tokyo, designing the interactive digital wallpaper at the exhibtion, as well as creating the club visuals in two locations, the Superdeluxe and the Club Velour. The documentation of the project will be featured on this page in November.

Opening titles and end credits

Strukt was invited to design and animate the opening titles featuring the Spot On Wien Logo, which are used for all documentaries and interviews. Built around the black shape of the Spot On Wien Logo, which depicts two lightning flashes, Strukt constructed an abstract and dense world of photographic equipment based on the key visual given by Juland.

Watch the opening titles:

On-location work

For the duration of the “100% design tokyo” fair Strukt members were on-location in Tokyo to do live-visual performances for the fairs’s opening day, a fashion show showcasing Austrian designers at Le Velours and a dance-performance night at Superdeluxe Club.

Watch the on-location documentary:

More pictures:





The opening titles were presented at the press conference in Vienna on September 16th 2009.





Strukt was on location to manage the projection installations for the Spot On Wien booth at 100% Design Tokyo.

At Verlours Club Strukt was responsible for the visuals that accompanied a fashion show and a live performance by Ogris Debris.

For the “Night of Dance” a 4-projector setup was used for room-filling graphical visuals to support music acts like Elektro Guzzi, Dorian Concept, Bnckd and more.

While Mediasquad was providing the concept and design for the application, Strukt realised the programming using VVVV. Realization of this project was done in just about 2 weeks from start to finish and is now on display at the EGLO Headquarters in Pill in Tyrol, Austria.


Video documentary produced by Mediasquad

The configuration application is built on top of an online-database holding all graphic styles so the updating-process is very easy for the Merchzilla crew.

Curator Markus Hanzer asked Strukt to create a multitouch installation that offers the possibility to put various signs on a “good” or “evil” side of an interactive tabletop, which was realized using the Struktable. The installation also keeps track of how long the images are on the one or the other side, which at the end of the exhibition will provide a statistic of people’s choices.

Pictures from the opening night on May 20th 2009:

Screenshot of the Multitouch Application

Later on during the night Strukt’s multi-touch club visual set-up once again lit up the venue with mood setting projections.

The visuals were projected onto a cylinder and the wall using 12 projectors.

Live content and realtime data was featured in the visuals, e.g. number of banner clicks, eaten hamburgers or born babies since the beginning of the event.

The main stage of the event, where Strukt was responsible for the background visuals.

The main stage in a closeup.

Styleframes from the visuals generated with vvvv.

The design concept developed by Tanja Tomic of Strukt combined live cut-out-animation with realtime drawing on the Tagtool. Therefore, the visuals could be designed to fit the overall visual identity of the tour, while opening up endless possibilities for spontaneous creativity inspired by the music. The animators designed landscapes or abstract backgrounds with paper cut-outs live in front of a camera, while the artists on the Tagtool used these elements to tell small stories and create and animate characters.

This technique allowed for diverse styles and millions of possibilities in live storytelling.

The Tagtool artists (top left) create drawings that interact with the stop-motion animation.

The visuals were made live using cut-out-animation. The animators arranged and moved graphical elements live on stage.

The amazing crowd at the Fluc in Vienna.

Interactive Telescopes

Looking through one of the interactive telescopes, the visitor gets a view into the world of innovative energy concepts. By physically moving the telescope the whole spectrum of EnBW’s actions could be explored. The topics biogas, biomass, offshore- and onshore-wind parks, photovoltaics and pump storage hydro power plants were accessible via hotspots on the panorama.

The hardware of the interactive telescope was developed by MESO Digital Interiors. All installations were realised with vvvv.

Impulsboard – Interactive Flip Chart

To explain methods for efficient use of energy in factories, the moderator was supported by an interactive flip chart. The illustrations on the chart were animated and could be triggered by the moderator.

Video-Playback Interface

Visitors could select different videos on a touchscreen, which were then shown on the plasma wall.

Additional credits:
All photos by Strukt / Robi Hammerle.
Hardware for the interactive telescopes was built and developed by MESO Digital Interiors (www.meso.net).

The Grameen Creative Lab (GCL) is a Joint Venture between the Yunus Centre in Bangladesh and circ responsibility in Germany, founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Hans Reitz, founder and creative director of circ. Their shared vision is the eradication of poverty – globally. The Grameen Creative Lab is designed to accelerate and spread the spirit of Grameen social business under the principles of Prof. Yunus through three main activities:
1) It interacts with the interested community through books, articles, and events on social business.
2) It incubates social business ideas through brainstorming labs, academic research and social business experiments.
3) It creates social businesses by advising companies on how to set-up social business joint ventures with Grameen in Bangladesh or elsewhere and supporting social business investors in their search for suitable investment opportunities.

Strukt supported this great movement with pro bono work, developing the entire corporate design and applying it to the stationary and website.

The Grameen Creative Lab – Logo

The Grameen Creative Lab – Key Visual

We met Muhammad Yunus during his brief visit to Austria on May 28th, 2009.
Andreas Koller (Strukt), Hans Reitz (circ responsibility, Grameen Creative Lab), Leopold Seiler (Vision Microfinance), Wolfgang Maier (Strukt), Muhammad Yunus (Grameen), Thomas Hitthaler (Strukt)

Strukt Studio was asked to put these amazing sceneries to life by animation. The resulting video clips were handed out to all global representatives and they are part of the Austria-wide campaign that was launched in April 2009.

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Summer Campaign 2008

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Summer Campaign 2009

Part of the media content were 5 short video-features of people talking about the diverse aspects of Lower Austria, which functioned as visual jingles during the event. The audio tracks of those statements were also used for a sound installation in the driveway of the location. Since diversity is an important keyword in the new brand strategy, all the guests were included in the visuals in a photo-slide-show stating their individual thoughts of Lower Austria that was produced on location.

Since the inventors of the Tagtool come from Lower Austria, they were a perfect contribution to the event, showing how different the understanding of art can be in comparison to the very traditional views one might have in Lower Austria.


The “Reitschule” of Castle Grafenegg was equipped with 7 screens showing 2 different streams simultaniously.

The screens showed various pictures and videos of Lower Austria, contained in one graphic system and style.

The Tagtool performance grew in action over the duration of the event.

Tagtool Artists were working with imagery of Lower Austria and created free interpretations of the landscape.

Govenor Dr. Erwin Pröll on stage.

One of five video-statement pair-ups that were scattered over the screens:

Here are some of the guests taking part in the on-location generated picture slide show with their statements on Lower Austria. “Niederösterreich ist …”

Strukt was invited to speak at the conference, to design the opening titles and install the interactive table Struktable in the exhibition area.
The music was composed and produced by The Metronome.

Tanja, Gregor and Andreas presenting the opening titles on stage

Strukt presenting recent work

The crowd at TOCA ME showed a lot of interest for the Struktable multi-touch installation
Here are some stills of the opening titles:

More public pictures are available on flickr.

Following the magic show, further animation and amusement for the children was provided by the Tagtool artists and Patrick Pätmuckl, who motivated the kids to unleash their imagination and actively participate in operating Tagtool themselves.

The Walt Disney production of “Hexe Lilli” allowed the colourful characters that were based on the same named popular children’s book series created by the author “Knister” to come alive on the big screen. The director was none other than the oscar-winning Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky. The cast included the talented young actress Aline Freund as “Hexe Lilli” and the German comedian Michael Mittermeier who dubbed the loveable animated character “Drache Hektor”.

The enchanting ship “Admiral Tegethoff”, docked on the heart of Vienna’s Danube, hosted the Austrian premier party of “Hexe Lilli”

Michael Mittermeier during the ORF Interview with Tagtool drawings in the background

Visual comments on Magic Cristian’s show

Open Tagtool session with kids

“Searching for Max” via Tagtool and Michael Mittermeier giving an autograph on the tagtool

The interior design was based on the black and white visual of piano keys

The generative wallpapers were corresponding.

For convenience we remote-controlled the wallpaper with our iPhones and iPod Touches.

The Vienna Opera Ball is the highlight of the carneval season and attended by thousands of people from all around the world.

The Media Globe was also featured in a live broadcast by 3.sat, a german TV channel. You can watch the video here (only available in german). Read more information on the Media Globe and the underlying technology.

Due to high website-traffic we need to outsource the video hosting to Vimeo. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Despite the fact that the attendents of the DLD are used to advanced media installations, the globe projection managed to create a wow-effect, generating many interested reactions.

With the Media Globe, Mercedes-Benz was able to present their innovations in research of environmental-friendly technologies in an striking way.

“DLD (Digital, Life, Design) is an inspiring community for the 21st century which features digital innovation, science and culture and brings together thought leaders, creators, entrepreneurs and investors from Europe, the Middle-East, the Americas and Asia. The DLD community meets in various styles and formats throughout the year and around the globe.” (Source: DLD website)

With a diameter of 4 meters and a seamless, undistorted, spherical projection, the Strukt Media Globe was an impressive and inspiring experience for the visitors.

Additional Credits:
Earth’s City Lights Data by Marc Imhoff (NASA GSFC) and Christopher Elvidge (NOAA NGDC). Earth’s City Lights Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon (NASA GSFC). Visible Earth Images courtesy Reto Stockli (NASA Earth Observatory). http://visibleearth.nasa.gov
Initial technical concept for the globe projection by MESO Digital Interiors (www.meso.net) based on an idea by Hans Reitz (circ performing by experience).

We came up with an interactive, gesture recognizing table installation, inviting guests to take control of the projections’ moods. By simply waving over certain buttons they were able to instantly change the color scheme, saturation or transparency. Additionally there were buttons sending messages to the screens, reflecting the mood of the user.

The interactive installation controlled 8 projectors and an array of LED spots. 3 projectors covered a bended banner of 25 meters length. For this we descewed the projections to be without any visible distortion. Other projectors covered single 16:9 screens spreading all over the venue. All of the projections and controls were handeled by two PCs running our most favourite node based programming language VVVV.

“Bauchklang” in front of our Visuals

The interactive table (left) and the curved 30m canvas (right)

Over 900 people attended the event

A close-up of our visuals

Later that night…

People having fun with the interactive table

Movements trigger the floating objects and all projections in the room react to that interaction

This package included the design of a key visual and the application of it on a variety of print products like the invitation, media folders, large backdrop banners and more. Also we worked together with the architect to create 3D visualizations of the event for the planning phase. The main part of our work was to create three featurettes to introduce the vintage racing cars Auto Union Type D and Audi Le Mans, and finally the actual Audi R8. We also produced a set of animated loops to be used as visuals for different scenes of the event. As part of our services we were flown out to New Delhi to do quality control on location and finish the animations and graphics considering essential last minute changes and required adjustments to the technical specifications.

Strukt designed the invitations for the VIP event.

In the entrance area of the German Embassy a large backdrop banner welcomed the guests.

The welcome stage during the day. Strukt designed the key visual and the content for the LED wall.

During the press event the featurettes were shown.

A path guided the guests through the gate to the main stage. On the LED wall to the left and also on the projection behind the stage the animated key visual was shown.

Bird’s eye view of the main stage.

Part of the event was an artistic dance performance, where the key visual was adapted to fit the mood.

The street dance performers in front of the LED wall with impulsive interpretations of the key visual.

On the projection behind the R8 the featurette presenting the details of the car can be seen.

Welcome Area
We created 15 animated clips in full HD to welcome the guests to the event, presenting design quotes we picked, and set them in relation to design elements of the new Mercedes-Benz GLK. We used the element of a pencil drawing construction lines and the typeface building the quotes. For this purpose we custom-made the typeface based on the corporate font of Mercedes-Benz.

Exhibition Visuals
With the node-based programming language VVVV we built a letter-universe which functioned as a soothing ambient visual but also created type-matrix pictures and fonts to feature the participants of “The design:project”. The real-time animation was screened on a 20 meter wide 3x-HD projection using only one computer to create the output signals. This system was later on also used to screen content during the award ceremony. For convenience we enabled OSC commands to control the letter-universe with the help of an iPod Touch.

Party Visuals
To heat up the party after the award ceremony we created a sound-reactive visual application, also based on VVVV and shown with the 3x-HD-projection. The controls for the visuals were handled with a 15-inch Stantum multi-touch screen running a custom made interface.

Tagtool
Additionally we worked together with O.M.A. International, who supported us with live-drawings done with their award winning Tagtool.

Since the event in Stuttgart in September 2008 was received very well, we were invited to also bring our work to Milan, Italy, where “The design:project” was also featured in a similar set-up in the beginning of October 2008.

In collaboration with the viennese electronic band Metalycée and the guest musician Keiko Higuchi from Tokyo, Akemi developed the sound enviroment where she also perform as a singer. Strukt worked closely with Akemi and the musicians to create the visual part of the performance. The main focus of Strukt’s work was to interpret Akemi’s writings with typographic animations. At the same time these animations functioned also as the translation for the words spoken in japanese.

Also an animated portrait illustration of Akemi and live footage of Akemi’s hometown Tokyo was built into the visuals. The last part of the visual performance was done in real-time by Strukt.

“Mon mon” means “agony”. This is a still picture from the 2nd act s.h.o.o.t.

Stylised portrait of Akemi.

Akemi and Metalycée on stage during the 3rd act b.l.o.o.m..

Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche – the festival location before showdown.

Strukt was asked to design the key visual and the information catalogue for the “Waldzell Meeting 2008″, which was inspired by this year’s theme of “The time is now.” The visual was also applied on the very own “Waldzell-Beer”. We feel very honored that we got the chance to support this event, which provides ideas to make our world a better place.

Strukt designed the printed materials for the Waldzell Meeting 2008, including the key visual.

The folder of Waldzell Meeting 2008.

We also created the label of the Waldzell Beer.

The Melk Abbey near Vienna, Austria. Photo © by Melk Abbey.

Based on the vector illustrations we did the character animation in Adobe Flash and created the environment in Adobe After Effects. The newspaper itself was requested to be a real footage element, so we did a 2 day stop-motion shoot in house to get the necessary style and footage for our final product.

The three TV spots were first aired in August 2008 on Austria’s broadcast station ORF. The extended version for movie theatres premiered in September 2008 and is shown across Austria.

Der Standard Theatrical commercial:

Der Standard TV commercials:

Stills from the TV commercials:

We displayed eight animated spots on a double-sided 4×3 meter plasma wall at the entrance of the KUKA booth. The spots were planned, shot in the studio and 3D-animated in tight production schedule and on location. The technical solution was developed in cooperation with satis&fy, Frankfurt, Germany.

After creating full-length 3D-visulizations we shot the pantomimes in green-screen studio. The silhuettes were combined with 3D-animations of robots. We then created the outlines and added comic-like effects to get the desired look.

Additional animations were produced for the four horizontal plasma screens sporting 2xHD resolution in width, which were located behind the two bars.

The music for this montage is by Groove Armada. The original was shown without audio.

At the EnBW SmartFactory visitors of the Hannover Messe were informed about energy saving potentials in factories. With an interactive terminal the users could access various interviews and animations, which were shown on a 3-screen video wall.

The project was realised using Adobe Flash for the interface and vvvv for video playback, using several networked computers. Strukt also worked on the continuous video installation on five plasma screens around the SmartFactory.

By selecting an item on the touchscreen the visitor could access various interviews.

NODE08 is dedicated to digital arts and implies an exhibition and a lecture day with talks of Herbert W. Franke (computer graphics pioneer), Casey Reas (developer of Processing), Paul Prudence (creator of dataisnature.com, computational artist), Régine Debatty (creator of we-make-money-not-art.com) plus many more, and an impressive amount of workshops (with focus on vvvv).

Strukt realised the event design including the logo, key visual and motion design, and was involved in the organisation of the event. The print materials were created by Sebastian Huber. The organisation commitee consisted of David Brüll, Patrick Raddatz, Eno Henze, Alexander Graf, Sebastian Huber and Thomas Hitthaler (Strukt).

The key visual of the event was used for print, motion and web design, e.g. for the posters above.

The workshops were held by vvvv-experienced users and professionals.

More impressions of the one-week conference, the exhibition and the workshops (and some behind-the-scenes pictures) can be found on the NODE08 flickr group and on the official website of NODE08.

Tagtool artists Matthias Fritz and Markus Dorninger were painting over the animation, which was projected on a self illuminated cube.

After the intro animations the cube split and built two towers. A screen which showed animations explaining the functionality of the new boot was revealed.

The show closed with well known soccer players like Lionel Messi, David Villa and Johan Vonlanthen personally presenting the shoe once more.

The 3D-animation in the closing film consists of up-to-date photographs from the event and a dynamic swarm of all 1100 participants, who were photographed during the conference. All portraits finally build the motto of the conference: “360°”.

Stills from opening film

The opening film for the corporate conference adresses the main topics of the conference. This montage shows a shorter version of the opening film.

Strukt was commissioned by circ corporate experience to develop the event design and a part of the motion design.

Together with circ, Strukt coordinated visual designs and worked closely with interior designers to create a consistent experience throughout the conference and dinner party.

The projections on stage were fitted into the architecture of the venue, a former railway station in Berlin. All 2D- and 3D-animations for the evening party were produced by Strukt in-house. The visitors were taken on a journey looking through the virtual windows in the arches of the hall.

The party included an opera performance, contemporary dance and a performance by a young beat box artist.

Strukt was commisioned to create 6 TV-Commercials for IAA, Europe’s biggest auto show, by Berlin based agency Zum goldenen Hirschen. Strukt provided motion design based on an already established layout and supervised the green screen shoot at Havel Studios, Berlin.

Animation still

All spots were completed within 14 days. The commercials aired on German TV-Stations such as ARD, ZDF, Premiere, Sat.1 or RTL and in several arenas of the German soccer “Bundesliga”.

The agency Zum goldenen Hirschen made use of Strukt’s Rent-the-team option.

“Schlosshof” by day (image source: www.schlosshof.at).

Drawing with light on the facade of the castle.

As students of Stefan Sagmeister at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Philipp Steinweber of kon.txt and Strukt’s Andreas Koller worked on the topic “Is it possible to touch someone’s heart with design?”. Together they created an information graphic visualizing the text in the Holy Books of the five world religions.

In june 2007 the original 7×3-meter (23×10-foot) artwork was exhibited for the first time at Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria. It is also shown at the c.stem festival in Milan, Italy, and on the Processing.org online exhibition, on visualcomplexity.com and infosthetics.com. “Similar Diversity” was mentioned in EYE magazine #64 and PAGE magazine 12/2007.

Details on the project and an explanation of the creation process can be found on similardiversity.net. The image was created using vvvv and Processing.

Additional to the 30-second intro animation, which features a mix of athletes and graphic elements in a 3D-collage, Strukt created several bumpers for the various sections of the DVD, one styleguide for animated photo collages, and the DVD cover.

Intro animation (sound in this version by RJD2 – The Horror)

Logo design

Animated photo collage mixing various sport disciplines (sound in this version by Flying Lotus feat. Dreya – Tea Leaf Dancers)

Still from intro and logo animation

Strukt was asked to design the whole evening’s projections inside the club, working with two visual designers, one director of photography and two Tagtool-Artists creating content for five projectors and a three-projector wide screen behind the DJs.

The visual concept was to provide a diversity of styles with an interactive participation of the crowd. We installed a Tagtool for an open-to-public session in the center of the room, where everybody could join and be part of the projections. These were mixed with generative content, programmed to be reactive to the sound. For the DJ set of Markus Kavka two Tagtool-Artists worked out visual stories, combined with cut-out-animation and video clips. A third part involved more classical visual techniques like video loops and live video from cameras in the crowd.

Two days after the event the over 5-minute long video documentation for in-store presentations was finished.

DJ Julietta (female pressure) and Markus Kavka (MTV)

Flyer for the event on May 12th, 2007 (design by caligula)

The presentation of the new soccer ball was realised with a fully projected sphere (by Strukt’s technical director Thomas Hitthaler, produced by Meso Digital Interiors) with a diameter of 4 meters.

Animations by Strukt presenting the new F50 Tunit, Pure and Predator and jersey designs for the team players of Germany, Denmark, Greece, France and Spain.

The stage consisted of three triangular canvases, for which Strukt provided the content.

The Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria provided a perfect location for this trade event (photo by Johannes Löberbauer).

This project was presented at the TNT Jackson concert at ARGE Kultur Salzburg on March 3rd 2007. It was a non-profit project. The Tagtool is an interactive digital drawing tool by our partners Office for Media and Arts International that explores new ways of expressions and visualization. It is closely related to graffiti, street-art and illustration, and unifies these art forms in a new way.

Strukt created a live visual performance with combination of different design styles and techniques for TNT Jackson on stage.

After the TNT Jackson concert we worked with generative graphics and sound-reactive particle systems to visualize the DJ set of Michael Fakesch (who used to be one half of Funkstörung).[/lang_en][lang_de]Mit analogen und digitalen Medien gestaltete Strukt eine interaktive visuelle Installation für die Bühnengestaltung von TNT Jackson. Mit dem Zeicheninstrument Tagtool wurden Legetrickanimationen (mit Fotos aus Zeitschriften, Zeitungen und selbst erstellen Scribbles) kombiniert mit Stop-Motion Puppenanimation und damit Geschichten erzählt, die perfekt zur live Performance von TNT Jackson passten.Das Tagtool ist ein interaktives digitales Zeichen- und Animationsinstrument, das von unseren Partnern im Office for Media and Arts International entwickelt wird.[/lang_de]

Each project is linked to the corresponding description page at meso.net, providing more images, a description and video clips.

BMW MINI booth at the Tokyo Motor Show 2007

Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden: Information terminals and a light installation for the Salt Museum.

A fully projected sphere for the BASF Hauptversammlung 2006 and 2007

Projected dome with surrounding information terminals about climate change for EnBW

Touch-sensitive and VJ-drums for Amstel Pulse

UBS Photo Field: 32 screens showing pictures uploaded by UBS employees

V+W Memory Room: A video jukebox controlled by a billiard table

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We worked with audio-visual installations, generative content and pre-produced video loops. In 2005 at Arena Vienna we worked with projectors and a TV wall built out of 20 individual monitors. In 2006 we additionally hosted an open-to-public Tagtool session. The Red Bull Brandwagen BBQ parties were organised by dvsn.at.

These annual parties celebrated the journeys of the Brandwagen, a decked out Mercedes bus, that is available for young and upcoming bands for their tours.

The Brandwagen at Arena Vienna in 2005, illuminated with generative visuals by Strukt.

The animation was created by Andreas Koller, now Strukt’s creative director, while being employed as motion graphics designer at Sony DADC Austria AG in Salzburg, Austria.
Animation © Sony DADC Austria AG
Music © Erdgas

Five hours of live tagging and drawing

We invited writer AKIM from “Jazzstylecorner Berlin” to draw the visuals with the Tagtool. The stage was built completely out of several bigger and smaller white cubes to have a large and lively space for projections. We also worked with pre-produced video loops for the Red Bull Music Academy session that took place before Kool Keith’s show.

Music: Karzima “K3″

Kool Keith on stage, while AKIM writes digital tags on the white cubes.

45 King (producer for Queen Latifah, DJ Kool, Jay Z, Eminem, Eric B. & Rakim, GangStarr) dropping his tunes, AKIM (Jazzstylecorner Berlin) writing.

The whole stage setup with three beamers and 12 flat-screen monitors.

The clients included Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, EIV, Prisvideo, TF1, Studio Canal and KTM.

These projects have been realised at Sony DVD Center Europe or Sony DADC Austria AG prior to the foundation of Strukt GmbH. The content is © by Sony DVD Center Europe or their clients.

The work of Andreas Koller included film intros, logo animations, screen design and background animations for international DVD, UMD and BluRay titles. Above: Blade Trinity UMD intro animation for Metropolitain, EIV and Village Roadshow.

Andreas Koller’s reel from work up to June 2007 contains most of these animations for Sony DVD Center Europe, but also other commercial and personal projects.

Additional to motion design Strukt’s activities at the festival itself included organising a conference on VJing tools and generative graphics. Both the trailer design and the conference organisation were non-profit projects.

The trailer extends the corporate design of the Schmiede into 3d-space, where the big amboss is constructed from abstract elements. Additional typographical animations inform about the artists participating at the workshops.

The logo is being constructed in 3D-space