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check out my animations

Visit my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/Koeller as new pieces of mine get uploaded regularly.

Big Letter B (click here to watch it)

Swiss Army Knife (watch it)

"Loople" self referring search engine (watch it)

Boston live (watch it)

Eight animated actions (watch it)

Sneezing Animation (watch it)

Morphing Alphabet (watch it)

sketch dump

logo bird

anti-theft mirror uncovering cashier's bold skullcap

a power generator utilizing fresh and yummi cow dung

some picket fence eye wear

the Offenbach trade fair building

picking on banks

Proceed to "banks and the crisis" if you like to stay with this topic.
For German lingophiles: "Notleidende Banken" Unwort des Jahres 2008.
Abwrackprämie and Giftpapier-Entsorgung didn't make it for the title.

what remains from a logo

I had a session of drawing logos from memory. It's always fun to the subjective interpretation of significant signets. Everyone thinks it's easy to draw them until he's actually doing it. Here are some pieces of my friends.

(Nike by Ania)

sketches

Illiteracy

These videos are now up on YouTube.
Watch this animation where I am explaining the proplem of illiteracy to kids (in German). click here

This coproduction with Sabine Funk features the same topic using different visuals. click here

A less-than-perfect day in the life of a Mercedes

banks and the crisis

Some random sketches expressing our all's grief about the financial crisis that the banks have brought upon us. For non-German readers: I am featuring the logos of Dresdner Bank as the skull's nose, Deutsche Bank as the left eye hole and Commerzbank as the right eye hole and as the burning piece of money on the bottom. These banks belong to the four largest banks in Germany and are probably the most known ones. As of last week, Commerzbank swallowed Dresdner Bank, in a gigantic step of presumable market diversity reduction. Ironically, due to the crisis, Commerzbank lacks sufficient financial assets and asked the German government for support. Now, the crazy thing about it is: The gov't DOES provide 18,000,000,000 Euros and becomes a major shareholder of the company.

On the same note, I might suggest a new logo for the Commerzbank-Dresdner Bank combo:
The visual respects the fact that this enterprise is founded on state alms. A bank consuming our money rather than producing interest is a somewhat ridiculous contribution to the field, but that's the way it is.

Designwise, there's even some similarity between the recent Commerzbank logo and the part with the falling coin repectively the candle light. (This design is processwork for the logo I made for Frankfurter Rundschau Alten- und Weihnachtshilfe e.V.). Here's the Commerzbank logo designed in 2002 from NordiskBüro for comparison:

You might also like to see how the crisis affects jobs. Click here.

Tom and Tim

Tom and Tim seem from one mold,
except, Tom has hair and Tim is bold.

sketchbook patterns

rabbit and rubber boots

Here is a colored version of one of my sketchbook pieces. I was trying to create a pattern by means of repetion and variation. "Repetition without change is boring" says minimal music maker Steve Reich.

winter in Frankfurt

If it wasn't so freaking cold, Frankfurt would be quite pleasant these days.

moving towards my own logo -2-

RoKö - illustrating the digital and the traditional way
this one could work as a stamp

Illiteracy

(referring to more recent post from 01.19.2009)

Conflict in Palestine

My educational piece about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is a year old already, but the basics haven't changed. Watch this animation on YouTube to learn about the origin of this never-ending madness:

Here is the same voice-over with a variation of the graphics: