Posters for Mod-allnighter "Hipster (Image)"

"Hipster (Image)" brought back to life the sleek and clean elegance of the very early Mod allnighters. I used to be one of the hosts, before I left my little and beloved hometown of Saarbrücken (W. Germany) to live in the city of Cologne. From 2010 on I got invited regulary as a "guest DJ" and therefore also designed some posters for the event which should reflect visually the zeitgeist of the 60s.

© Jean-Marc Gerhards, 2015

Quotation Poster Series #2

Quote No. 2 by André Breton

Quotation Poster Series #1

Quote No. 1 by Marcel Duchamp

Skull poster series #1

Astro #1

"Astro"-poster series
No. 1 Rohlayout "Space Oddity 2011, Vol.1 - Bouncing Moon"

Favourite punctuations finally released

I finally received my copy of the book "Type Image" by Barbara Brownie.
Most of the typographic works included are very interesting and I'd like to thank Mrs. Brownie for her efford of collecting the artwork. The only thing that bugs me is the layout of the book itself and the fact that there is a hair line on one of my punctuation layouts where there isn't supposed to be one. But I don't want to be unfair: Barbara Brownie really did a great job. I am very happy having the unexpected opportunity to be included in the book. I guess some of the publisher's designers unfortunately just doesn't seem to have a clue about typesetting. Pity.

Logo & stationary for an event manager

Final logo on black background


Final logo on white background

Final stationary design

Alternative logo & stationary design

Branding for 360° Event Management

Stationary (front)

Stationary (back)

Business card (front)

Business card (back)

Website

"Lorem ipsum" series #1

What if a series didn't have a meaning at all? What if a poster isn't supposed to express anything? Is it possible NOT to communicate AND to design? The "Lorem ipsum"-series, named after the famous standard filler text (or "blindtext" how it is called in german), is an experiment which is condemned to failure. Though not only the text but also images are meant to be dummies, it makes sense in some way: Layout, typography, colours - all this is put together by our mind's tendency to find a meaning even if there isn't a meaning...

Mysteries of german language (pt. 3)

3rd part of the series "Mysteries of German Language": "Wasserhahn" - literally "waterrooster".

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

This is "form follows beat", "form follows music" or "form follows sound", if you like: a video called "Vanishing Point" by Takuya Hosogane. It amazingly visualizes sound and beat through highly intuitive and particulary beautiful graphic shapes and colours...

Mysteries of german language No.2

Yet another german mystery word: the "HANDSHOE".
(To be continued…)

Mysteries of german language No.1

Why does one always stand in the longest queue in a supermarket? Why does a toast always fall on its buttered side? – These are just two examples for every days' mysteries according to the definition of "murphy's law". But there seems to be something similar like murphy's law in every day's language: Most of the times, one just uses words without wondering about their origins or genuine meanings. The german language in particular provides a lot of mystery-words which sound almost surreal. Here's the first example, graphicly edited: the "SNOWBROOM".

"I AM." Project by photographer Vanessa Leissring

Vanessa Leissring's photographic project is about actual youth subcultures. I personally wonder if there is such a thing as youth subculture today as it existed by definition since the 50s to the mid-80s. Anyway, this project is particulary interesting, because it shows how today's subcultures' styles are very much influenced by "classic" subcultures, especially the Punk- and Modscene. At the same time it is very much influenced by the commercial fashion and music industry. Fashion-policies doesn't seem to matter nowadays: One can dress up like a 100% Punk but still listen to commercial music acts such as "Mando Diao" or "MGMT". A phenomenon which would have been unthinkable 30 years ago: One simply couldn't be accepted in the Punk scene at the time in the late 70s when mentioning of being a fan of The Police for instance. Anyway, this project shows how borders between different youth scenes seem to dissolve...

LINK TO "I AM." PROJECT

Make something beautiful every day #9

My fav things poster – Binary watch

Fake Tilt-Shift Photography

All of the following pictures are based on a technique called "tilt-shift miniature faking". In this particular case, the effect was applied digitally, with Photoshop CS3. Most important to archive the miniature-effect is the view angle when taking the original picture. Best results are always archieved when choosing a higher position and looking down on the object to be photographed.
This miniature-faking effect is even more impressing, considering the simplicity of image editing, which is based just on blurring the picture's background areas and colour editing (saturation & contrast). The rest of the miniature illusion is simulated by one's brain. Teriffic!

All of the pictures were shot in Cologne, around the river Rhine, in 2008.

Make something beautiful every day #8

My fav things – Analog NT telephone, 1972

3 "favourite punctuation mark"-posters

A simple but interesting typographic experiment on 3 of my favourite puctuation marks: "?" "," and "!". These Posters will be included in the book "Type Image" by Barbara Brownie.

Make something beautiful every day #7

04/18/09

gowiththeflow poster.

A very intuitive and simple poster layout inspired by a song...

Make something beautiful every day #6

04/17/09

"My Fav Things" poster series.
Just a poster layout about my favourite things I'm loving to use every day. - To be continued...