We also do artworks for films. Sometimes the directors are good friends of ours. In this case we did the title-design for the documentary film of our friend Tamara Milosevic. This is an amazing film (78min) named ” Everywhere but here”. It portrays three people of three different generations in Srebrenica, 15 years after the war.
A Funkfilme Production, co-produced by ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel.
Home Advantage. This would be the translation of “Heimvorteil”; a Documentary film by German Filmmaker Jan Gabriel. The film documents a 20 year confrontation in Wertheim about the construction of a Mosque.
Jan asked us to make the poster, the DVD cover and a website. We used quotes from the film as our main graphical reference. From that idea we created the poster and the website. Also as this is a very contemporary subject in Germany we created a discussion forum on the site.
The site here.
Last summer we had an idea while sitting outside in the sun with a beer in our hands – to build a recycling add-on attached to the public trashcans where we could put our bottles after drinking our beer? I have to explain that in Germany you pay a deposit for each bottle, so there are a lot of people searching for bottles to get some pennies, but there are also a lot of people just leaving the beer-bottles out in the streets, just where they drunk it. These mostly end up smashed – not cool, even less if you are biking in Berlin (like 99% of the people).
So the idea would be that you just put your bottle in this box, so people know where to search for them to collect them and on the other hand you avoid broken glass in the streets.
So we presented the idea on the website of Tchibo-Ideas. It is a site where everybody can post ideas which make the every day life easier and we won the 3rd prize in may. Also we were part of the exhibition of ideas in Hamburg – here a picture.
Cheers!
Thanks to Dani for the foto and to the BE BERLIN-Team for their support!
Here is a site we designed for our good friend Rainer Lipski.
Rainer is a Director of Photography who splits his time between Berlin and LA. We have been threatening doing something with him a few times. We would actually love to work with him, but the right project or the right timing never seemed to be there. But we will and we will let you know about it!
For now you can check his showreel out on lipski.tv
We have just completed our biggest project to date. Was-uns-antreibt.de
The project is for the BVR (Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken), a cooperative bank here in Germany. We where approached by Heimat and TriggerHappyProductions to come up with a website and banner campaign for the upcoming rebranding of the bank. Heimat had developed a new communication strategy for the BVR. They produced (with TriggerHappy) a 45min documentary about everyday people and the drive/motivation that got them out of bed every morning. Hence the title of the post. Taking the usual percentage banks talk about to a second level and focusing on the individuals that make the bank possible.
Our site was part of a national campaign including, print and Tv.
So a big thumbs up to everyone that has made this project possible. The road has been, long, sometimes bendy but the over all feeling is that of happiness to have completed it and to have had the chance to work side by side with some great people.
You can see the site here.
And the banners here.
Ok – today is a funny day in general – but just right now we received this email from Amazon and it really made us laugh hard – so we thought we would share it with the world out there.
So – it´s an email in which amazon sends you recommendations for what to buy for Mothers Day this Year – cause its soon!
First thing in the list: A SHAVER FOR MEN from Braun, Phillips… – WTF?
Second, third thing in the list: TOOTH-PRODUCTS. Ok – better – this women can also use, but whose mum did such a bad job that she deserves tooth-products for the Mothers-Day?
Next things on the list: hair straightener, next a range of bandages and finally a product to remove the hairs from your leg………. hmm – not really nice either. See the screenshot below lol.
I think we stick to the good old flowers!
Mike Mills showed his work in Berlin at the Pool Gallery. The show is a kind of retrospect of Mills visual universe. The images, stories that shaped his way of seeing the world and influenced his work. A lot of pieces are centered around 1971 the year Mills turned 5 and thus real memory started for him. Here at fried-onions we are fans of Mill’s works, and the capacity he has to switch from one medium to another in what seems an effortless action. So no need to say we enjoyed the show.
The 15th we had a really good photographer from Barcelona in our calendar, he is called Marc Badia and here his site. And like some before, he is also a really old and close friend.
The 16th we are happy to present you Untitled Design Berlin – a studio specialized in Title Design and Artwork for Films. Check their works out – they are really nice. Big kiss to Bäbä!
Today is the day of Khanh Do. She is a really young and talented illustrator. Its a pitty that we still don´t know her personally, but i hope soon we do!
A bit late – but very proudly we present you the people who show their work in our calendar yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Lets start with yesterday. She is called Conchita Fornieles and actually its very hard to put into words how she is. Imagine explosive-colorful-happy-funny-gay-crazy-living-breathing comic-tragedy-flower-diamond – or something like that. Just check out her blog, then you will know what i mean.
Besides all this, she is also a really talented writer and filmmaker.
Today you can view the work of Cristian Zuzunaga who is an amazing typographer who is capable of bringing spirituality into kerning. He is based in London and hopefully we see him soon here in Berlin.
Tomorrow we take the day off – but if you are in front of the computer you can find the work of Paula Mourenza in the frame of the 14th. Paula is a copywriter, creative director, wine-lover, tea-lover, beer-lover and overall a really good friend. A big kiss to her.
