Mesh Experience is a live visualization for guitarists. There are 48 circles surrounding the musician, each representing one tone on the guitar. Depending on the power the according tone gets bigger and moves out of the circle. When the guitarist moves, the projection follows his steps.
We did this project as a free work in the communication design course of the 3rd semester.

With BookBox you can organize your eBooks in a quick and intuitive way. Instead of typing in the name of a specific book you can find it by using dynamic filters with only a few clicks.
The filter lists provide various categories which make it absolutely easy and quick to find exactly the book(s) you want. We also thought about including a community for finding and sharing book buddies and book critics.

Hello SUN is your very personal sun. It displays the solar position during day and night, performs little sunrises and sunsets and turns blue when the sun goes down. The idea was to highlight the most basic perception of time, which is a new day beginning with the rising sun and ending with the sunset. It's probably also the most intuitive way to understand time if we wouldn't learn how to read the clock as young children.

Have you ever created sounds by moving rice around? Rice Wipe is a synthesizer to do so. There's a matrix out of nine areas, each one controlling a different sound or effect. Depending on the amount of rice the sound/effect changes.

We created the Rice Wipe in a one week workshop, thats why we used a simple kappa plate for the body and didn't spend two days in the workshop for model building action. The shape of the plexiglas was created by baking it in the oven.

Right, as interaction design students we are really into new technology. But we also love the old stuff, as for example the tape, which was the first possibility for us as children to put music into our pockets.
Tape 63 is some kind of a homage to this great medium. We wanted to combine the style and feeling of the cassette tape with the interaction possibilities of nowadays touch interfaces.

This little photo book gives you an insight to the life of the so called Parkschützer (park protectors) of Stuttgart 21. They demonstrated against the demolition of the park where the new Stuttgart train station is to be built. So they built up a tent village for living and pursuing their political objectives for several months in order to protect the trees from being cut.

[PRESSURE] is the outcome of my first steps into Maya 2013 after about 4 weeks. It explores the ways materials and objects can behave if the environment has a specific impact on them. The short animation shows how pressure in an atmosphere can change the behavior and materiality of certain objects.

In 1986 Craig Reynolds published his bodies simulation where he animated computer controlled swarms. Each boid (individual) follows one principle which is based on three basic rules: cohesion, separation and alignment. We used this principle to build a table installation which enables the user to learn interactively about swarm behavior. Therefore we created a swarm out of so called Sparks which behave depending on users interactions. The installations provides three different objects which can be put on the table to manipulate the swarm.

The project was realized in a five weeks workshop at the beginning of the semester.