MORE D4T4

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Particle systems and GLSL shaders developed in TouchDesigner for Moderat’s international More D4TA tour. Post-produced in After Effects and integrated into the touring system.

The visual idea was to blur the line between natural and digital. Particles in their simplest form, just points, arranged into patterns that behave like physical forces. gravity around cores, entropy, the quantisation of energy. Biological in feeling, computational in origin. A visual response to an album that puts hard technical sound up against the human factor.

What started with a single track expanded to cover most of the particle-based visuals across the show. Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Australia.

5hours

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Marlon Hoffstadt and KI/KI, five hours on a beach in Zeebrugge. 22,000 people, 60-metre LED wall.

ungrid developed a live camera treatment system for the show. Multiple camera feeds processed in realtime into a single visual layer. The treatment shifts per artist: black and white, inverted, green and pink. A sharp image softens into smeared gradients. Faces surface and dissolve. At higher intensities the camera stops being documentation and becomes something closer to how the night is remembered.

TMPH

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Sony Music commissioned ungrid to produce two dome shows for an album release in Berlin. Around 100 invited guests per show, full creative and technical responsibility on us.

Concept and dramaturgy developed inside the collective. The visuals stayed deliberately abstract: gradients and cloud-like fields through most of the set, three tracks treated through adapted tour visuals. The image wraps the full dome. The show ran live and audio-reactive throughout.

A note: since this production, serious allegations of sexualized and intimate partner violence have surfaced against the artist. I take these allegations seriously and stand in solidarity with those affected. The work is documented here without the artist’s name. I would not take on further work with him and condemn any such actions.

ela

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Nico Weber Kwartett’s debut, a young composer and his band, somewhere between minimal and bold, quiet in one moment and quite fearless in the next. The decision was to let the music design itself.

An audioreactive particle system in TouchDesigner responds to the album’s tracks, and the resulting images have an almost painterly quality despite being entirely computational. The approach to the typography follows the same logic: restrained, almost deliberately indifferent, which ends up giving the image more room.

Outer sleeve, inner spread, printed CD.

Decibel Open Air

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Three years as house VJ for Decibel Open Air, one of Italy’s largest techno festivals. 50,000 visitors, main stage across two days each year. Charlotte de Witte, Marco Carola, Amelie Lens, Peggy Gou.

Audioreactive realtime visuals in TouchDesigner, prepared and played live, integrated into the festival’s production. Booked through PFA Studios each year.

Lobster Productions

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An independent label housing artists across different genres and aesthetics. The visual identity had to work for all of them without forcing a common look.

Logo, typography and a flexible brand system built from scratch. Website designed and developed in HTML/CSS/JS, plus release artworks and merchandise over the course of the collaboration.

Stadtgrün

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Stadtgrün is the biannual magazine of the Green city council fraction in Augsburg. 32 to 40 pages, twice a year, covering the issues that shape how people live in a city.

I’ve been responsible for the full graphic production since 2022, five issues across two phases. Each issue combines structured editorial layout with hand-drawn illustration for cover and spreads. The illustrations give the theme a form that goes beyond information. In 2024 the party rebranded nationally and I integrated the new typographic system into the existing layout.

MUT

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A poster series for the exhibition MUT, showing works by children and young people in difficult life situations, presented at TH Augsburg. The illustrations came out of workshops with the participants.

I built a generative layout system around a custom typeface, producing five posters from the same elements that work individually and together as a series. The client chose a different direction. This version was not produced.

LeaveNoOneBehind

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An abstract collage of Fortress Europe, made as a Christmas campaign poster for NGO LeaveNoOneBehind — an organisation working on behalf of people on the move.

The organisation’s name runs across the image in five languages: English, French, Ukrainian, Bosnian, Arabic. A text by Graffiti crew 1UP cuts through it. The poster was later produced as a hoodie backprint for the NGO’s shop.