| Hello, My name is William Rockel. I am a Berlin based designer and director specializing in UI, screen design, printed media, and the web. My work has been exhibited in the New York, Baltimore, Berlin, Munich, Stockholm, and Casablanca. Please take some time to view my portfolio and contact me if you are interested in working together. Since June 2011 I have been working within the interactive department at Aimaq von Lobenstein. A full PDF portfolio and CV are available upon request. Contact me at: w@wrockel.com +49 (0)162 7481651 Reichenberger str 133 10999 Berlin Germany |
| AIMAQ VON LOBENSTEIN: website | Website design for the Berlin based creative brand consultants Aimaq von Lobenstein. The site combines the functionality of a blog with a portfolio and features a minimalist liquid layout. read more → |
| KONIG LUDWIG WEISSBIER: label design |
Four proposed label redesigns for Konig Ludwig Weissbier. read more → |
| PARROT ILLUSTRATIONS | Getting back to basics with an ongoing series of drawings experimenting with color, shape, and abstraction. |
| AUTRE NE VEUT: wake up | Official music video for Autre Ne Veut's single, "Wake Up" from his debut self titled album. read more → |
| BOURGEOIS ANGST | A series of photographs exploring the uncanny and cliché. Abstractions of separation and isolation abound.
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| TELESKOP: chestnut trees |
Music video for the song "Chestnut Trees" from Stockholm based musician Teleskop. read more → |
| HEAD TENNIS: key visuals | Proposed key visuals for HEAD Tennis stars Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova. read more → |
| MONFIEUR | A video that explores themes of metamorphosis, health as a product, and bodies as engineered objects. The video was screened at the New Museum in New York as part of "First Look: Above Ground Animation". read more → |
| SNAKE CASTLE | A series of still lives created for a Berlin based cabinet of curiosities called The Snake Castle. The compositions use the merchandise to create tiny narratives that emphasize the eccentric atmosphere of the store. The photos were also used in a mini-site I designed and built for the store. read more → |
| GENTLEMEN AT PLAY | A series of illustrations exploring the contrasting finese and weight of the gentleman's sport. read more → |
| COUGH COOL: pete perez | Official video for Bathetic records artist Cough Cool's song "Pete Perez". read more → |
| MAN MEETS BEAR: dream bc |
Package design for the Dream BC album by Berlin based band Man Meets Bear. read more → |
| TRIUMPH INSPIRATION AWARD 2009: key visuals | The Triumph Inspiration Awards is an annual international student design competition sponsored by Triumph. I created proposals for the competition's keyvisuals. read more → |
| TRIUMPH INSPIRATION AWARD 2009: student kit | The Triumph Inspiration Awards is an annual international student design competition sponsored by Triumph. The brief required a single object that could explain the contest, the brand and also be useful for the students. The packaging contains a CD-Rom, information about the contest, tips for the construction of lingerie and a detachable book detailing the history of Triumph. read more → |
| SANDEMANS NEW EUROPE: website | I project managed the design and production SANDEMANs NEW Europe web sites. In addition to overseeing creation of a new online corporate identity, I also shot new photographic content, produced promotional videos, and created design elements and icons for the sites. The complete build involved a main corporate site and 12 affiliated city sites. read more → |
| SANDEMANS NEW EUROPE: promotional photos | During the summer of 2010, I traveled to Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Munich, Prague, and Paris to shoot promotional photos and videos to be used in print and online media by SANDEMANs NEW Europe. read more → |
| THIS TOWN IS FULL OF SAILORS SADISTS AND PAINTERS | An animated video loop mixing face painting and 3D effects. read more → |
| 101 ____ POEMS | An on-going series of A2 posters printed with poems about the potential of free association and word play. read more → |
| HEAD TENNIS: 25 years prestige facebook app | A facebook app commemorating 25 years of the HEAD prestige racquet line. Every month the app features an interview with a tennis great and testimonials about how the racquet has influenced their game. read more → |
| AIDS-3D: teen atlantis cyber chat | 3D modeling for the Berlin based artist duo AIDS-3D. The model was used to produce an editioned laser crystal sculpture. read more → |
| SARTE'S H. E. DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS | A study in empathy, this is a collection about our eagerness to project personalities on the simpliest of characters. read more → |
| SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH POSING NEXT TO THINGS | The ever dapper David Attenborough has traveled around the globe to create nature documentaries which endorse conservation. This collection of images addresses the link between 19th century ideas about man's role in nature and spectacle based nature documentaries by showing David posing with nature. It is very sublime. read more → |
| LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON VIEWED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM EVERY POINT OF VIEW | Animated video loop of Picasso's infamous painting. When taken to its logical end, the fractured perspectives of cubism result in a unified whole. read more → |
| REID & SCOTT ACCESSORIES: website | A flash website for the New York based Reid and Scott Accessories. The site includes a paypal checkout system integrated into the flash based site. read more → |
| A SHOT IN THE DARK WITHOUT AN ECHO | A self published book of photographs taken over the past few years. The photographs were contextualized around the myth of Tithonus who was granted imortality but not eternal youth. The book is 118 pages with 95 black and white photographs. read more → |
| LOVE POEMS | A collection of videos about passion, love and the mind numbing banality of the aforementioned pastimes.
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| TELESKOP: a picture |
Music video for the song "A Picture" from Stockholm based musician Teleskop. read more → |
| WISH YOU WERE HERE: thesis exhibition | The interactive installation included a modified piano painting machine, a live video feed, a paint fountain, videos, and a desert island. The piano shot paint onto a canvas equipped with a color sensor which produced sounds that were broadcast into a separate gallery across campus. A viewer could either play a silent visual piano, or hear a remote painting. read more → |
| THE END. THANK YOU AND PLEASE COME AGAIN. |