| THE SNAKE CASTLE | To help promote my favorite store in Berlin, I art directed and photographed a series of still lives. The compositions use the merchandise to create tiny narratives that emphasize the eccentric atmosphere of The Snake Castle. The photos were also used in a mini site I designed and built for the store. Click here to see the photos. |
| PARROTS | Getting back to basics with an ongoing series of experiments with color, shape, and abstraction based on parrot drawings. View selected drawings here. |
| 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 is granted imortality but not eternal youth. The book is 118 pages with 95 black and white photographs. View selectioned spreads here. This is the second in a series of artist books to be published throughout 2011. To recieve a copy of this or future books please send an e-mail to w@wrockel.com. |
| AUTRE NE VEUT: wake up | Animated music video for Autre Ne Veut's single "Wake Up" from his debut self titled album. Click here to watch the video. Buy the album here. |
| MY FINGER NEEDS A HOME | A biblio-playlist about non-digital methods of simulation. As a creative excercise in curating and publishing, I collected some of my favorite public domain short stories and excerpts from novels exploring themes of interfacing with and creating reality. This is the first in a series of artist books to be published throughout 2011. To recieve a copy of this or future books please send an e-mail to w@wrockel.com. |
| TELESKOP: chestnut trees |
Music video for the song Chestnut Trees from Teleskop's up coming album Click here to watch the video. |
| TRIUMPH INSPIRATION AWARD 2009: key visuals | A series of sketches developing the key visuals for the Triumph Inspiration Award 2009. The brief involved creating a graphic to be used in promotional materials that adopted Triumph's existing corporate identity to reach a younger audience. click here for more images created for minigram |
| WISH YOU WERE HERE | Interactive installation created with Ben Keuster for our thesis exhibition at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The installation included a modified piano painting machine, a live remote broadcast, a paint fountain, videos, and a tropical 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. Click here for more images. |
| STEAK FOR BREAKFAST |
| I DANCE LIKE THE WIND | 9 minute video featuring body builders having their bodies broken down. Watch the video here. |
| SANDEMANS NEW EUROPE: website | I project managed a new design and build for the SANDEMANs NEW Europe web sites. I worked closely with VERSIO2 to ensure that Corporate Identity, and usability were all maintained during the design and development. The complete build involved a Corporate site and 12 affiliated city sites. During this process I also shot and edited promotional videos and photographs for the sites. Click here for more images and to view the videos. |
| 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. click here for more photos. |
| PARTY PARTY | Assorted flyers and visuals for parties at Kim and Klub Der Republic in Berlin. Click here for more flyers and pictures. |
| THIS TOWN IS FULL OF SAILORS, SADISTS, AND PAINTERS | Animated video loop integrating photos of face painting and displacement maps. click here to view the video. |
| AS MY FATHER WAS |
| TRIUMPH INSPIRATION AWARD 2009: student's kit | The Triumph Inspiration Awards is an international student design competition sponsored by Triumph. Triumph wanted a single object that could explain the contest, the brand and also be useful for the students. The packaging contains a CD entry form, terms and conditions for the contest, tips for the construction of lingerie and a detachable book featuring the history of Triumph. click here for more images created for minigram |
| AIDS-3D | 3D modeling for the Berlin based artist duo AIDS-3D. The model was used to produce the laser crystal sculpture pictured above. |
| MY RHIZOME IS BETTER THAN YOURS | A poster I created which was included in the "IRL" exhibition at Capricious Space in Brooklyn . More information about the exhibition is available here. |
| REID AND SCOTT ACCESSORIES | A flash website for the New York Reid and Scott Acessories. The site included an integrated flash checkout system. Click here to view more screen shots. |
| LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON VIEWED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM EVERY POINT OF VIEW | Animated video loop of the infamous cubist painting. The video was in cluded in the "Multiplex" Exhibition curated by VVork for Peer to Peer space in Munich. Click here for the video More information regarding the show is available here. |
| FOR THE PEACE WILL NOT KEEP ITSELF |
| IF I'M A REAL POLAR BEAR, WHY AM I SO COLD? |
| IS AS IS | A flash experiment to generate new connections between seemingly unrealated images and ideas. Give it a whirl here |
| THANKS FOR LOOKING! |