Title  CNTRL Europe: Chronicle of an Unknown Band
Category  Book design, Logo, Illustration, Photgraphy
Year  2020

About  “CNTRL Europe: Chronicle of an Unknown Band” is the story of a fictional rock-band, active in the early 90’s underground music scene of Vienna, that mysteriously vanished, the retracing of their history, their music and where they are now.

The motivation was to tell the story of a band thorugh an entirely fictional world, that appears as though it were real. A “mockumentary” of sorts. The band’s history and life is explored through graphic design, the clubs they played at, their albums, and more.

Format: 260 x 260 mm (10.2 x 10.2 in). 138 pages.



Title  Untitled Tracks
Category  Book design, Artistbook
Year  2019

About  „Untitled Tracks“ is a limited edition “artistbook” with torn pages that are an abstract artwork of their own, featuring the poetry of Frank Stanford, being pieced together and falling apart again as the reader leafs through the book. The format is perfectly square,
30 x 30 cm like an LP cover, therefore the title “Untitled Tracks”.
Font used is Tschichold’s Sabon.


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Title  Die Psychologie sexueller Leidenschaft by David Schnarch
Category  Book cover, Illustration 
Year  2019

About  Cover for the German edition of David Schnarch's "Passionate Marriage. Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationships".

 







Title  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Category  Book cover, Illustration
Year  2021


About  Linocut cover for Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel. It was the source material for the film “Apocalypse Now” by Francis Ford Coppola. 





Title  Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the unfortunate Dr. Kassler J.S.P.S. by Jeremy Leven
Category  Book cover, Illustration 
Year  2017

About  Jeremy Leven's 1982 novel is about a big computer sitting in a basement that believes itself to be the Devil. I made this cover in 2017 before I knew anything about graphic design, but just as a sketch on paper. I found it again and decided to brush it up and finalize it.
 







Title  Distance and Proximity in Diane Arbus’ Photography 
Category  Editorial, Illustration
Year  2019

About  My theoretical B.A. thesis “Distance and Proximity in Diane Arbus’ Photography” in form of a magazine.  The work of Diane Arbus is examined and compared to Nan Goldin, August Sander, Velazquez, Dürer, and Michelangelo.





Title  Velvetzine
Category  Editorial, Illustration
Year  2018

About  A playful magazine about The Velvet Underground. My first piece of editorial work. The cover consists of 4 colored bars, which are steps leading into the underground. Each step is a prominent color of each of their 4 albums, descending in chronological order. 


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Title  FLEX
Category  Logo
Year  2020

About  Logo for Viennese nightclub Flex. It references the club’s famous sound system and the blue color alludes to its proximity to the Danube Channel. 2020.




Title  Electric Church Record Store
Category  Logo
Year  2020

About  The name for the record store was inspired by the Jimi Hendrix quote “The electric church is a belief that I have. We use electric guitars, everything is electrified nowadays, therefore the belief comes through electricity to the people. We’re playing for our sound to go inside the sou of the person.”




Title  Meta Vis 
Category  Logo
Year  2018

About  Logo designed for Austrian projection mapping artist and event engineering duo Meta Vis. The logo shows the shape of a projector that is divided by a beam of light, creating two sleek modern shapes that are unique in combination. 




Title  Rubber Revolver Records
Category  Logo
Year  2020

About  The Rubber Revolver Records logo shows both a lowercase “r” as well as a firing gun, a bullet, and a vinyl disc. 



Title  Rubber Revolver Records (Earlier Draft)
Category  Logo
Year  2020



Title  Stage 1
Category  Logo
Year  2019

About  Logo for a project in collaboration with WKÖ (Austrian Economic Chamber) for a “tiny house” type of container that would showcase the work of apprentices such as carpenters, masons, etc.

The name “Stage 1” refers to both the literal open container stage that the work will be exhibited on, as well as the first Stage in the career of the apprentices, their springboard.

The arrows have the double-meaning of spatial mobility, the container can be transported and showcased at any event, and of occupational mobility, showcasing the possibility and variety of available apprentice jobs.



Title  CNTRL Europe Band Logo
Category  Logo
Year  2020

About  The CNTRL Europe band logo is an angry smiley face, combining the initials of the band name C and to create a circle. The counter of the circle has a slanted eye added to it, creating an angry and fierce looking smiley. 



Title  Experimentelle Typografie
Category  Logo
Year  2018

About  Made for university project „Experimentelle Typografie“, spelling out „Exp. Typografie“. This is the logo for a large folded paper object containing various typographical experiments.



Title  Underground Universe
Category  Logo
Year  2020

About  The two “U’s” are stretched into the shape of an elongated earth map to show the “otherness” of the Underground Universe.




Title  Ost Klub
Category  Logo
Year  2020

About  Logo for Viennese night club “Ost Klub”, which translates to “East Club”. It symbolizes both a compass on which the arrow points to where east would be engraved, as well as the two letters O and K

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Title  Dying on Vacation by CNTRL Europe
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  CNTRL Europe’s final and third EP. The cover encapsulates both the catchy melodies as well as the desperation that lies beneath.





Title  Not Alive by Rula Sabat
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  The cover for folk goth-rocker Rula Sabat’s single Not Alive is both graceful as well as brutal, with the red marble texture implying flesh.






Title  Photographs Taken During A Nightmare by Rula Sabat
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  Photographs Taken During A Nightmare can be described as a goth-rock folk album. On the cover is an array of strange beings and objects, both alive and dead. If you look closely enough you can discover dancing ballerinas and floating moons.

This set of characters and objects is covered by a wild frantic scrawl, pushing a number of elements partially into the negative, giving the impression of a further dimension. All this is placed in a Polaroid-like frame, with the title written by hand with black marker on an old sticky tape.
 





Title  Speaking in Tongues by CNTRL Europe
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  The cover for CNTRL Europe’s first EP. It features bawling TV-priest Jimmy Swaggart apologizing to his mindless followers. 



Title  The Beach Boys Rarities
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  Rarities is a Beach Boys comp. album that sold poorly and is now out of print. I took the corny original cover and turned it into something more mystical and creepy.

It now features a young Charles Manson who wrote the song “Cease to Exist” for the Beach Boys, which Dennis Wilson changed to “Never learn not to love” and performed with the Beach Boys.

Dennis Wilson was long plagued with guilt over his association and friendship with Manson, which probably contributed to his alcoholism and untimely death. The album itself features outtakes, rare B-sides and a cover of the Beatles’ “With a little help from my friends”. 



Title  Hunting the Strange by CNTRL Europe
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  Cover of CNTRL Europe’s second EP. It features an Asaro Mudman, overlayed by a Revolver and crosshairs, the centre of which is the band’s logo.



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Title  NeoGothica Display Font
Category  Poster, Type
Year  2019

About  Display typeface NeoGothica. Best used for outrageous, unusual and irreverent projects. My first and last typeface. It is by no means perfect, but it has character, as they say. 



Title  Losers.lab
Category  Poster, Logo
Year  2018

About  Losers Lab. A hybrid between logo and poster, functioning as both simultaneously.

It was a reaction to my university’s future lab, picking only the students with the best grades, measured in percentage, for real-life projects. 

Therefore Losers.lab has an exotic geometrical shape for its logo, a crossed-out percentage symbol. Its motto is to give everyone a chance.



Title  CNTRL Europe Gig Poster
Category  Poster, Illustration
Year  2020

About Poster for a CNTRL Europe gig at Flex, showing absurdist philiospher Albert Camus, questioning the necessity of meaning in a well-designed poster.



Title  A Streetcar Named Desire
Category  Poster
Year  2017

About  Two Posters for the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar named Desire".

One shows Stanley Kowalski's arm holding a pink bowling ball, the color pink symbolizes femininity and his oppression of Blanche and Stella. Exhibited at NDU Opening Day.  


The typographical poster shows scattered shards of glass, a result of Stanley throwing the radio tout of the window, the title is reflected in them.




Title  Tschichold Sabon Posters
Category  Poster
Year  2018

About  Poster designs for a project about font details of Sabon by Jan Tschichold who was responsible for the re-design of Penguin Books.





Title  Rula Sabat Tour Poster
Category  Poster
Year  2020



Title  SABAT Concert Poster
Category  Poster, Illustration
Year  2020




Title  FLEX Nightclub
Category  Corp. Identity
Year  2020

About  Branding for Viennese night club Flex.



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Title  Pixote: The Law of the Weakest
Category  Illustration, DVD Cover
Year  2021

About  Cover for Pixote (1980) by Hector Babenco. One of the grittiest and most realistic films about street kids growing up in São Paulo.

All the actors are real street kids, which makes the film feel more like a documentary. Arguably the only movie on this subject to rival City of God (2002).


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Title  Manos de Dios 1, 2, 3
Category  Illustration
Year  2021

About  Series of surreal illustrations, entitled Manos de Dios, that explore the relationship of abstracted forms with familiar shapes.


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Title  Manos de Dios:  Black & Pink
Category  Illustration
Year  2021

About  Series of surreal illustrations, entitled Manos de Dios, that explore the relationship of abstracted forms with familiar shapes.


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Title  404 Page New Design University
Category  Miscellaneous
Year  2019

About  404 Page Proposition for New Design University’s website. 




Title  New Design University X-Mas Cards
Category  Miscellaneous
Year  2018

About  Christmas card competition winner for New Design University 2018 and one rejected design. The winning design shows Rudolph’s red nose, in it the uni’s logo is reflected. The second design shows the university’s logo NDU with a missing letter D. Produced as limited screenprint edition of 150 cards. 




Title  I’m Waiting for the Man
Category  Miscellaneous, Comic
Year  2019

About  The Velvet Underground song I’m Waiting for the Man illustrated as a trashy comic book.


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      lucas maschik-vaz design.