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MY WORK
LOGO/CONCEPT: BRAINWASH
Logo and typography experiment for BRAINWASH — a web application that helps you stimulate your mind in the dull hours of the day.
JAPANESE DESIGN — デザインの日本
Logo design for a non-existent collective that focuses on Japanese design values — minimalism, cultural values, meticulous detail.
NEW: PORTFOLIO JOURNAL
Herewith I introduce the David Wieland Chronicles: a quarterly journal on my work. It will probably evolve, it may die; but for now, this is my portfolio with curriculum vitae.
The layout of this journal will also be applied in web design at a later stage.
BOOK: FISH CASTLE
Books are linear. We read them from cover to cover, in which we indulge ourselves in the narrative exactly as the author has devised. A book, after all, is unknown territory until the author leads you by the hand, revealing essential elements at the author’s whim.
WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED ROADS
Went out with my film nikon on a real moody day in Hongkong. The clouds were so low they were obscuring most of the skyscrapers. The haze and lack of sun gave an appealing (if somewhat unheimlich neotokyoesque) accent on the sharp lines.This is a selection. (flickr)
ILLUSTRATION: 偉森
When I came to Hongkong I needed a Chinese name for my HK ID card. My wife coined me 偉森 (“Wei Sam”) because it resembles my name… vaguely (David Samuel Wieland). I had to be able to sign my name frequently so I practised and practised until I could do it without cheating.
This “mural” sketch is a representation of that process.
(Click image for bigger size.)
ILLUSTRATION: THE LIBRARY NAZI
A dramatization of what really happened to me. I was in the library for weeks to finish a project. By the end of the day I usually grew really hungry and took some cookies with me. But before I had even removed the crinkly wrapper, the library nazi already busted me. How did he even know I was eating?
PHOTOGRAPHY: GLOOM OF DOOM
This picture was a complete surprise when it came back from the development shop. I took this long exposure at the boating station in Hongkong, behind a glass window. I propped the cam against the glass and opened the lens for 10 seconds or so. What I didn’t know was that the wide angle also caught my shade and the gloomy lights behind me in the glass.
Shot with Nikon FM3a + 24mm.
TYPE: JAPANESE WEATHER (DOWNLOAD)
I’ve finished scanning the handmade letter and it’s ready for use. Please find the full version on my flickr stream here.
It’s under CC license, so do with it what you like; but please let me know if you use it.
TYPE: Japanese Winter (preview)
I’ve been working on some typography today, with simply a pair of scissors and a nice pattern sheet. Besides being incredibly therapeutic, I am very pleased with the result. I will scan the letters later and upload them for your own use: they’re available under the CC license so feel free to play around with them. If you do use them, please be so kind as to let me know what you did with it. Just for my own curiousity. I won’t sue you. Probably.
Japanese Winter has all the letters of the alphabet in capitals, all the numbers and some symbols : ?!@#&
PROJECT: INSPACE
inspace from David Wieland on Vimeo.
This is a conceptual exploration of my final project: inspace. Inspace is a nonlinear platform for any form of new content. It’s incredibly intuitive in use and should yield to plenty of successful representations of future projects, articles and opinions of users.
Music: Drivin’ North by Remus (www.humanworkshop.com)
EXPLORING UNSPACE
Eric Sanderson defines unspace as the empty abandoned areas of the world. (Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall)
I found these empty, abandoned areas in Hong Kong by accident: they are the staircases of Causeway Bay station, one of the busiest metro stations in Hong Kong. They are abandoned for a simple reason: they are not in the path of the traveler. Right next to the staircase is an escalator.
I will continue to explore and document unspace.
This is the first set.
PHOTOGRAPHY: 72 HOURS IN BERLIN
In July, my brother and I went to Berlin, exploring the city’s many fantastic little secrets it’s more than willing to demonstrate. We took some pictures on film, and this week I finally got round to developing the last film roll. I made a selection of that result. All the photos can be found on my Flickr stream.
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Suddenly. History. A lot of it (part deux)
Yesterday I mentioned how I suddenly found three film rolls and have them developed. I won’t post all the photos, but they’re all available here.
What I will show here though, are the pictures I think are the most interesting.
Suddenly: history. A lot of it
My last dog was a Siberian Husky. We called him Nomy, because that was his given name by the time we bought him as a two-year old. He was a bit of a chewer as most dogs are, and never really got used to living indoors (therefore most of the time he would sleep in the garden). About ten years ago, Nomy somehow got hold of a number of film rolls that we took of our holidays. He chewed one of them, hard, before we arrested him in the act. Thinking he had destroyed the film roll, but finding it hard to throw it away without knowing it for certain, we put the film rolls away, and forgot about them.
PROJECT: DISPOSITION
Disposition from David Wieland on Vimeo.
Disposition is a film project I made at the beginning of this year. I had no storyboard at all for this animation. I simply allowed each drawing to be influenced by my creativity, more or less based on each previous drawing. It became a visual stream of consciousness which took me somewhere I never realised I would end up. It was a very entertaining project.
PHOTOSTREAM
