I’m featured with an interview in the current issue of the Front magazine. Super stoked about this. Thanks a lot Front-team!

I was live painting at the Echo Musikpreis 2013.

(pic by cromatics.de)

Here’s a nice little clip by Editude Pictures about the project:

Takko Fashion goes Echo 2013 from editude pictures on Vimeo.

It’s a drunken bar fighting clover leaf. That’s it.
(Design is for sale)

is now available!

If you want to see some further pics check out my behance project:

Hey Folks,
long time no see! I’m really sorry for the big lack of posts and I hope you all had a great start in 2013!
But there’s a reason why I haven’t postet anything the last time because I’ve done a lot of new stuff I couldn’t post yet nor had the free time to do anything on my own besides this new project:

Whiteape Games
Medusas Son

I had this idea of a iPhone minigame based on the whack-a-mole concept for several years/month but never the chance to develope it.
So I told it my friend Laurids (who’s also the coder behind my website) and we worked out my idea.
I thought it might be funny to have some kind of reason why you tap on the elements and to envolve the simple gameidea with some further extras.

So we started with the first sketches, flowcharts and wireframes:

I also did some first sketches/rough concepts about the look of the app:

But soon we realized that it is a lot of more work than we expected. We ain’t got the coder skills nor have we some musical abilities to do the soundFX or Soundtrack. As you can work out for yourself the coding is the biggest challenge. So we asked two programmer friends if they’d like to jump on our train and help to realize our idea. Happily they said yes and we could finally start to concentrate more on the project.

As the first rough sketches annoyed me pretty quick I wanted to try a different much more bold style which seamed much more appealing to me for an app.
Brighter colours, clean lines:

The art direction was no problem but the finetuning of the game was even worse.”How long should an eye pop up?”, “Will there be more than one bonus-eye at one time?”, “How long whill the paused mode stay still after you click ‘return to game’?” and so on….
It took actually a bunch of time to create a good game flow that you get challenged but don’t loose after 2seconds.
Furthermore we had to start our own game studio so that we can sell the game on iTunes and create websites for both an get an Apple DeveloperAccount and wait and wait and wait…

But after all it was really fun and also important to me to finish this little game.
This is actually the first thing I developed on ‘my own’ from the beginning to the end and I’m really happy with the result!

It was also a good start to get into the app-scene and we’re super motivated to work on some new more complex ones!

Big thank to Laurids, Ralph, Serhiy & Daniel!

So
Cheers,
Niklas.

Medusa’s Son on iTunes
Medusa’s Son Website
Whiteape Games Website

Dekay Clothing released their new line today including a design I did for them.
I really enjoyed creating this design as I got asked to do something more traditional!
You can order it right HERE!

A few weeks ago Bigadi and I got asked if we can help out Converse for their Pro Streets Campaing (it already ended now).
So we teamed up as TrashCats and supported their Project with a live painting. We were one of three artist teams for this project.

The guys from Editude also made a little video:

Converse Pro Streets (Berlin) from editude pictures on Vimeo.

Cheers.

Hey Fellas,
I got featured with an interview in the new issue of the Very Nearly Almost Magazine and they also made a pretty cool little video while interviewing me! Thanks a lot for the support to VNA, Cromatics and Editude Pictures for the Support. And also thanks to Squoodge Records for providing this great tune done by Laser Mutants!

VNA x DeeDeeKid from editude pictures on Vimeo.