Production Year
2018 - 2020
Skills
Concept, Design, Photography
NEON is a narrative driven coffee table book. It shows you glimpses of a fictive reality, which is corrupted by greed and technology. To create a narrative within a fake city I travelled 6 countries over the span of 2 years and casted and shot 24 diverse models. Thanks to befriended artists, who collaborated on styling, Illustrations and an official Soundtrack, this became the most ambitious personal project I’ve worked on. It combines influences from anime, manga, cyberpunk media and niche fashion themes such as techwear to create a one of a kind coffee table book.
THE BOOK
Year
2020
Details
184 pages | 210x297 | Hardcover
Edition
40 copies
The book launched during the COVID19 Pandemic in October 2020. It was promoted only on Instagram and Twitter. To maximize its reach I posted regularly on different social media channels such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Are.na, Behance, Tumblr, Model-Kartei and Vimeo. This resulted in it being sold out after 4 months and purchases from 30 cities in 8 different countries.
SOUNDTRACK
Year
2019
Artist
DELIQUESCY
Made in
Johannesburg, South Africa
Vinyl production
DR. DUB
Vinyl Made in
Fieberbrunn, Austria
To enhance the cinematic nature of NEON I collaborated with DELIQUESCY who composed and mixed a 20 Track long official Soundtrack at his own Studio in South Africa. The Soundtrack itself was bundled as a digital download with every purchase of NEON. The vinyl was created as a 1/1 single Edition for my personal archive.
It was handmade by DR.DUB in Fieberbrunn, Austria.
It was handmade by DR.DUB in Fieberbrunn, Austria.
Tracklist:
01 – INTERLINKED
02 – RESET
03 – THE DRIFTING OF PANGEA
04 – PURSUIT
05 – GEN-ISI-327
06 – MODULATION
07 – SYSTEM
08 – PALE BLACK
09 – SELFLESS
10 – NEGATIVE 9-3-2
11 – PARADIGM
12 – DELETION
13 – THE REVENGE OF EQUINOX
14 – THE NOTHING
15 – GAIJIN
16 – DEBRIS
17 – ABSIENT
18 – GREED I
19 – GREED II
20 – ARCHITECT
VIDEOS
Year
2019
Tools
Adobe Creative Suite
Inspired by the Soundtrack I decided to also produce short musicvideos to enhance the overall worldbuilding of NEON.
Model
Nadya Petrova
Model
Jana Stadelmann
CINEMATIC PRINTS
Year
2020
Tools
Adobe Creative Suite
Format
600x900mm
Paper
234g FUJIFILM paper
Finish
Matte
To keep the cinematic look and feel of NEON going, I decided to design big cinematic prints, that resemble movie posters.
PRODUCTION DIARY
Year
2019 - 2020
Tools
Adobe Creative Suite
To give followers on my social media accounts a better insight to the production of NEON, I created the so called „Production Diary“. It was a weekly released vertical vlog in which I talk about how I plan my shootings, why I think gear doesnt matter and similar topics. In the end I created 2 seasons, consisting of 13 episodes with a social media optimized duration of 1:30 – 3:30 minutes each.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Year
2019
Illustrations
ALTERNATECYBORG
Made in
Tokyo, Japan
My goal was to bridge different artstyles and cyberpunk influences to create something that has never been done before. To do so, I reached out to ALTERNATECYBORG and asked if shes interested in collaborating on this project. Luckily she said yes and created 10 Illustrations exclusively for this book.
PATCHES
Year
2020
Tools
Adobe Creative Suite
To honor its techwear roots, I designed a 0,7mm Polyamid patch as a giveaway.
The patches were handstitched in germany.
AR FILTERS
Year
2020
Tools
SparkAR
Because of the COVID19 Pandemic I started to get into AR in early 2020. I designed and coded two Filters for Instagram, to link the physical with an technological experience.
SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS
Year
2019
Tools
Spotify
Creating playlists for shootings with different moods is a must for me. It helps me to get into the overall mood and provides context for models on the day of the shoot.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Year
2018 - 2020
Some behind the Scenes from different shoots.
Thanks to Fabio, Tobias, Pauline, Felix and Michelle for these shots.
MODELS
MARVIN STÖCKER, EKATHERINA ROTH, LUISA PENKALLA, VERENA HARTL, TATJANA GIPP, NADYA PETROVA, SANDRA CIENKOWSKI, ASHLEY AMEGAN, NINA HIERHAGER, SOMRUEDI BATTEMDEE, TESSA BECKER, JULIA NEUNIG, DEMI DAUT, ANNIKA FAULSTROH, MARCIA VOSS, MAXIMILIAN SCHWARZHUBER, BERTILE FOBID, JANA STADELMANN, CHRISSIE SEAMS, BOGDANA KLYMKOVYCH, MICHELLE STEFAN, JEROME K. DJOSOSU, MARIA PARK, STEFAN ERLENBACH-FREUDENBERG
HAIR & MAKEUP
DAVID DORELLA
ILLUSTRATIONS
DILARA ÖZDEN
SOUNDTRACK
FLOYD XILALA MTHEMBU
TITLE ANIMATION
FABIO ARNOLD
3D AD COMPOSITING
MIRO MORIC
SET PHOTOGRAPHY
FABIO ARNOLD, TOBIAS RENZ, PAULINE VÅGE, FELIX FAY, MICHELLE STEFAN
PROOFREADING
VANESSA CORR
COOPERATIONS
AOKU, LISA WAGNER FASHION DESIGN, EUDOXIA LATEX, SEWMUCHBLACK, BRILLEN WOHLFART ROSENHEIM, QUEENS TABLEDANCE MUNICH, ZAHNMEDIZIN DR.SPITZ