In 2002 Silvana and I had the opportunity to spend a week in Tokyo and make a day trip to Yokohama. We were shown around by Alberto, Silvana's cousin. He is an architect and university professor who lives in Japan ...Read More
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We are pleased to announce that www.chinese-soul.com has received accolades and web-design awards from a number of institutions: 'Site of the day' (SOTD) award from thefwa.com aka 'The Oscars of Webdesign' 'Best of Swiss Web', category 'creation', silver award bestofswissweb.ch 'Webpick' in 'Communication Arts' magazine: www.commarts.com Reviews propaganda3.com (english) code-knock.jp ...Read More
A concise website based on a clear metaphor to present the small, well-established firm and its trustee/book-keeping services. Concept, Text, Design Marianne Zweifel, www.zweifel.gl Roland Hess, www.herrhess.ch Webdesign, Realisation Andreas Weber, www.motiondraw.com Fotos Pascale Landert, www.landert-photo.com Urs Heer, heerurs@bluewin.ch Managed by zweifel.gl, Marianne Zweifel visit www.unirevisa.ch Read More
When presenting a music production, how can we have the focus on the music and still create a visually engaging experience? This question is at the core of my new Flash website for the CD production "Travelogue - Chinese Soul" by Jazz musician, Berkelee alumnus and old friend Werner Fischer. Werner and his chinese ...Read More
palliative ch is the swiss association of over 2000 palliative care professionals and institutions. On a technical level the main goals of the relaunch of the website were make the content editable for the client, over time there will probably be several groups of ...Read More
ursisyoga.ch is a new Flash-Site for Yogateacher Ursi Zweifel. Ursi is a dedicated follower of 'Viniyoga', where each excercise is adapted to the person, not the other way round. Concept, text: Marianne Zweifel Screendesign: Kate Isler Flash/ActionScript by yours truly Read More
Brave new globalized world: I, a webdeveloper based in Switzerland, collaborate in 'real time' in a political campaign in the antipodean parts of the globe - and it feels perfectly normal. GetUp! is an independent political movement to build a progressive ...Read More
In view of its upcoming 10-year anniversary, the Tüftellabor Zürich commisioned me with the creation of a new website. Founded by the visionary Martin Flüeler and generously funded by a patron with a passion for new, holistic ideas, the groundbreaking TüLab, ...Read More
These 4 works are from July 2009. Bigger Pictures are avalable here. Auf dem Tisch in der Raummitte ein kreisförmiger, beidseitig bedruckter Bildstreifen: "360° - innen und aussen" Die Aussenseite zeigt ein Serie von Brustbildern eines sitzenden Mannes, der sich um die eigene ...Read More
My mother takes pride in sending up to 100 handwritten seasons greeting cards each year - so I guess that my longstanding interest in greeting-cards is genetic. My first large Flash/Actionscript project, dating back to the last millenium, was an editor ...Read More
Over the past 20 years, Italian-born Andrea Savini has photographed some of the biggest names in the worlds of fashion and celebrity, picking up several major prizes on the way, including Spain’s most prestigious press award, FotoPress, and the Silver ...Read More
The line generalization I had blogged about some time ago caught the attention of the makers of today's arguably coolest online drawing application - myoats.com. They asked me to add the line-smoothing and to provide a mechanism that allows the users to easily edit the strokes by dragging control ...Read More
Innovex.ch, the swiss daughter of Quintiles Transnational, is a leading service provider for the pharmaceutical industry. Now setting sail with a simple and airy webpage. Concept, screendesign and texts by unaidea.ch, interaction- and sounddesign, programming by me. [Update April 2010] In the course ...Read More
A brand-new website for Basel based communications agency 'una'. Focused on highlighting the power of ideas in promoting the client's business. Bold, vigorously minimalistic and a tad aggressive. Kate Isler: Screendesign Achim Doetsch: Text Andreas Weber: Programming, Interaction-, Motion- and Sounddesign www.unaidea.ch Read More
I have the pleasure to give a lecture on the use of Flash and Photoshop in the postproduction of StopMotion movies. It takes place at the ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), in Tobi Hobi's course 'Animation und plastisches Gestalten' The course files, ...Read More
The garden division of Eternit (Switzerland) AG, lead by Daniel Hauri, decided to further emphasize the design competency of their products by enriching the online experience with portraits of the people behind the award-winning designs. Now for the first time a ...Read More
Copywriter Marianne Zweifel edits her profile and portfolio on freelancerportal.ch, affording her the ease of use of a user-friendly CMS. Her own domain, zweifel.gl used to be a mere redirect and remained invisible. This desideratum in her personal branding strategy prompted her to contact me. Together we ...Read More
Impressed by the immaculate beauty of 3d vectors, I've been impatient to use Mathieu Badimons FIVe3d in an actual project. So I was very excited, when Eva Eidenbenz from the 'Fachstelle für Gleichstellung' (office for gender equality) of the City of Zurich asked me ...Read More
The update focuses on the new adhesive ct40. One of its surprising characteristics: it builds up its adhesive power under pressure. We asked ourselves how we can share this experience with the users of the website and came up with this interactive ...Read More
A pure Flashsite to showcase the Basel based architectural firm quade-architects.ch Together with Kate Isler from www.unaidea.ch Read More
Yesterday the portfolio site for visual artist and Yoga teacher Gerda Tobler went online: Due to a really tight budget we opted for a HTML solution, with a sprinkle of PHP for the main navigation. For once Flash is only used for ...Read More
I'm very happy to announce that a couple of days ago our new website colltex.com went online: colltex is the leading brand for ski skins - check out the Sevice > Video section to find out what this is all about and how ...Read More
Today Silvana and I submitted three 10 second Stop-Animation Movies to the 'minimotion' Film Festival. Have a look at the movies here. Update: more than 100 works have been submitted. Our movie 'Countup' was shortlisted and came in 5th! Read More
This Wednesday I have the pleasure to give a short presentation at the Meeting of the Swiss Flash User Group (SFUG) in Zürich. Switzerland has 4 official languages and most Websites are created in several languages - as a webdeveloper I tried to ...Read More
[Update June 2011: the technique outlined here was used in several projects, e.g. www.whenithinkofjapan.org and www.mindreader.motiondraw.com] Scenario I A simple shape tween of a box that morphs into a circle. Would be nice if we could add an elastic easing... Scenario II A special ...Read More
detail: I don't remember when I did this multipart drypoint print - must have been around 1999. The small 'prelude' on the left consists of 6 'tiles', the main piece on the right consists of 14 x 7 = 98 tiles. While it makes ...Read More
Looking at the photos from our trip to Beijing and Shanghai (Mai 2007), Silvana asked me what I thought about making a stencil print of this picture: (click on thumbnails to view bigger image) It displays a lotos pattern on the floor in ...Read More
A series of 8 paintings (stencil print over ink) The ink paintings are about 2 years old and the result of an experiment which did not work out as intended: a tiny little bit of black ink was diluted in a lot of water. ...Read More
Metamorphosis - since a long time I'm fascinated by shape morphs, one shape gradually transforming, 'morphing' into another shape. So fascinated that I looked for ways of creating them through code, opening many interesting possibilities. After an early attempt, I used the same ...Read More
A way to reduce the number of points to describe graphical shapes and to get nice, smooth lines. Implements Lang Simplification and McMaster's Slide Averaging Algorithm. Try the demo: Line Generalization AS2 (developed and published originally in 2005) Update: AS3 version of the core classes ...Read More