http://textpattern.com/ http://www.britzpetermann.com/ Sat, 18 May 2013 16:56:13 CEST New Alongside Projects We tested our new photostudio and realized two alongside projects. More pictures on André’s visual logbook Leciel.




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/new-alongside-projects Fri, 10 May 2013 09:48:43 CEST Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/new-alongside-projects Majic

]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/majic Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:39:42 CET Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/majic Faces First impressions of a small upcoming shopwindow installation project. Something with faces! More soon…




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/faces Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:05:58 CET Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/faces Interview in Boxhorn magazine We are part in the N° 26 of the design student magazine Boxhorn from the FH Aachen.
We talked about our work, daily business, design education and a lot of other topics.
Very high-end produced magazine, it´s worth to risk a view. Out soon!




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/interview-in-boxhorn-magazine Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:59:32 CEST Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/interview-in-boxhorn-magazine FertighausWelt Edutainment Point Projectdetails

Idea & Realization

The requirement was to inform and entertain the visitors in a pleasant way.
We decided to split the screen in a part for adults and in a part for kids.
The adult content shows one of the core topic the association has: energy efficiency. Short and simple animations explain the visitors different ways to optimize houses to become more efficient.
For the kids we created a well known monster combination game. Four expressive monsters could be recombined by changing their heads, bodies and legs. For the smallest kids we implemented Mr. Zufall who is doing the job by fortune.




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/fertighauswelt-edutainment-point Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:13:06 CEST Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/fertighauswelt-edutainment-point Vodafone Flagshipstore Cologne Projectdetails

Idea

The visitor becomes part of the shop. He is leaving something behind, either by using the installation intentially or by just walking around the detection area.
We created two variants types:

Interactive 3D Painting

The visitors create 3D like painting. A 3,5 × 3,5m detection area in front of the display transforms the visitor into a “digital brush”. Properties such as the velocity or position of the person define the drawing style. Thus So, after hours, the painting reflects the actions and activities of all visitors.

Particel Silhouettes

The display acts as a mirror. The mirror image of each visitor dissolves into thousands of individual particles. If the user focuses the installation, his mirror image is recorded on a 10sec replay and becomes a fix part of the gallery. The natural raster of 6×6 individual displays is used to display the replays. A lightweight design was created to reflect the record process, acting as a call to action and guide for the visitor.

Realisation

6 Kinect sensors track an area of 3,5 × 3,5m in front of the display, with an height of about 2 meters and a minimum distance to the screen of about 0,5 meters. The Kinect image is processed by 3 computers and passed to another machine, that merges all the 6 images to a homogeneous coordinate system. The two visual clients are written in Java based on Processing and OpenGL. Those applications receive the merged kinect image, detect the people and use the individual point cloud to create some fancy stuff. The deterministic garbage collector of the JRockit VM ensures the required 60 frames a second. An ATI FirePro™ V9800 provides a joint view of 2160×3840 pixels channeling trough 4 mini-display ports.




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/vodafone-flagshipstore-cologne Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:11:23 CEST Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/vodafone-flagshipstore-cologne Wallpaper for "The Fox is Black" André had the great pleasure to create a wallpaper for Bobby Solomons blog. Grab one if you like it!




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/wallpaper-for-the-fox-is-black Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:41:08 CEST Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/wallpaper-for-the-fox-is-black Awesome Poster & Card Series Alongside project by André. Type mixed with graphic and old etching visuals.
More visuals & scetches on his personal webpage called Le Ciel.




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/awesome-poster-card-series Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:22:01 CEST Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/awesome-poster-card-series We shoot to fame The WEAVE magazin features us with our “All Eyes On You” installation, to the topic kinect and its use in experimental and commercial use. Thank you for that.




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/we-shoot-to-fame Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:18:28 CET Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/we-shoot-to-fame B-Seite Festival for Visual Arts and Contemporary Culture The guys from the festival invited us to show our shop window project All Eyes On You.
It started last weekend and continue this week with a lot of workshops.

“This non-commercial festival deals with all varieties of modern visual arts, explores media intersections and opens up new perspectives, a different way to look at new trends and developments. Video art, computer art, interactive projection and light design are the cornerstones of this event, discussions, lectures and workshops will complete the offering.”

If you are in the Mannheim area check it out, nice visual art, nice people, nice area. Thank you guys from the B-Seite Crew, it is great to be part of it.

Links

Festival page
Facebook profile




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/b-seite-festival-for-visual-arts-and-contemporary-culture Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:41:38 CET Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/b-seite-festival-for-visual-arts-and-contemporary-culture More Than Words Next one! Episode N° 3 is now online.




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/schau-number-3 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:37:37 CET Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/schau-number-3 Just Wave Visit our second shop window installation.




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/schau-number-2 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:02:00 CET Nico Zimmermann http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/schau-number-2 Schau!

Schau!

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  • Kind Shop window installation
  • Client Britzpetermann
  • Our Part Idea & realization

Since our formation we try to realize a passion project at the year end. Last year we developed the visual cover for the musician Karlo Jurina This year Schau! is born. A series of interactive shop window installations.

Keep your eyes open for the next editions.

All Eyes On You

The series is starting with “All Eyes On You”, a bunch of different sized eyes who follow the passers-by. Simple concept, but the effect was immense. The passers-by loved it especially the kids react with the installation without any inhibitions.

Realization

We used a high quality projector and semi-matt foil from the hardware store to project the eyes to the window. They are rendered by a WebGL frontend using a shader sphere effect. The detection is performed by OpenFrameworks and the Kinect.
An Arduino controlled servo motor, pushing a button on the projector remote, is turning the installation on at 4pm and off at 11pm.


Just Wave

In this episode three-dimensional stripes stand up when people walk by and piano sounds are played according to the peoples position and speed.

Realization

Basically we used the same hardware setup, but we added amplifier and outdoor speakers to be able to play sounds.


The sounds are played by midi nodes which are send through a nodejs socket-bridge to Apples GarageBand.


The projection planes where cut from plexiglas and semi-matt foil was glued to it.


More Than Words

Animated by the 90ties-male-adolescence-dream Samantha Fox, the passers-by can change the words of a random sentence by “touching” the window. Also color and font are changing randomly. The visual outcome is supported by a machine voice generated by apples speech, speaking or singing the originated sentence with randomly selected voices.
A button called “Mr. Zufall” builds sentences by fortune.

Realization

We used the same hardware which we used by the episodes before. The frames are standard picture frames covered with semi-matt foil.




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/schau Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:38:38 CET Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/schau Seat IAA Kinect Game Projectdetails

Client

The Agency Vorwärts GmbH from cologne asked us to do the complete development, including graphic design, development and installation.

Realization

Our setup of choice was a MacMini with a KINECT sensor attached and a 37” Display.

We used processing to program a server that gathers the kinect data, calculates relevant depth information via openCV framework and sends the calculated data via socket connection to a flash application which did the visualization.

We love

Playing with Kinect Sensor.
Having fun testing over and over again, always breaking the record.
Working with Vorwärts was a pleasure very straight briefings, lots of freedom in design and development for us and very nice contacts.

Links




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/seat-iaa-kinect-game Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:02:37 CEST Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/portfolio/seat-iaa-kinect-game New Face at Britzpetermann Stijn van der Pol now sitting behind our shop window and taken the last free place at our table.
Stijn, original from the Netherlands, works as a freelancer specialized designing web solutions for the fashion and music industry.
Beside that he passes the time with poetry and delivering his shirt label when seven becomes fourteen to the next level. We are glad have you on board Stijn. Be the future with us!

Stijn´s great portfolio




]]> http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/new-face-at-britzpetermann Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:41:48 CEST Andre Britz http://www.britzpetermann.com/blog/new-face-at-britzpetermann