Wieder einmal dürfen wir dem Landschaftsarchitekturbüro Lohaus & Carl zu einem gewonnenen Wettbewerb gratulieren. Besonders schön ist das Gefühl, wenn die Bilder, die hierzu beigetragen haben, einem persönlich am Herzen liegen. In diesem Fall, der Umgestaltung des Harburger Hafens, konnte ich meine erste Begegnung mit Hamburg in der Nachtperspektive bildlich darstellen. Kühl, feucht und neblig…und einfach schön.
In January Paul and I visited my old Heimat Hamburg and met a lot of old friends and clients. So we stopped also at Zsolts and Nikos studio to have a peek what and how they were doing.
Zsolt Szeibert and Nikolaus Türk own on3studio. They are creating architectural illustrations and despite the use of rendering-software those illustrations aren’t yet some other renderings but artwork, at least as far as their clients let them go with their artistry.
Of course there are models to be mentioned, not the least auralab, however Zsolt and Niko are creating some style unprecedent in German architectural illustration. Interestingly Zsolt told me, that he is completely fed up with all this possibilities of the rendering software (in their case Cinema4D with VRay). He prefers a quick’n'dirty approach, using very rough renderings and doing all the fine work in Photoshop.
This morning we received an e-mail telling news about Charles dePicciottos new website. I like the cool and relaxed, yet classic appearance. The good thing about Flash-websites is the control over typography. There are downsides however: it’s impossible to copy text, it’s difficult to change content and – most importantly – it’s impossible to link a specific page of the site. Considering the functionality we think it was still a good choice.
We were pleased to admire pictures of the finished project we illustrated some years ago: four townhouses at the prestigious Bebelallee, Hamburg (Photographs by Klaus Frahm, Hamburg):
