Archive for 2006

This is the result of my bachelor project which was developed over the duration of one year in a group of 13 students. The basic idea was to create a learning game that orientates itself towards modern computer games. Since most pieces of learning software are rather poor developed and designed, we wanted to create something that is actually fun to play and to learn with. Subject of the game is the computer itself, nowadays, the computer is still a mystery to most people. They are afraid of breaking something and are overcharged in cases of errors. The goal was to explain ...

bannedbooks was supposed to be a platform for writers & authors who have no publisher to support them. The website should give those people the opportunity to show their work to a large community of interested people who can then use a print-on-demand service to get a copy. The requirements were: WordPress as a blogging system, and an integrated management system for the authors, books and orders. Sadly the project never came over the first phase although the system was ready to launch. My part was the modification of WordPress and the development of several plugins to realise the requirements. I worked ...

Again a project for a course. "interactive communication" and the task was to tell a story with interactive elements. I developed a virtual DJ set with 2 players that can play song simultanously. You can swap each players output from left to right, can change the volume, fast forward and backward etc. much like real turntables. There are 5 songs predefined, you are able to enter your feelings or your mood concerning one of these songs which will be saved alongside all other entrys to this specific song in a database. While mixing, the equalizer shows you the peak out of ...

The Janosch Film & Medien AG asked me to develop a blog-like webpage where they could store important news and information and email them to previously signed-up people. Just like a newsletter page. I chose WordPress as my favourite tool for this and developed some plugins to cover the task. The navigation is build in Flash and retrieves its information directly from the backend in realtime. Sadly this thing is put off at the moment... hope it comes back to life someday...i really like it. kind: commercial work

Website for a company from Bremen importing finest coffee from all around the globe. The coffee is sold in bookstores and comes in a nice metal case. The website is a modified version of the WordPress blogging tool to keep changes simple for the client. I was responsible for design, concept and implementation. kind: commercial work