Mexico in München

Haus der Kunst in München

This year in august i will lend my "mexican" Painting to the House of art in München. I got the chance the be part of the "Kunstsalon 2012" Exhibition. It is an international competition for artists around the world. It will take place in the super cool building of the Haus der Kunst. The art exhibition starts on the 27.07 and it ends to the 26.08.2012.

Dias de Muertos is the titel of the painting i will show. I did it last year after a longer mexico trip.

Das schreibt der BBK Blog über den Kunstsalon 2012: "Der KUNSTSALON ist einer der wichtigsten Leistungsshows für aktuelle Strömungen der zeitgenössischen Kunst in München mit nationaler und internationaler Beteiligung."

Haus der Kunst

carrot toy

The carrot design toy got now some paint. Besides i sell now one of the first broccoli vinly figure i did on ebay, if you are interested, the auction runs till saturday. Here is the link...

broccoli toy

The harvest of this week was super good, i have now a bunch of new broccoli figure. I work now with a different smooth cast material. The dry time is a few minutes and the quality of the surface is also much better than before.

Thanks to all of you who follow this blog, your comments and feedback made my work better.



The figures will be available soon.

carrot design toy

Yes the broccoli got a family member, a crazy screaming carrot. I built it in cad some days ago, got today the 3d print, now the figure is ready for color. I also ordert me some new kind of resin, so there will be soon some more clone vegetables in a while.

beachlor thesis is ready to take off

Wow i can´t belive it, tomorrow i will start to work on my thesis. In about three months and some days i will be done with my industrial design study. I left lovely Pforzheim to work in cooperation with Recaro Aircraft Seating on my thesis with the theme "business class seat".

I already worked with Recaro. After my third term i did an six week intership working on a fair building design. Time flies so fast...

broccoli production

This are the first ten broccoli design figures. I made them during this week, they are out of casting resin. In some of the figures i mixed some green pigments.

Next step is to polish the surface a bit, than they get paint.

Second Kollabo Gallery

Last weekend Kollabo had the second Vernissage, we presented our Idea at the "Werkschau 2012" in the university in Pforzheim. Many People came to see Catalog and Paintings and get more information about Kollabo. We also did a little update on the Kollabo Homepage.

Here i have some impressions for you.

  

broccoli mold

The Broccoli reproduction process arrived the next stange. I started to build an silicone mold today. All you have to do, is to fix the figure (with wax) and build a little box around it, than you fill it with the liquid silicone. To get the air out of the silicone you have to put the box in a vacuum chamber, let it get hard and cut the figure out with a scalpel.

I filled the empty mold with wax, because i want to produce figures out of aluminim.

As you see i got this blue zombie broccoli out of the mold, but it´s the second firgure so what ever... But i wouldn´t get so fast to the results without the help of my friend Helena, thank you so much, you gonna be a super good jewelery designer.

Electric charging station

One of my Semester projects was to design a electric charging station for electric vehicles. The project was in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institut and the company Langmatz. The concept should fit in modern citys and we had to find a way to protect the plugs from vandalism. So my team member and i desinged the charge tube.

Here the doors of the staition are closed. You log in with a card or a NFC chip in your cellphone. then you choose the plugsystem you need and the corresponding door opens. You plug in, and save the cable in a little clip under the door. The door closes and and the station will load your vehicle.

On the top see a lighting led bar which shows you the loading process.

Last week we presented our idea to the people of Langmatz and Fraunhofer. On this link you see the other teams and a report about the projects.

link nummero uno

link nummero dos

This weekend we present the concept at the Werkschau 2012 in the University in Pforzheim.

As you see in the picture, we had some hard working days behind us. Thanks to Natalie Klinger for beeing such a cool teammate.

Coming soon, Broccoli design figure.

Broccoli toy

The vegetable is finally painted. After some layers of paint the figure is how i want it. Under the color is some primer. Now i´m searching for the right method to produce more of them. here you see the single steps how it became a screaming colorful figure. 

Thank you for all the positive feedback, i´ll keep you up to date about this little broccoli guy.

Laser sintering broccoli design toy

I got my model of the little broccoli i bouild some days ago. I built it in CAD and sent the datas to an laser sintering company. Today i got it by post, so now i can start soon to give "him" some color.

I think i will work with colors like in the rendering, a dark green for the head and a soft green for the body.

Broccoli Design Toy

May i introduce to you, the Screaming Broccoli. If you take a look at my last post, you see some pictures of vegetables with funny plastic eyes. Out of that idea, giving vegatables a face, i got the idea of making my own design toy. Since a long time i want to make one of that figures but i had no idea how it should look like.

I would lie if i would tell you there is a reason why the figure screams. I think it makes it more funny.

This is the process how a real broccoli becomes a toy. The CAD screenshot in the middle is an earlier model, as you see the screaming on the right is much better.

As next i will finish the CAD model, than i will make a 3D print out of it. So in this sense, stay hungry, stay foolish for broccoli.

invasion

These two guys are the result of a funny evening with some friends in my kitchen, that happens when you combine some vegetables with plastic moving eyes and some creativity.

But please dont think this is the only thing i do right now, currently i work several product design projects, i will post some results in a while. And of course there is work to do with kollabo art trading, we are planing our next exhibition for February.

So there will be more about product design and i hope you also see an alien in the right (it´s a celery) and a hand waving tree in the left picture.

Art vernissage

Last Weekend was the first art vernissage of Kollabo. During two days we presented 13 paintings and 3 fine art prints. Thanks to the newspaper and blogs which wrote about us, we had successful two days in the gallery "Brötzinger Art" in Pforzheim.

 

The men behind the Kollabo GbR, Stefan Hermann, Peter Wiechulla and Patrick Leyendecker.

art trading

Yesterday i founded with two of my super good friends an art trading buisness, the Kollabo GbR. Tomorrow we have our first vernissage in a gallery. Thanks to my partners, you are perfection...

New fine art prints

Kollabos new fine art prints are now available on the Homepage.

The motives are out of the limited catalog of 2012.

These Photos are printed on "aluminium dibond", a high quality way of printing, protected from UV light. If you click in the Picture you get directly to the Kollabo page, there you have the option to order each, or maybe all of them?

Kollabo Art Catalog

Art – Exclusiv – Fair

„Kollabo“ a collaboration of three designers, Stefan Hermann, Peter Wiechulla and me Patrick Leyendecker. We founded this group to support jung artists and give them the chance to make their first step into the art-buisness.

We present this works of art in a limited catalog, the "Kollabo". It comes once a year on the market. Only with the catalog you are able to buy or rent paintings.

Because we support the artists, the biggest part of the revenues goes to the artist.

Additional to the catalog we sell several art prints, out of the "Kollabo" on our Homepage.
http://www.kollaboart.com/

Kollabo works together with art connoisserus and artists to find new selections for the next catalog.

Soon there will be a vernissage...

bicycle

Still work on the frame...

Wish you all a merry Christmas and some relaxed days.

design of a bike frame

I had an idea in my mind today which i had to visualize. On the left you see the key sketch, right is a short CAD model. The frame is similar to one i build some month ago, but this time i worked with some little "knicks". They have the same angels, the form should give the frame more dynamic. I know that would be later potential places for a frame break, but it´s not impossible with the right construction. more soon.

the end of the 10.th ortszeit 2011

After nine months and eigth gallerys in two countrys my painting "Warp" is finaly back. It´s a wonder that after that big trip it has no single scratch or something. I´m happy that everthing went so well with this touring exhibition, and i got an other offer for a gallery, what a good day.

Painting process

Name of the new painting is now, dias de muertos.

Here is the transformation my newest painting had. It´s definitely the one i spent the most time on, and it´s the spontaneous Painting i did. I had no plan how it should look like in the end.



About the size, it´s 2 meters long and about 80 cm high. The frame is out wood, the material of the canvas is nessel.

Mexican inspired painting

I finished my next painting today, this time i combined my graphic style with an figurative style. I traveled twice to mexico this year, the mexican paintings and the art with skulls insired me making this painting in a "mexican style".

Orszeit art exhibition in Pyskowice Poland

In this week i had my painting exposed in Pyskowice, a little town in Poland, a name i cant pronounce. Because i cant visit the exhibition i was happy to find this pictures of the opening. Here you find the rest.

Next painting is in process, more soon.