Spotted the Destroying- and Building Jotopia type- and character-illustration in the new Stickerbomb Letters book by London/Jakarta-based creative studio The SRK. The book which is published by Laurence King, features hundreds of peelable stickers by artists, designers, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world. Also read a small Q&A with Ryo Sanada from The SRK at our small but fine online magazine about art, design and traveling! The Building Jotopia illustration is also available on T-shirts at KatRock’s online store for art, shirts and prints ChickenOrBeef.de. Only a few still in stock!

You need some decoration for your notebook, your skatedeck, your table soccer, your fridge or your travel bag? – Don’t hesitate and grab a stickerpack at ChickenOrBeef.de!!!

Only a few Jotopia basic-shirts left at ChickenOrBeef.de! The basics come paperboxed with the popular 2-color-screenprinted logo-application on the front, woven label in the neck and additional label on the back seam. So don’t hesitate and get yours at KatRock’s superduper online-store!

The Boxjellyfish shirt is finally available for sale at KatRock’s Jotopia-store ChickenOrBeef.de! It comes with a high-quality 4-color-screenprint on the back, a 2-color-screenprint on the front and precious woven labels in the neck and on the back seam. Enjoy with salt and vinegar!
NOTE: This shirt is also available for the snappy dressed lady for the first time!

Hey out there – get heaps of Jotopia-stickers with every order (shirts, prints and buttons) at ChickenOrBeef.de!

The ChickenOrBeef-Magazine is finally online!!! This magazine is about traveling, cool places in the world to be, amazing artists, striking designers and other inspiring and interesting stuff.

This magazine and its content depends on YOU, guys!!!
• You have been to a beautiful place and would like to share your experiences and pictures with us?
• You are a design-addict and want to show your amazing work to the rest of the world?
Feel free to submit your stuff and get your feature there!
Moreover connect yourself with ChickenOrBeef and Jotopia on Facebook here.

KatRock & JO wish a FROHES NOISE 2012!!!

Jotopia Visual Noise is featured with more than ten pages in the latest T-Shirt compendium by Zeixs.
Moreover you can become a Chicken Or Beef-fan on Facebook lately!!!

Here comes the new Jotopia T-Shirt design. It is inspired by our trip to Australia and snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, where you have to be really aware of highly lethal box jellyfish and always should wear such fancy stinger suits. In case you got stung by one of these cute little sweeties you have at the most about 50 seconds to disinfect the wounds with vinegar, which is desposed at most of the beaches at the west coast of Australia and to start with cardial and lung massage. Don’t worry! – Having always worn such suits, you will still have the pleasure of new Jotopia designs in the future. The Box Jellyfish Shirt is available for sale at KatRock’s Jotopia-Super-Online-Store ChickenOrBeef.de now!!!
Feel free to drop us a line in case you want to preorder this shirt. Enjoy with salt and vinegar!

Jotopia Visual Noise developed the corporate design, key visual and finally the basic concept and design for the website of the project WIR! Mannheim as an art director at Signum communication. The project by the cultural office of the city of Mannheim is sponsored by the H.W. & J. Hector foundation and supports young, creative and talented people who are into music, dancing and art. So if you are one of these, don’t hesitate to join the rising WIR!-crowd.

Had been off for a trip to Denmark. While enjoying “Spunk”-liquorice and click mix-candy we had the pleasure to experiment a bit with tilt-shift-photography and miniature faked pictures. Find the pictures as usual in the Jotopia-travel-photography area.

Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz releases Typodarium 2012 featuring the font Racetrack by Jotopia | Visual Noise. This font is inspired by childhood memories and carrera slot car battles together with dad on christmas eves back in the days. There is a 2D cut as well as a 3D version which allows to build custom racetracks.

Because of the huge demand, we decided to make the Jotopia Octopus Shirt available for sale at ChickenOrBeef.de.

Ladies and gentlemen, you want to get rid of your money or just simply to reward yourself for your achievements in everyday business? At ChickenOrBeef.de – the official Jotopia Online Super Store – you can do both: spend your money on the one hand and become happy by original Jotopia goods on the other hand. So don’t hesitate to have a visit at ChickenOrBeef and get screenprinted Jotopia-Shirts, buttons and original, handgrafted and limited Jotopia-Screenprints.

Zeixs releases three new design books called Websites 3, Graphic Design 3 and Letterheads & Business Cards 2 featuring about 26 pages full of designs and creations by Jotopia | Visual Noise.
Moreover see the pictures of the latest Jobot-Invasion in Zurich/Switzerland by Luckybugs and Rennwiese (many thanks for that!!!) and some updates in Art.

Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) releases an advertising spot for cinemas based on key visuals, illustrations and finally the storyboard done by Jotopia | Visual Noise as an art director at Signum communication. 3D-animation and renderings by Brainyard. If you intend to watch Pirates of the Caribbean or Thor tonight, the chances are high to have the pleasure of viewing the trailer on a huge cinema screen.

Moreover there is a special and rather international interpretation of the key visuals, which are also used for citylights, campaigns and citytrains. This special version displays some of the most exciting and beautiful places on earth such as New York, Sydney, San Francisco, North Cape, … and of course Landau …)
And last but not least you find some updates in Art Direction and Illustration.

After more than a month, we are back from Australia and as promised here comes the brandnew and superfresh Jotopia website. Special thanks go to Mueslee for his big support in coding the website and bringing it to the latest state of the art!!!.
The new structure allows to browse by section or simply to filter the entries by category. Will add more work in the next days specified to each category. So stay tuned and be curious about the upcoming stuff. For all those who had been a bit confused in the last week: it seems that there had been a server breakdown – maybe because of the increasing traffic in the recent time…
As usual you find the latest Travel Pictures from Alice Springs to Darwin and from Cairns to Sydney here. Will also put some Wallpapers in the Downloads section in the next days. Enjoy and feel free to share, like, twitter, become a fan or simply to tell all your friends!

Will head to Sydney tonight! We will be back with heaps of travel-pictures from Alice Springs to Darwin and from Cairns to Sydney, with two heads full of inspiration, tons of new ideas and – tataaaaa – with the BRANDNEW Jotopia website (promised!).

This poster and shirt design was inspired by our trip to Shanghai. Also have a look on our Shanghai Travel Pictures here.

Good things in life come to those who wait: two years after the announcement, seven kilos of pure Graphic Design Inspirations arrived just in time before Christmas! There’s also a CD-cover by Jotopia (done for Livingroom about five years ago …) featured in the book, which is published by daab. More information as usual in the Publications-area. Merry Christmas!

Fresh from the printer: the new dark-chocolate-4-color-screenprinted Building Jotopia shirts with woven label in the neck and additional label on the back seam. Get them at ChickenOrBeef.de

Another parcel – from Australia – containing SemiPermanent 2010, 2nd Edition. “It’s our first hardcover book and is very very cool”, says Andrew from Design is Kinky. There’s nothing more to add and the “Building Jotopia”-illustration made it into the book – side by side to admired artists such as Tara Mc Pherson, Timba Smits and Alex Trochut. By the way, the illustration is the companion piece to “Destroying Jotopia” which was eternalized in the the 1st 2010-Edtion of SemiPermanent. More information in the Publications-area.

Just picked this out of the letter-box: “TypoShirt One”. The book which is published by Index Book from Spain features shirt-designs by Levi’s, Diesel, Billabong, Iriedaily as well as some shirts by Jotopia :-D. More information in the publications-area.

Back from a trip to Beijing and Shanghai you find the pictures as usual in the Travel Photography-Gallery.

This t-shirt-design was inspired by our lovely car which attended us all the way through New Zealand. The shirts will be avaiable for summer!!! Watch out for the announcement on this website.

Just received a copy of the Semi-Permanent 2010 book by Design is Kinky from Australia. Besides to the illustrations by very talented and highly skilled artists from “all over this glorious planet of ours” there’s also the “Destroying Jotopia”-illustration which made it into the book… :-D. Yeeeehaaaa!! More information in the Publications-area.

Updated the Travel Photography-Gallery with some nice pictures from New York, shot with a cheap and analogue medium format camera. In addition there’s a feature/interview about Jotopia at RiotCreations.

Building Jotopia is the companion piece to the Destroying Jotopia illustration. For those who haven’t realized yet: it’s also inspired by a rather well known movie poster…

Back from New Zealand and Fiji there are loads of news to post: first of all there’s a new category called “Travel Photography” which will share with you the latest travel pictures by KatRock and JO in the future. Secondly you find a lot of new Jobots in the Jobot gallery. Last but not least you can comment on graphics, illustrations (and of course travel pictures :-) ) on Flickr lately.

Frohes Noise and a happy new year which starts with the destruction of Jotopia. The T-Shirt-design which will be available in spring was inspired by an old 60’s movie poster (“Gorgo”). It shows a godzilla-like creature having fun while playing around with the tiny buildings of a large city. Will keep you updated…

Jotopia-Posters have been exhibited in the category “Unpublished posters” at the Third International Biennial of the Poster in Bolivia. The exhibiton in a recently refurbished monastery in the heart of the city of La Paz was opened with the presence of the German embassy and showed posters by 15 selected German designers/ studios. Many thanks to Julius Wiedemann from Taschen for the invitation and providing the photos.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Jotopia Table Soccer Federation: Danny Boy Schmitz (33), Magellan (8), KatRock (15) and Zehn (JO) – Logo design and apparel.

Jotopia toothpaste poster design available soon… In addition get six Jotopia wallpapers sized specifically for the iPhone (will work with other phones, too) in the downloads area.

Jotopia is featured in “Freistil Black – Best of European Commercial Illustration ” published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. More information in the Publications-area.

Typographic experiments Part II. Moreover you have the chance to vote for the “If My Eyes Were Blind”-T-Shirt-design at RiotCreations.

T-shirt-collaboration-illustration together with Hombre Uno from the Stick Up Kids. Hombre is responsible for the Hänsel-character while JO did the Gretel. Go and vote for it at RiotCreations. Besides that you can become a Jotopia friend on MySpace latterly.

Jotopia is featured in “Graphic Design 2″, “Best of Poster Design” and “Logo 2″ of the Design-Cube-Series by Zeixs. More information in the publications-area. Note: There’s a little typo gremlin in the book “Logos 2″ – the logos on page 434 are designed by Volker Neumann, whereas the Jotopia-Crest on page 72 (erroneously revealing to Kai Dlugosch) is an absolute Jotopia-Originial… ;-)

T-Shirt-illustration for spring!

Killerbee No.1 created about a year ago got a companion. More updates coming up! Moreover updates in the Jobots-section!

Typographic experiments just for fun…

Logos designed by Jotopia are featured in Gestalten’s latest logo coup “Los Logos 4″. More information in the publications-area.

A further argument to join the rising RiotCrowd: vote “Torpedo Empire” to the top at RiotCreations.

Illustration-collaboration-T-Shirt-Design together with the incredible “RiotAllstars-Team” ;-) Fine and Sahba. Sahba did the Fine-Character, Fine the JO- and JO the Sahba-character… Go an vote for it at RiotCreations.

“NoiseAffairs” and “RiotActivist” now available at RiotCreations.

“Creative-Spiritus-Rector” for RiotCreations. Feel free to submit your favourite shirt-designs for different competitions and get them produced!

Visual Noise in form of a spaghettied tape.

Free illustration.

Trying out good old techniques…

Wacom Europe uses Visual Noise by Jotopia in their product-trailer for their latest flagship – the Cintiq 21UX with a built-in 21.3″ display. Animation by Robert Hranitzky in collaboration with Akira Endo.

Nothing but a biro – Visual Noise “Unplugged” by Jotopia is exhibited at Synth Eastwood-Show, Berlin. The venue is as follows: Monster Ronsons Karaoke Bar, Warschauer Str. 34, 10243 Berlin.

Snowboard-Design for Burton’s high-end Series 13™.

Locked In – A Graphic Novel by Johannes Bayer is featured with two double-pages in komma-magazine (“Kommunikationsdesign aus Mannheim”)

Happy New Year!

“…how can we expect anyone to listen if we are using the same old voice? We need new noise – new art for the real people!” T-Shirt-Design for Noise Affairs to the left, free illustration to the right.

CD-Cover-Design for “Though Lovers Be Lost Love Shall Not” by Benea (R.I.P.). Published in “Supersonic – Visuals for Music”, by Die Gestalten. Note: “TLBLLSN” had insubstantially been released on december 8′th… 2006 – Thanks for the memories!

… found him in PAGE-Magazine’s latest issue (12.2007).

Website-Illustration for the “greatest band ever” ;-) – Noise Affairs. Mad probs to our “six-strings-tamer” Welle doing the coding!

Ladies and Gentlemen, graphics on wooden skate-decks coming up!

Illustration collaboration with the fantastic CousCousKid aka Mathew Star Thomas from Bath/ England on the theme of “horses”. Still in progress…

Another collection of logos, designed in the recent past. “I Love You”-design may be available as textile-print soon ;-)

Jotopia music-artworks are published in “Superonic – Visuals for Music”, by Die Gestalten.

Jotopia is featured at the Frontline – “Best of Newcomer Awards_Grafik Design”-Exhibition on 16.06.2007 / Mandarin Cafe (ex Mojo) / St. Pauli / Hamburg.

Recently the camera-equipment of photographer Claus Geiss transformed into a bloodsucking killerbee…

Jotopia is featured in “Freistil – Best of European Commercial Illustration 3″ published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. Publications-Category upgraded.

Jotopia designed logos for and by the name of Formgeber. Appearance in Tres Logos, published by Die Gestalten.

Some screenshots taken from Locked In – A Graphic Novel by Johannes Bayer. The spreads are designed that they can be connected to each other and can be viewed as a kind of a long leporello.

Jotopia Textile prints and silk-screen-posters available at Chicken Or Beef.

A collection of recently designed logos…

3-dimensional modelled and animated Jotopia-Jobot-Character.

Motion-Type-Sound-Grafics… Credits: music by Yann Tiersen, lyrics by Chrispian Mills.

Just some animated eyecandy for today…

Together with Reka Szentmihaly we designed, coded and launched www.lichtrausch.com.

Cover-Artwork for Visions-Music-Magazine’s ALL AREAS-CD.

Cover- and Logo-Design for Livingroom’s latest release: Displaced Dreamings.

CD-Package- and Logo-Design for Benea’s newest release Lay Your Weapons Down.