Created this advertorial for SONY/ATV Music Publishing Germany who congratulates their nominees for the German Musikautorenpreis 2018. The nominees include Prinz Pi, Kool Savas and Kreator. The ad which is featured in Germany’s professional music magazine MusikWoche plays with concave and convex shapes and typography.

For SONY/ATV Music Publishing Germany JOTOPIA | Johannes Bayer created this double CD tray featuring music by nobel laureate Bob Dylan as a gift for special partners and friends of the company. As the first CD contains originals by Bob Dylan the second one encompasses cover-versions by artists such as Beck, Sufjan Stevens, Queens Ot The Stone Age, Jeff Buckley and Rage Against The Machine.
The artwork is taken from the original music video Subterranean Homesick Blues from 1965 and features quotes by Bob Dylan depicting the original type of the plates shown in the clip.

SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES BY BOB DYLAN FROM 1965

Together with Christian Schega from CALIMEDIA, Johannes Bayer | JOTOPIA developed an experimental typographic spot for SONY/ATV Music Publishing Germany to direct their this year’s season’s greetings. The spot makes use of analogue and mechanical animation techniques. Special thanks to photographer Sabine Kress for providing the studio to us!

Art-Direction and installation by Johannes Bayer | JOTOPIA
Camera and video-editing by Christian Schega | CALIMEDIA
Music by Wincent Weiss

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO VIEW THE SPOT ON SONY/ATV’S WEBSITE

Click on the image to view the animation on SonyATV's website

SONY/ATV Germany – Experimental Type In Motion

Handlettering for the outro of the clip

MAKING OF

The making of the spot in one minute. Music by Christian Schega

For Augsburg based advertising agency Hutter & Donner Jotopia | Visual Noise developed and illustrated ten superhero characters to visualise the incredible individual strenghts and skills of each member and their mighty power when they join forces.

MAKING OF
Idea sketch, rough draft, final drawing, coloration and illustration.

Had a pleasant trip from Texel, via Amsterdam, Den Haag, Leiden, Rotterdam, Renesse, Brugge, Gent and Stonehenge to Brighton. Instead of shooting 100000000 digital pictures I contented myself with recording the journey with pen, watercolor and paper. The result is a complete leporello-sketchbook. Use scroll wheel or drag and drop the picture to navigate through 280 cm of urban sketching. Also take a look at the sketchbooks from Denmark to Munich here and to the Lofoten Islands here.

Together with Tobias Gallé from PikDrei Johannes Bayer (Jotopia | Visual Noise) guided a workshop with students of Visual Communication (Annalena Can, Elena Mendolia-Callela, Fabian Kargl, Lars Siebert, Leonie Dietrich and Luca Büttner) in context of the B-Seite-Festival at PORT25 in Mannheim.
The workshop on the theme of “XYZ” combined aspects of physical installed elements in a dimension of 4 to 6 meters and virtual video-mappings and sought to fuse two- and three-dimensional elements such as flats and spaces.
Thanks a lot to Zacharias Zschenderlein for providing the music to us!

THE FINAL RESULT

MAKING OF: THREE CREATIVE AND INTENSIVE WORKSHOP DAYS OF MAD FUN IN ONE MINUTE

Left to right: Tobias Gallé, Leonie Dietrich, Fabian Kargl, Elena Mendolia-Callela, Luca Büttner, Lars Siebert, Annalena Can, Johannes Bayer

Jotopia | Visual Noise developed the design for Daniel Biskup’s new book “Russland – Perestroika bis Putin” with an introduction from Gerhard Schröder. The book has been published by Salz und Silber for whose logo, corporate design and screen design Jotopia | Visual Noise is responsible as well.
A look inside soon …

Sony/ATV Music Publishing is the leading music publisher with a catalogue of more than 3 million copyrights, ranging from songs by iconic names including The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Carole King, Queen and The Rolling Stones to contemporary superstars such as Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Lady Gaga, Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran.
Jotopia | Visual Noise was commissioned to develop the artwork for Sony/ATV’s latest christmas giveaway double vinyl LP for customers named “Laut Leise” featuring a collection of rather gentle songs (white LP) contrasting a tracklist of louder songs (red LP). The artwork which shows Kate Bush, John Lennon, Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger drawn with only one line makes use of UV-varnishings and cuttings.