Michael Beck

Tolstraat 188
1074 VN Amsterdam
michbex@gmx.de
+31 618 231 009

Sekunde

2010
Typedesign

Dokumentation

2010
MacOSX 10.5

A hack of a common Mac Operating System to disolve a subjective structure of concepts. in order to document the space at the "Nieuwe Vide", Haarlem for the period of the collaborative project "The Object Lag". Assessable with the arrow keys of a modified keyboard.

Machine

2009 - Part of Mutation Series
found pieces of metal

A machine as translation of digital fragmentation into the physical. Handdriven and based on a simple mechanical alphabet, the machine allows the basic mathematical shape of a tetrahedron to be cut out of clay. The construct serves to reproduce volumetric threedimensional computer-models.

Product

2009 - Part of Mutation Series
Clay

The object is a low-res-reproduction of a cup, produced on the Tetrahedron-Cutter.

Construction Manual

2009 - Part of Mutation Series
Print Publication
210 mm x 297 mm
Analogue B/W Copies
60 Pages

This is a translation of the machine concept into printed matter. Front and back of each machine-part are reproduced on A3-Paper with an analogue copy-machine. Folded to A4 and variously compiled, the copies create new machine parts. Two abstracts in the middle part of the compilation outline the idea of the machine at different stages of the workprocess.

Prime

2008/2009
Typedesign

1 2 1

Print Publication
2009
210 mm x 237 mm
92 Pages
22 dif. Papers

Transcription of the attributes of a can of installation foam into a printed matter.

Datenschleuder Magazine

2009
105 mm x 148 mm

Redesign of the Chaos-Computer-Club-Magazine.

Typemanual

2008
Print Publication
210 mm x 297 mm
Collaboration

Design of one chapter and the cover.

Raphael

2008
Typedesign

Fahrenheit 451

2008
Print Publication
105 mm x 180 mm
Collaboration

Redesign of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". Cover and 6 inside pages.

Voice Over

2008
Handrawn Posters
594 x 841 mm
Cooperation with

A series of three posters as selfreflecting medium in public space. The lyrics of "Don't let me be misunderstood" by "The Animals" give voice to neon-colored A0-Sheets.

Anouncement Poster

2008
Fontdesign
Silkscreened
1189 mm x 841 mm

For the "LOVE & HATE"-evening as a part of the film-screening-series "SHOW ME WHAT".

Tiles

2007
Typedesign

Relating Bookshelf

2007
Digital Photography

The content of a Bookshelf, piled up in the order the publications subjectively refer to each other.

Tetrahedron Object I

2007
Metal, Plastic, Duck-Tape

Foldable construction of Antennas.

Exhibition Catalogue

2007
200 pages
260 mm x 310 mm

Redesign of an Catalogue for the exhibition "Baroque in the Vatican" of the "Kunsthalle Bonn". Including Fontdesign for Cover.

Announcement Poster

2005
Inkjet-Plot
841 mm x 1189 mm

Announcement Poster for a lecture series at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg.

Announcement Poster

2005
Inkjet-Plot
840 mm x 420 mm

Announcement Poster for Leonardo Sonnoli as a lecturer at the "Stilvorlagen" course of lectures at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg.

Aniversary Poster

2005
Inkjet-Plot
420 mm x 840 mm

Anniversary Poster on the occasion of the 110th birthday of Lazlo Moholy Nagy.

Interfacedesign

2005
Cooperation with

Interfacedesign for SCULP, an application to create an interactive realtime 3D environment.