themancalledjakob

P O R T F O L I O

Dearest Reader,

I want to give you a quick sight into

the work I do and care most about.

This portfolio is rather a little appe-

tizer than a complete impression of

my versatility and skill. These are just

some works I am quite proud of.

Yours,

Jakob

I like challenges & enjoy hard work

I was born 1985 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

I study G R A P H I C D E S I G N at the Royal Academy in The Hague since 2009.

S T U D Y I N G A B R O A D is a great experience. I learned a lot over myself and the way I work as a Graphic Designer. The Royal Academy is a great place to learn and study with B R O A D I N T E R E S T S.

The final year of my study I want to begin inH O N G K O N G . I would love to enrol for anexchange at your University for a semester.Please, let me convince you of this idea.

I know how to use :

- The Adobe Suite Illustrator Photoshop After Effects Premiere etc . . .

- 3D Programs Cinema 4D 3D Studio MAX

- Programming Php/Css/html/JavaScript Processing Quartz Composer Actionscript C (basics)

- Sound Audacity Logic

- Languages German English Dutch

But I did not only study here. Since last year I started W O R K I N G F O R T H E A C A D E M Y, there I designed posters and identities for academywide and international events.

My internship at ‘P I P S : L A B’, a media artist group, influenced me very much. Working with them is very intense. I enjoy their quick way of working and dedication very much.

I learned a lot about E L E C T R O N I C S ,P R O G R A M M I NG ,A U D I O , general ideas of I N T E R A C T I V E design and creating experiences. Also, how to A P P L Y my skills as a Graphic Designer.

Stedeli jk Museum Den Haag

2010 promotion for a fictive museumcorporate identity, poster, tickets, delivery guy

Whetheryou pay or not you always get a ticket!

Art is the answerbut you’re not gonna like it

We never e-mail, but send a delivery guy in a nice suit + helmet for every single letter

Waves symbolise interference with surrounding — so thoughtful!

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PROGRAME

FOLDER2011

FREE FOR UNCOMMERCIAL USE

INTRODUCTIONThe Director, Jakob Schlötter

one week ago, we had a meeting in our especially for this cause constructed building and figured out that we were not quite sure yet, what we are going to present in 2011.

but then we luckily found a solution that everyone can be a friend of.

Various letters of rejection

Either friendly or brutal

This is the biggest project I did so far and my start for creating work for the academy.The 16 different posters were hanged all throughout the academy and were designed to fit in the buildings architecture nicely. On the day itself I planted 7 Infostations with interactive maps, the programme and general information.

Nieuwe Vragen / New Questions - Festival

2011 promotion for an academywide eventcorporate identity, 16 different posters, interactive map, hand-out map, folder, banners, nice typography & bombs

I did also all digital work, several banners, animated gifs, a mini-homepage and an interactive map for the info station, where you were able to get realtime information about the programme and speakers.

Because of the hugeness of the project, I will show you only an excerpt.

You want perfect health? Move in time and space like you wish? Overcome diseases and ugly bodyparts? Don’t worry, there will be nothing left of the pathetic “you“. Scientology fucks your brain and eats you up. Sorry for using these rude words, but it’s true.

Saproctology

Scientology loves to sue people, that’s one reason why their name is changed.The other is, that the new one just fits better!

Scientology is extremely weird, creepy and anxious.

So has to be my visual response.

Of course the name refers to scientology

Saprobia - nasty bacteria & funghi,decay, etc

Proctology - rectal sickness

scientology is a superweird brainfuck theater, and it has to be

For the undecided:a happiness test!And it’s free!

2010 corporate identity, poster & folder

Sometimes the imagination was strong enough to be nearly self-convincing

In my pupertary age of 14, kurt cobain was chosen as a potential imaginary friend. But the feeling of a monologue never completely vanished

Imaginary Friends

2010 illustrations with tape

Since I was little, I always wanted to have an imaginary friend. but how life plays, I never got one

They’re to buy for 250€ each in my imaginary store.

the pips:lab blog is an interactive website installation. It enables users to blog very quickly and efficient through the use of a physical machine.

I made the graphical interface, and further graphic design attached to it, be it physical or digital.

it is exhibited this year at salone in milano.

The screen attached to the installation explains the function of the machine.

At a certain point, an animated hand points to the buttons. Unlikely most graphical animations, the hand does not stop at the end of the screen but reaches out of it.

This is not only a surprising effect, but also extremely enhances the explanation.

Pips:lab

2012 short glances into my internship at pips:lab in amsterdam

Pips:lab asked me to work for them next to my study.I am very very happy to be able to do that, also they encouraged me in my pursuit of going to Hong Kong.

Being a Graphic Designer, I couldn’t help myself but developing a typeface for them. Actually experiment has a pursuit: they asked me to redesign their logo .

And I am very proud of the blog I made during the 3 months

I was struggling about what i do & why i do it.

To discover this, i inter-viewed people which did interesting things in their private and/or professional lives and tried to find out their reasons and motivations

A tiny spider kisses the books’ spine

Every person i interviewed became his own background collage of things I photo-graphed before and thought would

What & Why

2011 book

To get to know more interesting people, i asked at the end from every interview for another person to interview. This way i hopped around the earth and got to know people i wouldn’t ever have met otherwise

Art theory festival / expertmeeting for art theory teachers from the best dutch and also belgian academies.

The posters were hanging in all of these academies!

Georganiseerd door het Lectoraat ‘Kunstenaarstheoriën en de Artistieke Praktijk’ aan de KABK

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Landelijke Dag van de Theorie

— Expertmeeting voor

theoriedocenten in het kunstonderwijs

Dag van de Theorie& Andrea Fraser

2011 festival & lecture identity

Lecture from Andrea Fraser at our academy

Just say yes!

But if you want to see more first, then you might want to have a look at my website:

or the blog I made during my internship:

www.the-man-called-jakob.com

www.pipsin.tk

I would be very happy to hear from you

Useful contact information: Jakob Schlötter Groeneweg 89A 3531VC Utrecht 0031 (0)6 234 740 89 talk-to@the-man-called-jakob.com

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