Neubau Studio
http://neubauberlin.com
Stephen Gandal - Founder
Cristoph Grindburger
& Benjamin Gandt
Stephen was born in Austria 1969
in 1979 received Help! (The Beetles) record from a friend but it had no sleeve and so he designed his own, this is where his passion for type came from.
The start of creating typefaces
Letraset (1980)
1989-1995 studied in Vienna studied there in Neubau
Letraset became unpopular and Stephen bought lots of the catalogues from the university he studied at
Letraset includes, type, grids, gradients, icons
Neubau Studio opened in Berlin 2001 (in the centre)
Neubau 55ms
Using different grids
Neubau Welt
1247HD Vector Silhouettes
2002-2005
first archive of Neubau
categories of illustrations
lots of different sectors
more detailed than previously
trees had anchor points of over 80,000, had to merge into one to be able to save the file,
used freehand not illustrator, but had to change to illustrator to be able to work with lots of anchor points
Neubau Modul
2039 Grids and Patterns (2005-2007)
lengthy project always take longer than projected i.e. 1 month usually takes 6
looked at the opposite with vector shapes with four anchor points
Metric system
Pattern Plates
how could the two books be put together?
through an exhibition,
used glass and projections, and keyboards where coded so audience could interact
next publication was about trees
most difficult thing to illustrate in the first book
hard to vectorise a tree
Neubau Forst (2009-14)
required the biggest team
20 designers, 60 months, 390,000 hours
internships helped out a lot
684 trees & tree modules
biggest book, 400 pages
Production ?
Used a locator grid, in accordance to the letters of the studio NEUBAU, got 72 points to locate trees from in the city
Overall style and standardisation
how to photograph trees document point on location
take photos of separate bits of the tree, merge images together for a high res image
to vectorise
took 7 months to photograph
documented the changes of space and time
Vectorise the tree
naturalistic look
1.image
2.grid
3.expand
4.mask
5.outline
6.inline
took a lot of attempts to get right some took 3 months
Vector and the mask
used to create modules. you can build up any tree you want from this
user can create new stuff
normal street trees
Numbering systems, code, for all modules
S for Summer
W for Winter
Species and height of the tree, reference of origin
had to contact the local authorities for the information of the tree, who where very reluctant to give information as they thought they where an architecture firm looking to build over the trees
Can create a whole forest from the digital trees
Why Trees?
All of the internet ones aren't realistic and architects use them in thier pitches, so this is a new and best resource for them.
Publisher= Lars Muller Publishers
Paper vs CO 2, paper outweighed the amount of energy it would take to run a website of the content.
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