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stencil art AIR bomb

cuting some stencil combined with photo artwork

Large Scale Visualization at Apple - California

Using 18 x 30" Cinema Displays with 8 QuadCore MacPro

3D modeling R2D2

GI rendering and animation

3D modeling cubes and Escher

Cinema4d, GI rendering and animation

Escher Math Boombox

Rendering of a Escher 3d boombox

Escher Part2

Rendering of a Escher 3d boombox2

A Day In The Life Of Mister O.

Screenshot from final thesis short film shot on SUPER 16mmm

Letterpress at The Arm NYC in Brooklyn

Handmade stuff like business cards, posters, packages

Scribbles with Wacom Cintiq

Using Photoshop to sketch some wacom animals

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personal details


date of birth:

05th February 1979 in Stuttgart, Germany

nationality:
Croatian & German

employment:


2009: lecturer at the »University of Applied Science« in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany. Teaching fundamentals of illustration and design tools and also Typography and Motion

2008: scientific assosicate at the »University of Applied Science« in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany. Supporting students and professor with severa design questions and problems

2006: user interface designer & developer, frogdesign, worked six months as an intern to develop and design different User Interface for design products.

2005: aluminiumsmith, DaimlerChrysler, two months workcamp at the Daimler(Mercedes Benz) foundry for artwork. Made sculptures and medals from alluminum.

2004-2003: scientific assistant, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, seven months work in Heidelberg - Germany, with parallel high-performance processing and benchmark analysis for the IPACS Project.

2001: freelance photographer, LuigiToscano, six months freelance work. Learned the fundamentals about black&white and digital photography.

education:

2004-2008: University of Applied Science Schwaebisch Gmuend Germany, [communication design]

2007-2006: CCA - California College of the Arts, San Francisco & Oakland,[took part in fine arts, media and 16mm film and animation program]

2004-2000: University of Applied Science Mannheim and also University of Applied Science Worms Germany, [computer science]

participated conferences:
2007: Apple World Wide Developer Conference - WWDC07
2005: International Conference on Animation, Effects,
Realtime and Content - fmx/05

computer skills: Cinema4d, Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Acrobat, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX, Windows, DVD Studio Pro, AfterEffects, Shake, Motion, FinalCut Studio Pro, Digidesign ProTools, Steinberg Wavelab, Adobe Premiere, Flash and Director.

programming skills: HTML, XML, Javascript, Actionscript 1.0 & 2.0, PHP, Pyhton, Pascal, Ansi C, C++, Delphi, Shellscript, tex and latex, SQL, Cocoa and xCode.

language skills: Fluent in German, English and Croatian. Basics in Spanish and Portuguese.

voluntary activities: 2006-2004: students representative and elected member for the university senate at the University of Applied Sciences Schwaebisch Gmuend.

about me: At the present I finished studying »communication design« at the »University of Applied Science« in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany. I haven't specialized in a single branch yet, because I am interested in different types of design whether it is development of user interface, animation, film, illustration or typography. I am also really interrested in playing and making music (playing guitar and collecting vinyl) love sports like, skateboarding, swimming and surfing whenever I am nearby the ocean.

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