» 16.05.10 OCTOPUS SHIRT


This t-shirt-design was inspired by our lovely car which attended us all the way through New Zealand. The shirts will be avaiable for summer!!! Watch out for the announcement on this website.

» 29.04.10 SERVER CONFUSION

Just a short note for all visitors who had been a bit confused about the "extraordinary look" of Jotopia for the latest 24 hours: we changed the server to bring it up to the latest state of the art! -Did this for a "better and greater Jotopia"...

» 24.04.10 PUBLICATIONS | SEMI-PERMANENT


Just received a copy of the Semi-Permanent 2010 book by Design is Kinky from Australia. Besides to the illustrations by very talented and highly skilled artists from "all over this glorious planet of ours" there's also the "Destroying Jotopia"-illustration which made it into the book... :-D. Yeeeehaaaa!! More information in the Publications-area.

» 20.04.10 TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY | NEW YORK


Updated the Travels-Gallery with some nice pictures from New York, shot with a cheap and analogue medium format camera. In addition there's a feature/interview about Jotopia at RiotCreations.

» 15.04.10 BUILDING JOTOPIA


Building Jotopia is the companion piece to the Destroying Jotopia illustration. For those who haven't realized yet: it's also inspired by a rather well known movie poster...

» 21.03.10 NEW CATEGORY: JOTOPIA | TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY


Back from New Zealand and Fiji there are loads of news to post: first of all there's a new category called "Travels" which will share with you the latest travel pictures by KatRock and JO in the future. Secondly you find a lot of new Jobots in the Jobot gallery. Last but not least you can comment on graphics, illustrations (and of course travel pictures :-) ) on Flickr lately.

» 10.01.10 DESTROYING JOTOPIA


Frohes Noise and a happy new year which starts with the destruction of Jotopia. The T-Shirt-design which will be available in spring was inspired by an old 60's movie poster ("Gorgo"). It shows a godzilla-like creature having fun while playing around with the tiny buildings of a large city. Will keep you updated...

» 27.12.09 JOBOTS IN VENICE

Venetian Jobot-submissions by Ronja! Thanks a lot! - Pictures this direction.

» 01.12.09 THIRD INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF THE POSTER IN BOLIVIA


Jotopia-Posters have been exhibited in the category "Unpublished posters" at the Third International Biennial of the Poster in Bolivia. The exhibiton in a recently refurbished monastery in the heart of the city of La Paz was opened with the presence of the German embassy and showed posters by 15 selected German designers/ studios. Many thanks to Julius Wiedemann from Taschen for the invitation and providing the photos.

» 27.11.09 STARS OF CCTV

Jobots sighted in London/ UK! Many thanks to Christian for the pictures and the special customization!!! Pictures this way.

» 15.10.09 JTSF-JOTOPIA TABLE SOCCER FEDERATION


Ladies and gentlemen, the Jotopia Table Soccer Federation: Danny Boy Schmitz (33), Magellan (8), KatRock (15) and Zehn (JO) - Logo design and apparel.

» 03.09.09 JOBOTS SIGHTED IN HAWAII

Huuhh - a lot of work at the moment because of relocating the residence... Here comes the short note: Jobots sighted in Hawaii!!! Many thanks to Stefanie and Marc - Happy Honeymoon! See the flix here. More Visual Noise soon.

» 26.06.09 iPHONE WALLPAPERS & TOOTHPASTE POSTER






Jotopia toothpaste poster design available soon... In addition get six Jotopia wallpapers sized specifically for the iPhone (will work with other phones, too) here

» 11.06.09 FREISTIL BLACK – BEST OF EUROPEAN COMMERCIAL ILLUSTRATION


Jotopia is featured in "Freistil Black – Best of European Commercial Illustration " published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. More information in the Publications-area.

» 01.05.09 LIQUID TYPE


Typographic experiments Part II. Moreover you have the chance to vote for the "If My Eyes Were Blind"-T-Shirt-design at RiotCreations.

» 01.04.09 HÄNSEL & GRETEL


T-shirt-collaboration-illustration together with Hombre Uno from the Stick Up Kids. Hombre is responsible for the Hänsel-character while JO did the Gretel. Go and vote for it at RiotCreations. Besides that you can become a Jotopia friend on MySpace latterly.

» 17.03.09 ZEIXS PUBLICATIONS


Jotopia is featured in "Graphic Design 2", "Best of Poster Design" and "Logo 2" of the Design-Cube-Series by Zeixs. More information in the publications-area. Note: There's a little typo gremlin in the book "Logos 2" - the logos on page 434 are designed by Volker Neumann, whereas the Jotopia-Crest on page 72 (erroneously revealing to Kai Dlugosch) is an absolute Jotopia-Originial... ;-)

» 09.03.09 IF MY EYES WERE BLIND ...


T-Shirt-illustration for spring!

» 07.02.09 KILLERBEES pt.II


Killerbee No.1 created about a year ago got a companion. More updates coming up! Moreover updates in the Jobots-section!

» 21.12.08 HOPE


Typographic experiments just for fun...

» 15.10.08 JOS LOGOS IN LOS LOGOS 4


Logos designed by Jotopia are featured in Gestalten's latest logo coup "Los Logos 4". More information in the publications-area.

» 10.10.08 TORPEDO EMPIRE


A further argument to join the rising RiotCrowd: vote "Torpedo Empire" to the top at RiotCreations.

» 06.10.08 THE TALES OF THE EVIL VEKTERROR


Illustration-collaboration-T-Shirt-Design together with the incredible "RiotAllstars-Team" ;-) Fine and Sahba. Sahba did the Fine-Character, Fine the JO- and JO the Sahba-character... Go an vote for it at RiotCreations

» 14.09.08 JOBOT-SIGHTINGS AND RWK

Jobot-sightings in Roma/Italy, Hvide Sande/Denmark and New York/USA!!! - View the pictures here. Moreover JOTOPIA | VISUAL NOISE is featured with a gallery on the famous strees-art-site RobotsWillKill.

» 01.09.08 NEW SHIRT ARRIVALS


"NoiseAffairs" and "RiotActivist" now available at RiotCreations.

» 09.07.08 RIOT CREATIONS


"Creative-Spiritus-Rector" for RiotCreations. Feel free to submit your favourite shirt-designs for different competitions and get them produced!

» 24.06.08 TAPE JAM


Visual Noise in form of a spaghettied tape.

» 10.06.08 GERMANY'S NEXT...


Free illustration.

» 20.05.08 JOTOPIA SILKSCREENS PT. I


Trying out good old techniques...

» 19.05.08 WACOM TRAILER


Wacom Europe uses Visual Noise by Jotopia in their product-trailer for their latest flagship – the Cintiq 21UX with a built-in 21.3" display.
Animation by Robert Hranitzky in collaboration with Akira Endo. Watch the trailer here.

» 21.02.08 JOBOTS IN HONG KONG AND DUBAI

Mad Jobot-Invasion in Hong Kong and Dubai. Special thanks to Kathrin! View the Pictures

» 17.02.08 SYNTH EASTWOOD SHOW, BERLIN


Nothing but a biro – Visual Noise "Unplugged" by Jotopia is exhibited at Synth Eastwood-Show, Berlin. The venue is as follows: Monster Ronsons Karaoke Bar, Warschauer Str. 34, 10243 Berlin.

» 06.01.08 BURTON SERIES 13™



Snowboard-Design for Burton's high-end Series 13™

» 05.01.08 KOMMA MAGAZINE


Locked In – A Graphic Novel by Johannes Bayer is featured with two double-pages in komma-magazine ("Kommunikationsdesign aus Mannheim")

» 01.01.08 FROHES NOISE


Happy New Year!

» 14.12.07 NEW NOISE


"...how can we expect anyone to listen if we are using the same old voice? We need new noise - new art for the real people!" T-Shirt-Design for Noise Affairs to the left, free illustration to the right.

» 08.12.07 BENEA DIGIPACK


CD-Cover-Design for "Though Lovers Be Lost Love Shall Not" by Benea (R.I.P.). Published in "Supersonic – Visuals for Music", by Die Gestalten. Note: "TLBLLSN" had insubstantially been released on december 8'th... 2006 – Thanks for the memories!

» 19.11.07 RUSTY KILLSWITCH


Illustration on the song Rusty Killswitch by the scrumptious band Noise Affairs. Sit down and relax!

» 09.11.07 FINDING LITTLE NEMO


Found him in PAGE-Magazine's latest issue (12.2007).

» 29.10.07 NOISE AFFAIRS


Website-Illustration for the "greatest band ever" ;-) – Noise Affairs. Mad probs to our "six-strings-tamer" Welle doing the coding!

» 05.10.07 SKATEBOARD-GRAPHICS


Ladies and Gentlemen, graphics on wooden skate-decks coming up!

» 17.09.07 "HORSES" TOGETHER WITH MATHEW STAR THOMAS


Illustration collaboration with the fantastic CousCousKid from Bath/ England on the theme of "horses". Still in progress...

» 16.09.07 LOGO SHOWCASE PT. II


Another collection of logos, designed in the recent past. "I Love You"-design may be available as textile-print soon ;-)

» 27.06.07 GRAPHICAL ROCK'N'ROLL IN SUPERSONIC – VISUALS FOR MUSIC


Jotopia music-artworks are published in "Superonic – Visuals for Music", by Die Gestalten

» 11.06.07 FRONTLINE - "BEST OF NEWCOMER AWARDS_GRAFIK DESIGN"


Jotopia is featured at the Frontline - "Best of Newcomer Awards_Grafik Design"-Exhibition on 16.06.2007 / Mandarin Cafe (ex Mojo) / St. Pauli / Hamburg

» 07.05.07 KILLERBEES pt.I


Recently the camera-equipment of photographer Claus Geiss transformed into a bloodsucking killerbee...

» 06.04.07 FREISTIL – BEST OF EUROPEAN COMMERCIAL ILLUSTRATION


Jotopia is featured in "Freistil – Best of European Commercial Illustration 3" published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. Publications-Category upgraded.

» 19.03.07 NOISE-POLLUTION


Benea are going to play a gig together with their friends from Mareefield and The Strange Lane at Dierbachhalle on April 21.

» 31.10.06 JOS LOGOS IN TRES LOGOS


Jotopia designed logos for and by the name of Formgeber. Appearance in Tres Logos, published by Die Gestalten

» 31.08.06 LOCKED IN – A GRAPHIC NOVEL








Some screenshots taken from Locked In - A Graphic Novel by Johannes Bayer

» 26.08.06 JOTOPIA | URBAN WEAR


Textile-Prints coming soon!

» 18.08.06 LOGO SHOWCASE PT. I


A collection of recently designed logos...

» 12.07.06 JOTOPIA IN MOTION PT. III




3-dimensional modelled and animated jobot-character. Requires Quicktime. Hit the picture to view the animation!

» 17.05.06 JOTOPIA IN MOTION PT. II


Motion-Type-Sound-Grafics... Credits: music by Yann Tiersen, lyrics by Chrispian Mills. Requires Quicktime. Hit the picture to view the animation!

» 29.03.06 JOTOPIA IN MOTION PT. I


Just some animated eyecandy for today... requires Quicktime... Hit the picture to view the animation!

» 18.01.06 LICHTRAUSCH


Together with Reka Szentmihaly we designed, coded and launched www.lichtrausch.com.

» 26.10.05 VISIONS ALL AREAS 67


Cover-Artwork for Visions-Music-Magazine's ALL AREAS-CD.

» 30.09.05 ACTIONPAINTING


Having mad fun with Akeem, Boe (Viagrafik), Gonz, Hanes and Sign (Viagrafik) at the 7er in Mannheim... View the pictures!

» 20.08.05 LIVINGROOM CD-SLEEVE-DESIGN


Cover- and Logo-Design for Livingroom's latest release: Displaced Dreamings.

» 12.06.05 BUTTONS SILVEREDITION


Due to the large demand for buttons, new Jotopia- and Benea-Jewellery is available. Textile Prints coming soon.

» 18.08.04 BENEA CD-COVER


CD-Package- and Logo-Design for Benea's newest release Lay Your Weapons Down

» 11.07.04 PFALZKOM




Christmas-Card and Opening-Animation for Pfalzkom.