In the beginning of 2015, CONVERSE asked us to create an artwork for the launch of their new men sneaker called "League". 

The launch was promoted on Foot Locker, exclusively. Therefore, our piece of tape art needed to be related to New York...and fit to the overall sneaker design. 

Because it is a lo-fi sneaker, we decided to use black tape, only. Plus, we had the idea of taping a horizontal skyline to match the design of the sneaker. 

STREET ART BRANDING - CONVERSE

This tape art workshop took place one week before Christmas 2015 at the Mehr! Theater in Hamburg. It was a special location combined with a very interesting concept. Our working surface were big white sculptures - a head, a hand and some trees - within a huge white room. 

Together with the participants of our tape art workshop, we decided to create polygon forms as well as pattern with black and grey duct tape. This minimalist style was a perfect match for the atmosphere of the room itself.

TAPE ART WORKSHOP - MEHR! THEATER HAMBURG

We created this tape art mural called ELEMENTARY STRUCTURE at the Artlake Festival Berlin, which took place at a lake surrounded by pure nature.

This environment inspired us to tape an abstract artwork based on a natural structure. Thus, we combined a microscopic pattern with some rocks to create the impression of a "wave". We used reflecting aluminium as well as black duct tape to create a nice contrast. Additionally, we installed some LED lights to change the color of the reflection to make it look more natural and interesting...and to stimulate people´s imagination.

ELEMENTARY STRUCTURE - ARTLAKE FESTIVAL

We covered this 5x3m wall with an abstract tape art mural. This piece of tape art is called BLUEPRINT, because it contains forms, shapes and patterns, which are normally used for maps and architectural drafts.

This is a commissioned work for meinestadt.de - a dotcom company, which is located in Cologne.

The reason of our permanent creation was to simply to make this main conference room look fresh and interesting. To do so, we used different kind of tape including duct tape as well as masking tape with different colors...mainly blue. Design-wise, we focussed on making this composition look dynamic and diversified.

BLUEPRINT - TAPE ART MURAL

This is an interactive installation, we created for Wilde Möhre Festival...an eco-friendly festival with electronic music, workshops and art.
We called our interactive tape art installation RAIN FOREST...to make people aware of the deforestation.
During the day, it was like a tape art gallery - people could walk through the forest and look at our artworks.
But during the night, people were able to control a mixer console, which was connected to the lights. For this installation we used special red and blue tape, which responded to the light. Thus, poeple were able to interact with our installation by controlling the red and blue light spots...turning or fading the color in and out. Moreover, people could also create sound with an additional control panel, which was also part of our installation.

We like the idea of interactive art, because people deal with the subject.

RAIN FOREST - INTERACTIVE TAPE ART INSTALLATION

For the international launch of its brand-new running shoe PUREBOOST X, Adidas asked us to create a piece of tape art.
Thus, we taped this product artwork...

PRODUCT ARTWORK - ADIDAS

We were invited to tape an artwork at the art village of the BERLIN FESTIVAL. This well known music festival provides an extra area for street art as well as urban art. And we decided to create a gigantic octopus with a weird look. 

The organizer liked our idea from the very beginning and asked us to do our tape art creature in the middle of the so called Art Village. So, we did. In fact, we tried to create the image of a "dancing" octopus, who is "moving" objects with its tentacles. 

Our tape art octopus had tentacles, which were about 25 meters long. We covered about 50 by 50 meters - it was by far the biggest artwork at this festival. 

We used very colorful tape including neon tape to create a funky octopus for Berlin's biggest music festival.

FUNKY OCTOPUS - BERLIN FESTIVAL

We created this geometric piece of tape art at the concert & event venue Cabaret Aléatoire (Marseille / France). 

We had the idea of creating an artwork with a brain-twisting effect. 

This tape art concept is based on a rhombus which is composed of different geometric shapes. Because of the red-colored wall as well as the brain-twisting effect we had in mind, we chose to work with blue duct tape and reflecting aluminium tape...to create contrast and in order to ensure a good color scheme.

RHOMBUS - CABARET ALÉATOIRE

This video shows our interactive tape mapping installation ORACLE, which was presented at Faqra Street Circus. 

This unique project is a fusion of two urban art styles - combining tape art (analog) and video-mapping (digital). We call it TAPE MAPPING... 

We created this artwork as live performance as well as an interactive tape art installation in Beirut (Lebanon). During day time, we were taping this piece of tape art...and at night time, we presented a Tape Mapping Show with our visual partners ONDÉ. 

And we included a surprising interactive feature - touching the center of the artwork creates changing colors. 

We created this tape art work with white tape on a black canvas (4m by 2m). 

TAPE MAPPING - ORACLE

We turned the Lomography Gallery Store Berlin into a unique piece of tape art. In fact, we developed a tape art store design. 

Therefor, we created a pink wave, which is connecting the walls and the floor...washing up a Lomography camera. Additionally, we did a tape art design on Lomography's first DIY camera "La Sardina" and integrated this camera into our tape art concept. 

The store was taped like that for one month... 

TAPE ART STORE DESIGN - LOMOGRAPHY

This tape art project was part of the DMY International Design Festival. 

For this event, we developed a tape art concept for the brand-new Concept Style Coupé of Mercedes Benz. Therefor, we focused on a tape art design, which firstly, draws attention to this car and secondly, creates a new brand experience. 

In order to realise this, we did a live tape art performance during the event creating an extensive tape art design around the headlights to attract people's attention. Moreover, we taped some energetic tyre marks to visualize the dynamic of this car. 

TAPE ART BRANDING - MERCEDES BENZ @ DMY

Tape Art and music - always a great combination. In the summer of 2013, we created a neon-pink piece of tape art on a blue overseas container at the MELT! Festival. A lot of people took a souvenir photo in front of our funky flamingos. 

On the inside of the container we made a "tape flashing" artwork, which was a colorful orchid flower. Additionally, we used some LED lights to change the colors... 

The location of the MELT! Festival is really impressive...with a joyful atmosphere. 


FLAMINGOS - MELT! FESTIVAL

For this project we used tape art to create anamorphic typography along a tunnel inside of an old bomb shelter (Reichsbahnbunker) in Berlin. 

Lance Butters, a german rapper who is signed on the music label FOUR MUSIC was asking us to work with him for its new album release in May 2015. 

We created BLAOW - an anamorphic writing, which is the title of the new album. We used neon-colored tape, because it has this strong visual effect in combination with black light. 

To tape this writing along a 10m tunnel was challenging and fun at the same time. Because we had to take care of the overall typo-proportion...and those different layers caused by the old electronic equipment. 

ANAMORPHIC TAPE ART TYPO

Here you can see our tape art piece HUMMINGBIRD EFFECT, which we created for the cinema film TRAUMFRAUEN - a Warner Brothers production. It's a comedy movie about a women shared flat in Berlin. The main actors are Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth, Palina Rojinski, Iris Berben and Elyas M'Barek. 

This tape art work is inspired by the idea of the butterfly effect. For the movie, the hummingbird is representing the essence of women...so does those complex pattern as well as the flower. These are all very feminin symbols. We used colorful tape, because it is a comedy and it is Berlin. 

The hummingbird is made of different types of blue crepe tape and neon-pink duct tape. For those patterns, we used black duct tape. We really like the combination of organic forms and geometric pattern - this is perfect example of teamwork.

TAPE ART SET DESIGN - TRAUMFRAUEN

The organisers of the confidential electronic music festival "Schatzalp" in Davos/Switzerland, asked us to create a special tape & light installation. 

So, we did a collaborative project with ONDÉ - a visual artist duo from France. The result was a fusion of two urban art styles...combining tape art (analogue) and video-mapping (digital). We call it TAPE MAPPING. 

We decided to play with organic forms, coming from the oceans, emitting light organisms, like the ones you can find in the abyss. 

Firstly, we used small rolls of white tape on a black canvas to create an artwork composed of three jellyfishes and some corals. 

Secondly, ONDÉ started mapping all tape-lines in order to animate our tape art piece. They were using visual sequences of different kind of lights to bring it to life. 

TAPE MAPPING - DEEP SEAS

This is a music clip, which was created at the Off Courts Festival in Trouville (France). It was filmed mainly in stop motion at night. Our focus was to create different pieces of tape art, which fit to the song...visualizing the story. ONE TIME TOO MANY is the first single from Martin Mey's new album TAKING OFF.

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Dieses Musikvideo ist eine künstlerische Kooperation mit Martin Mey - einem französischen Sänger & Musiker. 
Das Video entstand im Rahmen des Off Courts Film Festivals 2014 in Trouville / Frankreich. 

Dieser Clip ist eine Kombination aus Stop-Motion, Tape Art und Musik. Unsere Aufgabe war es verschiedene Tape Art Kunstwerke zu kreieren und somit die Geschichte des Songs zu visualisieren. 
ONE TIME TOO MANY ist die erste Single des neu erschienen Albums TAKING OFF. 

Mit unserer Kunst aus Klebeband waren wir 4 Tage und Nächte lang in den Strassen von Trouville unterwegs...


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