surface motion is a collaboration between art director Markus Weisbeck (surface) and director Oliver Hardt (signature films). The project started in 2008, when they began collaborating on the creative direction of the annual German Design Award ceremony, the country‘s highest distinction in the field of design. In the following years they created a series of expressive artworks for the internationally renowned event. Their artistic approach integrates multiple disciplines, including modernist film experiments, cutting-edge analogue and digital motion graphics, spatial projections, stage design, and stage direction.

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Mirrors: Artwork for the German Design Award show 2009

2009 Video

Mirrors / single screen


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Mirrors / triple screen


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Mirrors, plastic strips, logo / single screen


2009 Video

Mirrors, plastic strips, logo / triple screen


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Variation / single screen

This was used as a backdrop for the musical interludes by Jaki Liebezeit and Burnt Friedman.

2009 Video

Variation / triple screen


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Credit sequence


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Variation silver award / single screen


2009 Video

Variation silver award / single screen


2009 Video

Variation silver award / triple screen


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Out-take


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Concept

The visual concept for this year´s award ceremony is a hommage to Lazlo Moholy-Nagy and an extrapolation of the New Bauhaus photograms. The basic visual structures consist of mirrors, cardboards and transparent plastic strips and were filmed in a table-top studio. Afterwards, product photos and additional typo animation were digitally integrated into the composition.

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Workbench


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Stage view with projection


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Live act 2009: Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman