First steps into sound design

August 27th, 2009

As some of you know, I’m still a student of what is called “Communication and Multimediadesign“. There you learn dealing with all different kinds of media, no matter if it’s print, web, film or audio. Unfortunately I never touched much audio during the studies. I had no room for it. But I gain more and more confidence, that there should be much more music and sound surrounding me in my everyday life.

After purchasing the lovely Tascam DR100 I found myself enjoying the very fundamentals of sound. I guess you could also tell that by listening to my recent work. Just running around, recording everything I can find, as long as it has some remarkable character.

All that collecting of sound-fragments has proven meaningful, as I now got myself working on a first sound design project: Making small animated Typo-Idents audible. They are meant to promote the fonts of a new typo-webshop called Hype For Type. Animated by bauwrk, this clip introduces their best-selling Neo Deco:

NEO DECO IDENT from HypeForType on Vimeo.

The best possibility to grasp the nature of this work is to watch it without sound. This is where i started. Then gradually made my way to that “spacey” feel. Find the match! Tell me what you think!

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  • sebber

    Sehr gut.

    Und das sind nicht nur Homie-Props

  • http://nckn.de Nicken

    danke herr, ich weiß das zu schätzen!

  • http://twitter.com/BAUWRK Byron A.

    Couldn't think of a better person to work with in the future!
    Excellent work on the animation and your ideas for it were brilliant. :)

  • hamer

    hast du wunderbar gemacht! richtig, richtig guter!
    den hömernicken hätte ich jetzt aber nicht wiedererkannt ;)

  • docblockus

    You really put life into this animation, just with your sounds. Great work! It just fits perfectly together.

  • http://nckn.de Nicken

    ach komm, das lag doch auf der hand :)

  • http://twitter.com/static_sounds Static

    That's really really nice. I think you nailed it very well. I'd love to hear more of your sound-animations!

  • http://nckn.de/ Niklas

    thanks a lot! :)

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