projects
- Bildton
- LOVE
- Microsoft Pop-Up Store
- Soundcloud Artwork IRUBO
- Trailer IRUBO
- Spark AR Effects
- Zeitbilder
- Synthualizer
- Trailer I Love House
gigs
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about me
I am a content creator in the fields of creative coding, animation and interaction design. My passion lies in creating innovative and functional applications for all kinds of challenges. I love to discover and learn new tools and bring together visual elements with audio experiences.
I'm co-founder, project manager and interaction and motion designer at Nachtlicht Creative GmbH in Zürich. I finished my Bachelor in Visual Communication at the Academy of Art and Design Basel in Summer 2020.
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Raphael Benz
4053 Basel
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Year: 2020
Context: BA Visual Communication
Mentoring: Prof. Marion Fink, Jinsu Ahn, Ted Davis
For my Bachelor Thesis in Visual Communication, I built an interactive, browser-based Tool to turn moving pictures into Music.
Try it out here: bildton.ch
More info about the project here.
Year: 2020
Context: BA Visual Communication
Mentoring: Dirk Koy
Title Sequence for Gaspar Noé's "LOVE".
Year: 2019
Context: Commissioned Work with Nachtlicht
I programmed a light installation for a Microsoft Pop-Up Store in Zürich. Visitors could change the room's color by touching the respective color of the Microsoft Logo on the store window.
Year: continuous
Context: Freelance
Soundcloud cover art for the Zürich based collective IRUBO.
Year: continuous
Context: Freelance
Event Trailers for the Zürich based collective IRUBO.
Year: 2019
Context: BA Visual Communication
Mentoring: Ludwig Zeller
Spark AR is an application provided by Facebook to create Augmented Reality effects and publish them on Facebook and Instagram.
The goal of this semester project was to create AR effects beoynd the usual filters one can find on Social Media and to experiment with this new tool. The effects should be purely typographical/graphical or use the camera input and manipulate it.
I was very interested in the ability to recognize facial movements as well as the possibility to detect and recontextualize colors from the camera feed.
Year: 2018
Context: BA Visual Communication
Mentoring: Dirk Koy
Year: 2019
Context: BA Visual Communication
Mentoring: Atelier Nord Basel
Year: 2015-2016
Context: Commissioned Work with Reckless Collective for Plaza Klub Zürich