He designed the beetles help cover, which was the start of crating typefaces for him.
1980- Letraset
Which developed from him creating typeface which he was dissatisfied with so found a way of regimenting the process.
1989- Moved to Vienna
This is when Neubau began, he lived in a district in Vienna. There isn't a lot of green & letraset became unpopular.
1991- Moved from Vienna to Berlin
2001- Neubau Berlin
Postscript exhibition poster (2002)
Which was a manifesto for the next 12 years.
(2002-2005) The poster triggered the idea for the next book.
Vector Silohettes
Book - Neubau Welt
It contained 1047 illustrations, illustrators had freedom with it.
The images have up to 80000 anchor points.
But then they started to use adobe illustrator and allowed them to merge & lower amount of anchor points.
Neubau Modul
2039 Grids & Patterns (2005-2007)
Metrics system to combine pattern.
This had an attached device which allowed an overlay on top of the analogue pattern to create a different outcome.
Neubau ism (2008)
This is an exhibition of their work.
All projects were displayed on 4x4 meters of material.
And allowed all visitors to write their names.
Next we thought about vectorising trees.
A book about trees.
Neubau Forst (2009-2014)
Enlarged their studio to 20 designers, took 60 months, which is around 39000 hours.
684 Trees & Tree Modules.
This is their biggest book yet.
The making of this...
How did we pick the trees?
To have some consistency through to the projects before we made a grid on a map which therefore made a system. Our centre was our studio & we made 72 anchor points around it.
Location done, we need to have overall style.
ABC manual - so interns could see how to result needed for project.
Photographs
Travelled round on bikes to locations.
It took several months to take all the photos.
Once the photographs was retrieved it was time to vectorise!
The manual created a grid for the photography.
We began at the outline and then did the inlines.
It took at least 4 or 5 attempts on each tree to be satisfied.
The manual was important so the summer & the winter tree matched the winter tree.
They used the book as a tool.
Numbering System:
We gave a code to each tree with a reference to how big each tree is.
Trees in Berlin have a metal plate on & this is how they got the info on the tree such as the type, size etc...
We then created forests that don't exist in real life from the broken down vectors at the back of the book.
Q&A
Why Trees?
No one else has done it!
Its a very dry subject so I thought I would brighten it up & give a challenge to ourself.
Combine the analogue feel.
"Tactile element of the keyboard"
"Mechanical element, just like a pencil"
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