New Designs: The Frantic, Pixelated Bliss of Berlin's Rainer Kohlberger

From "Field"

We'd like to fancy ourselves (and yourselves) avid watchers of fast-rising digital designers. Though on lucky occasion, we have that "hold the phone/where have we been?!" moment.

Which is exactly what happened when we were introduced to the frenetic new world of Berlin's Rainer Kohlberger. To some, Kohlberger may be already be a household name, having exhibited at Sound Frame: 2012 and created the image-tweaking iPhone apps, PXL and Field.

Though we'd like to go on the assumption that Kohlberger may be new to many of you. And so, consider this our formal introduction.

Part of the reason we find Kohlberger's work so striking is the vast spectrum of styles he seems to casually bounce between; from hard-lined, abrasive geometrics to vaguely psychedelic washes of color and back around to hand drawn, fuzzed-out typefaces. The man seems to be something of a walking digital design class. (Oh, speaking of which.)

See what we mean by taking a moment to watch a video documentation of Theseus, an installation Kohlberger did in 2010 for Berlin's Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute:

Theseus from rainer kohlberger on Vimeo.

And then blissfully scroll through some choice selects from Kohlberger's body of work:

From "Field"From "Humming, Fast and Slow""Humming, Fast and Slow" "Humming, Fast and Slow"Still from "Theseus"From "Pxl"From "Killshots""Killshots""Killshots""Killshots"