HELLO!

My name is Sarah Glemnitz. I am a graduating student of Crossmedia Design at the ArtEZ AKI, Academy of Fine Art & Design in Enschede, the Netherlands.

My profession at the moment is illustration, although I used to photograph for several years. I usually combine both media. I like it when my work effects people – whether it defines, inspires, provokes or amuses people, but I'm hunting especially for the amusement.

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I am currently showing my work and development of the project I'm working on here on this blog, but you are also invited to have a look at my website sarahglemnitz.com

Thank you for visiting!






gelsenkirchen - animation on vimeo!

I finally upoaded the animation that belonged to the book of GELSENKIRCHEN to vimeo. For those who could not be there, check it now online! vimeo.com/mushroomsastrampolines

life isn't all beer and skittles.

Summer vacation is over, time to get a job and go for it! I am finishing my portfolio VERY SOON! We'll see where everything takes me. Amsterdam? Berlin? Hamburg? GELSENKIRCHEN?

nooo publisher found.

Hey everybody, good and bad news! I spent some time in Germany and Poland this summer, trying to find a cheaper way to give my 'Gelsenkirchen' - book to you. My cousin + a friend and me drove elsewhere, but nobody wants to do it either as himself as the publisher, nor make it for a better prize. Daaaymmm. Also, I haven't heard from any publisher yet, who wants to publish the book. But anyway, the people who put their names on the list at my bachelorpresentation will get a unique copy (1 out of 50!), that makes it more rare! Also I will nominate the book for some awards, keep checking my blog for updates!

COME!!

My final exhibition is of course inside the building of AKI ArtEZ Academie voor beeldende kunsten Enschede, NL, 2nd floor on the left side. Crossmedia Department. Opening hours: wednesday - friday 10.30 - 20.00 h saturday + sunday 10.30 - 17.00 h Hallenweg 5, 7522 EH Enschede, The Netherlands

The VOICE

Everybody is wondering who has that crazy awesome voice in my trailer and also my final animations for the book. It is a friend of mine, MARIO BORGMEIER who was so much into this as me, and therefore it works so good.

FINAL EXHIBITION

So, on the 27th of July I had my final presentation. I was really glad everybody was so satifsfied with me!

I graduated with an 8. On the 29th I got my diploma, I'm a designer now, officially. Here are some pictures of my final exhibition:



my room with a fellow student watching my video



some visitors watching my animation
 


the doormat of Gelsenkirchens footballclub Schalke 04



my Gelsenkirchener-Barock-chairs



the apron for the book in a total view



 the aprons top, made out of metal, to repeat the industrial side of Gelsenkirchen



I have cold beer, Veltins, in my presentation, aswell. It is the most being drunken beer in Gelsenkirchen. Feel like as if you were really there.

Also on that table: my pop-up-businesscards, my postcards with my interpretation of the 'Venus', my bachelorthesis and a list for people interested in my book.



I also have a drawn window: In Gelsenkirchen you can see people everywhere staring out of their windows, for hours. I'm not so sure what they can see all day that might be so interesting, so I interpreted it and now YOU can take that people's place.





Here you can see my Bachelorthesis, 'Das infantile Ingenium erwachsener Illustratoren'.


Come and enjoy, you can still see the exhibition until sunday, 5pm.

the end is near.

here's the cover of my book, i wanted it simple, and this is my final outcome after a loooot of other versions i tried. in the end, i made it as simple as possible, but i also think it is the most beautiful one.

also, i also had a great idea for my portfolio (you can see the cover i originally wanted to use in the second picture)! i definitely wanted to make something with my own handwriting to make my portfolio as personal as possible. my problem wa, that i could not decide which works i want to show, and now that i have a new concept, i can only show 1 concept for one topic. the concept is, to show what 'i can', ... i can photograph, draw, create, built, write, ... (see the last two pictures of this post) a lot of things. and that is what i am going to show. i will upload pictures of the printed version soon. also, i will write everything by hand, and only print those pages with the printer, which really have to be printed.

the picture in the middle shows my concepts for the animations i am going to use for my final exam.

DIE RAP ELITE GELSENKIRCHENS.

i already told some of my friends that i put them in my book as the NEW RAP ELITE of GELSENKIRCHEN. and it is really true (!) that they are, all of them are attending the VBT (video battle turnier) of the splash festival!! check them out, their parts are glooorious!
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emkay, dobbo & weekend, this is my support for you :) !

dimensions of the book

yess i made this pictures to give you an pre-impression about the dimension of the final book 'gelsenkirchen'. i'm getting there!! this week i will be able to hold the first printed version in my hands, and see if everything is well done. if so, i decided to print 10 or 15 more, like the first edition which is really rare and stuff. sooo excited!

scriptie in print

i printed an A5 test-version of my scriptie for showing it to the guys in the printing house. here you can see some pictures of it. i'll get the printed version, which is on A4 in the middle of the following week. excited!

chapters

some trials i did for the cover of my book, i also changed my mind about the look of the chapters. i used to put a clean .ai - file of gelsenkirchens map and the name of the citypart on the pictures, but that didn't fit the complete look of the book, everything is more ruff and unperfect. so i needed to paint or write directly on the pictures. i tried some white eddings, copics and poscas, but they turned out unsuitable. i found the perfect look by using white nail polish, with a very thin brush. the white wasn't superclean white anymore as it happened with the other pens i tried, it got a little more numb creme white look. see the pictures below!

possible cover

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click on the image to see it in a slideshow, so you wopuld also see the format better! thanks!