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weblog: Vienna Gentlemen's Race

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:52:28 +0200

designs: YouTube designby knallgrau for MINI

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:22:17 +0200

Beautiful showcase clip showing the YouTube channel design iterations during 2009 Designed by Markus and Manuel.

weblog: Scott Thomas speaks Obama in Vienna

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:08:29 +0200

I had the pleasure to talk to inspiring Scott Thomas. Sympathic artist with an art book everyone wants to have. Read the long story at knallgrau Videoblog (in German).

weblog: The Organization of Thing

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:39:25 +0200

An all time favourite by Helge.

webdesigns: Arabella.at

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:36:56 +0100

Commercial broadcaster Radio Arabella has got a new website - by knallgrau. At first, let's have a quick before/after look: That was Arabella.at for the last few years. New Arabella.at in a typical news platform layout, aggregating numerous sources. Overview for the different radio shows... ...that are blogs! The hosts write about their show's topics and discuss it with their audience. We have Flickr Slideshows for the huge amount of party pics etc. And of course we redesigned the weather maps, putting the map elements to the back and bring the essential information to the front. The footer sums up the site and offers a sitemap and the navigation to others regions of Austria where you can listen to Radio Arabella. There's also a link to Arabella's B2B-Site media-sales.at, which we relaunched with a new design as well.

weblog: Almer�a

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:43:16 +0100

I've been to Almer�a in 2002, not knowing what I saw. Today, Erwin Wagenhofer's documentaries take me back to my memories of the region. In Wagenhofer's film We Feed The World I saw the same pictures that I took with my camera in 2002: Participating in European Union's Comenius project, I spent a whole week in the South-East of Spain (here are our project results - actually one of the first HTML pages I've ever built, with frames and all the good stuff...). We even made it into a local newspaper: I was excited, and everything I saw was fine and good and beautiful and nice, like I thought my photos were: Of course, we visited one of the plantations: At that time, I had no clue that this was a globalized industry that brings wealth to any other country but the people in the region. Now I know, that 80% of Spain's coast line is obstructed with uninhabited properties, just for one reason: provide value for global investments. Almer�a is not only the setting for many Hollywood classics but also for the ongoing financial crisis thriller, whose victims are the ones that can only watch and pay for it.

webdesigns: Anzetteln.at

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:03:46 +0200

Designing a blogging platform for Styria's Social Democrats Anzetteln is German for instigate, meaning people can create, follow and track their own initiatives (e.g. "we want free access to universities") and geo tag them. Every initiative has got a calendar with dates and a blog where the discussion can evolve: Looking forward to see the platform grow!

webdesigns: PayLife Tour 09

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:51:53 +0200

Social Media campaign for PayLife Knallgrau and D,M&B set up a Social Media Marketing campaign for PayLife, an Austrian company for card-based payments. All the contents are in German, but here's what the campaign looks like in different channels: Besides the micro site they are active on YouTube: Facebook: and Twitter: .

webdesigns: ots.at

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:25:58 +0200

Knallgrau develops design and IA for Austria Press Agency's OTS.at Today, a project I was working on since my very first days at Knallgrau finally launched: redesigning OTS.at, a portal for press releases.

Before and after

The epicenter of the site: the press release.

Design decision: to tab or not to tab?

A little detail: we had this one part of the page that was different to the topic channels like politics, finance and the like. The extra part was about the many companies and organisations that send out press releases. But it was only on extra tab so it had to stay in the tab menu, only look different. When I tried to seperate it using colors, gradients, borders and nothing worked, I just hid it. And that was the solution: not showing the tab solved my whole tab problem! Great project I'm proud to be part of.

webdesigns: privatsenderpraxis.at

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:56:06 +0200

Privatsenderpraxis is an association of Austria's private Radio and TV broadcasters, holding workshops and talks about the future of broadcasting. Knallgrau launched their website in May 2009. The site features a simple and calm design: Each topic has its own color scheme: And every speaker has its own profile page: Using Google Maps, you can easily find the spot where your workshop takes place: