Back from a very pleasant trip to Tromsø/Norway with a few sketches in luggage. Pretty happy to announce, that the “Green Lady” (Northern Lights) appeared at -28 °C.

Straight out of the sketchbook … sceneries from Chicago metro …

Experiments are going on in Jotopia’s secret laboratory to bring you a zippy type-infusion …

Short making of the corporate design for Augsburg based media agency Hutter & Donner. To get the perfect look for the brand Jotopia | Visual Noise developed more than 100 handwritten versions of the logotype. The final version had been generated point per point, path per path …

Chicken Or Claw? – Seems a bit like a hybrid of Jim Phillips famous Screaming hand designed for Santa Cruz Skateboards back in the days and ChickenOrBeef?. More details at JOTOPIA … soon.

Screenshot of paths of an illustration I created for Bilfinger developing McDonald’s restaurants as fast as Ronald eats burgers. See the final illustration at jotopia.de. More details here. Moreover see some updates in the publications-area.

We’ve been on the road again in Iceland! While listening to the sounds of whales, Björk and Sigur Ros there is enough time and inspiration for some drawings of vikings, volcanos and geysers. Also have a look on our travel-photography from Iceland on Jotopia.

Little insight into the south of America sketchbook with the original drawing of our Nazca-Lines-Poster which is available for sale at KatRock’s online store ChickenOrBeef.de. Airfields are a funny playground …

Jotopia, Iggesund, Refeka and Filigran-Laser joined forces to build a tricky pop-up relaunch of the Jobot by Jotopia | Visual Noise, which travels around the world since 2004. The pop-up had been exhibited at this year’s Creative Paper Conference in Munich and is available with the current edition of Germany’s graphic design magazine NOVUM (12|12).

PRESS INFORMATION BY IGGESUND
“In partnership with novum magazine, the paperboard producer Iggesund is showing the creative potential inherent in paperboard as a working material. At the Creative Paper Conference, the producer will present for the first time eight different robot models designed by famous German designers especially for the premium paperboard Invercote. ( … ) The designers were given free rein and the results are correspondingly diverse. The spectrum ranges from the powerful android by the designer ‘Jotopia’ to the classic humanoid model by Maikranz Design.” – Read the full press info here.

DOWNLOAD THE CONSTRUCTION KIT AT DOWNLOADS.JOTOPIA.DE
In case you haven’t been fast enough to catch one of the pop ups you are able to download a diecut sheet of the model here. Build you own paper model and take pictures of it in front of famous landmarks or from different countries and get published in the online gallery.

Will head to South of America tonight! We will be back with tons of travel-pictures, drawings, illustrations and inspirations from Ecuador, Peru, the Galapagos Islands, Machu Picchu and the Lake Titicaca … Can’t wait for the stewardess asking about Chicken Or Beef … Check out Jotopia and our Facebook-page in the meantime!

Just rediscovered our Australian scrapbook on the hard disk. See our travel-pictures here! Now we’re preparing for our next trip to Peru, Ecuador and the Galapagos islands this summer: so we had been to the doc today to get heaps of immunizations: rapid animals are invited to come a step closer now. As real turtle fans we are really saddened about the loss of Lonesome George and that we won’t be able to greet him anymore!

Galapagos 2010 by Darek Sepiolo

Sneak preview for our next trip this year … stay tuned!

Before doing any digital work we love drawing with real color on real paper on our travels! This makes the digital process much easier and pretty faster later on. Made this sketch at the beach of Magnetic Island/Australia being fascinated (shocked?) by deadly boxjellyfish on the one hand and by eating salt and vinegar potato chips on the other. Get this sticker twice as part of our Jotopia Stickerpack at KatRock’s superstore ChickenOrBeef.de!

Recovered an old drawing of my good friend “DBS” in the sketchbook. A nice reminder of a pretty cool trip to Ireland together with him and Mr. Jones a few years ago… Cheers!

… your sketchbook in the travel bag!!! Featured stickers on the sketchbook: “Boardriders week” by Quicksilver Surf company, “Owl” by our friends from designstudio Im Waldpark, “Streetart Schutzgebiet” by E-Gruppe and Jotopia classic logo, Jotopia thimble and ChickenOrBeef-logo sticker available at KatRock’s superstore for T-shirts, posters, buttons and stickers.

MEIER-Magazine has a small feature about the work and life of Jotopia in its current issue headlining Daniela Katzenberger and Shepard Fairey.

As you can see, the Official ChickenOrBeef Magazine & Blog is online now. This magazine is about traveling, cool places in the world to be, amazing artists, striking designers and other inspiring and interesting stuff.

This magazine and its content depends on YOU, guys!!!
• You have been to a beautiful place and would like to share your experiences and pictures with us?
• You are a design-addict and want to show your amazing work to the rest of the world?

Feel free to submit your stuff and get your feature here!