Early web design (opening 1992, web 1996): Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany), Bonn, near Cologne, Germany
3. März 2012
In 1992 I started to work for the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn, near Cologne, Germany, as Creative Director. The Kunsthalle in Bonn, the largest house for changing exhibitions worldwide in this time, was a great place to work at.
There we did exhibtions of Art, architecture, media, music, theatre, and more. I have been working as a creative director and this was the first time I had to build a website.
Netscape was state of art. And we got an award in Cannes!
Very small screen (640 x 480) worked well, too.
Start page for the exhibition of tibetian art
Vatican exhibition. First time in life I saw handwritten documents from Erasmus of Rotterdam, and others. This exhibition was nearly as successful as the one of the MoMA, New York.
Sigmar Polke exhibition start page
Search area of the website. Extremely … reduced.
The general exhibitions doorpage, showing an Alexander Calder work on the roof of the exhibition house.
Impressum page of the website, and price listing
Exhibition start page of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden
An outdoor exhibition start page. It was about the endangered meadows of Europe, by Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer-Harrison.
The startpage of the Napoli Museum exhibition
Starting page of a photography exhibiton
Calendar start page
Brian Eno Exhibition, and concert, starting page
Exhibition start page of a video installation by Bill Seaman
As we had strong problems to make the long name (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) appearing nice on the homepage, we decided in the end to cut out single letters as gifs and build words by using those snippets. You can see the old page here: https://web.archive.org/web/19961229180713/http://www.kah-bonn.de:80/
The type on the website had been exclusively designed for the Kunsthalle, by Neville Brody (research studios, London), who is until today a great source for inspiration to me.
I have been very proud of getting several prices, web.de, webcam-of-the-day, website graphics, Milia D’Or, Section Web, moloko, Europrix and some more, for my first web piece. Norbert Kanter, webmaster of the Kunst- and Ausstellungshalle, had to handle this stuff, and he had no easy life these days. But in the end we were happy.
Neville, Norbert, Arthur: Thanks for the really great time!
Schlagwörter: abandoned pictures, Bonn, Corporate, design, information architecture, landing page, layout, Logo, Neville Brody, Typeface, Webdesign, Website
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