Mike Friedrich | Illustration and Design

Blood Diamond

Mike — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:18:24 +0000

My design ‘Blood Diamond’ is released on shirts at the Indian label Teesort now. It came out very nice as print! For me this was a very important theme to visualise. Happy that it’s produced for all of you now. Let’s close the damn chapter ‘blood diamonds’ for ever!

Berliner Speakers’ Corner

Mike — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:11:10 +0000

I made a poster/flyer- and bannerdesign for “Berliner Speakers’ Corner”. Go there at the 25th of July if you are in Berlin. The event is located in Berlins closed airport Tempelhof, which is an open park for all people now.

Mike Friedrich X Stone Magazine

Mike — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:11:34 +0000

Andrew from Stone Magazine asked me to design 3 doublepages for the upcoming issue No3 of the print stone magazine. Grab yours for 4,50 € only! Get it here!

more infos:
www.stone-magazine.com

T-shirt ‘My Video’

Mike — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:07:49 +0000

For my mainclient MyVideo (working as Art Director) I made a shirtdesign for their media partners. A freaky funky Berlin summerscene in 2 different color versions. Both available for girls and boyz.

Design: MyVideo
Designer: Mike Friedrich
Label: MyVideo
Model: Alex Zivadinovic
Photographer: Natascha Zivadinovic

T-Shirt ‘Alice Wonder’ at ABT

Mike — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:49:26 +0000

I have a new shirt up for ale at A better tomorrow! I win the ongoing shirt competition with my design “Alice Wonder“! Get yours and have fun with it!

T-Shirt ‘The 3D Fake’ at ABT

Mike — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:41:10 +0000

I have a new shirt up for ale at A better tomorrow! I win the ongoing shirt competition with my design “The 3D Fake“! Get yours and have fun with it!

Design: The 3D Fake
Designer: Mike Friedrich
Label: A better tomorrow
Model: Alex Zivadinovic
Photographer: Natascha Zivadinovic

Canvas ‘God bless you 3!’

Mike — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:20:54 +0000

The third canvas for my triptychon ‘God bless you’. It’s painted for an upcoming exhibition in Berlin this autumn at WestBerlinGallery (more infos soon).

Three different cynical interpretations of my kind of sight about the relationship between the humans, their gods, the spiritual inside and their impacts. Made with acryl and ink, 50×10cm

Canvas ‘God bless you 2!’

Mike — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:04:59 +0000

The next painted canvas for the upcoming exhibition in Berlin this autumn at WestBerlinGallery (more infos soon). Title – God bless you! 2 – the second part of a triptychon I am working on.

Cover Artwork AMOS Showtime

Mike — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:14:01 +0000

For the upcoming album ‘Showtime’ by AMOS I did a handdrawn cover artwork. What an awesome project! AMOS has invited a lot of international artists, designers and other doodlers to this event – see the complete participants list here.

The best designs become exposed at some nice gallery spots during the AMOS-Showtime-Live-Tour.

Made with Acryl and Ink.

Canvas ‘God bless you!’

Mike — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:10:16 +0000

The next painted canvas for the upcoming exhibition in Berlin this autumn at WestBerlinGallery (more infos soon). Title – God bless you!

Headclash 2010 Wallpainting

Mike — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:33:26 +0000

Together with my mate Timrobot from our collective The World Organisation we were invited to the Headclash 2010 Championship to paint a wall during the funny sports event. The theme for the painting was “heads”. Tim also made the whole corporate design for the Cologne based Headclash. Was such a funny day! See you next year!

Check this little movie – thanks to Mathias von Gostomski for the film and cut stuff!!

BASSPORT Poster/Flyer

Mike — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:18:11 +0000

For Berlin’s hottest ongoing D&B party series BASSPORT I made the poster- and flyerset for the upcoming party again. This time a Basstronaut.

Bassport poster series

Mike — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:15:42 +0000

For Berlin’s most hip Drum&Bass party series Bassport I do the ongoing flyer- and poster artwork (since some month in rotation for each set with Attila Szamosi and Lars Wunderlich). Bassport is based in the Rosi’s Club in Friedrichshain/Berlin.

Mike Friedrich X CLOR Magazine

Mike — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:38:37 +0000

I got featured with my design “Quetzalcoatl” in the 1st issue of the lovely silkscreen printed CLOR Magazine from Vienna. 12 international Artists – 12 Pages + 1 poster and an awesome great mix-cd (Cranks Lacking Oculus Remedy – Kid005). Awesome Mag, thanks friends for that kind of sample bundle!!!!

CLOR is a screen printed art zine that features 12 international graphic artists in its initial issue. The focus is on the handmade and handcrafted part of the project, classic ink illustrations, vector art and some other interdisciplinary forms of illustration methods are combined in a fully hand-screen-printed and -bound mag. Every issue and page of these 200 magazines are unique, unlike the flood of conventionally printed art-books.

All of the 12 graphic-artists, involved in this first issue have created one single page and here they are (in random order):

Tarkinson, Germering (Germany)
Nose Go, Philadelphia (USA)
Mike Friedrich, Berlin (Germany)
Mr. Purty, Atlanta (USA)
Filthy Hors, Leeds (UK)
DIMAK, Bahia (Brazil)
J. Chris Johnson, Norman (USA)
Tituz aka Titus Leibing, Coburg (Germany)
Jeff Lamm, Akron (USA)
J.T.G., Curitiba (Brazil)
Zombie Arms, (UK)
Rosakatze, Mainz (GER)

www.clor.polarisedkids.com

Canvas City Victim

Mike — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:24:10 +0000

For an upcoming exhibition in Berlin (more infos soon) I do the artworks now. The “City Victim” is the 1st piece – made with acryl on canvas, 40×30cm. I love this funky slimy green.

T-Shirt ‘Regarde-moi!’ at ABT

Mike — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:44:26 +0000

I have a new shirt design at A better tomorrow! I win the ongoing shirt competition with my design “Regarde-moi!“! Get yours and have fun with the glow-in-the-dark-print!

T-shirt Choked Panda at RIPT Apparel

Mike — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:06:33 +0000

I have a new shirt design at RIPT Apparel! It was selected by the Art Curator the_jcw and is up for sale on finest AA shirt for one day only! Get yours!

Design: The Choked Panda
Designer: Mike Friedrich
Label: RIPT Apparel
Model: Joesphine Preuß
Photographer: Natascha Zivadinovic

A better tomorrow t-shirts

Mike — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:31:51 +0000

I’ve won several times at A better tomorrow – German’s biggest ongoing t-shirt design contest since 2006. Here’s the list of the released shirts, if you like them, some are still available at ABT (just click each link).

The 3D Fake (2010)

Alice Wonder (2010)

Regarde-moi! – 2010

Comblove – 2010

BBIWY – 2009

Night of the Dead – 2008

Fight for ABT – 2008

Sodom 2.0 – 2008

model pics made by Natascha Zivadinovic

Custom Mimobots

Mike — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:16:08 +0000

I’ve made 2 custom mimobots for a special contest at Infectious. Both rendered by Daniel Vanches. “The Mushroom” and “Pete”.

Think Green Calendar Feature

Mike — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:43:16 +0000

I got featured in the new calendar of EIGA’s design calendar series. The Think Green Issue came out with some awesome weekly illustrations and fitting typefaces for the schedule page. Parts of the sold income goes to benefits to safe our planet! My design “Choked Panda” was like made for this calendar