Roger Burkhard

Gurtenfestival.

While the Gurtenfestival - official started in 1977 as a small alternative cultural festival it has grown into one of the largest music festivals in Switzerland. With around 20'000 visitors per day, an international lineup and an always peaceful atmosphere on Bern's local mountain, it is one of my favorite festivals. The greater the joy that I got the chance to develop the new website in collaboration with KARGO Kommunikation.

The Aare river around Berne was made the theme of this year's Festival and so I programmed multi-layered interactions and effects based on the element of water. For example, the background reacts to movements of the smartphone and the logo was animated via the Lottie technology developed by Airbnb. Additional micro-animations should not only entertain, but also improve the user-friendliness.

The basis of the application is the CMS Wordpress, whereby data is additionally loaded into the application via an API. Becaus of that the Festival Administrators can independently publish acts, stages and timetables on the Website according to their media plan. In the background, real-time data is synchronized with the website, and various open and closed sections provide guests and media professionals the informations they look for. During the festival, the number of traffic increases to around 70'000 visits per day for which several servers will provide the necessary load distribution.

Check it out:
https://gurtenfestival.ch

Studio Sansano.

Studio Sansano is an interdisciplinary design and planning office. They collect stories and things and use them to develop projects for art, construction and film. Paula Sansano is an architect ETH and leads the Studio in Bern with a focus on architectural transformation processes. Since 2016, she also manages the Affspace - Offspace for Architecture in the Old Town of Bern.

In collaboration with Atelier Pol I developed the website as part of a new branding. In new color and with modern typography we let the visitor dive into the world of the Studio and present the multi-layered projects in the form of text, image and video. On the start page you can even awaken your own creativity and paint it as you like.

Based on Wordpress Paula can assemble each project individually with flexible content elements or integrate external elements such as video and audio independently.

https://studiosansano.ch

moor.text

In collaboration with graphic design studio Büro a+o we experimented a lot to find ideas on how to present the work of a copywriter – namely phrases and words, names, ideas and concepts to create a meaningful portfolio. While it should be fun to browse the site, we wanted as well the look and feel of the 90s – on one hand to celebrate his golden years and of course, to underline his humor – as it was a key element during the whole concept phase. The result is a portfolio page of a different kind – and Yes – that’s a good thing.

On the start page you will find an arrangement of his current favorite sentences – so to speak, his Gesamtkunstwerk, which tells a story, in fragments. If you click on a project you get the necessary additional informations about the work that has been done and gallery images can be shuffeled (in the spirit of the 90s). In addition to an About and Contact page, as well as a Blog, the highlight is certainly the Chat. Here people can get in touch with moor.text and you will find funny, controversial and blatant love conversations between him and and his audience. Enjoy browsing!

Check it out:
https://moortext.ch