lines of life.
how drawing and research
come together

Observational drawing is an intensive contact with people and places, objects and topics. It’s a concentrated, playful exploration of given forms and perspectives and it’s the evolvement of vivid lines on paper. My eyes and my hand interact and create a new picture.

Observing people and perceiving different contexts is also part of trend research. Future potentials are revealed by bringing current structures and motives together with drivers of change: It’s about how we want to live tomorrow and, in other words, how our lines of life may develop further in the light of changing circumstances. Thus my articles focus on Customer Foresight and the Trend Receiver method and people with visionary competence.

This site displays both my drawings and my research. It shows my curiosity and independent yet connected approach to people and prospects and to the various lines of life.

Lines
of
life

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Drawing

site+sites drawing series

Sometimes we sit and look and enjoy the place where we are. And partly we focus at our digital devices. As I’ve always been fascinated by picture-in-picture images I started the “site+sites“ drawing series.

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Research

Customer Foresight

Customer foresight is a concept for strategic customer-based projection and trend research and it aims to improve the strategy and decision-making processes of companies.

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Drawing

Trend receiver portraits

For an international foresight project in fall 2019 we have been talking to Trend Receivers in Shanghai, Boston, New York, Zurich, Berlin, London, Munich and Frankfurt and I took the chance to draw them during the interviews.

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Research

Trend receiver
Concept

Visionary competence for long-term development of brands and products: Trend Receivers are individuals who perceive changes and potentials of the new in a specific domain in a highly sensitive and differentiated way.

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Drawing

Connection to Brazil

Brazil feels like a second home to me since I have been living in Barra Mansa, state of Rio de Janeiro, for a year and a half for a social-practical service time after school.

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Rupert

Interest in people and modern life

Rupert’s interest in people and in different contexts of modern everyday life drives both his foresight research and his observational drawings.

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Drawing

Cafés & co-working spaces

Cafés and Co-working spaces are part of urban worklife and I have been drawing people and their devices at various locations.

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