3D Visualisation

Architectural Rendering

Print Design

Motion

Volunteer Work

Alte Gießerei Berlin e.v.

Alte Gießerei Berlin e.V. in Lichtenberg is celebrating ten years. What was once an industrial foundry has been rebuilt piece by piece by its members, transformed into a space for interdisciplinary craft: woodworking and metalworking, a jewellery forge, sewing workshop, screen printing, painting, ceramics, two recording studios, a darkroom and a large open studio. All built through collective effort, all sustained by the community.

From the outside, an industrial building in East Berlin. From the inside, somewhere in the countryside. A wood-burning stove, a generous courtyard, carefully tended. Once you’re in, the city falls away. I’ve been a member for years, develop my analog photography here, and keep coming back to this place for the sense of groundedness it gives me. The anniversary was the opportunity to put a course in architectural visualisation directly into practice: to build a place I know and love as a complete 3D model, and from there develop a unified visual language for all the event material.

Audio Archives is a fully integrated 360° creative project encompassing a printed publication, a capsule collection, and a global program of radio broadcasts and events. It marks over 15 years of Carhartt WIP Radio and pays tribute to the enduring cultural impact of community radio today. Carhartt WIP Radio launched in 2008, at a moment when radio was slowly transitioning from traditional FM to the digital sphere.

Its premise was simple: an artist or label playing their own music, accom- panied by an interview. That format has endured, with contributors spanning Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Audio Archives was built from the same desire to foster connections through music. For the first time, the project unites 17 independent radio stations from around the world under a single collaborative initiative,

amplifying local voices on a global scale. From stations founded in 1969

to those launched post-pandemic, each is entirely its own, yet together they represent an emerging culture that has reshaped how we understand modern broadcasting.

At the heart of the project lies a tension that is also its driving force: past and present, global and local, label partner and Carhartt WIP. Two sides that face each other and become inseparable. This duality runs through every layer of the project, and finds its clearest visual expres-sion in the moiré graphic, where two independent structures overlap to create something neither could produce alone. The question the project asks is not just how a brand can celebrate its own musical history, but how it can connect vastly different communities, each with their own identity and story, on equal terms and at the same time.

Art DIRECTION

SOUNDDESIGN

YEAR

SARAH SCHWEIZER

OON OFF AUDIO

2026

The starting point was the actual floor plan of the Gießerei. Using Grease Pencil, the real spatial boundaries were drawn directly in the viewport

to model only the rooms that actually exist. Since Berlin’s old architecture

rarely matches its original plans after decades of modifications, every

room was photographed, measured and documented on site. Textures

were photographed directly from the surfaces and mapped onto the corresponding geometry.

Like the place itself, the 3D model became a digital collage: 3D scans,

image texturing and repurposed models from Fab.com, combined with custom textures. Nothing built from scratch, everything gathered and reworked.

The Gießerei sits in the middle of a Berlin industrial zone. But stepping through the door feels like stepping somewhere else entirely. That feeling was the starting point for the exterior landscape: built using Biome Scattering, referencing Nordic coastal terrain. A space that doesn’t exist,

but feels true.

Shot in-house in Berlin, the campaign imagery for the Audio Archives capsule collection was built around two distinct lighting environments, each serving a different emotional register.

The first setup prioritised atmosphere over exposure. Soft, angled front light was used to illuminate the garments without over-stating them, present enough to read the product, restrained enough to hold the mood.

The second set pushed further. The backdrop flooded in the project’s signature Bloodorange Red, light reduced to a bare overhead source, pulling figures into silhouette. A direct nod to the ON AIR signal of a broadcasting studio.

At launch, the collection rolled out across Carhartt WIP point-of-sale locations worldwide. In cities with an active Radio partner station, the campaign extended into the storefront through dedicated visual merchandising windows, anchoring the retail experience within the wider Audio Archives universe.

Process

Tools

3D scans, image texturing and repurposed models

Blender 3D, Grease Pencil, Biome Scattering

Animations were created for the event, showing the Gießerei in motion.

To carry the analog quality of Riso printing into the moving image, a different Riso filter was applied to every fourth frame. The result is stuttering and grainy, reminiscent of hand screen printing in motion. The frames were automatically split into groups of four using a custom script, then processed into the final exports via Photoshop actions.

The final renderings became the foundation for all printed material produced for the anniversary: the main poster, the timetable and the floor plan. All print pieces were produced as Riso prints at Drucken 3000, a Berlin-based Riso studio. The grain and colour of the Riso process was part of the visual concept from the beginning.

Animations were created for the event, showing the Gießerei in motion.

Printing

Drucken 3000 Risographie - Branczyk & Haberstumpf GbR

Each workshop received its own flyer, released as an Instagram triptych linking directly to the association’s website. Participants could reserve spots for individual workshops through Ticket Tailor. Every place was taken. Some workshops were open and drop-in, which created a lively atmosphere throughout the day: people making things, sharing skills, and talking about the history of the place.

The global kickoff of Audio Archives took place at NBB Gallery, Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin on February 28, 2026. The event marked the starting point of a worldwide tour in which each of the 17 partner stations hosted their own event in their respective city, shaping the programme independently within the framework of the project.

The gallery space served as the first physical encounter with the project in full. Large-format prints drawn from the publication’s content made the archive visible at scale. A dedicated table invited visitors to browse the book directly. All products from the capsule collection were available on location.

Central to the collection was a series of 17 individually designed t-shirts,

one per radio station. Each station had full creative control over the front print and the presentaion. The back remained consistent across all pieces, feat-uring the project map showing all 17 partners. Same visual that informed the all-over pattern of the record bag. All products carried a customised Carhartt WIP Radio label, reinforcing the project’s identity at the product level. Furniture by New Tendency.

An 8-hour live broadcast soundtracked the event from 2pm to 10pm, streamed globally via audioarchives.live. DJs from the participating stations played during the day and were interviewed by Hugo Livsey.