This project is an information brochure for an imaginary man made island. The island's function is to host a school based off of the philosophy of Buckminster Fuller, whose aim is to use design and creativity to design a better world. The project and school are used as a vessel to harbor my own beliefs about the importance and possibilities of design in the 21st century. It is of course strongly influenced by Buckminster Fuller's own ideas and the Institute Without Boundaries. All of the words are written by Robin Willis with exception to the two quotations from Buckminster Fuller.

ISLAND -

A Website for the Art History Department of the UNIVERISTY OF BASEL whose studies are strongly linked with the international program EIKONES in researching and developing ideas surrounding "Iconic Turn" theory and the power/meaning of images that confront us.
The Concept of this project was to visualize the structure and ways that images, artworks, ideas are connected through influence to create a model of art history, and then to it apply that structure to the website. When you first enter the page you are confronted with a list of words, being names, places, times, ideas and other key pieces of information that define the content of the page. Each of these are linked to different elements of content which are tagged with the same words. By clicking a word you select it and then narrow the field of words to ones that surround the content linked to the word you selected. you can then expand and contract the field of words on the page by selecting and un-selecting words in real time. You can then navigate the content of the site simply by the different ways they are connected.
This was made with Javascript, XML, and XSL

KUNST HIST V.1 [WILL RUN SLOW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A FAST PROCESSOR]

SLIDE SHOW

Two poster concepts for the HGK Basel Diplom show. This is the end of the year show for the five departments of the school. My posters just really reflect methods and styles I found interesting and wanted to explore from my time here. Hopp Swiss Design!

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POSTER 2 LARGE VERSION

A portrait of Basel, I walked from Messeplatz, the new convention center and forum of basel and also home to Basels tallest building by far. From there I walked all they way down to the original Town Hall photographing every building on the street. Below the photographs is a corrosponding map of the streets and sites.The bridge, Mittleree Brucke which is more or less responsible for the towns creation is featured. The project was inspired by Ed Ruchas piece Every Building on Sunset Blvd, I wish I had a car like him for the project.

LAUNCH! [THIS PAGE WILL TAKE A WHILE TO LOAD]

A Poster REdesign and reinterpretation of Ralph Schraivogel's poster. The poster is for an exhibition that just took place at the Museum Fur Gestaltung, Zurich - COMMUNICATE: INDEPENDENT BRiTISH GRAPHIC DESIGN SINCE 1960 . The Show is a retrospective of British graphic designers as you might have guess, but all hold the elements of subversion, rebellion and independence in their work.

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Hey its the Fourth of July and I am sitting in a hot and sweaty class room but its ok because its not by favorite holiday at all. I did get to go to the Alps this weeked which was amazing in both the buddhist way and the bootcamp way. Just so you know how tough I am let me tell you 10km long 1,000 meter climb, 6 hours.



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The Power of Nightmares is great, religious video games, terrorism, and hedge pruning, plus more, download the series at archive.org and become a smarter person. Check out some of my older designs at byhandclothingco.com . Same stuff from George says but cut up, burned, thrown out the window and then stuck back together. Buy a shirt before they drop big time. It rains too much in Switzerland

Coming back to Los Angeles on July 5th cant wait, almost done with two big projects, scrilla.

Art Basel Was fun, I saw a ballon fly away. Alex Wolf enjoyed my hammock.Art Unlimited is definitely where its at. It is a huge hall filled with installations created by different artists for the fair as well as little rooms, each dedicated to particular artists. Robin's Art Basel pics are White Cube, LA Louver, Michael-Innes & Nash, Fernando Bryce, Kehinde Wiley, Joseph Kosuth and the tennis court and typo fountain were awesome as well. The weather is beautiful check out this cool video

Typographic Fountain

THe new and improved, monospaced, plain text, hand scripted analog looking Designing Crime is here. Well I finally got the new website up and I have to say im quite happy. It does everything I want, ultra customizationable. simple for updated, organized, clear for interactive purposes, so i'm just peachy. Much Much love to Mudcorp, whos web application philosiphy was definitly the inspiration for this. Ok so give me some time to put the new work up, but come back soon cause its coming. Hot off the grill information graphics, code, drawings, websites, t-shirts soon.

Robin Willis was born on a stormy night in February 1985. His parents describe him in his youth as an incredibly wide eyed, yet focused child whose eyes or feet would never be still for a minute. After creating his first LEGO masterpiece (a fully functioning small city complete with train line) he understood his greatest passion and purpose in life, creation of all things in the scope of reality and possibly outside of it. Robin grew up in Santa Monica, California until the age of 18 when he relocated to New York City to attend The Cooper Union school of Art, where he currently studies. He enjoys looking at pictures, scouring the earth for obscure Jazz, Soul and R&B recordings, bad movies, drawing and anything well designed. His favorite color is green, he has a thing for old books and maps and spends way too much time on the computer. His goals range from writing and publishing his own books to changing the face of the earth and the lives of everyone on it. The rest is a long story.

ROBIN WILLIS
(0041) 061 311 29 85
KARL BARTH-PLATZ 2
BASEL 4052
SWITZERLAND