Andreas Gaschka
LOCATION: Mainz, Germany
AGE: 22
JOB: Motion designer
SOFTWARE USED: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Maya, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro

Motion graphics is an emerging design form, and many of today’s designs are little more than eye-candy. But Andreas Gaschka leads the way in informational motion work.

Gaschka is a student of Media Design at FH Mainz University of Applied Sciences. He won acclaim at last year’s Adobe Design Achievement Awards for his Traffic Advisories – a visualisation of television traffic announcements designed for broadcast. His animation shows the location of traffic jams in a city on a 3D map and is an idea we could imagine being adopted by a major news service.

Much of Gaschka’s work involves 3D, but he’s currently rediscovering ‘analogue techniques’, such as pencils, markers, ink, felt-tip pens, watercolours and spray cans.

Gaschka is also a big fan of psyop, WeWorkForThem, Buck, ZNKdojo, viagrafik and bionicsystems. He begins an internship at DMC Hamburg in March 2006 and on completion would like work at a motion design agency in the US.

To find out more about Andreas Gaschka’s work visit his website at www.gaschgrafik.de