RESORB Journal

Light, space and the craft of projection

Articles on projection mapping, holograms in water and fog, and the stories behind our works, from a studio that has been putting light on buildings and into the air since 2004.

The red brick Rotes Rathaus in Berlin at night: a rainbow-striped Berlin bear projected onto the tower and #WIRSINDEINBERLIN in white capitals across the top storey, with spectators and parked cars in the foreground

Behind the work · Light and the city ·

Next Level Propaganda: when Berlin projected its new brand onto its own city hall

On 12 September 2020, Berlin's Governing Mayor launched the city's new brand, #WirSindEinBerlin, with a 3D projection mapping on the Rotes Rathaus, his own seat of government. Our team animated and mapped it, and called the film “Next Level Propaganda”. Half joke, half honest: if any medium was made for monumental messages, it is light on a huge building.

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Visitors silhouetted at night in front of Depth/100: nested frames of green light standing in water and mist at O.Z.O.R.A. Festival, Hungary

Holograms · Explainer ·

Real hologram or not? How 3D images in fog and water work

Technically, the 3D images that hang in fog or on a water screen are volumetric lightfields: projected light, caught by countless droplets in the air. Everyone calls them holograms, and so do we. Here is what is really going on, and why it looks the way it does.

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