Sodeikat Starstuff
A few years back I headed up the redesign of the Kelkoo you can see today. Inspired by the story of the Nike logo I got Pierre’s support for announcing a logo competition. it was a terrific success I thought - we got more than 1500 proposals from more than 20 countries, we got a winner forming the basis of the new design and I got a new friend - Hans-Jürgen Sodeikat. Here’s his winning logo:

We kept in touch over the years so when going to Berlin last week it was great to catch up with his current doings. Much to my surprise HaJü chose to go to film school after his senior design education - and he’s now showing his immense talents in yet another area: 3d animation character design.
Check out HaJü’s blog where he’s showing off stuff he’s making daily. Pretty cool stuff! I was lucky to spend an hour with him at the new Haubtbahnhof in Berlin and he showed my all his cool work such as: “The Sacred Stone of Horus“!
My prediction: HaJü will be famous one day - and YouTube could make it happen sooner than we think
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Hi Gard,
Found your blog after I searched a bit on Linkedin for people from Yahoo. I enjoyed your posts! I didn’t know one could insert photos in a WordPress blog though? I don’t think I can do it in mine…
http://www.frenchparents.net/editorials/
Now to me: do you think Yahoo might be interested in a project I’m working on: InternationalParents.net? It seeks to create a social network for global families by major city worldwide.
I myself, as one of the minds behind this project, am a representative of these families, having lived in various countries in my 35 year existence. I also had the chance to live in the SF Bay area between 99 and 2004, which made me the Web addict I am today.
That’s when I embarked with a team powered only by enthusiasm on the creation and management of the FrenchParents.net platform, still online today. ‘Tis a modest php/MySQL Web 2.0 network, online since 2001, yet given our resources, it’s not bad…Now thet eBusiness is not the buzz, and that Web 2.0 and networking is, I’d like to get support to develop the successor to Frenchparents: InternationalParents.net.
I have a complete business plan, about 20 template pages design, detailed functional specs, and would now like to develop this project with strong partners such as Yahoo, Google…
Really!
They haven’t really thought of families as a target yet. My proposal could help them realize women 25-55 ARE also on the web and need to be served with destinations!
I’d appreciate being able to talk about this on skype for instance at your convenience. My ID is internationalparent.
Thanks,
Caroline I