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Designed to be used and loved by millions.

Designed to be used and loved by millions.

Designed to be used and loved by millions.

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Tobias van Schneider (also known as  House of van Schneider) is an award-winning designer born in Germany, raised in Austria and currently living in Stockholm  New York.

Working at the intersection of digital product design and brand identity,  he's had the privilege of influencing products used and loved by millions. These include Spotify, Red Bull, NASA, BMW, Google, Wacom, Sony, Toyota, Ralph Lauren, Bwin and more.

Today, he's  the co-founder of Semplice and mymind, partner at   Carbonmade  and Creative Director at   DESK. Before, he served as lead product designer & art director at Spotify.

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I'm Tobias van Schneider an award-winning designer born in Germany, raised in Austria & currently living in Stockholm New York City.

I had the privilege of working with companies such as Red Bull, NASA, BMW, Google, Wacom, Sony, Toyota, Ralph Lauren, Bwin & more.

Founder of Semplice. Former Lead Product Designer & Art Director at Spotify & serving on the AIGA Board of Directors in New York.

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Tobias van Schneider (also known as  House of van Schneider) is an award-winning designer born in Germany, raised in Austria and currently living in Stockholm  New York.

Working at the intersection of digital product design and brand identity,  he's had the privilege of influencing products used and loved by millions. These include Spotify, Red Bull, NASA, BMW, Google, Wacom, Sony, Toyota, Ralph Lauren, Bwin and more.

Today, he's  the co-founder of Semplice, partner at   Carbonmade  and Creative Director at   DESK. Before, he served as lead product designer & art director at Spotify.

Full bio here
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LinkedIn

Want to work together?
business@vanschneider.com

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Semplice™ —  Building with pride. The dark horse portfolio system made by designers for designers.

Semplice™ —  Building with pride. The dark horse portfolio system made by designers for designers.

■ PROJECT: SEMPLICE.COM
■ ROLE: Creative director & co-founder
■ DEMO: visit semplice.com

Thousands of the world's leading creatives use Semplice to build custom portfolios without templates. I co-founded Semplice and I’m responsible for creative direction, product design, branding and marketing. It’s an ever-iterating tool, website backend and creative community helping designers build with pride.

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NASA  —  Designing an identity for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission.

NASA  —  Designing a symbol and identity for the Mars 2020 rover mission.

■ CLIENT: NASA/JPL
■ ROLE: LOGO DESIGN & IDENTITY
■ DATE: 2019/2020

■ CLIENT: NASA/JPL
■ ROLE: ART DIRECTION
■ DATE: 2017

For the 2020 launch of the Mars Rover, NASA asked House of van Schneider to design a symbol capturing the energy and legacy of space travel, while celebrating the engineers who worked tirelessly on this mission.

At once an abstract representation of the iconic rover and blocks reaching up to the sky, the logomark works as beautifully on the rover as it does on a 191-foot tall rocket ship

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Audient —  Bringing mixer software into the 21st century with the first user-centered mixer interface.

Audient —  Bringing mixer software into the 21st century with the first user-centered mixer interface.

CLIENT: AUDIENT.COM
ROLE: CD, UX & UI DESIGN
▸ DEMO: VIEW VIDEO

For Audient’s new ID44 device, I designed a modern software interface that tightly integrates with their new hardware. The standard mixer UI hadn’t changed over the years and this was the first real user-first approach. The new iD Mixer interface is simple and elegant, a streamlined experience for a complex audio recording tool.

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Ad Astra —  Designing the poster for a cinematic masterpiece set in deep space.

Ad Astra —  Designing the poster for a cinematic masterpiece set in deep space.

ROLE: ART DIRECTION + GRAPHIC DESIGN
■ DATE: 2019

When we were asked to design the poster for a space film starring Brad Pitt, we naturally said yes. "AD ASTRA" centers on an astronaut’s mission to Neptune, as he attempts to save humanity and fill the void LEFT BY HIS missing father. For our poster concepts, we played with white space and the acronym LOS, meaning Loss of Signal. While our designs were not ultimately the final poster, it was an honor to have our concepts considered for this film.

When we were asked to design the poster for a space film starring Brad Pitt, we naturally said yes. AD ASTRA centers on an astronaut’s mission to Neptune, as he attempts to save humanity and fill the void LEFT BY his MISSING father. For our poster concepts, we played with white space and the acronym LOS, meaning Loss of Signal. While our designs were not ultimately the final poster, it was an honor to have our concepts considered for this film.

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NASA  —  Celebrating 80 years of space  discovery with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA  —  Celebrating 80 years of space  discovery with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

■ CLIENT: NASA/JPL
■ ROLE: ART DIRECTION
■ DATE: 2017

■ CLIENT: NASA/JPL
■ ROLE: ART DIRECTION
■ DATE: 2017

NASA/JPL reached out to us for help celebrating an important milestone: The 80th anniversary of their Jet Propulsion Lab, a leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system. To commemorate the occasion, we designed elaborate badges for fictional NASA membership clubs. The badges were featured on limited edition shirts and jackets as a gift for the JPL TEAM.

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Wave —  Bringing meditation  to the 21st century with an integrated multi-sensory music approach.

WAVE —  Bringing meditation to the 21st century with an integrated multi-sensory music approach.

■ CLIENT: WAVEMEDITATION.COM
■ ROLE: PRODUCT, UX & UI DESIGN
▸ DEMO: DOWNLOAD APP

■ CLIENT: WAVEMEDITATION.COM
■ ROLE: PRODUCT, UX & UI DESIGN
▸ DEMO: DOWNLOAD APP

In contrast to the average meditation app on the market, wave is designed as a destination rather than an escape. HOUSE of van schneider created the user experience and user interface design for the app and, together with wave, developed the digital product strategy. You use wave not because you have to, but because you want to.

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NYC — The ultimate guide for moving to New York City, written and designed   for creatives.

NYC — The ultimate guide for moving to New York City, written and designed   for creatives.

■ PROJECT: LETSGOTO.nyc
■ ROLE: creative director & author
■ BUY: GET THE EBOOK HERE

Moving to New York from Austria was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I figured most of it out the hard way: finding a job, getting a visa, choosing an apartment. Seven years later and still happily living in the city, I wrote a book that makes it easier for others. Let’s Go to NYC is the complete guide for moving to New York from outside the States. It’s the sum of my personal experience, legal advice and tons of research all in one place, written in easy-to-understand terms. No bullshit, no fluff.

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Spotify  —   Designing a  music brand and product for millions  of loyal users around the world.

Spotify  —   Designing a  music brand and product for millions  of loyal users around the world.

■ COMPANY: SPOTIFY
■ ROLE: PRODUCT DESIGN LEAD
■ DATE: 2013-2016

As a product design lead and art director at Spotify, I lead design for all platforms including desktop, mobile and consoles. I worked for three years on the brand and product design, helping Spotify through a major rebrand as the company tripled in size from 20 million users to more than 80 million. I also worked on the Spotify Innovation Team designing future products, helping establish Spotify’s first design guidelines and implementing them across all platforms.

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memomi™ —   Reinventing the luxury shopping experience with a new high-end digital mirror.

memomi™ —   Reinventing the luxury shopping experience with a new high-end digital mirror.

■ PROJECT: memomi INC
■ ROLE: advisor & Creative director
■ DEMO: visit memorymirror.com

Memomi created the world’s first digital mirror software platform called Memory Mirror. I’m advisor and creative director at Memomi, overseeing the user experience, brand creative and ever-evolving product design. Memomi launched with partners such as Intel, IBM, Sony and Panasonic, and now appears in high-end stores like Neiman Marcus.

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Unsplash  —  Capturing the spirit of exploration in a limited edition, custom-designed   sweatshirt.

Unsplash  —  Capturing the spirit of exploration in a limited edition, custom-designed   sweatshirt.

■ PROJECT: SELF-INITIATED
■ ROLE: DESIGNER, PHOTOGRAPHER
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Together with my friends at Unsplash, I created a sweatshirt that embodies our shared love of travel and exploration. I designed each detail of the sweatshirt, from the label on the sleeve to the graphic in tonal black foil script on the front. The Urban Explorer sweatshirt is handmade in Canada from 100% french terry cotton and reads “Fernweh & Wanderlust.” In German, Fernweh translates to “farsickness” or “longing for far-off places.”

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NXTGlobe  —  Using innovative technology to imagine a perfect world without gasoline cars.

NXTGlobe  —  Using innovative technology to imagine a perfect world without gasoline cars.

■ AGENCY: FANTASY INTERACTIVE
■ ROLE: ART DIRECTOR & LEAD DESIGNER
▸ DEMO: VIEW VIDEO

■ AGENCY: FANTASY INTERACTIVE
■ ROLE: ART DIRECTOR & LEAD DESIGNER
▸ DEMO: VIEW VIDEO

A leading car brand created Eco Next Globe to show how the world would look if we switched from gasoline to eco-friendly cars. Using WebGL technology, I art directed and designed the experience. The website used real map data to generate a visual dashboard for each user, all elements rendering directly in the browser. Everything was built with new web technology – even buttons and subtle glow effects were completely coded in CSS or integrated via SVG.

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Wacom  —  Designing a powerful ecommerce platform for state-of-the-art creative tools.

Wacom  —  Designing a powerful ecommerce platform for state-of-the-art creative tools.

■ AGENCY: FANTASY INTERACTIVE
■ ROLE: ART DIRECTOR & LEAD DESIGNER
▸ DEMO: VIEW VIDEO

■ AGENCY: FANTASY INTERACTIVE
ROLE: ART DIRECTOR & LEAD DESIGNER
▸ DEMO: VIEW VIDEO

Together with Fantasy Interactive, I created a cohesive online experience for Wacom. We completely overhauled the wacom.com ecommerce platform, streamlining the checkout experience, creating custom 3D imagery and designing layouts that helped Wacom better tell their product stories. Wacom creates fantastic tools for creative professionals, and their new website matched that reputation.

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.Mail —   Rethinking the way email works with a refreshingly simple email client concept.

.Mail —   Rethinking the way email works with a refreshingly simple email client concept.

■ PROJECT: DOTMAIL APP
■ ROLE: FOUNDER, DESIGNER
■ DATE: 2011 (NEVER LAUNCHED)

While technology had advanced and adapted to our needs over the years, email hadn't evolved much at all. I created the DotMail email concept to fix that problem. Unlike many email clients filled with functionality nobody needs, DotMail focused on only the necessities. With a clean, visual interface and simple yet revolutionary details like Actionsteps, DotMail gained a surprising amount of attention and even press from publications like Fast Company.

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Black Marble —  A limited edition beard oil, custom-designed  for you and those close to you. 

Black Marble —  A limited edition beard oil, custom-designed  for you and those close to you. 

■ PROJECT: BLACK MARBlE
■ ROLE: ART DIRECTOR & DESIGNER
■ DATE: 2014

I partnered with Beard Brand to design a premium beard oil from scratch, carefully refining the formula and designing the packaging, brand and marketing. Tired of the typical woodsy scent of most beard oils, we aimed for a more subtle fragrance using citrus, cedarwood and ginger. I’m biased, but I’d say it’s the best beard oil out there. The beard approves this message.

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Authentic Weather  — Creating the world's most honest  and irreverent weather app.

Authentic Weather  — Creating the world's most honest  and irreverent weather app.

■ PROJECT: AUTHENTIC WEATHER
■ ROLE: FOUNDER, DESIGNER
■ DEMO: DOWNLOAD APP

Unlike most weather apps with their sunshine and rainbows outlook, Authentic Weather tells it like it is. I founded and created the app including the concept, design, copywriting and branding. What began as a side project in 2011 quickly reached cult status, with millionS of downloads across Android and iOS shortly after launch.

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Aquatilis  —  Using interactive storytelling to share the journey of an undersea expedition.

Aquatilis  —  Using interactive storytelling to share the journey of an undersea expedition.

■ CLIENT: AQUATILIS
■ ROLE: CREATIVE DIRECTOR & DESIGN
■ DEMO: VIEW WEBSITE

A team of explorers were embarking on a three-year journey to explore the world’s oceans — and they needed an equally immersive website. The website i designed told their story with an interactive scrolling experience and subtle animations uncommon for that time. To mine and the Aquatilis team’s excitement, the site got a ton of press and inspired many to create similar editorial layouts.

I've been fortunate enough to be featured in highly acclaimed publications such as .net Magazine, Computer Arts,  FastCompany, Wired, Inc Magazine, FirstRound Capital, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Business Insider and many others.

 

Thank you!

I've been fortunate enough to be featured in highly acclaimed publications such as .net Magazine, Computer Arts,  FastCompany, Wired, Inc Magazine, FirstRound Capital, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Business Insider and many others.

 

Thank you!

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