Born and raised in the beautiful city of Vienna, multidisziplinary Melanie began her career in advertising, where she worked as an interactive art director for major brands like Kunst Haus Wien (Museum Hundertwasser), Peugeot and Telekom Austria.
In 2006 she decided to move to London, where she received her MA degree in communication design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
During the college years, Melanie became highly fascinated with the latest developments in touchscreen technology and user-centred design, which resulted in the research and development of the interactive app for multitouch-able surfaces called Digital Volvelles 1.0. In 2009 she also collaborated on another interactive app called Vispol for the German police in Hessen.
Since 2009 Melanie has been leading workshops and talks at the New Design University in Austria and within BBC London. In 2010 her article about the faszination of our culture with retro artefacts and vintage fashion got published in the Austrian Newspaper “Die Presse”. Her blog about the design process of the latest BBC Weather site on the BBC Internet blog was the most shared blog of 2011.
Melanie is currently working as an interactive senior designer for the BBC in London, where she gets involved in tablet, mobile and responsive web work.
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A lot of articles on this site feature events and inspirations that I encounter in my life. They are intended as a complete subjective viewpoint, almost like a personal visual diary. The entries deal with material, images and events that I find faszinating, inspiring and interesting. Material, that gets my brain working, motivates me, captures me and makes me want to share with others.
