Category Archives: Design

Reviving a school website

15 July 2024Coding, Computers and IT, Design, Munich, World Wide WebSascha

Earlier this year I took on the task of reviving my son’s high school website. Now we have finally reached the point where the school has decided to officially move from the old and outdated site to this new one.

After another less successful attempt by someone else to relaunch the site, we decided to go for a slimmer and simpler approach this time to minimise maintenance.
Using WordPress, I derived a minimally modified but dedicated child theme based on Twenty Twenty and wrote a bit of PHP, Javascript and HTML/CSS code to adapt the site to the needs and wishes of the school staff.

Some content still needs to be added, but the site is already more functional and complete than the old one, so the school decided to launch it at their summer party today.

I will continue to support the school team with maintenance, development and working on the long list of ideas we still have for the site. These include updating some of the images in collaboration with the photography course and better integrating the school newspaper and other school projects.

Mapping targets

23 June 2024Archery, Design, Munich, World Wide WebSascha

Over the past few days, I’ve been playing around with a new and updated course map for our archery club, TFBS München e.V. Traditioneller Feldbogensportverein, which today found its way onto the club’s website. Let me know if you have comments …

ATLAS detector slice

30 May 2021ATLAS, CERN, Design, Outreach, Video editingSascha

In addition to new animated logos for video productions of the ATLAS Collaboration, I have been working on a revised, 1080p version of the animated ATLAS detector slice, showing the interaction of different particles inside the ATLAS detector.

Here’s a low-resolution preview …

… you can find the full-resolution version, along with still vector images of the empty detector slice, on the CERN Documents Server (CDS) now (stills and animated GIFs are here).

Note: The detector slice is based on earlier work/versions by Rebecca Pitt and Joao Pequenao.

Update on ATLAS animated logos

29 May 2021ATLAS, CERN, Design, Outreach, Video editingSascha

I just recently picked up my Motion project to create some animated logos for video productions for the ATLAS Collaboration and the clips are now available (for the collaboration) at atlas.cern/design.

Here’s a few previews and look out for them in upcoming ATLAS videos ;)

ALICE in bricks

19 May 2021ALICE, CERN, Design, Hobbies, LEGO, Outreach, PhysicsSascha

Over the past four months, and together with Christian Klein-Boesing, Marcus Mikorski and a few others, we have been running a workshop for high-school and early-university students to design and build the ALICE Experiment at CERN in LEGO bricks.
As part of the weekly meetings we had with the students we also introduced basic concepts of particle, heavy-ion and detector physics.

The workshop series was organised and funded by the ErUM-FSP T01 project “Expansion of ALICE at the LHC: experiments with the ALICE detector at CERN”, which in turn is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The first models in real-live bricks are foreseen to be build end of June 2021 at Goethe University Frankfurt and University of Münster, with both their ALICE groups taking a leading role in this effort.

The designs and parts lists will be made available on the Build Your Own Particle Detector website to join the already existing LEGO models of other LHC experiments.

Here’s a few rough teaser renderings from the current state of affairs …

Stay tuned for more updates to come soon!

[edit] The project has also been presented at the spring meeting of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) that started today.