Short Description
“Traditional computers often seem brilliant and simpleminded at the same time. On the one hand, they can perform billions of high-precision numerical operations per second with perfect repeatability. On the other hand, they fail catastrophically when their inputs are incomplete or ambiguous. These strengths and weaknesses flow from their mathematical foundations in deductive logic and deterministic functions.

Navia Systems is working to change all this, by building the world’s first natively probabilistic computers, designed from the ground up to handle ambiguity, make good guesses, and learn from their experience. Instead of logic and determinism, Navia’s hardware and software are grounded in probability distributions and stochastic simulators, generalizing the mathematics of traditional computing to the probabilistic setting. The result is a technology as suited to making judgements in the presence of uncertainty as traditional computing technology is to large-scale record keeping.” Navia Systems

Navia Systems, Inc. was founded in 2007 by four MIT doctoral students. The company’s goal is to help people make more rational, data-driven decisions by designing and building machines that make good judgements in the presence of uncertainty.

Credits
Client — Navia Systems
Text — Beau Cronin (CEO at Navia Systems)
Animation & Direction — Melih Bilgil

Some works made in the agencies
3deluxe
Die Kolonie
Quadrolux

Short Description
The Concept of Water is a book by R.D.V. Glasgow. The book examines the contradictions of water as both a projection of our hopes and aspirations, and an embodiment of our fears and darkest anxieties.
The clip was made in cooperation with Christopher Adjei.

Credits
Text – R.D.V. Glasgow
Animation – Melih Bilgil & Christopher Adjei
Speaker – Steve Taylor
Music – Benjamin Sickel
Cover Artwork – Kike de la Peña

Short Description
11 teaser animations for the third international translations-symposium
under the heading »authorship in design – autorschaft im design«.
The symposium was concerned with the self image of the communication
designer and his role in society. 
The animations introduce the speakers
Catrin Altenbrandt & Adrian Niessler (Pixelgarten), Dr. Petra Eisele,
Daniel Gross & Joris Maltha (Catalogtree), Erik Kessels (KesselsKramer),
Mike Meiré (Meiré und Meiré), Lars Müller (Lars Müller Publishers),
Rick Poynor, Stefan Sagmeister, Joachim Sauter (Art+Com), Jan van Toorn
and Dr. Oliver Vodeb (Poper Studio) with their own work.
Also visit: 
www.translations-symposium.de/translations03

Credits
Animation – Melih Bilgil
Project Lead – Prof. Dr. Isabel Naegele & Prof. Philipp Pape

© University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany
& the speakers of the translations-Symposium.

Short Description
The “Überhangmandate” is an animation out of a series of three clips.
It explains an aspect of the election system in Germany.
These clips were made for the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB).
All clips were made with help of the PICOL signs.

See all three clips I made on the german election system.

Credits
Editors – Stephan Trinius, Stefan Lampe (bpb)
V.i.S.d.P – Thorsten Schilling (bpb)
Conception and production – Astrid Reinberger, Melih Bilgil
Speaker – Melanie Pukaß
Appraiser – Christoph Strünck

This movie is licensed under the Creative Commons-License by-nc-nd/3.0/de.
CC 2009 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB)

Short Description
The clip “Fünf-Prozent-Hürde” is an animation out of a series of three clips.
It explains an aspect of the election system in Germany.
These clips were made for the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB).
All clips were made with help of the PICOL signs.

See all three clips I made on the german election system.

Credits
Editors – Stephan Trinius, Stefan Lampe (bpb)
V.i.S.d.P – Thorsten Schilling (bpb)
Conception and production – Astrid Reinberger, Melih Bilgil
Speaker – Melanie Pukaß
Appraiser – Christoph Strünck

This movie is licensed under the Creative Commons-License by-nc-nd/3.0/de.
CC 2009 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB)

Short Description
The clip “Erst- und Zweitstimme” is an animation out of a series of three clips.
It explains an aspect of the election system in Germany.
These clips were made for the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB).
All clips were made with help of the PICOL signs.

See all three clips I made on the german election system.

Credits
Editors – Stephan Trinius, Stefan Lampe (bpb)
V.i.S.d.P – Thorsten Schilling (bpb)
Conception and production – Astrid Reinberger, Melih Bilgil
Speaker – Melanie Pukaß
Appraiser – Christoph Strünck

This movie is licensed under the Creative Commons-License by-nc-nd/3.0/de.
CC 2009 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB)

• TIME Magazine – A Brief History of the Internet
• Fontblog – Die Geschichte des Internets in 8 Minuten
• ReadWriteWeb – Video: History of the Internet
• Netzpolitik – Animation: Die Geschichte des Internets
• Basic Thinking – Wie aus dem Inter-Net das Internet wurde
• DE:BUG – Die Geschichte des Internet als Film
• 8ninths – PICOL – The Helvetica of Icons?
• FHM Spain – ¡La historia de Internet en 8 minutos!

References
Bunz, Mercedes – Vom Speichern zum Verteilen: Die Geschichte des Internet
Leiner, Barry M.; Cerf, Vinton G.; Clark, David D.; Kahn, Robert E.; Kleinrock, Leonard; Lynch, Daniel C.; Postel, Jon; Roberts, Larry G.; Wolff, Stephen, A brief history of the Internet, Internet Society, 2003

Inspiration

• Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz, who created ISOTYPE, see also www.vknn.at/neurath
• AIGA passenger/pedestrian symbols
• The “desktop metaphor” by Larry Tesler & Tim Mott

More interesting resources on networks, communication and signs

• Computer Chronicles; The internet, 1993
• Ebersbach, Anja; Glaser, Markus; Heigl, Richard, Social Web, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008
• Eco, Umberto, Zeichen. Einführung in den Begriff und seine Geschichte, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1977
• Frutiger, Adrian, Der Mensch und seine Zeichen, Marix Verlag, 2006
• Hartmann, Frank; Bauer, Erwin K., Otto Neurath Visualisierungen, Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandel AG, 2006
• Medosch, Armin, Isotype im WWW, Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, 1997
• Mijksenaar, Paul, Visual Function – An Introduction to Information Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 1997
• Moggridge, Bill, Designing Interactions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
• Neurath, Otto, International Picture Language, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1936
• Ramge, Thomas, Mein Computer versteht mich!, in: BrandEins Ausgabe: Zu viel, 2007, S.38-43
• Rheingold, Howard, Smart Mobs, Basic Books, 2002

This project was made in cooperation with Thomas Färber at Prof. Robert Paulmanns Corporate Design course.

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Credits
Idea & Concept – Melih Bilgil & Thomas Färber
Animation – Melih Bilgil
Musik – Vernon LeNoir (upitup Records)
Scientific Management – Prof. Robert Paulmann

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Imagespot Credits
Idea & Animation – Melih Bilgil
Scripting – Pascal Schneider
Music – Pierlo (upitup Records)
Scientific Management – Prof. Thomas Daum

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Virtual Imagespot for the project Jack Napalm

Credits
Production – Tahar Jaber (Die Kolonie)
Director, Art Director & Animation – Melih Bilgil
Art Direcor – Melih Bilgil
Animation – Melih Bilgil
Character Design – Amin Laliman
!!!Sound – in progress

© Die Kolonie

Made in Germany offers a picture-book tour of Germany. Collecting images that depict archetypal German inventions and traditions, such cultural icons are then neatly filed away, in a typically German fashion.

Credits
Idea, Concept & Animation – Melih Bilgil, Christopher Adjei & Björn Frieling
Music – Trackybirthday (upitup Records)
Scientific managment – Bodo Keller

© 2005, Melih Bilgil, Christopher Adjei & Björn Frieling

Intermediate Diploma
Experimental
Video Clip

Credits
Director, Editing, Postproduction – Melih Bilgil
Dancer (Actor) – Kenan Veli
Camera – Joscha Brück
Gaffer – Björn Frieling
Virtual Studio Supervisor – Christopher Adjei
Visual FX Supervisor – Alexander Boerger
Script – Lisa Engelbach
Continuity – Jörg Barton
Costume – Jan Guntermann, Melih Bilgil
Making–of – Linda Lu Wulf
Music – Mic & Morph (For deepresiv prodution)
Title-Music – phon°noir
Scientific Management – Anja Stöffler
Thanks to – Martin Pfeiffer, Caroline Jarczyk, Markus Walenzyk & Sebastian Haslauer

Credits
Idea, Concept & Editing – Melih Bilgil
Camera – Dad & Uncle
Music – Morph & Thai (Beatnerdz)
Scientific Management – James Nitsch