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Ward Schumaker - Trump Papers

June 11th, 2024

Ward Schumaker, a Californian artist and illustrator, assumes that the 2024 elections in the USA will be another 'war of words'. Since 2017, he has been collecting Donald Trump's statements and turning them into 'paintings'. 

'I've never been very political. My intentions vary, but first and foremost I want to make sure that others have seen and digested the latest vile words from Trump and/or his minions,' the artist explains.

Legendary art director Steven Heller dedicates an extensive article to Schumaker's project in the May issue of the American PRINT Magazine. www.printmag.com

GilSing - Luna Luna

June 10th, 2024

Many of the 'middle-aged' generation - especially people in Hamburg - undoubtedly remember André Heller's LUNA LUNA on the Moorweide, in the summer of 1987,  the amusement park of a special kind, planned as a 'traveling territory of modern art'. Big names such as Baselitz, Basquiat, Dali, Enzensberger, Lichtenstein, Topor and many more painted swing boats, Ferris wheels and carousels, designed pavilions, toilet facades, shooting galleries and posters or wrote texts.  Now Luna Luna has surprisingly reawakened after a long snow-white slumber - a 'forgotten fantasy', in Los Angeles. An amazing story.

lunaluna.com/about/the-story/

Monika GilSing's colorful WIND PICTURES accompanied visitors to the park along the paths from spectacle to spectacle.

lunaluna.com/artists/monika-gilsing/

Fotos: Sabine Sarnitz, 1987

Brad Holland - Courrier international France

August 23rd, 2023

Brad Holland’s illustration ‚Horned Fish‘ was published on the cover of the French Magazine Courrier international. Topic: ocean warming

Stang - Pictograms for Students residence

July 5th, 2023

In Amsterdam East, Mei Architecten is designing the first buildings in the development of the Sluisbuurt; a new urban district on Zeeburgereiland. Commissioned by the DUWO Foundation, Mei is creating two unique residential buildings with a total of over 750 student homes.

Stang designed a multitude of pictograms commissioned by Mei, processed as reliefs in wafer-thin light concrete panels and perforations in aluminum. Stang's graphic style connects with the future residents, and with a wink, Stang shows typical objects of "home," such as a fishbowl, pan of soup, clock on the wall, cat on the couch and clothes in the laundry basket. By mid-2025, you can live there …. or cycle past.

Maarten Rijnen - Heineken

February 17th, 2023

Maarten Rijnen developed illustrations for cans and gift boxes of Heineken’s ‚Refresh your Music‘ and ‚Heineken Festive‘ - both for the Asian market. 

Jeffrey Fisher - Quanta Magazine, New York

February 2nd, 2023

Jeffrey Fisher illustrated an online article on artificial intelligence for QUANTA MAGAZINE.

www.quantamagazine.org

Anja Nolte - Video Conference Erinnerungsfutur - Future of Rememberence

October 17th, 2022

Anja Nolte felt very honored to be commissioned by the Leo Beck Foundation and Dialogperspektiven (www.dialogueperspectives.org/de/) to create an art video for the CPPD's conference Erinnerungsfutur. CPPD (Coalition for Pluralistic Public Discourse) is a network of discourse-shaping young people from diverse backgrounds who work and research on issues of pluralistic memory culture and diversity in a variety of ways. 

Anja's film Memofur - part of the conference Erinnerungsfutur - cites in an abstracted form moments and places of memory culture: the Armenian genocide memorial Aghet, the stone flower memorial for the Roma killed in the concentration camp Jasenovac, "Jad" swaying in the grass field, the so-called Torah pointers.... With her work, she wants to trigger associations and open up space for the viewer's own interpretation and memory. www.dialogueperspectives.org/de/blog/video-arbeit-memofur/

The 3 minute film (Sound: Swantje Lichtenstein) and detailed explanations of the artist can be found here: anjanolte.com/portfolio/memofur/

Guy Billout - Poster Competition Designers for Peace

September 17th, 2022

Guy Billout received the Gold Award for his contribution to the poster competition 'Designers for Peace' of Graphis publishers. Entries came from over 350 countries, and all entry fees go to humanitarian aid for Ukraine. 

Designers for peace

Peter Kraemer - Poster Competition Designers for Peace

September 12th, 2022

On the occasion of the war in Ukraine, puplishing house Graphis has called for a poster competition under the motto 'Designers for Peace'. 100% of the entry fees go to humanitarian aid for Ukraine. Out of more than 350 entries from over 30 countries, Peter Krämer has been awarded a Platinum Award for his poster design 'Save Ukraine'.

Designers for peace

Anja Nolte - The SBar, 3D and AR

February 26th, 2022

Based on her front design for the salad bar in Munich-Schwabing, for which Anja Nolte also recreated the mascot of the Sbar - a Mexican-looking mini-lego figure - in 3D, Anja created Mexican visual worlds and provided the little Mexican with her own creation, the charming Takita. A virtual visit of the figures at the Berlin Wall invites to an Augmented Reality Experience.  The animations are used for promotion and online presentation of the SBar. More SALAD BOWL on Vimeo.

Chris McEwan's World of Robots

January 28th, 2022

Chris McEwan and his wife CarolI used the lock-downs to put together a book of Chris’s robot collection and the artwork that was inspired by it. The book is self-published and is to be found at Instagram: instagram.com

Here an interview the local BBC TV did with Chris about his project: vimeo.com

Anja Nolte - Centre Dürrenmatt

January 21st, 2022

The exhibition 'Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Caricatures' at the Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, Switzerland also features works from Anja Nolte's graphic novel 'The Visit of the Old Lady' (2015). The exhibition opened on January 15 and will be on view until Mail 15, 2022.

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Carolyn Gowdy - Spectator Magazine UK

January 6th, 2022

Carolyn Gowdy illustrated Lisa Evans’ short story 'Gus and his Mate Mark' published in the December issue of 'The Spectator' magazine. Gus and Mark are two young medical students who prefer to conduct their studies in the pub versus the library:  'Every time one of us goes to the bar, we have to spot a pathology, diagnose it, and then present it'. www.spectator.co.uk

Anja Nolte - Augmented Reality

October 22nd, 2021

"With the Adobe Aero project "Krodita", Anja Nolte has created a 3D art figure that can be visually placed in ever new contexts by the user and can be used playfully, politically or even artistically."

Markus Linden, Journalist, PAGE, Design Magazine

www.krodita.org

Stang - Inspiring new visual language for Centre Céramique in Maastricht

July 1th, 2021

Zuiderlicht Agency for strategy and design - entrusted with the graphic and illustrative design for the ‚relaunch‘ of the Centre Céramique – turned to Stang Gubbels for cooperation with this challenge. Stang developed an enormous set of black and white illustrations that incorporate all kinds of aspects of the city's past, present and future. They can be seen on the 40 meter long vide fencing, play elements, presentation booths (Van Lieshout), lighting fixtures, rear walls, etc. The Stang 'fall protection' consists of 40 panels. Each panel contains elements of Maastricht's present, past and future and is a voyage of discovery in itself. 

For more information: pdf

Graham Reynolds - Fünf Freunde

June 18th, 2021

The series of 'Five Friends' adventures has reached number 144. Since number 25 (i.e. 120 episodes!) the covers for the exciting stories for children have been illustrated by Graham Reynolds.  Four stories have now won an award from the German Verband Musikindustrie (Music Industry Association).

Maarten Rijnen - RA Design

June 15th, 2021

Inspired by the styles of Katsushika Hokusai and Vincent van Gogh, Maarten Rijnen created two posters on environmental themes.

Carolyn Gowdy - American Illustration

June 9th, 2021

We discovered that one of Carolyn Gowdy’s images, created for Ian Rankin’s short 'I live here now' (published in ‚'The Spectator') and set during challenging early months of the pandemic, has been chosen as online winner by American Illustration 40.

Balbusso Twins - Happy Easter

March 31st, 2021

Anja Nolte - Date with Dürrenmatt

January 29th, 2021

As part of the exhibition Friedrich Dürrenmatt – Karikaturen, the Kurpfälzische Museum Heidelberg is showing Anja Nolte's artistic interpretation of the famous classic The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The work was commissioned for a special edition of the Swiss cultural magazine Du.

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anjanolte.com

Michael Sowa - cuckoo clock

December 11th, 2020

A whistling pig ... Wall clock with quartz drive - designed by Michael Sowa. 

To order at www.inkognito.de

Laura Smith - US Election

October 2nd, 2020

Laura Smith's creative contribution, especially calling on the younger generation to vote in the upcoming elections. 

Michael Sowa - e.o.plauen-Prize

September 17th, 2020

The e.o.plauen Prize is an international art prize that has been donated and awarded by the city of Plauen and the e.o.plauen Society since 1995. It is named after the graphic artist, illustrator and cartoonist Erich Ohser alias e.o.plauen. Andreas Platthaus, chairman of the jury for the nomination of the e.o.plauen award winners: "Michael Sowa is the winner of the e.o.plauen award for painting, a genre that has not yet been honored with the e.o.plauen award. Michael Sowa's paintings are characterized by an incredible wit, with a love of detail that is fascinating. 

www.plauen.de

Anja Nolte - Creative Quaterly

July 8th, 2020

Anja Nolte is delighted about the recognition she received from the US Journal of Art & Design, the CREATIVE QUATERLY - awarded for an artwork, for which Anja created the virtual reality software 'Laborame' as well as a freely invented test report on it, both published in 'Das Büro Magazin'. More information at: https://anjanolte.com/portfolio/laborame/

Michael Sowa - Ausstellung Gallery Good, Berlin

June 22nd, 2020

www.gallerygood.com

Maarten Rijnen - Packaging Illustrations

June 11th, 2020

Maarten Rijnen was asked by the Dutch agency VBAT to create illustrations in a simple iconic style, graphical but not without feeling, a bit like rough wood prints or batik for packages of Albert Heijn. These packaging designs with his illustrations have won a Gold 2020 Vertex award.

Packaging design agency: VBAT

Client: Albert Heijn

http://www.vertexawards.org/2020-gold-vertex-winners/25/

Flavio Melchiorre - Flavio Melchiorre - illustration projekt ”Tropicália” - 2020

February 14th, 2020

abduzeedo.com/modular-kaleidoscopic-patterns-and-illustration

Jean-Christian Knaff & Claude Miceli - Exhibition in Toronto

January 21st, 2020

As part of the 'Design TO', an attractive 4-week design event in Toronto, the Gallery Botté is exhibiting works by Jean-Christian Knaff and Claude Miceli. Exhibits include carpets made in India, paintings on Iranian carpets and sculptures. The exhibition runs until 26 January 2020.

designto.org

bottegallery.com

Jean-Manuel Duvivier - New works

January 10th, 2020

Jean-Manuel Duvivier realized lately a series of illustrations for the Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year review, a cover for the National Real Estate Investor about the culture of sharing, a number of images aimed at children for the Rosewood Hotels and Resorts as well as a visual of a cowboy and revolver for Les éditions Mango.

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Ingo Fast - GLS Bank

January10th, 2020

Ingo Fast illustrated the topics Im Dickicht der Weltrettung (In the thicket of world salvation) and ‚Die Mobilitätswende kommt vernetzt oder gar nicht (The mobility shift is coming networked or not at all) for the clients magazine Bankenspiegel of the German environmental GLS Bank. 

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