It's Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin. A conference about character design and illustration. Strolling around on the Character Walk with my students I popped into a workshop of the 3753%_tordal-crew from Norway. I designed the box of Papp, a little robot. Here it is: a green troll from the woods.
An exciting and productive winter term in Würzburg has come to its end. This week my illustration classes will exhibit their latest work at the upcoming Degree Show. We will present loads of studies, illustrations, drawings, collages, comics, books and sketchbooks...
You are welcome. It's free and fun.
Friday, 4. 2. 2011, 14:00 – 19:00
Saturday, 5. 2. 2011, 10:00 – 17:00
University of Applied Sciences
Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Münzstrasse 12
97070 Würzburg
From tomorrow on I will be in Mainz for the next three days. Together with Sebastian Haslauer, Manuel Bürger and Dirk Mönkemöller I will give a workshop at the local University of Applied Siences Mainz. Our goal is to create “the fanciest of all fanzines” in collaboration with our workshop students. I can't wait!
UPDATE (Monday, 31. January): In the making!
More workshops pictures very soon!
Thanks guys for a great weekend. Was real fun!
The underground line U8 in Berlin is the German capital's most frequented drug lane for heroine. Police and politics seem to be helpless to fight this problem as long the dealers are eleven year-old kids. Having been brought to Germany from countries such as the Lebanon they are too young to be arrested or taken to court.
For the German magazine “Neon” Patrick Bauer and I tried to get a deeper look into the daily business life of those kids. How does it feel like working all day long in the underground, how do they deal with the junkies and how with the police? How does the system work which abuses them? Is there a tiny leftover of childish cuteness and innocence or are they as serious drug dealers as their bosses?
To start with we went underground and secretely researched for days in the tube and its surroundings. Patrick tried to find some guys who weren’t too afraid of speaking and I did loads of on-location scribbles.
After the kids got nervous and thought we were undercover police agents, alerting themselves with secret signs, I stopped my research and discussed a selection of over 40 scribbles with the magazine's art director Jonas Natterer. After deciding on five of those sketches I reworked them in my studio and created the final artwork with ink.
So, here's what it loos like in this month's issue:
Read the full story in the Neon Magazine's December issue.
Last weekend I took part in the Big Draw Berlin which is - as you might have already guessed - a drawing festival. On Sunday we explored the best pubs in Neukölln and their inhabitants with our sketchbooks. At the Sanderstübl they were a bit confused about us and what we did. But after the first scribbles and beer we became friends…
...and Süddeutsche Zeitung likes Shake Your Tree
This is how the Post delivers Die Zeit - but we don't care if this is the content!
Order Tanjas and Ulrikes supernice Edition here.
Lately Landjäger released its latest issue. And finally I made it to one of the release parties in Austria. It was good to see you guys! For the topic "neighbours" I interviewed some of mine about the people who live on the other side of their walls and did some drawings. During the work on this issue some happy news arrived: The two latest Landjäger Magazines won the bronze medal at the European Design Awards.
You can order it here for 4 Euros plus shipping.
Novum's current issue - a bilingual graphic and design mag (German/English) - is dedicated to the topic of freelancing. For them I gave a four-pages-interview in which we discussed selfemployment, which risks and opportunities it holds and – of course – we talked about illustration.
Thanks to Bettina and Oliver.
84 pages, 29,8×23 cm, ISBN 978-3-8307-X013-4
Now you can buy our first three issues of the Shake Your Tree Edition online. Our website is up and running.
Every issue focuses on one upcoming German writer and one visual artist who present new work, exclusively created for the Shake Your Tree Edition. Our zines are handcrafted and screenprinted limited editions, every single one of them signed by the artists. Edition 2 comes with four original photo prints by Tanja Kernweiss.
This is how we started:
Edition Nr.1 - Frank Höhne & Juliane Liebert
Edition Nr.2 - Tanja Kernweiss & Ulrike Almut Sandig
Edition Nr.3 - Manuel Bürger & Jörg Albrecht
...and others will follow!
