OLIVER WEISS:
Professional Milestones
2009
Official stamp designs for Germany
on
invitation
from the Ministry of Finance
Art for The Christian Science Monitor,
one of the most prolific US daily papers
Cartoons
for Prospect Magazine, UK political monthly
2008
Grand prize in
Oktoberfest poster design competition on behalf of the
city of Munich
Book illustration and jacket design for
Germany's number one bestselling nonfiction book (Wer
bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele? / Goldmann-Random House),
Europe's highest selling nonfiction book of the year (1 mill.
copies sold)
Book
designs for Rowohlt
and Campus
Second prize in
mathematics cartoon competition "Jahr der Mathematik"
("Year of Mathematics")
2007
Projects for
Axel Springer
on behalf of the world's largest design agency, Euro RSCG
Regular
book designs for Random House
Regular
cover designs for LatinFinance magazine,
the largest US resource on Latin American business
Jazz score for Felix the Cat silent movie
2005
Large
poster illustration on the development of political
parties for DIE ZEIT, Germany's largest
weekly newspaper
2004
Cover illustration
for DER SPIEGEL, Germany's largest news magazine;
film
documentary produced by SPIEGEL TV
for international cover art exhibition tour
2003
Refocusing
on
illustrations
and corporate design;
regular commissions from international
organisations and
publishers such as The Writer, Euromoney, European
Union, and Hong Kong Tatler
1999
Founder, editor-in-chief and designer for
LEGAmedia,
my online magazine for lawyers and entrepreneurs; one of
the world's largest legal resources featuring authors like Ed Koch and the
world's largest law firms (up to 2005)
First
prize for best German legal web site
for Haarmann Hemmelrath law firm web
site
1998
Editor-in-chief
and designer for
Computer & more,
e-zine within AOL CompuServe's Channel
"Law & Tax" (up to 2000)
1996
Corporate Designer,
predominantly for enterprises, law firms, and publishers
One of Germany's first professional
web designers,
mostly for large-scale projects (major law firms, publishers, online
magazines)
Editor and online editor for
NJW-CoR
Computerreport, a computer supplement to the Neue
Juristische Wochenschrift (C.H. Beck), Germany's largest legal
weekly (up to 1998); freelanced until 2000
1995
Poster art
projects in Munich (sponsored by German Trade Union) and New York (sponsored
by New York Times and The Village Voice)
Became first-ever regular cartoonist / illustrator for German-Jewish
emigrant newspaper, Aufbau, New York
1994
Special
prize in Satyrykon cartoon contest
in Poland
1993
Created the
Turtle Tales comic strip
during
a two-month stay in Rome
1991
Regular
Saturday cartoons for DIE WELT (Axel Springer),
Germany's number four daily paper
(up until 1996)
1989
Cartoonist and
illustrator for papers, magazines, and book publications (e.g.,
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German Trade Union)
Freelance journalist
Training
Resided
in London, Rome, Paris, New York and Ottawa (total
of two years in Canada and the US where I went to school)
Training: Seminars at the Academy of Arts, Munich; Research
Projects at the Laboratoire d’Ethologie at Rennes University,
France; Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology,
Andechs and Seewiesen; Planckendael Zoo, Antwerp; majored in Electrical Engineering and
Information Engineering at University of Technology, Munich ("Diplom-Ingenieur"
/ master's degree)
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