About Oliver Weiss

I am an illustrator, artist, author, and designer working for publishers around the world. Specializing in hand drawings and mixed-media collage, I work mainly from Berlin, but also from New York City at times where I used to live a few years back.

ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS

My clients include The New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Kiplinger, Rowohlt, New Scientist, Scientific American, Die Zeit, Penguin Random House, The Christian Science Monitor, Der Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University, Focus, dtv, National Geographic, Ritzenhoff, CBS, Munich Oktoberfest, and Deutsche Bank.

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS

My children’s book Die Öblings kommen! (The Öblings Are Coming!) won me the “Meefisch” Award for Best Picture Book, and will be published by Fischer Sauerländer. More books for kids are on the way for Chronicle Books, Familius, and others. In vollen Zügen (Track Tales), my satire about train travel for adults, will be published by riva in early 2025.

BOOK DESIGN

In the world of book design, I have created jacket cover designs and interior illustrations for bestselling titles, including Penguin Random House’s Who am I – and if so, How Many? by Richard David Precht, and Yuval Noah Harari’s A Brief History of Mankind.

RECOGNITIONS

My work has been recognized by European Newspaper Award, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, 3×3 Illustration Magazine, Novum World of Graphic Design magazine, and Lürzer’s 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide annual. I have won the grand prize in the Munich Oktoberfest design competition, and been among the lucky few to be creating stamp designs for Germany.

Clients