I am an illustrator, artist, author, and designer working for publishers around the world. Specializing in 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, Die Zeit, Penguin Random House, The Christian Science Monitor, Der Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University, American Automobile Association, Focus, National Geographic, Scientific American, Ritzenhoff, CBS, and Deutsche Bank.
MAKING BOOKS
FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS
In vollen Zügen (Full Steam Ahead: A Typology of Train Travelers), a satire for adults, has just been published by Riva; further projects are in the making. My children’s book Die Öblings kommen! (The Öblings Are Coming!) won me the “Meefisch” Award for Best Picture Book, and will be released by Fischer Sauerländer. Other books for kids include Zwei rote Glühwürmchen (Two Red Fireflies), and The ABC Zoo: Beastly Facts from A to Z (Chronicle Books). More from Mondadori, Minibombo, and Familius are on the way.
BOOK DESIGN
In the world of book design, I have created hundreds of 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, and many others for publishers like Rowohlt, Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, Piper, Klett-Cotta, Carl Hanser, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Atrium, Hoffmann und Campe, and dtv.
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 won the grand prize in the Munich Oktoberfest design competition, and have worked on German stamp designs.
