I am an illustrator, author, artist, and designer working for book and magazine 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, Prospect Magazine, Sierra Club, F.A.Z., Focus, American Automobile Association, National Geographic, Scientific American, The Writer, New Scientist, 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 been published by Riva. My children’s book Die Öblings kommen! (The Öblings Are Coming!) won me the “Meefisch” Award for Best Picture Book (Fischer Sauerländer). Other books for kids include The ABC Zoo: Beastly Facts from A to Z (Chronicle Books), Zwei rote Glühwürmchen (Two Red Fireflies/Don Bosco), and Buonvento ti porta a scuola (Taking the School by Storm/Mondadori). More from Familius, Hatje Cantz, Minibombo, and HarperCollins are on the way.
BOOK COVERS & BEYOND
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. Other design work includes corporate identities, posters, conference brochures, German postage stamps, and kitchenware.
RECOGNITIONS
Among other awards, I received the grand prize in the Munich Oktoberfest design competition, the first prize for corporate design from the German Bar Association. 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.
