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Category Archives: illustration

CURIOUS ICONIC CRAFT

Browse through any ‘Best Magazine Cover’ lists of the past five years, chances are you will find our favourite film magazine Little White Lies somewhere near the top. With its curious illustrative approach, it struck out from any magazine shelf and ‘inspired’ a whole range of offbeat printed matter. So it was somewhat sad news [...]

FRESH FROM THE OVEN

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

YOU MADE THAT

An abstract-expressionist web drawing app for the New York Times Magazine by Christoph Niemann and Jon Huang – try it and enjoy!!!

BLACK AND WHITE

Beautiful illustrations by the artist Daehyun Kim a.k.a. Moonassi… His monochromatic drawings are also adorning La Sardinia lomo cameras.

LIGHT MY FIRE

This being May Day, you should not be leaving the house without a solid box of matches, in case there is still a Mercedes Benz around that might need to be lit up, and if that sounds a little harsh, well that’s what people do here in Kreuzberg. Or at least used to in the [...]

COMIC SUMMIT IN BERLIN

Recommendation for all graphic novel lovers in Berlin:
Christoph Niemann under discussion with Chris Ware about the release of Jimmy Corrigan in German on March 15, 2013, in the frame of the comic summit organised by the internationals literaturfestival berlin.
The reason for Chris Ware’s visit is the release of his graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan in German [...]

What The World Needs Now

It’s funny, but this latest gif paradise called The Anthropocene Man somehow seems to be the most accurate portrayal of life (and death) in early 2013. Also, and quite unrelated: RIP online dating scam master Tim Dog.

Unself Portrait

Lazy Screenprinting in Berlin

Next Thursday, October 18, 2012, a print and publishing enterprise called FREISTIL will be opening a workshop/showroom in Berlin. They own a risograph – I’ve been excited about that machine for 2 years now! They will develop and produce their own projects and offer the machine for use to other designers (most probably not for [...]

DESIRE DESIESE DEVISE

If you are in Hamburg these days, don’t miss this excellent exhibition of Monica Bonvicini’s prolific production of drawings, collage and textual work at the Falckenberg Collection! A visit of the show is possible through an advanced reservation for a guided tour here.
Excerpt from the website of the Falckenberg Collection:
Monica Bonvicini, renowned for striking installations, [...]