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book & brochure illustrations, infographics, cover design, paintings, art
Just added some drawings helping saving species by raising attention: Here are a few of my works. You find my illustrations anywhere from corporate annual reports to fully illustrated professional books, on fashion like special designed sportswear a.m.m. One of the most BEAUTIFUL things: When I designed a new edition of running shirts promoting one of the successful books I designed and illustrated for a company, their employees would actually make deals with each other since after the set for a little run was produced, some wanted their fav animal too and some who did not take part in the run started checking on how to get a shirt with their fav animal too. It´s called DEMAND and it shows: If an illustration or design connects and people really like it, YOUR BRAND is on a good path. Support human artists.
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• 03.2026 → famous Pinguin-Verlag (means Penguin publisher) sues Open AI / ChatGPT: Just remember you DO NOT own outputs of AI. Just like several successfully sued companies did not owned the data they needed to make their systems work and run at all. In the words of GERMANY´S DIGITAL PUBLISHER AND NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS UNION: BDZV Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger, external website
• 03.2026 → Wise U-TURN UK artists and actors happy: UK ABANDONS former PLANS on AI "datamining". It is as forbidden as before due the existing laws - a reaction to Sir Paul McCartney´s and Elton John´s statements all together with Dua Lipa a.m.m. THEY HAVE NOW: SAFETY for artists as before. It was about time. Guardian article • 10.2025 → COOL NEWS: Australia puts SAFETY for designers and writers against AI "datamining" INTO LAW. When will Germany follow? Solutions are here. • 03.2025 → Milestone: 150.000 copies of the german version of a book designed & fully illustrated from infographics to cartoons to cover artwork by yours truly |
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above: drawing of a cheetah cub by yours truly. Only 7.000 of these majestic cats remain in the wild. Sound: One of my own minibeats. Below: Illustrations for CHANEL′s charity FONDAÇION CHANEL, more below |
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Legendary CHANEL cares through its charity for women worldwide in extraordinary situations. I had the honour to create some illustrations, pictograms and infographics plus cover artwork with the titlesignet of the publication on supporting refugee women making a new start in Germany. The printed version was on double certified recycled paper and, you mind it, had an orange NEON COLOR. The edition was gone during the shortest of time. Funfact: The team briefed me initially on pastel colors but soon realized that did not fit the topic. We want attention and support AND more ladies coming together to support each other. The NEON fits with what the lady COCO CHANEL herself once said - a quote that I researched while diving into CHANELs world and put into the publication too, glad the team accepted it: Coco Chanel :: More about FONDAÇION CHANEL of CHANEL on www.chanel.com/gb/fondation-chanel/ by CHANEL The publication ALSO got supported by BMFSJ ministry Germany (that department cares for women) and https://www.dfl-stiftung.de DFL Deutsche Fussball Liga Stiftung (German Soccer League Foundation, former BUNDESLIGA STIFTUNG.
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Above: The publication on IMPACT INVESTING (link below, I made the design, the layout & all the illustrations and infographics) - spending money for Good so things for people or the planet change really for the better, was visually spacethemed while exploring investment opportunities to change things on earth for the better doing Good. Here is another ACTUAL quote by astronaut Alexander Gerst on PEACE from my second example, just beause one can´t emphasize words for peace enough,
Alexander Gerst, former ESA Astronaut from the ISS International Spacestation "The faszination that one can show the future generations too: besides warfare down on earth humanity can ALSO do really great things TOGETHER again." Alexander Gerst, former ESA Astronaut from the ISS International Spacestation
:: Take some time for Astronaut Alexander Gerst message to his unborn future grandkids.. (link to video on external website) For PEACE and a better future. And a humanity that comes together to solve the challenges of our times. Put this on your headphones today.
:: Find the FREE publication with ecosia and plant a tree same time: Ratgeber Impact Investing für Stiftungen
Search Engine Optimization – Funfact: I once made some organic SEO for this publication and brought the PDF within 3 days into the top 1-4 rankings on page 1 on google.com. |
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How I came to make a twitterbackground for NASA′s COOLCOSMOS back in the early days. Of course I was one of those kids growing up with books about space and spacephysics. Back then some 17 years ago (as of 2026) twitter was the fastest science medium: I knew 15 minutes after an asteroid hit Jupiter about it thanks to a young early (and back then healthy) twitter while conventional news outlets reported it hours later after it was published on the platform. NASA′s page was my go to. And their new STEM education channel Coolcosmos on twitter was one of my pages to see whats new like back in the days of the Spitzer spacetelescope. BUT: That twitterfeed hat a monochrome bright green background. After a few days I just asked them if I can create something from their images. They answered yes. And so it happened :). Here is an old screencast back from the days when the platform was healthy and a cool place to learn about new science discoveries. And yes, science needs cool graphics to amaze more people and make things EASIER understandable. I′m here to help. Back in those days german national TV would bring a show called Spacenight - ambient pinkfloyd-flavoured edm-music with spacepictures and videos from the spaceshuttle above earth. It was a big hit and much better than those latenight advertising blocks on private TV (but also dont underestimate these since we sold a ton of tv-series DVDs through that :) ... LATER on my first job after studies, the DVD and CD mediacompany, also had a project with DLR from Germany to produce this with back then highres landscape spaceimagery for chillout DVDs. In the early twitter days the DLR was also among my followers there. The NASA COOLCOSMOS twitter feed got closed at 148.000 followers (they used my background for quite some time and started then to create their own related to new discoveries). The Caltech COOLCOSMOS is still there with its own website :) :: coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu / NASA (external website, you are leaving the cookie-free zone) |
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:: You´ve heard about those running shirts. The team loved them. When some got a bambino, the rest of the team asked for a bib - in German Sabberlatz - in the style of the beloved running shirts set that I designed years ago. I had the illustrations already developed in my free time and cleaned for production. So now it was also about texting something for the bibs. That one was truly fun. For those new to me, I also created during my schooltime with friends a schoolpaper for six years. So besides designing and all the other disciplines texting is part of my routine for shortcopy. And making people smile with combining all together. Back to the bib: The bib on the left reads "don´t call it stain, call it IMPACT baby" referring on the positive impact of doing Good and charity. The other one reads "Thats ART!" already including later probably freqent random stains created by the bambinos eating meals I also payed for the production of these while the rest of the team payed for the stuffed present-table up with other things the new parents would use during the first time. |
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:: Much more about the highly successful book design and illustration project on my ABOUT & AWARDS page - scroll down there to cases :)
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For this publication I layouted the report "ungehindert inklusiv" (Means "unhindered inclusive - topic report on inclusion in Germany"), developed all the illustrations, all the pictograms, later folders and even some merch like a puzzle and the looks for the very first INKLUSIONS KONGRESS BERLIN (Inclusion Summit Berlin) featuring the coolest orgas and even inclusion people from companies like Daimler Benz (you can see him in the video, link below). I was happy that even beloved Aktion Mensch, a in germany well known orga, contributed one of the infographics to the publication. One of the coolest results: I did quite a lot research before on readability and colors for this cause - in the end the scheme for the design of publications in the company changed for the upcoming next 10 years: Leveling typography sizes and contrast up helped all the publications of the orga for a better, more comfy readability resulting in positive feedback in this field for years too. Awsome memory: Wolfram Kons of "RTL Wir helfen Kindern" gave me a shoutoput on all the design of the Inclusion Summit looks from stage. As I was put into the wardrobe area of the summit and couldn´t see a single event of the day that we prepeared for months live, I heard it later from collegues. This was truly a highlight, since "RTL Wir helfen Kindern" has an AWSOME reputation stepping in for Good causes for many years. Even Germany´s "Engagementpreis" - Social Engagement Awards - asked for the pictograms that I developed for the report and the summit to be used by them. Since we couldn´t give them away, they finally created their own for the next round of the award inspired by my works. Thank y´all :)
:: Find the FREE publication with ecosia and plant a tree same time:
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| Left side: Travel memory from the city of Prague: The Charles Bridge and the old city. middle Doodling as a kid inspired by Leonardo da Vinci′s Mona Lisa, decades later playing with animation. While she looks today in two directions :) back then in 1996 it was a milestone for little Stefan trying portraits studying the old masters. right side: one of the last 42-60 Mauidolphins. Just like our german Harbour Porpoises (Schweinswal in german) their numbers went down from some 1.800 to less than 60 due fishing methods. There is still time to save this species. Btw even german NGOs like NABU campaigned from afar to save these cute little dolphins. Let′s make sure future generations can still experience them. ... and if you just zoomed in to read about that Mona Lisa portrait - there you go, tell a friend about the Mauidolphins too - and you can tell anybody the Mona Lisa herself pointed you to one of the cutest dolphins worldwide - worth saving from extinction. :) |
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