Illustration for an article in The Economist titled “Corruption is surging across Latin America”.
Art direction by Elizabeth Delphin.
Illustration series for Swiss Beobachter magazine, about investment and savings in difficult times.
Art direction by Diana Ulrich.
Illustration series for Süddeutsche Zeitung about the questionable methods of a life coach, that left some of the participants of his courses traumatised and without help.
Art direction by Florian Gmach
Illustration series for the magazine Liberal Education, published by The American Association of Colleges and Universities. The issue’s main feature was about the “End of race-based admission” in the wake of the recent Supreme court decision. The feature article was written by Frederick M. Lawrence.
Art direction by Todd Albertson.
I produced the drawings for an animated ad for an exhibition in Militärhistorisches Museum Dresden. The video was produced and animated by ravir film. The full movie can be seen here.
Art direction/production Dorit Jeßner, Uwe Nadler and Felix Göpfert.
Cover and illustration series for G+G, the magazine of a German health insurance. The feature was about the difficulties of choosing the right hospital.
Art direction by Angela Ziegler and Max Brugger.
Illustration for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for an article about the parents of a convicted rapist. The article focusses on the life of the parents and the various social, psychological and economic effects the son’s deeds have on their lives.
Art direction by Nina Hewelt.
Illustration for Mother Jones for an article by Tim Murphy titled “Republicans Around the Country Are Trying to Rob Democrats of the Right to Govern”.
Art direction by Grace Molteni.
Illustration for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for an article by Wibke Becker about the alarming situation in German children’s homes . Younger and younger children are in these facilities. At the same time due to lack of skilled workers, more and more unskilled and often unprepared personal has to deal with very challenging circumstances.
Art direction by Nina Hewelt.
Magazine cover illustration for the Economist, (world except EU) issue of August 19th-25th, 2023.
Art direction by Matt Withers
These are keyframe design paintings, based on a short film script by director, author and filmmaker Robert Arnold.
I first made a set of drawings based on some of the key scenes of the script. Then I animated them and added sound. The ready animatic is like a trailer for the short film. The video version can be seen here.
The keyframe designs are meant for pre-visualisation and for funding applications for the project.
Illustration series for an article in Das Magazin about a doctor that green lighted the use of artificial discs (spine implants) in human patients even though animal trials had disastrous results. It is alleged that he had ties with the company that developed the discs and benefitted financially from their early introduction.
Art direction: Carmen Brunner.
Illustration for a piece by David Owen in the The New Yorker titled “A Freelancer’s Forty-Three Years in the American Health-Care System”.
Art direction by Nicholas Konrad.
Illustration series for the Economist for an article titled "Much of Russia’s intellectual elite has fled the country".
Art direction by Xiaojuan Pang.
This is an illustration series I made for Politico for an article titled “4 Startling Ways China Is Challenging the U.S.”.
Art direction by Erin Aulov.
A study project – I try to understand color better and copy movie frames and news images. I do not use the color picker, but rather guess and estimate the colors. What is the value structure of an image? How saturated are elements? I am interested in how colors relate to the overall geometrical composition and the fact that color and geometry are closely interacting. How to translate experienced reality, but also the artifice of lighting and photography into the humble color picker of the painting software.
Movies featured here: Playtime (1967) by Jaques Tati, Stalker (1979), All Quiet On The Western Front (2022), Compartment Number 6 (2021) and Soylent Green (1973).
For a magazine called Return.Life, for an article titled “What We Talk about When We talk About Web 1.0”.
I made the opener image and also a set of custom icons in the style of Windows 3.1. for some of the subjects the text touched on. I tried to capture the feeling of endless possibilities and excitement of exploration that the early web seemed to offer.
Art direction by Gabriel Gigliotti.
"Better living on support from the state than being employed by it" - a collection of German teachers’ experiences working in an overly rigid and bureaucratic system, that incentivises conformity and punishes problem solving and individual enthusiasm.
Compiled and written by Johannes Pennekamp for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Two illustrations from 2021 for an article in Suomen Kuvalehti by Maarit Uber, about a Finnish couple getting their child with the help of a surrogate mother in Russia. The process is legally restricted in Finland and many childless Finnish couples turned to Russia. There is a growing demand for laws to be changed in Finland.
Art direction by Marjo Leskinen
“The Myth of Clean Energy”
Phasing out nuclear power, climate protection and, at the same time, not disfiguring the landscape - this is how politic is selling the energy transition to the population. If only there wouldn’t be this one detail: the electricity gap”
Illustration/animation for Swiss magazine Republik.
Article by Yves Ballinari, Art direction by Nadja Angermann.
I made this illustration for the German edition of Rolling Stone magazine, for an article about the coalition talks in Germany and how the first steps towards German politics after Angela Merkel are taken.
Art direction by Nils Stelte.
“Death on demand – In the West, assisted dying is rapidly becoming legal and accepted. It is raising hard questions and changing how people think about death”
Illustration for The Economist.
Art direction by Suzy Connolly.
“From the makers of Marlboro – Philip Morris International shifts to smokeless products, lung disease treatments” by Todd C. Frankel. About the tobacco giant Philip Morris International’s effort to position itself in the medical and pharmaceutical sector.
Art direction by Cece Pascual.
A young woman commits suicide in a mental institution in Germany, after she has been taken off her medication by her doctors.
This is the starting point for her father’s year long struggle for justice. Himself a psychologist he is convinced, that a mistake has been made by taking her off the medication. After years of court battles and several expert evaluations he is proven right and the hospital is held accountable.
Illustration series for Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 2021.
Art direction by Florian Gmach.
Illustration for an investigative piece in German DIE ZEIT. Author Eva Wolfangel is following the Ukrainian hacker “Bagsu” by the help of a trace of documents he left behind.
Art direction by Norman Hoppenheit.
“How the Corona home office destroys us”, 04/2021, two illustrations for an article in DER SPIEGEL by Helene Endres, Maren Hoffmann, Matthias Kaufmann, Janne Knödler, Christoph Peters und Anton Rainer. Link (German, paywall).
Art direction by Andrea Huss.
“Only America can break the deadlock between Canada and China – The incarceration of two Canadians has paralysed relations between the two countries” for The Economist.
Art direction by Ben Shmulevitch and Suzy Connolly.
Illustration for an article written by Moritz Geier for Süddeutsche Zeitung about forensic hypnosis.
‘In special cases investigators use hypnosis to help a witnesses recollection. How well it is working and what are the pitfalls …’
Art direction by Ludwig Ander-Donath.
Illustration for Danish media company Zetland for an article about Danish shipping giant ‘Maersk’.
“When the crisis broke out, Maersk was hit by a realization. Globalization is more fragile than many of us thought”
Art direction and concept by Julie Ravn Hansen.
Illustration for China Dialogue on the subject of carbon taxing - the EU’s efforts of incentivising cleaner manufacturing.
Art direction by Marta Portocarrero.
“The Machine Stops" is a personal project of graphic designer Marco Kindler von Knobloch and illustrator Daniel Stolle.
The basis of this project is a short story of the same title by E.M. Forster.
An exhibition of "The Machine Stops" took place from October 5th to October 26th, 2019 at Galleria Kuvitus in Helsinki, Finland.
We are building our own machine right now. We are connected to many. We talk less and less to only one. We always document and broadcast. We seldom look twice or actively listen. We are endlessly busy. We rarely reflect on what we are doing and why.
This is a project in progress. We are interpreting a text, but we are also exploring our personal and sometimes separate views of the future. Things are dark, but we do not want to show a dystopia – a theme all too common in the entertainment our machines give us lately. Desperation or aspiration – our work is a dialogue to find one voice to walk this line.
Illustration series for a special issue of Nature magazine, with focus on lung cancer research and treatment.
Art direction Denis Mallet and Herb Brody
Outdated software, mismatching formats, changing laws, runaway costs - creating the ‘electronic patient file’ has been an insurmountable problem in Switzerland’s healthcare system.
A few months onwards and the illustration got a ‘corona update’. The pandemic did not have, as was to be expected, a good effect on developing the system further.
Illustration and animation for Republik.
A quick turn-around job for Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung about the never-ending topic of healthcare reform in Germany.
Art direction by Nina Hewelt.
Illustration about the relationship between Russia and China for FAZ Quarterly.
Art direction by Maria Leutner.
The two faces of Stefan K.
A Berlin police officer was supposed to protect refugee helpers from neo-Nazis. Now he allegedly severely beat an asylum seeker in his spare time. Article by Caterina Lobenstein and Paul Middelhoff
Illustration for DIE ZEIT. Art direction by Jutta Schein.
Illustration series for Swiss magazine Republik, about the so called ‘Corporate Responsibility Initiative’. A law proposal that was supposed to ensure Swiss companies acting sustainable and responsible not only when operating at home, but also internationally.
Illustrations for a three part investigative series in Neue Zürcher Zeitung about problems in the Swiss hospital system.
The segments in order:
“Self-dealing side businesses, unclean documents, overconfidence: how hospital doctors chase the money”
”Sexual harassment, declined training: how female doctors are discriminated against in hospitals.”
“Channeling money, thwarting employee participation: How hospital heads establish a system of power”
Art direction by Sonja Brunner and Swilly Eggenschwiler.
I made this illustration series for Pentagram as promotional artwork for their redesign of The New Republic.
Art direction by Jack Collins and Eddie Opara
Illustration for Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung for a story about the Amsterdam coordination center for ‘Eurotransplant’, an international collaborative to coordinate organ transplantations.
Text by Eva Schäfer, art direction by Nina Hewelt.
Illustration series for the New Scientist The Essential Guide #3: Human Health.
’The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the spotlight on questions of human health like never before. Get the lowdown on the latest cutting-edge research in health, medicine and mental well-being.’
Art direction by Craig Mackie.
“Every fifth German suffers from depression during their lifetime. A new study shows the criticality of the moment when patients are released from stationary care and do not find a therapist.”
Article by Katja Thimm.
Art direction by Julian Busch.
Illustration for DIE ZEIT for an article about ‘euthanasia’.
What happens when people have signed a patient provision, that specifies that they would want to be euthanized in case of for example severe Alzheimer’s? Once the time arrives, the patient seems to be content and shows a will for life?
Art direction by Vera Tammen and Jan Kny
Illustration for an article about serious malfunctions in machines used for blood plasma donations. Pollutants from the machine may enter the plasma donation bags or even be returned to the donors body.
Illustration for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about a stimulus package to ‘restart the German economy’.
Art direction by Nina Hewelt.
I made this illustration about the movie “Roma” by Alfonso Cuarón for Entertainment Weekly in December 2018.
The film, which is filmed entirely in black and white, follows Cleo a housekeeper in a wealthy family in early 1970s Mexico City.
Art direction by Erica Bonkowski.
This drawing was honored in the 60th Communication Arts illustration competition with an Award of Excellence in 2019.
'Roma' was also one of the images selected for the American Illustration 38 annual award book.
This is an illustration series for online magazine The Outline, published on March 9th, 2017. The article was titled “Seeking Ann” and it was written by Laura Yan.
“A journey into the dark world of ‘belly torture’ slaves, where the line between fantasy and reality is dangerously blurred.”
The full article can be read here.
Art direction by Stéphane Elbaz
Portrait of British advertising executive Sir John Hegarty for Italian Bill Magazine.
Unused illustration for an article about the Frankfurt law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, involved in the Cum-Ex tax fraud scandal.
The article was about a fraudulent mortician, who, for cost reasons, held a memorial service before the body had actually been cremated and buried. He would eventually do that, fulfilling his contract, but people where attending a service for a loved one, whose body was still in cold storage.
From a law perspective this is an interesting case, because the damage done - fooling the relatives, that the ashes in the urn are of their beloved one - is rather intangible. But apparently the German law accounts for that and he was convicted.
Art direction by Jan Kny.
Various conceptional editorial illustrations for New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, DIE ZEIT, Weltwoche, Scientific American Mind and others.
Unused cover concept for the subject ‘The Poor World And The Virus’.
Illustration for an article by Sarika Bansal for Bright magazine. The article was titled “The Good, the Bad and the Jargon”. Art direction by Marion Durand.
Illustration for Psykologi magazine.
Art direction by Johannes Rantapuska.
This illustration series was made for the publication In Focus by The International Bureau of Education, which is part of the UNESCO.
Graphic design by Spanish design studio biografica. Art direction by Marco Kindler von Knobloch.
Illustration for Psykologi magazine.
Art direction by Johannes Rantapuska
Illustration for Wirtschaftswoche for an article about IT security.
Client: The New York Times
"Suffer the Little Children: Church Cruelty in Ireland" by Sadhbh Walshe
On average, one child died every two weeks in a children's home run by the Catholic church in Ireland between 1925 and 1961.
A combined effort of church and government is underway to shift the blame from the Roman Catholic Church, Ireland’s self-appointed moral authority, to the public and moral climate of society in these years.
This drawing was honored in the 59th Communication Arts illustration competition with an Award of Excellence in 2018.
It was also selected as one of 367 drawings to be featured in American Illustration 37, in 2018.
Within a few weeks a 19 year old boy from Leipzig, Germany built the biggest national online mail-order for illegal drugs. Under the nickname “Shiny Flakes” he sold cocaine, meth, ecstasy and various other drugs – all from the safety of his bedroom at his parents’ flat.
The article explores this case in the context of the darknet, the less accessible area of the internet, that enables illegal activity.
Shiny went to great lengths to hide his true identity online – the police had a hard time tracking him. He got caught however due to a very analog mistake: several of his packages containing hard drugs landed on the desk of the Leipzig police because he hadn’t put enough stamps on them. A stake-out at the post office’s package-drop-point did the rest.
Right from the beginning, this article was titled “Der Prinz des Darknet” (The prince of darknet), so I wanted to do something very dark and monochrome. Luckily the headline was kept for the final piece – something that is rather unusual.
Art direction by Antje Klein.
This illustration series was awarded Second Prize at the Mikkeli Illustration Triennale 2017.
Illustration for a New York Times opinion piece titled The Catholic Church’s ‘Ravenous Wolves’.
Art direction by Melody Newcomb and Hannah K. Lee.