Here’s an image  showing some creepy crawlers in my bed. Yikes!

This visual was created on the topic of risk management for which I montaged various warning signs such as “Slippery When Wet” and “Danger – Risk of Electric Shock” plus strips of yellow and black hazard tape, and mocked up some newspaper headlines relating to charities (this was for a chartity magazine).

Oo-aah. I come as a friend. Please trust me.

I got selected illustrations from a book on quirky animal behavior printed in a little promo booklet. At A7-size, which is half of a postcard, it is really, really tiny – and über-cute :-)

The book is called Das tierische Kuriositätenkabinett (Little Bestiary of Wonders), and was written by Dirk Steffens who specializes in animal documentaries for television. It was published by Rowohlt last fall. You can download the digital PDF file of the promo booklet here.

Here’s a mixed-media image depicting the multifaceted Hungarian-Austrian writer, Arthur Koestler, who rose to fame with novels like, Darkness at Noon.

It seems that I created a whopping 15,000 illustrations in my career so far! At least that’s what my image stock archive software tells me.

Now let’s see… That’s 750 images per year within my 20-year career. Or two images per day. Or one image every eight hours, given a 16-hour day. Or one eights of an image per hour, which amounts to, say, twenty brush strokes. That’s one stroke every 3 minutes – make that one stroke centimeter per minute.

That’s 0.2 mm per second, which is equivalent to 200,000 stroke nanometers every second of every day over a period of 20 years. Jeeez – you do the math.

This small collection of cartoon-style b/w illustrations is on the topic of learning and knowing – and knowing that one knows nothing.

A pretty violent picture to illustrate a love-hate relationship. The colors are kept in black and red to add to the overall aggressive mood.

For the German second edition of Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, Goldmann Verlag/Random House was looking for a wholly new design.

Can you learn to be happy? Yes, according to the teacher of Harvard University’s most popular course grounded in “positive psychology.” In his book, Tal Ben-Shahar combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice, and spiritual enlightenment.

I have come up with a completely revised jacket design featuring an illustration of mine—a crawling ladybug, a symbol traditionally associated with luck and happiness. The typographically challenging design incorporates a giant rendition of the capital letter G (for “Glücklicher”, Happier).

It was worth while to grow old and dusty seeking for truth though truth is unattainable, restating questions that have been stated at the beginning of the world. Failure would await him, but not disillusionment.

- From E.M. Forster’s The Longest Journey

People I’ve known…

This illustration is on robots increasingly adopting human functions – in this case, the act of caring for a(nother) human being. Note the digital aliasing effect around the heart.

This is another image on the healthcare reform. It shows a woman sneezing the hell out of herself.

Here’s a mixed-media image on the topic of cutting down beautiful old trees in public parks. I used a chainsaw for the trunk.

We’re up against the idea that it’s acceptable to say anything and do anything to win an election. This is why people don’t believe what their leaders say anymore. And this election is our chance to give the American people a reason to believe again.

And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words – yes, we can.

- Barack Obama, “‘Yes, we can change” (Jan 27, 2008)