This is today’s summer cover for Süddeutsche Zeitung’s three-monthly SZ-Vinothek wine supplement that got printed both in a tabloid newspaper format, and on a glossy wine brochure. I created the cover art for the summer edition that shows a group of people sitting under a beautiful tree, drinking wine and enjoying a sunny day.

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This is Pitter Patter Pets, another limited-edition screen print of mine. It is A4 size, and available for purchase.

• Silkscreen Print, 4 Colors
• Paper Size A4 (210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in)
• Limited Edition of 52
• Signed and Numbered
• Munken Pure Matte White Paper, 240 g/m2
• Unframed (Frame and Passe-partout are Recommended)
• Price without shipping 55 EUR | 83 US$

This is my whimsical cover art for today’s New Scientist on the topic of Wikipedia authors that are overall white males from Western countries, which leaves out much of the rest of the world. I did a few more interior illustrations in that same style.

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This is In the Heat of the Light, another limited-edition screen print of mine. It is quite large (A3), and available  for purchase.

• Silkscreen Print, 4 Colors
• Paper Size A3 (420 x 297 mm / 16.5 x 11.7 in)
• Limited Edition of 52
• Signed and Numbered
• Munken Pure Matte White Paper, 240 g/m2
• Unframed (Frame and Passe-partout are Recommended)
• Price without shipping 95 EUR | 143 US$

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I have illustrated an article for today’s Süddeutsche Zeitung weekend special (SZ Wochenende) on e-book writers, showing on a full page multiple writers in a wimmelbild setup, crowding an e-book reading device, and chipping in to write a novel together.

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Why on earth should one tackle a problem while it is still small and can be handled easily? Why not wait until it has grown to larger size instead?

In his provocatively humorous book, Problem Lovers, Johnatan Briefs, a business coach, lays out an anti-success strategy along the lines of Paul Watzlawick’s infamous Pursuit of Unhappiness.

I have created the book’s jacket design using an illustration of a surfer falling off a great Kanagawa-style wave. The title has also come out as an audio book.

Jonathan Briefs: Ich habe keine Lösung… aber ich bewundere das Problem – Provokatives Coaching für den Berufsalltag

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Here’s my cover for a current calendar of events in Munich. I once again employed that multifaceted style that I have been using quite a lot over these past couple of years.

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In this spot art for The Christian Science Monitor, I visualized an article on a contageous book – a book that is quickly catching on among the public.

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Here’s another silkscreen print that’s up for sale – I called this one Bye-Bye Blackbird:

• Silkscreen Print, 4 Colors
• Paper Size A3 (420 x 297 mm / 16.5 x 11.7 in)
• Limited Edition of 51
• Signed and Numbered
• Munken Pure Matte White Paper, 240 g/m2
• Unframed (Frame and Passe-partout are Recommended)
• Price without shipping 95 EUR
• http://www.oweiss.com/shop/art_bye-bye-blackbird.htm

This is my spring cover for Süddeutsche Zeitung’s three-monthly SZ-Vinothek wine supplement that got printed both in a tabloid newspaper format, and on a glossy wine brochure. I created the cover art for the spring edition that shows a bunch of wine barrels laying around in-between daffodils and spring snowflakes. I also made an interior illustration showing a your woman who can’t decide between red and white wine.

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A new book from dtv publishers is out that I reated the cover art for.

Everybody’s doing it – we simply love to lie, usually 20 times before breakfast alone, according to the author’s in-depth research. But even though we are surrounded by lies all day, they are generally considered a bad thing. Puzzled and outraged by this cruelty, the author, both a journalist and a notorious lier in his own right, pays tribute to the lie.

I have created the jacket cover illustration showing a middle-aged Pinocchio growing a long nose.

Wolfgang Limmer: Männerlügen – Warum FRAUEN immer die Wahrheit wissen wollen und MÄNNER behaupten, dass es sie gar nicht gibt (Men Love to Lie)

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This is my mixed-media cover art for today’s New Scientist on the topic of mathematics – a male head built from mathematical symbols and formulae. I did a few more inside illustrations in that same style.

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A new book with my illustrations has come out. Written by Joja Wendt and Kester Schlenz, it is called Der kleine Flügel, which might be loosely translated into Grand Piano Little: A Musical Fairy Tale.

This modern fairy tale tells of the dangerous adventures of a little grand piano who is setting out to combat the vicious organ king who reigns a magic tower that houses all the musical instruments.

Joja Wendt is a concert pianist who was discovered by Joe Cocker, and Kester Schlenz is a bestselling author and a journalist working for Stern news magazine.

My cover illustration in whimsical style shows the the little grand piano, the story’s main character, in full flight. I have also created interior illustrations of instruments for the book. >MORE

I created this spot illustration on international mystery novels for The Christian Science Monitor. I went for a fun-looking black cat strolling around in-between crime books.

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I have finally gotten around to getting a bunch of limited-edition silkscreen prints out. They range from size A4 through A3, and have turned out really nice, I find. What’s more, they’re affordable – drop me a note if you want to buy one!

The one above I called The Call of the Mild. These are the specs:

• Silkscreen Print, 4 Colors
• Paper Size A4 (210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in)
• Limited Edition of 54
• Signed and Numbered
• Munken Pure Matte White Paper, 240 g/m2
• Unframed (Frame and Passe-partout are Recommended)
• Price without shipping 55 EUR
• http://www.oweiss.com/shop/art_the-call-of-the-mild.htm