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The Famous New Yorker
Cover Art
Variations on
“A
View of the World
from 9th Ave”
I have a history of creating
variations of US cartoonist Saul Steinberg's "View of the World from 9th
Ave", his most famous work developed as a cover for "The New Yorker"
magazine. Clients for such hommages include
DER SPIEGEL magazine and Axel Springer publishers.
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CHRISTMAS CARD FOR AXEL SPRINGER
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have been commissioned by the Euro RSCG design agency to design
the 2007
Christmas card for
Axel Springer publishers. The image was requested to be in the style of Saul
Steinberg's famous 1976 cover illustration "View of the World from 9th Ave" for
"The New Yorker" magazine.
Labelled "The
Berliner", my hand drawing sees the famous Springer office
building and incorporates a winterscape of landmarks from the city of
Berlin, such as the Brandenburg Gate, the Alex Tower, the Ku'damm, the
Gedächtniskirche, the KaDeWe, the Galeries Lafayettes, etc.
With more than 280 offices worldwide, Euro RSCG ist the
world's largest design agency. Axel Springer is Germany’s largest publishing
house and one of the leading international media enterprises. On a sidenote,
Springer was actually one of my very first clients back in the nineties when I
used to be a regular cartoonist for DIE WELT for many years, Germany's number three daily paper.
DIY
TUTORIAL FOR MACWELT MAGAZINE
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o infinity and beyond: I have written a tutorial
for
Macwelt magazine on
how I made my own version of the famous cover from “The New Yorker” magazine
using Photoshop. Macwelt is Europe's largest resource on everything Macintosh. >more
DER
SPIEGEL COVER ILLUSTRATION
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ER SPIEGEL, Germany's largest and
most influential weekly news magazine, contracted a cover illustration in the
fall of 2004 on the topic of East-German disintegration. Entitled "Jammertal
Ost" (which might be loosely translated into "Eastern Vale of Tears"), the
Steinberg-style image shows prominent Eastern landmarks colliding as the
ground gives away. Find more information
here.
>more.
WELCOMING POSTCARD FOR MOVE TO BERLIN
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n 2008, Axel Springer publishers
moved the editorial offices of its BILD daily newspaper from Hamburg to its
Berlin headquarters. I have created a welcoming card
(see excerpt below) in the
style of Steinberg's famous cover image.
The card shows a number of
red-colored moving vans wearing the BILD logo travelling through the city of
Berlin, and unpacking at the famous Axel Springer skyscraper building at
Kochstrasse in the city center which has been draped in a large cloth depicting
BILD's corporate logo.
Axel Springer is Germany’s largest publishing
house. With close to four million printed copies, BILD Zeitung is its flagship
publication and Germany's biggest paper.
AILING US ECONOMY FOR BUSINESS MAGAZINE
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his rendition on the
ailing US economy was developed for a major business
magazine. Designed in
a sketchy pencil style akin to Steinberg's cover
art, the
buildings representing the United States include the US Congress, the White
House, the Staue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Golden Gate Bridge, the
Transamerica Pyramid, and Wall Street.
THE
GERMAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
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he German Company Health Insurance Fund
(Betriebskrankenkasse, BKK) has commissioned an unusual cover illustration for
the English-language summer edition of their monthly health care magazine.
The cover illustration entitled "The German Health
Care System" is kept much in the style of Steinberg's work,
where "a map delineates not real space but the mental geography of
Manhattanites" (Steinberg Foundation).
In my adaptation, 9th Ave
became "Invalidenstrasse" in Berlin, encircling Germany's best-know
hospital, the Berlin-based Charité. The English-language summer
edition of "Die BKK" is directed towards the international community of
healthcare professionals.
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HEALTHCARE ILLUSTRATIONS
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