BOOK DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION FEB 10
Jacket Design for Happier
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.
For the German second edition
of Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment,
Goldmann/Random House was looking for a wholly new design.
To this end, 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).
GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION FEB 10 Event Calendar
Design
The latest
event guide for the German Trade Union (DGB)
in Munich has just been published. I created both the jacket design
and the inside illustrations. The postcard-sized brochure lists the many
seminars and workshops and lectures and events and whatnot that the DGB provides
for Munich.
The cover art is a
collage of assembled portrait photos, around which I spilled acrylic color. My
goal was to create a vintage look (hence the predominantly dated photos from the
1930’s through 1970’s) which looks fresh and modern at the same time. Here’s a
closeup view of the spread (click for a larger image).
ILLUSTRATION
DEC 09 See What the Future Will
Hold There!
This
two-page spread mixed-media artwork was created
to visualize the topic of predictions and financial forcast.
The montage treatment contains prediction metaphors such as a crystal ball,
tarot cards, reading palms, a pendulum, phrenology, stars and binoculars, a
fortune wheel, etc. – together with some finance icons to tie it more
specifically to the subject.
Here's yet another round of
op-ed style editorial illustrations
I have designed recently.
The art on top is on the
mathematics of Wall Street, and shows a stock curve
in the shape of a drowning man. The mixed-media illustration below is on
gun control and shows a hand holding a gun,
with a little flag popping out which carries the words, "Sorry!"
The b/w illo below
is on the topic of government spending, and
shows a bunch of interconnected paper cut-out figures with numbers and a dollar
sign written on them. At the bottom, there's the art on the issue of
protection, which sees two hands giving
shelter to a man's face.
This mixed-media image was
designed for a finance management client who is about to
relocate. The art shows a happy corporate building carrying a
moving box.
This mixed-media art was
created on the topic of teachers giving grades in
schools, and the diversity of this process. One teacher isn't
unlikely to give different grades for a given assignment than another one, which
kind of raises questions about objectivity in screening tests.
KEYWORDS:
Bank, building, large, conglomerate, money, rich, clients, people, customers
ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN NOV 09 Paperback Editon of
Random House
Book on Religion
The paperback edition
of a book on religion has been published by cbj,
a publisher of junvenile books from
Random House. This is the second imprint as a softcover, after
Goldmann Verlag has published its edition earlier in the year.
Entitled, "So what do
you believe in?", the book addresses key issues of the five world religions,
christianity, judaism, islam, buddhism, and hinduism.
The author, Andrea Fischer, is a
former secretary of health under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. As with the
hardcover edition, apart from the jacket design and cover illustration, I have also created 76 black and
white interior illustrations in a whimsical style.
Here are some more b/w op-ed style editorial illustrations
I have created recently.
The illustration on top is on
the current health care debate, and shows an oversized syringe amidst a city
skyline. Below is a very stylized artwork on the topic of
theft which sees a guy
descending the flight of stairs with a large (and presumably valuable) vase,
with some followers high on his heels.
The art below
is on the way the United States are seen by much of the world - I like the
feisty-looking Uncle Sam in this picture ;-)
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MOTIF:
Have a
SpeCATular Day!
