one person's eyes is another person's spectacles

In the letterbox yesterday: One of my illustrations was used for an article by Wiglaf Droste in "Das Magazin". He funnily describes his sudden need for reading glasses. // Jetzt am Kiosk: "Das Magazin" Ausgabe Februar 2010 mit meiner Illustration. Wiglaf Droste beschreibt äußerst witzig sein plötzliches Bedürfnis nach einer Lesebrille.
(Cover: Katja Weikenmeier)

magic parcel from bejing

Just before the old year was over I got a huge parcel from China. I was invited contribute pictures to two magazines - the O2 Magazine "100 % fresh air" and then to a magazine which is actually a "Magic Box -Paradise Issue" and now I got the issues send by the people who did it. Both magazines present artist and designers from allover the world and I feel very honored that I am represented there. Below, some impressions ... // Bevor das alte Jahr zuende war, erreichte mich ein riesiges Paket aus China. Man hatte mich eingeladen zu zwei Magazinen etwas beizusteuern und nun habe ich meine Belegexemplare! Das eine habe ich schonmal vorgestellt, die neueste Veröffentlichung ist eine Zeitschrift in Form einer Box. Sie nennt sich Magic Box und hat diesmal den Schwerpunkt "Paradies". Hier kommen einige Eindrücke des Wunderwerkes ...

illustration for chrismon-magazine

This week the monthly magazine chrismon came out as an supplement to the geman newspapers "Der Tagesspiegel", “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, "Süddeutsche Zeitung", “Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten", “Mitteldeutsche Zeitung”, “Schweriner Volkszeitung” and “Die Zeit". I illustrated an article about unconditional basic income. This subject is in discussion in germany and a kind of social philosophy. The state is giving money anyway - to support enterprices with huge benefits (especially today) and to the people: to finance people that are not on the job market, for example parents - that do important work as well and socially deprived. The decoupling of income and work is supposed to give everybody the freedom of choice to do what he wants and not what he is forced to do to earn his living. Of course the lazy stay lazy - but the work of people with ideas and engagement will be acknowledged much better. And shitty jobs have to be made much more attractive to find someone to do them :--)

The online version of the article is linked here. Below my illustration plus some extra ones ...
 

100 % O2 Magazine

The Beijing based magazine just came out and is designed by art direktor Yuan Di.
It presents different young artists, designers and crossover projects from allover the world
and is distributed internationally.

the magazine

This Issue of "Das Magazin" is about people wearing glasses. I did the two illustrations inside the magazine.