In order to celebrate the existence of the handsome Ziggy Stardust Lin (also known as Lodown-mascot / loyal companion / chinese crested hairless dog / sustaining men lover / Rommel / Keule / Nudist etc.), Yue-Shin Lin made a fanzine to honor whom honor is due. It’s a tribute from friends to the little fellow, to show the beauty and the beast of the one and only Ziggy. Big honor to be one of the contributors next to Marok, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Alexis Zavialoff, Newskooldisplay, Forty, Skism, Akiko Watanabe, Renko Heuer and many many more.

First edition 2012
60 pages, color print, DIN A5, recycling paper, 83g
limited edition of 333 copies, hand numbered
€ 7,00
incl. tax, plus shipping

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Here we go with loads of pictures by my students at the degree show which took place lately in the new building of the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg.

For this course I asked my illustration class to reinvent old painting masters’s classics. Remix them or make up a story, play around with forms or digg deeply into their biographies. It’s worth having a look at the results:

Hanne Jatho shows the story behind Gustav Klimt’s “Danae”:

Mona-Lisa Friedrich awakes Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Christina’s World”:

Sieglinde Fischer is cooking still lifes:

Veronika Struchholz designs new costumes for Giovanni Bellini:

Angela Binns is doing a Dada-Tarot:

Alex Kowalski is illustating the biographies of Egon Schiele’s models:

Alexandra Bayer is doing faces:

Miro Denck mixes the paintings with the life of their creator Max Ernst:

Isabella Kellermeier shows her new fashion label:

And here are some pictures of my first term students… Experimental and rough sketch exercises.

Illustration von Alex Kowalski aus dem Buch “Tod und Mädchen” (Ausschnitt)

Seit diesem Semester hat unsere Hochschule ein neues Zuhause. Unser Neubau steht mitten in grünen Wiesen mit Ausblick auf’s Tal. Diese Woche feiern wir also Premiere mit unserer ersten Semesterausstellung am neuen Ort.

Meine Illustatorenklasse zeigt ihre Arbeiten zum Projekt “Alte Meister – Neue Werke”: Eine Hommage an die Werke der Kunstgeschichte -  mit einer Bandbreite, die vom Stillleben-Rezeptbuch über die illustrierte Biographie bis hin zum Dada-Tarot reicht. Inklusive einem 420seitigen Experimentierbuch. Zudem geben die Erstsemester-Zeichner einen spannenden Einblick in ihre Skizzenbücher. Bilder der Ausstellung folgen.

FH Würzburg, Am Hubland, Sanderheinrichsleitenweg 20. Geöffnet am Freitag, 10. Februar von 14:00 – 19:00 und am Samstag ,11. Februar von 10:00 bis 17:00. Verabschiedung der Absolventen am Freitag, 10.Februar ab 19:00.

For  the German travel magazine Geo Saison I illustrated the dossier with the topic „How to travel ethically correct?“: a first page and five full doublespreads.
How should we behave as independent travellers in foreign countries? Should we take the offered but forbidden corals as a gift? Should we give our money to the begging streetkids – or is a biro enough – or is it best to give nothing at all? Geo Saison tries to answer those questions and many more.

You can order the November issue (No. 11) of Geo Saison here.
Unfortunately it’s not bilingual – only German.

I illustrated a new book which was just released last week. The Bregenzerwald is a small rural area in Austria near the Lake of Constance and very close to the Alps. The spoken language is German but with a really special accent called „Bregenzerwälderisch“ – nearly impossible to understand for normal German speaking people.
Super BFG, the design company of this German – Bregenzerwälderisch dicitionary invited me to travel through their lovely mountain area, together with my sketchbook, pencils and Christian Feurstein as my personal translator. It was a great research: tasty food, breathteaking landsacapes, lovely people.

Patrick Bauer did a reading of the story behind my pictures.

Mini concert by Tex Drieschner (TV Noir).

You can visit the show until Thursday, 18.8.2011.

Private view today, 7 PM
Lychener Str. 23, 10437 Berlin

The Neonchocolate Gallery in Berlin will show my work about the Berlin drug dealing kids together with some great work by Olivier Kugler: The illustrations about his journey with an Iranian trucker to Kish, a small island in the Persian Gulf were just honored with the overall prize at the V&A Illustration Award.

You are warmly invited to join us at the opening in Berlin on the 13th of August, 7 pm. The author of the story to my pictures, Patrick Bauer will do a reading.

13.8.2011 – 18.8.2011
Private view, 13.8.2011, 7PM
Neonchocolate Gallery
Lychener Straße 23
10437 Berlin
open wednesday – friday, 5 – 8 PM
www.neonchocolate.de