ZINE SOUP

TTC Gallery from Denmark have published a

large collection of zines from around the world.

It has a focus on the - let's say insane side of zines,

lots of deviant energy, but also playful ideas, and

it presents my Encyclopedia and Varanasi books.

Boris

Ethnographic drawings #5

Some new characters from the South-Sea-Collection of the Ethnological Museum, Berlin Dahlem.

Greets, Dieter

Fontnames illustrated

Hello.
This is just a little re-use of an illustration I once did for SLANTED, a Typo-magazine. They decided to make a calender with all illustrated fontnames (http://www.freistil-online.de/einzigartig-fontnames-illustrated-calender-2010). It was very succesfull at the bookfair (as the publisher tells) and is now available and well done.
Regards IB

The fascination of diorama, miniatures and installations

inspired this little wooden box. Feels like I'll probably

do some more three-dimensional things.

Greetings, Boris

Belletristik #09 - Special Edition

Belletristik - magazine for literature and illustration - has published a special edition accompaniing the festival Zeitkunst (a small festival of chamber music and contemporary literature) which has taken place from 07- 08th November at the Villa Elisabeth, Berlin.

I was asked to make the doublepaged cover-illustration and I have to say, that I really like the final version, printed in b/w and gold (sic)...

Greets, Dieter

Out Now! 45 - A SINGLE COVER ALBUM

Freshly out is our first hardcover-book (84 pages printed in deepest black and white!). At the invitation of Poste Aérienne, 23 illustrators, graphic designers and book artists created astonishing new designs of their favourite vinyl single covers.

“45 - A Single Cover Album” not only reveals a cross-section of the currently booming young illustrator scene, it’s also a design homage to the 7“ record.

From early fifties recordings of Nina Simone, over the psychedelic years with The Beatles and Captain Beefheart to some seventies stuff like David Bowie and Black Sabbath, to New Wave with Joy Division and Gary Numan until current independent acts like Bonnie „Prince“ Billy or Weilheim‘s The Notwist (to mention but a few).

-Dieter

Desktop Magazine

Hi again,

the Australian magazine »Desktop:« put the piece I made for the »7 Reasons…«-fanfold on the cover of its october-issue and an interview inside. You can read an excerpt online here, I’ll post some scans when I got the printed samples. Big whopping thank-you to Jo Spurling for this oppurtunity!

Have a great day,
Peter

Frankfurt Book Fair 2009

This years book fair went over really

quickly - at least that´s how it felt to me.

With our freshly printed "45 - A Single Cover Book",

our serigraphy leporello "7 Reasons Not To Travel",

our works from last years as well as an abundance

of postcards and prints, our booth certainly had

stuffed shelves this time.

A lot of friends and colleagues dropped by this

years as well - I was surprised how our booth was

literally filled and surrounded with people at times,

and lots of stimulating conversations

filled our little space.

Not to mention that Frankfurt itself is a city

that I personally find visually interesting!

By the way, check out the works

of our groups newest member,

the belgian artist Leen Van Hulst.

Cheers, and see you all next year!

-Frederik

Zombie-Walk

Hey there!

A couple of weeks ago, a band asked me to make an illustration for their next CD. »Draw us zombie-style!«, they said. And who am I to hesitate a second to exactly do that with such a beautiful concept. Too bad I missed the last zombie-walk in Cologne.

Fondest regards,
Peter

Fluffy Little Things

Hi!

These are some characters I developed for a console-game. Aren’t they cute?

Best,
Peter

Poste Aérienne at the Frankfurt Fair 2009

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Poste Aérienne is back at the Frankfurt Book Fair

for the third time already and we´re packing more

new and fresh work than ever! Hall 4.1 is

reserved for book art and independent

illustration from all over the world. It has

been a very good time the last two

years and we´re all looking

forward to this exciting event again.

So please drop by, check out

our line-up, and have a little talk.

See you there!

Dealing the cards

I finally got around to print two of

my new pieces as postcards. When I uploaded

them to my favourite online printers website

I noticed the little checkbox option

"rounded corners". It was just a couple

of euros more so I just went for it, and what

a difference it makes! I was thinking

and thinking about what these remind me

of - I know rounded corners were kind of

popular during the 80s - but then I realized

that they resemble playing cards! (Well,

if they were they would be very oversized,

but maybe basketball pro players

could handle these.)

If you´re going to visit us at our

booth at the Frankfurt fair (Info to the left!)

you can check them out. And don´t be afraid - since

they have no pointy edges they are

perfectly safe ;)

Cheers,

Frederik

Finch, Finch

I am still working on the DARWINTHEME.

On the one hand I think everything is said by

the others in so many books and reports,

but it was my own decision that made me choose this

theme and I hope I will show somthing special

with a personal visual point on Darwin at the bookfair '09.

-c.pom

Who said »Petit Prince«?

Hi!

This is a CD-packaging I worked on two weeks ago. It is for a jazz-trio – »Kahiba« - and a nice mix between graphic-design and illustration. The central motiv is based on so-called »stereographic images« or »little planets«, a photographic technique which I did not have the time to scope out entirely, but really enjoyed looking at. In the end, this is more a graphic-design-job, but it had its moments...

Cheers,
Peter

Salon F.L.T.M.

Discovering Eisbär magazine (scroll down), meeting fellow countrymen and watching sweded movies made part of a great day in Lille last weekend. The public has shown keen interest in our work and it was a pleasure to discuss similarities and differences with French independent comics.

barbecue atmosphere at l'hybride:
Almost each person you see here is an artist!

Boris

Insomnia

Here comes a recently coloured new comic-strip about a couple tortured by insomnia. This short story (part of our Berlin-Graphic-Novel) works even without words!

Greets, Dieter

45 - Book Design

In the last days we've (Peter and I) worked intensively on the book design of the next Poste Aérienne publication -

„45 - A SINGLE COVER ALBUM“.

Now we are very satisfied how all elements - the typo, the varied illustrations in different styles - fit together. Here are some snapshoots of our working-sessions.

Greets, Dieter