Work in Progress

This is what my workplace actually looks like, many small snippets,

and parts of miniature landscapes. Looking forward to show more...

Greetings, Boris

Freelens Magazin

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Now available is Freelens Magazin # 29. The magazine (subtitle „Fotojournalismus in der Medienwelt") regularly shows the work of contemporary photographers and discusses theoretical and technical aspects around photography. The particular focus of this issue

treats the current activities of many publishers/clients in establishing the so called „buyout-clause“ closely related with nasty restrictions in artist-copyrights.

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I did three illustrations accompanying the text (what was pretty new and unusal for makers and readers of a photo-magazine).

-Dieter

Goldfish and flying cars

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 Happy new 2010 everyone! Man,

that sounds futuristic. This has been asked a

thousand times already, but it bears repeating:
Where are the flying cars? I don´t even

have a measly jetpack or anything,

still have to go by foot or subway everywhere.

Aside from that I´ve had a pretty good start

into the new decade, although I tend to become

a bit tired around this time of year.

Here are some things I´ve been working on and off

during the weird transition period that is late december

and early january. Both pieces will be on my new

Illustratoren Organisation promo postcard, which means

it will look slighty awkward since the required text on the

front will be horizontal, while the illustration is vertical.

The two fishes are actually two separate images that

will look like one wide illustration. Since it has

to be grayscale on the backside I used to simply

convert color images into grayscale for my last

promo card, but this time I did something

completely new instead.

Anyways, I wish you a great new year!

Cheers,

Frederik.

On Air - Mirna Loy

Electrified violin, electric guitar, drums, loops and tapes were the tools of berlin based impro-group Mirna Loy. From 2003-2006 we've played a lot of (sometimes adventurous) gigs at different locations around Berlin, from lounge-concerts at the „Klub der Polnischen Versager“ to rather noisy events like the „Against-Popkomm-Festival“.

Now you can hear one title of our cd „Dogs“ on 01.01. at BR 2 radio program „Nachtsession“, between 00:05 und 2:00 h!

I did a lot of designwork for Mirna Loy - concert-posters, flyer, cd-packages a.s.o. Here are some excerpts...

Greets, Dieter

Joyful Messages - TAZ

Merry Christmas!! I hope everyone of you will enjoy this time of rest and celebrate this season of giving.

I‘m also relaxing after immense hardworking weeks. The last illustration-job of this year required the making of six various collages, a mix of drawings and photographies, for the christmas issue of the TAZ. Images and text circle around the festive term of the „Joyful Message“.

The shown doublepaged collage tells the remarkable story of finnish shepherd Kalevi Paadar (based on a photo by Kirsten Küppers).

Best wishes,
Dieter

Kraftwerk

One of my latest illustrations.

The Dutch magazine Zone 5300 asked me to make

an illustration for an article

about the German music band Kraftwerk.

I really enjoyed to make this.

It's similar to the stuff I did for our book

45 - A single cover album and also funny it's a German band.

greetz,

Leen

Watercolor Studies

Hi there,

I just tried to get started again with watercolor, which always has been a pleasure to work with and my NEMESIS at the same time. It feels so good when everything seems to naturally fall in place. And then nothing is as frustrating as a watercolor-painting that just doesn’t work out right, no matter what you try. Here are a few portraits I made here and there. I am not entirely lifting my skirt here, a few messups went straight to the garbage can.

By the way, I recently started working with an Intuos tablet (A5 wide) - feels great!

All the best,
Peter

naive tree ⋄ little garden

new work and colour study:

It's inspired by an oriental pattern,

I'll soon start a book or series in a similar style.

With regards, Boris

„45“ - Limited Linocut + Book-Edition

„45 - A Single Cover Album“ is now available together with a special linocut-print. Claudia (C.Pom) did a limited number of 24 two-colored handmade prints, a variation of her fine illustration to Nina Simones „Blue Little Girl“ recordsleeve.

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You can get this special edition (book + print) exclusive at Supalifekiosk, Berlin, and at Bookstore Ile De Re, Trier.

-Dieter

Portraitfolio

Hi everyone,

After a succesfull participation at the Frankfurter bookfair,

with Poste Aérienne, I'm glad to be a member of

this collective with very good illustrators and graphic designers

Especially for the bookfair, I've made a small edition

of 20 little handmade books called 'Portraitfolio'.

It shows a collection of portraits I've done in the last few years.

You can see more at my website:

www.leenvanhulst.com

greetz,

Leen

Desktop Magazine II

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Hi everyone,
here’s the full interview I mentioned below. It is quite a motivation for me to be productive again. I was somewhat undecisive what to do in the last two weeks, besides a few sketches, some butter-and-bread-jobs and the nagging »I-have-to-update-my-website-soon«-bug that is in my head, I haven’t done something substantially lately. Well, the time will come...

Warm regards, Peter

New Kids On The Blog

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I was a bit undecisive on what to do with

my "kids with animal masks" pieces I did a few weeks

ago - first the wolf on the kart and the pig on

the trike (boy, that sounds weird), followed by the

duckboy and the kid in the lion costume.

Since the Bologna childrens book fair is around the

corner and thankfully our school has later deadlines

for submissions for the exhibition that happens

parallel to the main fair, I thought that they looked

so nice in a group and made a fifth kid, the

boy with the raccoon mask on the far left.

I did some minor corrections on the older pieces,
most prominently a light yellowish paper tone (to

counteract the sometimes a bit harsh looking contrasts),

but I was surprised how well they fit together, considering

that I never really planned them to be a series.

In other news, here´s a pretty big piece I did for

a new exhibition at Rotopol in Kassel with

the topic "Secret Service". I was going a bit

crazy with the accesoires on this one, and it turned

out more like a mix between a spy, a policeman

and a cowboy. I´d say that this is one of the most

complex pieces I did till now (in terms of

layers and single elements). I wouldn´t want

everything I do to be this evolved, but I´m quite

happy with it. (Finally one of my drawings has some

sort of background - something I almost always have

avoided!)

Cheers,

Frederik

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 character 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

diorama

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 accompanying 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