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

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