Frankfurt Book Fair 2010

Like the last few years we´re

going to the Frankfurt Book Fair again this year,

with more new stuff than ever before!

We´re also going to come there with more people

than ever before, so a good time is pretty

much guaranteed. Make sure to write

down our booth number, drop by,

say Hi, and check out what we´ve

done during the last year.

As the main new publication we´re

presenting our new series of minibooks

"Mikrokosmos" (Microcosm), where a

whooping 12 different artists from all over the world

have contributed to, each with their own

little two-color book. Aside from that we again

have the full range from compilation books to

postcards to buttons to prints, so our little

booth will be stuff to the top this year!

See you there!

Poste Aérienne proudly presents:

· M I K R O K O S M O S ·
12 artists from Belgium, Germany,
Canada and Columbia explore their personal
illustrated world in a 12 pages miniature booklet:



Boris Servais · Cléo Schwinkowski

Henrik Drescher

Frederik Jurk · Peter Hoffmann

Felix Scheinberger

Dieter Juedt · Antje Herzog

C.POM

Max Fiedler · Leen Van Hulst

Jim Pluk

The books are printed - in two pantone colors
on fine Munken paper - by a specialized printer
for miniature books in Italy.

We're very excited to present the collection
next week on the Frankfurt Book Fair
and hope to see you there!

Kind regards, Boris

Still Gulliver

Harmonizing with my Mikrokosmos #9 I'll present on the 

bookfair 2010 in Frankfurt 

an edition of GULLIVERS REISEN 

(Emil Vollmer Verlag, 1960 ).

It is  decorated with about 45 illustrations, 

copies from Grandvilles engravings and in addition to 

them a few insects as a reference to the London 

intellectual group round Jonathan Swift 

(Alexander Pope, Dr. John Arbuthnot,...)

c.pom

Some illustrations in pink

Here is a series of new illustrations - front page and some text accompanying drawings -

- done last week for the past weekend-issue of the TAZ.

Greets, Dieter

New monster studies

Some new drawings for a humoristic book about occultism,

ill will and strange creatures include this fellow:

Historians assume that elephant skulls could be at the origin

of the cyclops legend. These skulls have a hole in the front,

at the place of the trunk (elephant nose). Due to a lack of

anatomy knowledge, this hole was maybe interpreted as

cavity of the eye...

Regards, Boris

Robots Reimagined

Hi there,

just a quick one, I am on my way to a canoe ride near Berlin: I made some full-color-versions of the robots I drew for our edition. The fractals in the background are a nice feature that Illustrator provides.

Cheers,
Peter

Mikrokosmos · Hamburg

Hello there! My mikrokosmos book tells a short
story about my "flathunt" in Hamburg.
Some of you already know St. Pauli, Altona,
Eimsbüttel, Wilhelmsburg and these other great
parts of town.

Flathunting (I was surprised by that term, very fitting
translation) in Hamburg can be like sightseeing,
but as in Munich, it can really be difficult.
People often search for weeks or months,
and finally stay in minuscule rooms because of the
frightfully high rents. (especially artists :)

I like this very special town with the impressive harbour,
spacious alleys and beautiful architecture,
Alster channels and the many 'alternative' districts,
not to forget the big illustrators scene.

Hamburg has a great energy.

On monday the books go to the printer - in Italy!
Best regards, Boris

Rise & Fall

Last week I prepared a new illustration for Berlin newspaper TAZ. Completing an essay about rise, glory days and current decay of the Karstadt department store empire.

- Dieter

Fingertips (Mikrokosmos)

I managed to finish my Mikrokosmos book. :)

'Fingertips', a song by Stevie Wonder was the inspiration.

In the beginning I was struggling with the colours. But now,

I think it's quite nice to see the subject of Motown misicians 

in red and blue colours. It's a totally different approach 

than the black and white stuff I've done.

greetz, Leen

Mr. Robert Johnson

Here‘s a snapshot of a new project I‘m working on. I‘m in the state of trying various layout-things, bringing together my pencil drawings with text elements, looking for suitable typo fonts a.s.o. Think I will tell you more as soon as the first double page is finished. Ok?

Greets, Dieter

Whalehunter Doublecards

Some pieces of the „Maybe“ series, all in all 20 cards signed and numbered. I really enjoyed the manual designwork with scissors and paper odds!

- Dieter

Silly Season

.....searching for a fresh creative moment it 

seems to be going into recess.

C.Pom

Dirty Black Summer

Hi there,

these are some personal pieces I drew every now and then from life, from imagination, from images and movies. Recognize any films?

Wishing you well,
Peter

Coffee or tea?

Greetings from Brussels,

where I've been for some days

to see my aunt, she has some

really overstyled coffee cups,

(does that word exist, overstyled?)

Well, maybe it's just my drawing that is overstyled ;)

Boris

Maybe #3

Here‘s my contribution to Claudias ongoing postcard-project. I worked with gouache and colorpencils as well as cut outs of xerography odds and - pretty interesting stuff (!) - Burda pattern sheets.

To take a look at the former "Maybe" posts, click here and there.

Greets, Dieter

Now something completely different

This is not really the best time for any wintersports, but nevertheless - here‘s a variation of an image I did this spring for swiss magazine "Du" (take a look here). Now printed on an aluminium-plate in 50/70 cm. Photos by Maike Jauer.

Greets, Dieter

Endagered animals

Hello. Me again.
In the past time I worked for a Berlin fashion-company called MICHALSKY. The first projekt they did with me was a work they did with the WWF for endagered species (like above the iberian Lynx). I made several motivs they print on shirts. As they now told me the shirts were delivered to the Michalsky-stores last week and they were all sold out at the first day. That is nice.
The next thing will be an allover-print, which is a rather big thing :) and makes me happy.
Greetings IB