Vernissage & Release Party

The Supalife Kiosk is one of the rare places in Germany that dedicate themselves exclusively to independent art, illustration and comix.
The shop is specialized in silkscreen printing and invited Poste Aérienne to create a poster and Leporello entitled
"7 Reasons not to Travel".

Here's some photos (thanks Dennis) of the vernissage which was a typical "Berlin-event": young and international visitors, funny talks and playful music by Jayrope.
Thank you for coming!
Boris

Supalife proudly presents - SEVEN REASONS NOT TO TRAVEL

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Together with the Supalifekiosk we are preparing our first group exhibition in capital city Berlin. „Seven Reasons Not To Travel“ will show some fine work of our members Peter Hoffmann, Dieter Jüdt, Frederik Jurk, C. Pom, Max Ruf, Cleo Schwinkowski, Boris Servais and Adrian Wylezol. One part of the show will be a "group-silkscreen-poster" (see above), carefully printed by Olli Nerlich.

The exhibition at Supalifekiosk, Raumer Str. 40, Prenzlauer Berg, starts with the vernissage on Saturday 18th of July, 7 pm.

See you
Dieter

Paperboy

I´ve been working feverishly on finishing

enough illustration for our media illustration class

where we illustrate articles from the Frankfurter

Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung each week, and put

them into the page layout to see how these would

look if they were actually printed. It´s a very

interesting project because editorial illustration

demands a very specific set of skills.

I´ve been so busy with other projects that

I really had to pump these out fast to meet

the deadline, but it turned out to be a lot

more fun and quite a bit less stress than

I thought.

Here´s the whole set on Flickr.

Hope you enjoy them!

-Frederik

Work in Progress - Abba Zaba

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For our single-book-projekt I‘ve ultimately chosen one of Captain Beefhearts finest singles, „Abba Zaba“, recorded in 1967. During his career the Captain often referred to certain aspects of american indian culture (in our book I will explain some of these items). "Abba Zaba", for example, was inspired by these typical primitive „indianlike“ rhythms used in all 50/60ies western movies.

And for me this was also an occasion to work with ethnological stuff again... I think I will finish this drawing tomorrow by using ink (brush, pen) and grey polychromos .

Greetings, Dieter

In Progress…

Since I am on a posting-spree anyway :-)

Two pieces in progress I just send out today for a DVD-Cover for a musician from Austria, I’ll post the whole layout after this thing is finished. Right now I am quite happy with them and really hope it works for him as well.

Farewell,
Peter

The Day Of The Tentacle

Last but not least, my piece for the Supalife-Prints.

Thanks a lot, Dieter, for compiling them and your work anyway!

Have a great day,
Peter

Buga 2011 Visuals

The next illustrations in line are the reason for the grey-ish complexion I have these days - they where a LOT of work with quite a few changes from client-side (which actually where really nice people). They where commissioned by the Bundesgartenschau 2011 in Koblenz and are supposed to show the future architecture in certain places.

The pre-visuals where completely made in SketchUp, a nice little freeware 3D-application, the coloring was done in Illustrator.

Again: cheers,
Peter

Chainsaw Bride

Another illustration for a poster - this one for a band called Boiler. Stylewise they are very much about glam and high energy, therefore the image was not hard to come up with. I used Illustrator and its brushes for the first time to create the background-elements, which really felt like a nice progress in my usual workflow.


Best,
Peter

Bigass Robot

Hi!

Here’s an older illustration I did for a festival-poster. Ah, robots! Maybe I like them so much because I read John Christophers »Tripods« when I was in elementary school. I was hooked from the first pages on. By the way – there’s a series of audio-books coming out with the original soundtrack from the 80’s-BBC-series, I am really looking forward to get my fingers on them. And I heard that Alex »Dark City« Proyas is about to make a movie based on the books...

Cheers,
Peter

Logo

Hello all!
It is too bad, that I post that seldom. I will do better. Here is a little development of finding a name & logo for a Berlin Champaneria. I hate this moment when the client choses the "wrong" one of the drafts you present. And it happens so often. But well it is the dog and it is not too bad.
This one is the motiv for the Opening-Poster.
Hugs IB

Relaxing in Thailand

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These are details of my work for our silkscreen project.

Maybe you've been in South-East Asia

and know how exhausting travel could be...

Boris

the travel of the boy with pierced heels in blue

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so this is it then!

the blueboybaby-oidipus...

the travel of the boy with pierced heels

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this is one of my proposals for our silkscreen-project
"7 reasons not to travel".
it shows baby oidipus who was abandoned
in the caucasus mountains with pierced heels.
there it was, where he started his journey in which
he ended up killing his father, making his mother pregnant,
hole-punching his eyes and beeing hunted to death
by the erinyes, the godesses of vengeance.
if that isn't a pretty good reason not to travel, i don't know what is...

cheers,

cléo

JUMP - Badeschiff Spree

Here are two possible variations of my contribution for our forthcoming silkscreen-project "7 Reasons Not To Travel". Again, I work with jumping figures (see the cover-illustration of '"Der dreizehnte Monat" and some work I did for "Mirna Loy").

I like the impression of such figures - ignoring gravity, frozen moments.

Dieter

Flyer-ing high

This is my flyer for our schools

annual exhibiton this summer.

Yeah, I admit it, I recycled the head

from a previous piece, but oddly

enough it looks much more in place here than

in the original drawing somehow...

Doing the highlights and tatoos was a lot of

fun and I´m surprised my ability to

draw halfway-realistic isn´t

completely rusted yet.

Handlettering, as usual. Lettering by hand

used to be my way of dealing with text

without having to know stuff about fonts

and layout programs (though I´m learning

about this more and more), but I really

like it as a quality on its own.

-Frederik

strange places

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so i have been in hamburg since may the first.

yesterday i started to make mincemeat of all the stuff

that i experienced so far, in a graphical way.

the nice thing about hamburg is that you can almost

go everywhere by foot.

'though i lost my way quite often in the first couple of weeks, i really

enjoy to wander around the streets of hamburg.

with music in my ears, a bottle of "astra" in my hand and with

head wind blowing through my hair.

"sprötze" by the way is an outlying district of hamburg.

also very nice is "voßloch", "övelgönne" or "sasel".

i want to do some illustrations with all the

district or street names that i like.

we will see what i will discover in the future!

with one eye open.

cheers,

cléo

To Another Place

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An illustration for a befriended musician.

I wanted to add colour to the ink drawing,

but it looks quite interesting in greyscale...

Boris