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

Graphzine Festival in France!

On saturday 26th, the "Salon Fais-Le-Toi-Même" opens its doors
in Lille (F).

For the second time, this unique event will show

- self-published books, silkscreen prints and fanzines -
- independent labels -
- short movies and animations -
all "Do-It-Yourself".

On this very sympathic fair I'll present our artist books

and new leporello. If you like to discover latest
underground art from Paris, Brussels, London,

Canada even, come by and have a look.

Uh - you live a 900 km away?

Greetings, Boris

Paper Clip Animals

Another page of my current project

which I am still working on,

called "WARNUNG VON DEM TIERE".

A book for children, written by

Hendrikje Grossmann

Regards Adrian!

TAZ - One Year Lehman Crisis

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The TAZ produced a special edition about consequences and results (and new perspectives) of the current economic crisis. I did the cover-illustration.

Dieter

Illustration Friday: "Welcome"

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"I welcome you with a ROOOAAAR!"

I made quite some progress on this piece today,

I´d say it´s 80% finished. After a couple of

weeks of pretty bad work routines I feel that

I´m now back on track ;)

Cheers,

Frederik.

Manchmal ist Jonas ein Löwe

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"Sometimes Jonas is a lion" is a book by the german

childrens book writer Kirsten Boie, and I´m doing

an illustration for it. I wasn´t familiar with her work before

reading this one but it´s very sensitive and it

gave me an astounding feeling of what it

was like to be a young kid.

Right now this boy looks pretty girlish,

but on the other hand I think it´s more interesting

to have it more ambivalent, since this book

speaks to and about kids in general and not just boys.

(More regular viewers might recall this face from

an older illustration, but well, this has to be done soon

so I do some light recycling again...)

Cheers,

Frederik

Illusive 3

Hi!

The current issue of the »Illusive«-annual features some of my illustrations in the »Towards Painting«-chapter. Feels fine after having to kill myself with graphic-design-works in the last couple of months.

Farewell,
Peter