What I´ve been doing (between doing nothing)

Hi everybody!

It´s been quite a long time since my last blog post,

so let´s jump right in without further ado!

I´ve been designing the cover for the next issue

of Dolor Magazine, published by the nice

Michael Meier at Rotopol, which is about 90% finished. 

I did a little cheesy Photoshop rendering of how

it might look like when it´s printed. I chose these

nice wooden planks as a background, so if you´re

going to spend a sunny day at a nice pond somewhere

it might end up looking exactly like in this picture.

Once this is out I´ll let you know right here!

Going from fake wood backgrounds to real wood backgrounds,

next up is my new sticker set which has just been released.

My mexian friend Inés, aka the one half of 

Café con leche asked me if I wanted

to contribute to their fantastic line of stickers,

which, naturally, I did. You can check them

out as well as order them here.

I also started dipping my toes into other fields

of illustration, and because I can´t just draw

girls with tattoos all day long I decided to try

out some handlettering.

These are great fun and a good way for me to

stay busy even when I´m taking a break from

my bigger projects.

Me as a very small kid. Just thought I´d

throw that in here. I actually still have this wooden
toy snail, though the paint on its wheels is worn down.
I must have dragged this thing around with me for
quite some time.

Anyways, that´s it for now, see you later!

Cheers,

Frederik.

Peking Hotel

000x planed its seventeens number "Peking Hotel".

I designed several postcards with a poem of Li Bo "Selbstvergessenheit"

or in general with the theme of peace and harmony.

The Swiss 000x- team chose a decorative motive.

Perhaps too many designers took the chance and present something political?

We will see in december.

c.pom

Thank you for visiting! ♥

So the bookfair is over already, and we had a great

time again, meeting lots of new people, old friends

and even some artists from our own group

that have never seen each other before - 

given that our members come from

all over Germany and Belgium.

So thank all of you wonderful people

for dropping by, and if you missed it, don´t

worry: We´re going to go next year

for sure, with even more new stuff!

Cheers,

Your Poste Aérienne-Team.

The King of Cool

Barbara (former Minty) McQueen, has compiled a book about her time with husband Steve McQueen. The legendary actor, well known for a lot of popular movie classics like „The Magnificent Seven“, „Bulitt“, „The Getaway“ or „Papillon“ and his passion for any kind of motor-races, died 30 years ago. This report about his last years, living withdrawn together with his third wife Barbara in rural environment, offers some really new and unexpected views on the King Of Cool. In my opinion really „autumn-reading-stuff“.

I did two doublepaged illustrations, one as an intro the other at the end of the book. Today my free copies came by mail and I was very pleased about. Great bookdesign, rare photographies, fine printing.

The book is now out, published by Ankerherz under the title „Mein McQueen“.

Greets, Dieter

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