Nest magazine

Some illustrations I did for a new client, called Nest magazine. I went to Limburg to visit the marl caves of Kanne and to make sketches there. I also wrote the article. I think they did a nice job with the lay-out. Greetz, Leen

L‘Invitation au voyage

Four new pieces in a new technique. The use of fineliner, a smooth pencil in 6 B and some Polychromos color pencils in different grey tones allows me to work in a rather „documentary style“. I was also influenced by faded Polaroids and the more conceptual work of Robert Weaver.

These four drawings belong to a series of all in all seven images titled „L‘Invitation au voyage“. Now you can see the complete series at the highly recommended exhibition „Poete maudit“, curated by Andreas Rauth. This tribute to Charles Baudelaire shows also very fine drawings, collages and objects by David von Bassewitz, Ib Jorn, Birgit Lang, Lorem ipsum collective, Falk Nordmann, Felix Pestemer, C.Pom, Richard Rabensaat and Andreas Rauth.

The exhibition (including performance, artist talk and reading) takes place at the gallery erstererster, Berlin, from Aug. 26th to Sept. 9th.

Greets, Dieter

Mikrokosmos Preview

Hello everybody, the Mikrokosmos project is rolling - half of the books are done. This year's collection has great travelbooks, Craig's rough sketches, an imaginary Herbarium and vigilant studies of human relationships. Between the contributors of this 2nd edition: (left to right)

Sebastian Koch and Katja Spitzer

Ute Helmbold and Julia Gruner

Craig Atkinson and Judith Sombray

Six more to come!

Best regards, Boris

Boris' Mikrokosmos

My own project is about Dragons, here's a first impression:

Cheers, Boris

The Berlin Wall

50 years ago the wall was established by the GDR government. The concrete separated West- from East Germany and cut Berlin into pieces... Here are three new illustrations, done last week for the past weekend-issue of the TAZ.

By the way a great film showing some impressions of the wall and the "old" West Berlin was „Possession“ directed by Andrzej Żuławski. A weird movie starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil, including some special effects by Carlo Rambaldi (Alien). The color scheme of my illustrations was directly influenced by Zulawskis work.

Greets, Dieter

New etchings

These are 3 new etchings I made last year in the printmaking atelier. The upperone shows the highway in Antwerp, close to my place, and the ones below are street views from Hong Kong, where I went last summer. Somehow interesting to see that there is not a lot of difference between those places.

Leen

By Way of Trial

Here are some graphics as a trial for Mikrokosmos 2011.
The title might be "Songs of Tininess" this year.
At the present time it includes my favourites, Andersen, Blake, Shakespeare,... dung beetles, flies and fleas.

Greets, c.pom

Piss-Demon

Hello Claudia and everybody, one more beast:

The "Piss-Demon", funny little creature that was believed to cause baldness by pissing on your head (in the Middle Ages).

Actually, it was no other than the bat.

Cheers, Boris

Beasts

000x the austrian art collective is preparing the next edition.
The title of the 19 th issue is "Beasts".

I'll take part with three motives:
The beast of Gévaudan,

Fritz Lang "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder"
and Fritz Haarmann the beast of Hannover, who was convicted,
found guilty of 24 murders and executed 1925.

But there are still some more picture ideas for example the film of Jean Cocteau.....

Greetings, c.pom

Bookdesign

This week I worked on and nearly finished the bookdesign of our longtime graphic novel projekt. Now the final title will be „Das große Rauschen“ (a short textfragment of one of Verenas stories). I like this title very much because it brings an additional acoustic aspect (associating „the sound of the city“ or „the restless, never sleeping city“ etc) to our stories. The book will come in an extraordinary size, in hardcover with propably 64 pages.

More informations regarding the publishing next.

Greets, Dieter

Fukushima again

Another effort, constribution, an illustration- comment to the immense theme.

c.pom

Fukushima contribution

My contribution to our leporello project. This is one version to use as last page with all the names of the contributors. I will play some more with the colors in a version that has the title on it, which can be used as cover of the Leporello. greetz, Leen

fukushima threat

The first part of my drawing for the silkscreen poster is done, it will be interpreted with a more graphic approach.

Some kind of explosion should be added, I'll see in which way it can work graphically.

The feeling of helplessness despite high technical standarts, the loss of control, are touching me and are a motivation for the image.

I'm curious about the other artists work!

Regards, Boris

Little Buddha

At the last days I did the drawing for our new silkskreen-project "Wolke über Hanami". I decided to concentrate on a timeless scenery, showing some homeless people, refugees sittin around a warm meal.

Here are three color sketches. At this moment I prefer the second one...

Greets, Dieter

New Website

Hey together,

I‘m happy to say that my new site "dieter jüdt - illustration“ is now online. You can find a lot of current work at the blog section, all time favourites at „Portfolio“, not to forget some illustrated books and comic work (now called „Comix“) there.

Thanks a lot to Andi Hofer for support and programming!

Greetings, Dieter

Festival Poster

Hi,

I made a poster for a small festival in Borsbeek (Antwerp), that will take place in June. The herb that appear in the poster, has a special meaning for the neighbourhood where the festival will take place. The musicians will be the main act on the festival. Also a long time ago I used no handwritten typography.

Leen

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms

I think the coolest monster creations I've seen so far are the ones by Ray Harryhausen

I have the feeling that the main work for the book is ready, I hope I can do it for Frankfurt Bookfair.

Boris