Nobody has ever seen the time

Sonja Danowski, winner of the Young Illustrator Award 2007, on illustration, book art and analogic structures.

More...

Martin Haake: The Return of the Doodle

"Telephone Doodles" is a colloquial term for what the British call their random scribbling, which is so frequently produced absent-mindedly by telephone partners.

More...

Rules of Competition

1. Registration
The registration for participation is to be carried out per mail with a simple word-form, which can be filled out digitally. The application form can be found here. Entry deadline is August 31st, 2008.

More...

In the Studio with: Olaf Hajek

The exhibition of Olaf Hajeks work in Berlin is the result of a three-years-long artistic concurrent operation next to his mandatory productions as an illustrator, which is now revealing in his first itemized exhibition.

More...

New gallery in Berlin!

On April 11th 2008 Pascal Johanssen and Katja Kleiss, the two initiators of the artfestival, are opening a new exhibition space in Berlin-Mitte. Convinced that the global uniformity of the marketable products and trends needs an answer from exceptional designer-artist-personalities, Johanssen and Kleiss follow the concept of a gallery, in which playfully, like in a art- and wonderchamber of the baroque, illustrations next to extraordinary gold- and silverjewellery besides glass art or seldom lamp unicums can be found.

More...

The image-sound of our time

Pascal Johanssen is founder and curator of the berlin exposition Illustrative, which is displaying an international selection of the best young illustrator´s work. The illustrative art, once an art „forgotten“, is reinventing itself and presently in great demand: in the design and art scene as well as in commercialising an attitude to life. Pascal Johanssen, curator, talks about tendencies and self-conception of the genre „illustration“ in tension to the fine arts.

More...