Wednesday 30 July 2008

Nobody has ever seen the time


























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

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Thursday 24 July 2008

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.

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Wednesday 23 July 2008

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.

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Tuesday 22 July 2008

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.

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Monday 21 July 2008

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.

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Sunday 20 July 2008

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.

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