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With over 15 years of experience as a freelance illustrator, I support companies and editorial teams in making complex content quickly understandable and emotionally engaging. My focus is on the combination of artistic ambition and technical understanding.
What I offer you:
1. Corporate & Editorial Illustration
I develop visual concepts for annual reports, magazines, and corporate communications. My goal is to strengthen brand identities and bring dry topics to life through a clear, individual visual language.
2. Technical Documentation & Infographics
I translate complex processes and technical details into precise illustrations. Whether for user manuals, exploded views, or process graphics – I ensure clarity where text alone is not sufficient.
Why working with me is efficient:
- Experience: I quickly understand briefs and work without unnecessary revision rounds.
- Reliability: Punctuality and professional project management are a matter of course for me.
- Versatility: I master the balancing act between free artistic interpretation and technical precision.
Competencies:
- Illustration (Editorial illustration, Info graphics, Artwork concepts, Key visuals, Cartoons, Comics, Technical content illustration, etc.)
- Interdisciplinary cooperation in the fields of journalistic communication, interior design and exhibition design, industrial design, web design, and motion design
- Technical illustrations for documentation and didactic assembly instructions
- ICMA Award 2018 in the category "Cover and Cover Story" for the magazine 361° of Nord LB. I contributed with my illustrations.
Clients: TAZ, Goethe-Institut, Eppendorf SE, NORD/LB, Region Hannover, DLRG, Forschungszentrum Jülich, KRONE, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, BAUHAUS Baumärkte
among others.
I look forward to hearing from you.
German
Native or bilingual
English
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- whymarsTechnical Didactic IllustrationsMECHANICAL ENGINEERINGOctober 2025 - Today (10 months)For the planned product range of the company whymars, I create technical didactic illustrations in close cooperation with the management. The products will be used in disaster control. I develop, among other things, "assembly comics" that make application quickly understandable in stressful situations during a natural disaster.
- PLAYMOBIL LECHUZAAssembly Illustrations for a PLAYMOBIL LECHUZA ProductRETAIL (SMALL BUSINESS)June 2025 - June 2025Hannover, GermanyDidactic-technical illustrations for the assembly instructions of the PLAYMOBIL LECHUZA Mega Figure (Angel Noella) commissioned by geobra Brandstätter Stiftung & Co. KG.I worked in close exchange with the company's product and marketing department. The goal was to appropriately represent the characteristic features of the main PLAYMOBIL product.
- VSM AGCharismatic Figures for VSM AG Product MarketingMECHANICAL ENGINEERINGAugust 2024 - April 2025 (8 months)Hannover, GermanyDevelopment of charismatic figures for VSM AG's product marketing.The cartoon-style figures humorously and dynamically emphasize VSM AG's product range.There was close cooperation with the company's graphics and marketing department. The challenge was to accurately convey the different characteristic properties of the product lines in combination with text and illustration.
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Education
- Dipl. Designer (FH)University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover1994Nach meiner Schriftsetzer-Ausbildung in den 80ern begann ich 1989 ein Grafik-Design-Studium an der Fachhochschule Hannover für Kunst und Design. Mein Studienschwerpunkt lag im Bereich freie Grafik und Illustration, der bis zum heutigen Tag auch meine berufliche Spezialisierung ist.
- Vocational training as a typesetterDruckerei Kurt Meyer1986Ich habe eine Berufsausbildung als Schiftsetzer in einer kleinen Druckerei (Kurt Meyer) in meinem Heimatort Hüllhorst in Ostwestfalen absolviert. Da ich noch parallel zum Fotosatz im Bleisatz ausgebildet wurde, habe ich heute ein großes Gespür für Typografie.
Certifications
- Final Examination in the Typesetting TradeChamber of Crafts Ostwestfalen-Lippe / Bielefeld1986