Grün — two figures surrounded by green plants
Grün — open book spread Schwarz — bird illustration

Book Illustration

Books have been part of my life since I was small — they're one of the reasons I became an illustrator. There's something powerful about the way a cover can stop you before you've read a single word, and something equally powerful about an illustration mid-chapter that reframes how the text feels.

I experienced that first-hand on a university project: we were given The World of Colours — a preexisting book about where colours come from, what they mean, and why they matter — and asked to create interior illustrations for it from scratch, without looking at the original design. The hardest part was maintaining a consistent visual language across every spread. I decided to work with the same colour palette throughout, which sounds straightforward until you're trying to illustrate chrome yellow using a palette that also has to hold together for midnight blue. That constraint pushed me harder than I expected — and producing something that felt cohesive in spite of it is one of my favourite things I've made.

Chromgelb — Van Gogh sunflowers illustration Chromgelb — open book spread Schwarz — bird open book spread

Book Cover Illustration

Die Beisserin — German for 'The Biter' — is a novel our professors assigned as a brief. I designed two alternative covers for the book, along with a title page, exploring how a new visual language could change the feeling of the story before you've read a single line.

Die Beisserin — mouths cover illustration
Die Beisserin — book cover mockup Die Beisserin — green couple cover illustration

Icon Library

I created this workbook as part of my graphic design bachelor thesis. Symbols are essential to sketchnoting — but finding the right image for the right idea isn't always easy. The book addresses that head-on: across five practical categories (grocery shopping, chores, studying, work, and containers), you get to know a range of symbols, learn how to draw your own, and see how to weave them into daily life. The aim was never a reference book you look at once — it was something you work through and come away from with a real skill. Building your own symbol library is the whole point. It's one of the projects I'm most proud of.

Icon library — colourful icons illustration
Meine Symbolbibliothek — cover mockup Mein Einkaufszettel — icon spread Einkauf section opener spread Icon drawing exercise spread

Children's Book Illustration

Schwein Gehabt — 'lucky swine' in German — is a children's book I both wrote and illustrated during my studies. The title is a German idiom for those moments when things could easily have gone wrong, but somehow, luckily, didn't — and the story leans into wordplay throughout. It follows Freddie, a little piglet who runs away from his barn to explore the world and figure out who he is. Along the way he meets creatures who share his name but aren't what he expects — the German language is full of hidden pigs, from the Meerschweinchen (guinea pig, literally 'ocean pig') to the Stachelschwein (porcupine, literally 'spiky pig'). Freddie finds them all before eventually making his way home, realising that being exactly himself was always enough. A story about self-acceptance, told through one of the stranger quirks of German — and one of the most personal things I've made. Not published yet, but that's very much the plan.

Schwein Gehabt — Freddie meets the Meerschwein illustration
Schwein Gehabt — children's book cover mockup Schwein Gehabt — interior spread