After highschool (A-levels) and serving the civil service I went to San Francisco, CA. In the Bay Area I was working as a musician in the local blues scene. I studied figure drawing at the Berkley University Extension. After one a year I returned to Munich and I attended the Freie Kunstwerkstatt, an art academy.
I applied for the University Georg-Simon-Ohm in Nuremberg where I studied graphic & design for the next 4 and a half years. Since I came from drawing I liked illustration the most but soon I started to focus on typography and composing layouts for covers and posters.
Before freelancing for Heye & Partner I started with an internship.
Contributing to campaigns for wellknown clients such as Mc Donald’s, Wrigley’s, gmx.de
and others, taught me a lot about the strategy of advertising and showed me a professional workflow.
In February 2007 I got my diploma. Since then I’ve continued working as a freelancer and musician. Again I was fortuned to work for companies like Adidas, Bench, Timezone and many others. (see also References)
I do a lot of projects with the fashion photographer Torsten Hönig. Through the work with him I also learned about lighting, retouching pictures, fine-drawing and print refinement of my layouts.
Today I’m able to handle the whole process from concepting to print finishing but my
passion remains creating elements in design, illustration & typography always searching for something new.
At the moment I live in Amsterdam and Munich.
I work for several agencies freelance as an art director and I have a small group of own clients. With my rhythm&bluesband The Soul Patrol I’m playing my music all over Europe.
In May 2009 I got featured by the SWATCH & MTV PLAYGROUND and my work was shown on several music events around the globe.
My illustrations 16 bit pure art are distributed in editions on www.arternity.com
