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Michael Raaflaub's Postershop

« Come un soffio » è una collezione di disegni trovati tra fogli di appunti. Disegni in ombra e veloci per capire cosa succede dentro e fuori e lasciarlo impresso

Abwechslung im Home Office und Unterhaltung für Kinder und Erwachsene während der Corona Krise.

Ausmalheft #2
Nach dem erfolgreichen 1. Band des Ausmalheftes Illustratorinnen und Illustratoren Schweiz und der Verlängerung des Lockdowns durch den Bund haben wir uns nochmals zusammengetan und wie wild gezeichnet. Daraus ist der 2. Band unseres Ausmalheftes entstanden.
Wir hoffen, dass auch diese Ausgabe euren Kinder oder auch euch Erwachsenen viel Freude im Homeschooling oder Homeoffice bereiten wird.

Fun in the home office and entertainment for the children

The measures to combat the virus are hitting many of us hard. That's why we illustrators in Switzerland have joined forces and done what we do best: Drawing. The result is a colouring booklet for children (and adults).

We hope it will give you and your family and friends lots of fun and little excitement in your home office. We would be happy if you would share the colouring book with friends and relatives.

• Size A3: 297mm x 420mm
• High quality Fine Art Giclée Print
• Printed on Hahnemühle German Fine Art Paper 305g/qm
• Limited Edition: 50 prints
• Signed and numbered by the artist in the back

• Size A3: 297mm x 420mm
• High quality Fine Art Giclée Print
• Printed on Hahnemühle German Fine Art Paper 305g/qm
• Limited Edition: 50 prints
• Signed and numbered by the artist in the back

Poster of some of the animals that Darwin encountered on his journey with the Beagle
60 x 85 cm

Illustrated poster of "Solaris," a science fition novel by Stanislaw Lem.

Ratio, 60 x 85 cm

Produced following an invitation to the BDfil Comicfestival in Lausanne, the publication collects an selection of previous separatly publisched comic short stories by Philip Schaufelberger.
This novel is a perfect addition to short stays in a reception room!

Graphic Novel, 70 pages, in english.

Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle paper.

Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle paper, framed, 91x121cm.

The Galerie Idea Fixa presents the 2013 work collection of Michael Meister which is on display for the first time.
The tableaux are digital paintings: Meister first draws by hand with Indian ink and paints thereafter using an interactive monitor.
The “Interiors” of Michael Meister tries to invoke the moment where the hierarchies between humans, space and nature are suspended. Thereby the detail serves as a membrane.
The internal space defines the outside. By reducing the content of the pictures the artist creates a floating state between reality and fantasy, between the possible and the impossible. The depictions are nested in space and suggest a balance between closeness and distance. Frequently they focus on functional elements which carry no meaning in themselves. But the simple aesthetics places them into a suggestive context such as a door handle in front of the wide open sky. If the viewer takes one step back the paintings gain a narrative quality and tell a story – if he approaches the pictures impart feelings of forlornness and sobriety. The light incidence is of major importance and the coloring seeks to evoke different emotions – mostly melancholia.
The floor painting is an installation specially designed for the gallery: the visitor steps into the the episode und becomes part of the art work.
The work of Michael Meister relates polarities or contrasts such as color and light, poignancy and vagueness, surfaces and lines as well as covering and glazing surface.
Anina Michel, August 2013

Posters for some of my favourite fantasy classics

«The Meaning of Life» includes twelve stories, and every comic tells about an other meaning of life.

„So sieht’s aus bei der Frau“ means translated "that's what it looks like with the women". It is an illustrated booklet about the female genitals. It was created in collaboration with sexual education worker, gynaecologists a scientific illustrator.
Here you find more information:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/sosiehtsaus.beiderfrau/about/?ref=page_internal

The persian cookbook includes 80 recipes, stories and portraits about the cooks and many colourfull pictures. Gabi Kopp travelled in Iran and cooked with the people in their private homes. Besides there are typically restaurants, manufacturers or a wedding portraied.

Istanbul is a melting pot where the most diverse culinary traditions meet and mingle – so it’s small wonder that the Turkish cuisine should count among the best in the world. Gabi Kopp interviewed Istanbul housewives and street traders, restaurant cooks and authors of cookery books and jotted down their best recipes.
Turkish cuisine owes its diversity to the many cultures that were once represented in the Ottoman Empire. And Istanbul, this year’s vibrant culture capital of Europe, is a place where these traditions are kept very much alive.

During her rambles through the Turkish metropolis Gabi Kopp watched the cooks in the kitchens, drawing them, and noting their recipes the while: there’s the Armenian woman compiling a cookery book and who obviously has to try everything for herself, a Kurd who cooks for his wife, a ninety-year-old Greek who visits his favourite restaurant, the "Meyhane", every day. Not forgetting a Laz woman, a Michelin-starred chef, a sephardic Jew, Turkish women from the shores of the Black Sea, from Anatolia or the Marmara region – Muslims, Jews and Christians.
To round things off, there’s a detailed index and a Turkish glossary.

A picturebook, a reading book and a cookbook

Have you ever wondered if your friend's dog, chasing his own tail, your neighbour's fat cat, eating all day, and the apparently pervert mating behaviour of your girlfriend's turtle are normal? What's happening to our pets? This book presents deranged pets and gives advice from the complex field of pet psychology.

Postcards are available in my webshop

Lilo and Balz are the Best friends, going through thick and thin together.
28 one-page-stories about theire adventures.

ISBN 978-3-033-03541-6, Hardcover, 64 pages. Self edition.

Since 2017 also as SJW-booklet available.

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Postcards

Marine Life Posters

Des lignes fortes, des formes et douces et une folle imagination.

L’illustratrice germano-suisse Anja Denz crée des portraits de femmes élégantes et sûres d’elles, avec en toile de fond une luxuriante forêt tropicale. Après l’Université d’Art de Berlin, où elle a été diplômée d’un master en communication visuelle, Anja a commencé en tant que graphiste avant de revenir à son premier amour : le dessin. Toutes ses œuvres sont dessinées à la main, puis quelques touches sont ajoutées par Photoshop. Son travail a été exposé à travers toute la Suisse, et elle a récemment été nommée parmi les 200 meilleurs illustrateurs du monde par Luerzer’s Archive. Au vu de sa passion pour les plantes, son client de rêve serait un jardin botanique.

An illustrated book of fairytales about the obsession with beauty and anorexia.

A fairy tale about a serious problem: When the wish for happiness and perfection ends with the one question, to eat or not to eat.

Natalie Springhart: text
Stefanie Beyeler: illustrations and layout
with a preface by Dr. med. Bettina Isenschmid

Hardcover, 112 pages, illustrations in color
ISBN 978-3-033-02858-6

My new art book costs $ 39 (plus $ 15 shipping).
88 mostly colored pages. Hardcover.

Michael Kaluta gave me a beautiful work of his art and has writen the introduction:

“Who is this Dead Guy?” I asked myself. He had to be dead: One: every gifted nuance of the portrait attested to it having originated during one of the long-gone Golden Ages of Representational Art. Hence, the artist had to have passed on, died, decades, if not centuries, ago joining the pantheon of brilliant artists in the Salon of the Skies. Two: if he wasn’t dead, if he was a living, breathing, still-producing Art Master, then I would track him down and murder him. So: a dead guy one way or another."

A3 Riso Prints