Silke werzinger biography
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Silke Werzinger is a illustrator with home in Berlin. She was born in 1983 in Southern Germany and studied communication design in Nuremberg.
Her “anti-digital” pen style has made her a renown and much sought after artist, gaining clients such as L’Oréal, McDonalds, Vidal Sassoon, Deutsche Telekom, Mavi Jeans, UNO, Condé Nast, Marie Claire, Glamour, Time Out New York, Elle Girl, Cosmopolitan.
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Art
Awards
Applied Arts, 2013
Designpreis Deutschland 2011, Nominierung
Red Spot Design Confer, 2008
ADC Present, 2008
DDC Gute Gestaltung 09, 2008 (Gold Award)
Publications & Features
200 Outdistance Illustrators Cosmopolitan 11/12, Lürzer’s Archive
ADC Sushi 9 + 11 // American Paradigm 28
BG Ammunition (Ecuador) // Code Periodical (NL)
DDC Jahrbuch Gute Gestaltung 09
Freistil 3 + 4 // New – Frigid Edge Illustrations, 2011
Illustration Now! 3 (Taschen, 2009)
Illustration Now! Portraits (Taschen, 2011)
Lamono Arsenal (Spain) // Licht Magazin 2 + 3
MySpace The public Guide 2008
New Illustrators Procession (Japan, 2012) // Novum 02/09
Ojodepez Munitions dump 15 (Spain) // Fence Online
Red Point Internat. Yearly of Comm. Design 08/09
Who Magazin 2007 + 2009 // Zeixs Fashion Design
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Silke Werzinger knows that she wanted to be an illustrator since she was a child. "I try to do as much as possible by hand and mostly draw with pens. After this, I add things like paper, acrylic paint, felt and colored pencils, scotch tape, etc. Depending on what fits best with that project. Now I am working on a free project called “Little Sweet Hearts.” It deals with the representation of bizarre characters and freaks in the style of idyllic family portraits".
She is not picky to find inspiration: "little things in everyday life, conversations with friends, people on the street, alive places, magazines, books, visits to the flea market, music, sometimes loud, sometimes soft, looking into the sky, letting your mind wander and see what happens".
Why Berlin?
"I spent several months in Berlin in 2005 and immediately fell in love with the city. Since then, I was a regular visitor, until I finally managed to pack my boxes and move here. Berlin radiates a mad amount of life, there is something happening everywhere. I treasure that".