Klemens Franz without words
Every Saturday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine publishes an interview without words. Athletes, politicians and artists pose for photos and answer the questions with their images. We were inspired by this. In the series “Without Words”, illustrators and graphic designers of board games answer our questions with drawings. Today: Klemens Franz.
Note: This article first appeared in 2013 on zuspieler.de
You are Austrian and, according to your website, live “in south-eastern Styria – with all the culinary consequences”. What does a gourmet like you eat at the toy fair in Essen?
You actually look quite nice. But in your Xing profile picture, you have a goatee and two little horns on your forehead. What on earth is this photo supposed to tell potential clients?
Here’s a question for the former PR employee of FH Joanneum: What does the perfect PR campaign for the cultural asset of board games look like?
You would like to revise the illustrations for Agricola. How could the game look even better?
You see yourself as a craftsman rather than an artist. What is your favourite tool as an illustrator?
Your motto is: “A species is all the more highly developed the more playful it is.” Which creatures have already reached the highest rung of the evolutionary ladder?
