#Grafiker & Illustratoren

28 June 2023 Panorama

Generative filling: Looking beyond the box

Game boxes show small glimpses of vast worlds: We present the unknown sides of Everdell, Qwirkle, Cascadia and more. An artificial intelligence helped us with this.

4 April 2022 updated on 13 August 2024 Economy

Publishers, designers, illustrators, authors: who earns what from a board game?

How much money do people earn from board and card games? We asked publishers, authors and illustrators. The result: a sample calculation.

25 September 2021 Panorama

Dennis Lohausen without words

Every Saturday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine publishes an interview without words. Athletes, politicians and artists are photographed and answer the questions with the images. We were inspired by this. In the series “Without Words”, illustrators and graphic designers of board games answer our questions with drawings. Today: Dennis Lohausen.

12 September 2021 Panorama

Visual Babylon: The iconography of board games

The visual language of analogue games is constantly caught in a contradiction: it is cognitively complex, yet it should be as simple as possible to access. It is newly developed for each game in some way. In doing so, designers delve deep into the bag of tricks of human perception. And back to established visual codes. To find a way out of the maze of many spoken visual languages somewhere between recognition, understanding and seeing.

28 June 2020 Panorama

Harald Lieske 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 the images. We’ve taken inspiration from this. In our “Ohne Worte” series, illustrators and graphic designers of board games answer our questions with drawings. Today: Harald Lieske.

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.

Dennis Lohausen: “Game artwork reminds me of oil paintings”

There are only a few illustrators and graphic designers in Germany who enhance board and card games. One of them lives and works in Cologne. Dennis Lohausen knows his craft. He illustrated “Village”, the current “Kennerspiel des Jahres”.

31 December 2012 Panorama

Michael Menzel without words

Every Saturday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine publishes a wordless interview. Athletes, politicians and artists pose for photos and answer the questions with their images. We took inspiration from this. In our “Ohne Worte” series, illustrators and graphic designers of board games answer our questions with drawings. Today: Michael Menzel.

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