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Native

heiko — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:38:56 +0000

Australian Design and Illustration hub Australian Infront are redesigning their website and to celebrate they are holding an exhibition, the pieces in which were submitted by the users of the site. The above was my entry. Enjoy!

A Little Help needed to win the A Little Help Project

heiko — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:53:26 +0000

Great stuff: Before I even started working on the Hypnowl Empire (my upcoming t-shirt label – haven’t I told you about it?), I applied for AS Colour’s A Little Help Project. The Kiwi T-shirt makers are giving away a start up package worth $10,000 to the most popular t-shirt design as determined by Facebook-likes and sales in their retail shops in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney.

A jury of jet set t-shirt people picked the top 10 entries out of a whole heap of submissions, now it’s up to the people to vote the best. If you want to help me win the thing, there’s a lot you can do with ridiculously little effort:

Like the design on the Little Help Project’s home page
Like the design on AS Colour’s Facebook page
Buy the shirt in AS Colour’s retail stores in Auckland, Wellington or Sydney or online (soon). Preorders can be placed here: dan@ascolour.co.nz
I’ll keep you posted!

Weekend Project: The Quest

heiko — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:54:05 +0000

After several months I again had the time to make a little weekend project. No plan, no concept, just experimenting. Now that I think about it I might make a book out of it. What do you think?

Oh, and it’s also available as a print and more on Society6

Hello Hallo Guten Tag

heiko — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:59:14 +0000

Once in a while I send out promo postcards to potential clients. Most of the writing on them is printed, but I illustrate the greeting and the address by hand, which is also a sort of creative exercise. I actually like the address illustrations a tad better, but it would be awkward to publish my mailing list, so I hope I get hired by loads of them, so I can publish their designs. HELLO!

P.S. If you’re an agency, magazine, company or other that would like to receive my promo mailers in the future, just leave a comment or contact me at heiko at heikowindisch.com!

Hypnowl Empire coming soon!

heiko — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:38:30 +0000

If you’ve met me or had a chat with me in any way during the last months I might have told you that I’m planning on starting a t-shirt label. Well, I still am, it’s going to be called Hypnowl Empire, and while it still hasn’t launched you can sign up for the newsletter here, where you’ll get news, updates and early subscriber specials. It’ll be exciting!

New Threadless Submission: Grim Lawnmower

heiko — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:24:31 +0000

One of the new Threadless challenges is “Death”, so that was basically a call to action for me. Click here to check it out and vote for it! Thank you!

5 new originals on Etsy

heiko — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:34:34 +0000

There are five (5) new originals of mine available on my Etsy now: Panda Lazy, Monkey Crazy, Elephants in Pool, Rhino Eats Fruit, Koalas in Ute. They’re all around postcard size, drawn on 190 gsm paper, but there are more details on Etsy, if you’re interested. Enjoy! Link

New Micro Zine: SUP

heiko — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:28:09 +0000

There’s a new zine in town, and it’s tiny (just 5.25 cm × 7.4 cm / 2 1/8 × 2 7/8 in): SUP! 6 new illustrations, 8 pages including the cover. Animals doing summertime shenanigans, like monkeys riding giant motorcycles, rhinos eating watermelons, elephants sitting in a pool and more.
SUP on Etsy

As a new year’s special you can get it for free if you order any size giclée print from the store. Just add the word SUPDUDE as a note to your order. Enjoy and see you in the new year! Thank you for reading this blog!

Happy Christmas

heiko — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:12:59 +0000

Evil Santa Wishes You A MERI KRISMEZ

Me and my team (ha ha) are wishing you a happy and peaceful Christmas, with whatever sort of goodness you wish for. Enjoy!

Karlo Marx Illustration for Der Freitag

heiko — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:19:39 +0000

Now for something different: Der Freitag is a German newspaper from Berlin that I’ve worked with before on several occasions. Today’s issue has an illustration by me of Karl Marx. When I was asked to illustrate the article all I had was an outline of the article to be (a fictional interview with Karl Marx about today’s state of capitalism and what he would likely say about it now), but most of the time that’s all it takes. Also, I’ll grab any opportunity I’ll have to draw a bloke with a beard as magnificent as Karlo’s.

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Jetzt zu etwas anderem: Die heutige Ausgabe von Der Freitag (eine Wochenzeitung aus Berlin, mit der ich einige Male zuvor schon zusammen gearbeitet hatte) enthält eine Illustration von Karl Marx von mir. Als ich die Illustration anfertigte, lag mir nur eine kurze Zusammenfassung des begleitenden Artikels vor, aber das oft alles, was man braucht. Ausserdem würde ich jede Gelegenheit nutzen, einen so schönen Vollbart zu zeichnen, wie ihn Karlo dereinst besass.