Freistil 3

For the third time, Freistil presents a young, dynamic, independent and growing European illustration scene, which is developing rapidly. Freistil plays a role both as the promoter of a trend and as a sort of who-is-who. The word has gotten around that Freistil can not only help you find the best illustrator for the next job, but illustrators also know that they’ll find the trends and tendencies more densely and promptly recorded and compared than anywhere else. Hardware and handiwork combine in endless ways, while sampling generates new styles and fashions. This is all accompanied by editorial texts, which in this issue deal with the relationship...

between illustration and music. Pop and the pen have more in common than one imagines. Both are expressions of their times, highly individual and – yes – even somewhat fleeting. Freistil presents the latest work of 222 illustrators from Germany, Europe and beyond. Freistil meets Jamie Hewlett, the founder of the Gorillaz, a virtual band that sold six million copies of its first CD alone.
Freistil asked Mario Lombardo, the art director of Spex, how he was able to make a magazine more successful than the publisher imagined. Freistil is also more successful than the publisher imagined. The first issue with the exemplary open spine is now entirely...

sold out. There are a few copies left of the »White Album«, the pure white, embroidered cloth-bound volume. Now volume three with its colour pad printing fits into the rainbow canon of its predecessors to take its turn and one day join the category of sold out titles [the most wonderful thing that happen to a book, at least from the publisher’s perspective ;-]]. Get your copy - and guard your collection!!!

Best of European Commercial Illustration
544 pages with over 1000 colour illustrations
Text in German and English
Size 17.4 x 24 cm
Hardcover with special colours, lacquer and three-sided,
colour pad printing on the edges
ISBN 978-3-87439-716-2