After military service in the navy olivier studied graphic design in pforzheim germany and worked as a designer in karlsruhe for a few years. Illustrator olivier kugler visits burkina faso youtube. Kugler does it through enmeshing our imagination in the timelapse of lines and visible voices. Olivier kugler olivier kugler is a german illustrator who is best known for his abstract illustrations that tend to leave the boundaries of the page. Visual communication process artist reference cakes. Olivier kugler illustrator olivier kugler linkedin. He grew up in germany and now lives in dalston, east london. I have been writing on and off mostly on for eye magazine since it began 92 issues ago or around 28 years ago. In 2009, illustrator olivier kugler mfa 2002 illustration as visual essay flew from his home in london to istanbul, from where he traveled by train to tehran. While in tehran he met a local truck driver who invited him along on a fourday drive across the country, north to south, to deliver a load of bottled water to kish, a small island in the persian gulf.
His work has been supported by a grant from arts council england. He studied graphic design in pforzheim and then went to new york to work as a freelance graphic illustrator. He grew up in simmozheim, a small village, in the black forest. Published in the uk by myriad in june 2018, escaping war and waves is a collection of reportage drawings documenting the circumstances of syrian refugees olivier met on assignments in iraqi. Olivier kugler was born in 1970 in stuttgart, germany. Gary embury, senior lecturer of illustration at the university of the best of england in bristol, is the editor and founder of reportager. Having only just finished looking at tommy pentons work, what i can see immediately is quite a large contrast when looking at kugler s vector illustrations. Olivier kugler national art, line drawing, illustration. Myriad editions to publish olivier kuglers graphic. German illustrator olivier kugler s latest book escaping wars and waves is an immersive exploration of the immigrant experience. He is a reportage illustrator based in london, and has won many awards, including the association of illustrators aoi gold award in 2004 and 2008.
I chose him as an reference to my work based off his styles and mark making when it comes to his format. Suffice to say that illustrator s talks arent usually this emotional. The subject of his work interprets documentaries of refugees from syria whove experienced calamity. Olivier kuglers portfolio drawn from life reportage. Olivier kugler is a londonbased reportage illustrator. This illustration communicates many perspectives, all experienced by the illustrator at various events. Some of you werent even born when rick poynor presented his idea for a graphic design magazine that was high on criticism and analysis and low on pr trade journalism. Video for the wemakeit crowdfunding campaign to support the artist olivier kugler and hes future project about an syrien refugee that migrated from. Since then olivier has been working as an illustrator in london for clients all over the world.
Olivier kugler is a reportage illustrator based in london who we supported with the development of his project. I first came across the graphic reportage of olivier kugler a few years. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover olivier s connections and jobs at similar companies. After military service in the navy olivier studied graphic design in pforzheim germany and worked as a designer in karlsruhe for a few years got terribly. The artist tells their stories in a narrative style through drawing. Not pictured a packed room of not only illustration but. The site is dedicated to the promotion and showcasing of projects involving reportage and visual journalism and will attempt to provide a platform for artists working in this area, he says. Illustration from the refugee crisis an exhibition telling refugee stories, both observed and experienced firsthand. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. There are added details that make this a journey we take with olivier kugler some seem irrelevant, but they are pleasing and sometimes a little comical, connecting the viewer to the illustrator and reminding us that everyone in the situation is human. Olivier kugler carnets rendered in olivier s familiar sketchbook style, the thirty page illustrated journal tells the story of the illustrator s trip with massih, a truck driver olivier met in tehran and whom he accompanied for a fourday journey carrying bottled water down to a small island in the persian gulf. We are especially interested in projects that are issue. Myriad editions to publish olivier kuglers graphic journalism.
Rich mix and house of illustration in london, and both the fumetto. Daniel macmillen voskoboynik, the memory we could be. Olivier kugler illustration, sketch book, sketches. Olivier kugler is a contemporary illustrator and visual journalist who designs reportage illustrations. Again, i will be sensible and kick off with an image. Alan male welcomes a return to the polymath principle, the idea that an illustrator should engage with their subject matter at a deeper, more authorial level. A little blog for my illustration enjoy also check out my photography site. View olivier kugler s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Marcus 2018 explains how helen oxenbury often begins her days of work when she is at home in london. He integrates text usually the speech of the people he has drawn into the image, and leaves areas unfinished, sometimes layering drawings.
Olivier kugler on why he quit drawing, then came back as a. Kugler starts by telling people he is an illustrator from germany, that he is working on a book about the refugee crisis and that the drawings might be published in a magazine or a newspaper. Original artwork from the best illustrated book, book cover, editorial illustration and student illustrator of the year are recognised. Sacco takes us into gorazde by including himself in the drawings. Illustrator olivier kugler visits burkina faso video.
Allow yourself to indulge in a sample of this brilliant illustrator s recent creations. Olivier kugler award winning travel illustrator olivier kugler delivered a fantastic talk at uca earlier this month and also stayed on to help lucky second year illustration students with an afternoon workshop. Olivier kugler is a reportage artist who has done many illustrations based on real life events for newspapers and magazines such as the guardian and the readers digest. As i saw the work of olivier kugler in thinking visually for illustrators i knew id found what i was after. Its further proof of just how potent graphic journalism can be. Illustrator olivier kugler exhibition at rich mix, london escaping wars and waves is an exhibition featuring olivier kugler s drawings with texts documenting the circumstances of syrian refugees he met on assignments commissioned by msf. With documentary illustration, what is noticeable is that the facts or the story are foregrounded rather than the. The pair met in tehran, and kugler took a fourday journey with massih. Olivier kugler s portfolio drawn from life reportage. Sense of place project 4 stippling photomontage line drawing game design. Buzzing with life and teaming with information, his work has depicted a broad range of people from syrian refugees to local londoners. Olivier kugler on why he quit drawing, then came back as a reportage illustrator. Wisam has a story to tell and kugler is going to turn it into pictures. So the next vector illustrator in line for analysis is olivier kugler.
Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. In addition to portraits, maps, and food illustrations, kugler has done extensive reporting and graphic illustration covering syrian refugees in. Olivier kugler studied visual communication in germany and illustration at the school of visual arts, new york. Encounters with syrian refugees, by the visual journalist olivier kugler, escape from syria, by foreign correspondent samya kullab together with illustrator jackie roche, and the unwanted. In addition to portraits, maps, and food illustrations, kugler has done extensive reporting and graphic illustration covering syrian refugees in europe hes currently working on a book project about syrian refugees that is partially funded by the arts council england. On a sunny afternoon in the autumn of 2016, illustrator olivier kugler travels to birmingham in the uk to meet wisam, a syrian refugee with a young family. This volume provides a fresh introduction to the key elements of the discipline and takes the student stepbystep through the key processes, themes. The fundamentals of illustration 2nd edition is an update to the popular first edition of the same name, in which lawrence zeegen introduces students to the various aspects of the illustration. This week, german reportage illustrator olivier kugler speaks with us from his shared studio space in east london. Olivier kugler is a documentary illustrator who works direct from life.
This contemporary illustrator uses his ears and eyes plus a camera, digital voice recorder, sketchbook, pencil, scanner and laptop to document stories of exile, displacement and the complex reality of refugees lives on a sunny afternoon in the autumn of 2016, illustrator olivier kugler. His reportage drawings have appeared in the guardian, harpers, le monde diplomatique, port, xxi, and other publications. A printed magazine about printed design print magazine. It made me draw a few comparisons with the reportage illustrator olivier kugler. I recently read a book about the illustrator helen oxenbury and particularly found her way of collecting ideas interesting. This portrait of a man in a ny lower eastside tattoo parlour is a great example of oliviers unique drawing style, fine spindly lines vary from areas of intense observation to quick and loose depiction and wonky perspective. Likes to do reportage illustrations loves to draw people he meets. Alan male david lemm arran lewis gwen turner olivier kugler emma yarlett education. Alan male on the polymath principle, the idea that an illustrator should engage with their subject matter at a deeper. Olivier kugler is part of our centurys movement of journalists, like joe sacco, who use the 20thcentury language of comics to document the world. Stories of the syrian refugees by author and illustrator don brown are powerful stories about syrians forced to. This drawing of rezan and his niece rocca was created as part of a larger series portraying syrian refugees whom reportage illustrator olivier kugler met on the greek island of kos in august 2015, during the height of the refugee crisis. Olivier kugler is a londonbased editorial illustrator and visual journalist. Although illustrations are commonly meaningless without the accompaniment of an article or story, his work also serves.
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