Postcards

At the moment I am workiing on a project on my family. I have collected lots of film and photo material, which I am working into little compositions. The plan is to have little animated postcards in the end. The animating is taking ages, but it is good fun! Here are some works in progress!

Pippi Longstocking

Pippi is one of my all-time heroines. She is strong, independent, funny, and she has a horse AND a monkey. Oh, and, of course, a friend named Annika! What else could you want?
My first attempt at animation. Great fun. Help from my lovely borther Andres and music by Fabian Pahl, with a bit of trumpeting by me (Fabian was better at it, though. LIfe is tough.).

Anthony Supperstone

Anthony Supperstone was a deeply fastidious man. He was proud of his position as a civil servant in Whitehall, but he only smiled when it was proper to do so.

Children's book written by my cool flatmate Alex Frith and illsutrated by myself.

Weird

Dip pen. This was supposed to be for a Peter Greenaway Film company (uni project). He is weird. So are the postcards.

I'm afraid of Granny

As a little sub-project to the Age Concern campaign, I made a children's book about a little girl, Annika, who is afraid of her granny, until they find they have something in common. Awww.

80% of all over 80-year-olds are senile

I entered this at the D&AD competition last year. Marketing campaign for Age Concern based on the Club 18-30 concept for 65-90 year-olds. Sad, that we need campaigns like that to make us realise that old people have so much more to offer than grey hair and anoraks.

Nsuma and the war

I wrote a children's book about a girl child soldier in Uganda. It is quite sad, but the ending has some hope. Since 1987, an etsimated 20,000 children have been ubducted by the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) in Uganda. 10,000 in the past two years alone. They are used as spies, mine detectors, porters of heavy loads of arms and ammunition. The fact that weapons are now produced to be ever more easy to handle and light-weight, enables children to use them, too. Often against their own families.
Some people might ask, whether a book like that is appropriate for children and whether a book about arguing and finding peaceful solutions would be better. And, of course, children do not HAVE to deal with this topic and should not be forced to. However, children do not live in isolation and in one way or the other, they find out about what is going on in the world: be it through the news, by overheraing their parents talk about it, or by getting to know children at school, who have come from parts of the world where they were involved in armed conflict. Engaging children in a book like this will give them the opportunity to voice questions and talk about their thoughts and fears with their parents.

Herzliche Gruesse

This is a series of postcards I made when I was bored. They were fun to make. I love collage, so that is most of what you will get to see here. I think it offers so many possibilities. And with me being German, I really appreciate the fact that I can recycle things, too! It's all good, you see.

What Annika Made

Hello, hello! This is a blog instead of a website. Because websites are hard and blogs easy. Not that I am not up for a challenge! Oh no! But right now, at this moment, it will be the blog. And that is ok.
The plan is to put in some things that I have made. And maybe some, that I am still working on. So there.
Have fun!