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Flat hunt, moving, city-life, editorial illustration

Flat Hunt
Vienna

Flat Hunt - Editorial illustration

Process video:

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Musikschulmanagement, character design, musical schools, education illustration

Music School
Character

Character for music schools

The Musikschulmanagement Niederösterreich is an organisation that connects music schools in lower austria. In that position they are creating an extensive collection of teaching material for all musical instruments. To make it more approachable for kids they asked me to create a character, which should lead through the different exercises, like for example listening, riddles or crafting.

We created "Nömu" the little alien that comes to earth, enticed by the wonderful music in the schools. Nömu is a very good listener, loves to dance and listen to kids playing their instruments.

The character should also have significant ears, simple but recognisable, so they can be crafted and put on by the teachers in school to embody the role of "Nömu".

Finished character in different poses:

layout

In additon to the character they also asked me to do a layout template for the whole teaching material. The challenge here was that it is not published and printed as one piece, but teachers can get whichever part they need as a download and print it themselves. So every page has to work also on it's own and the layout needs to look neat, even when printed on a regular school printer.
Musikschulmanagement, character design, musical schools, education illustration

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Gwen the
Rescue Hen

Gwen the Rescue Hen - A Children's Book

Publisher

Stone Pier Press

Text

Leslie Crawford

Illustration & Layout

Sonja Stangl

(available in Autumn 2018)

Gwen the Rescue Hen - Children's Books Illustration

chicken character sketches:

Line work:

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Sprig the
Rescue Pig

Sprig the Rescue Pig - A Children's Book

Publisher

Stone Pier Press

Text

Leslie Crawford

Illustration & Layout

Sonja Stangl

Sprig the Rescue Pig - Children's Books Illustration

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Family Day
Grafenegg

Illustration "Familientag"

Musical Illustration for the family day in Grafenegg.

Familientag in Grafenegg Illustration - family music

Flyer Familientag in Grafenegg mit Illustration

Familientag in Grafenegg - Illustration in der Programmbroschüre

Familientag in Grafenegg - Illustration Folder and Buttons

Familientag in Grafenegg - Illustration as a big scale print with cut-out faces

Photo by Daniela Matejschek

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Wedding
Invitation

Portrait Illustration

of a Steffi & Franz for their wedding invitation.

Wedding Invitation Illustration

Making-of video:

A post shared by Sonja Stangl (@inky_land) on Apr 8, 2018 at 10:51am PDT

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Urbana
Art Project

European Blanket

As part of an urban artistic project, I was asked to illustrate the feeling of Europe in one picture. In german there is a saying which literally translates as “being under one blanket”. It means that we are in there together and have common plans and common goals. I do see Europe that way and even though the blanket is a Patchwork Quilt, made out of lots of colourful and diverse pieces, there is still so much we have in common.

In May 2018, the illustration has exhibited in Brussels as a big-scale print.

About Urbana Project

A colourful patchwork blanket, safely wrapped around a girl.

A colourful patchwork blanket, safely wrapped around a girl.

Photo by Urbana

Detail of a colourful patchwork blanket, safely wrapped around a girl.

Photo by Urbana

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Birdy Pattern
Design

Birdy Pattern

Colourful pattern designs.

Pattern Design Birds in red and blue

Colourful Pattern Design with funny birds

Photo of a child with the illustrated pattern on his shirt

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"Full of"
Art Series

"Full of" - illustrating inner worlds

An illustration series I started for the Comic-Lounge Pop-Up-Store at the WUK Vienna.

Did you ever try to describe a feeling you have, and then, looking inside yourself for clues, you suddenly discover a calm ocean or a dark forest? I have that quite a lot. “Full of” is a collection of these moments and explorations. It portraits human emotions in a curious way and tries to find out what a feeling could look like inside.

As I have been turning emotions into pictures most of my life, I was very excited to make this series to be exhibited at the WUK.

A couple cuddling in bed and meeting in their inner worlds.

A couple cuddling in bed and meeting in their inner worlds.

Sync - an illustration about human connection

A person with lots of colourful birds, caged inside himself

Cages - an illustration about inhibition

Looking out into nothing, longing to see the ocean again which still calmly rest inside as a memory

Ocean - an illustration about longing and memories

A girl falling in mid air with a big fat cat inside her pulling her down

Falling - when there is no more butterflies

Desert, Oasis and the place where I want to hide

Desert - and the place where I want to hide

A person being pulled up by Ballons inside him

Ballons - uplifting?

A person finding+ her inner wolf, sitting in a forest, looking at the full moon

Suprise - What I didn't expect to find inside me

You can get them as high quality art prints here.

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Swimmer Pattern Design - thumbnail image

Pattern Design
Swimmer

Swimmer - Pattern Design

Quirky pattern design for farbics.

Illustrative pattern for fabrics - image of the pattern on a big.

Illustrative pattern for fabrics - Details of the Design

Skteches and work in progress:
Illustrative pattern for fabrics - Sketches

Illustrative pattern for fabrics - Work in Progress

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The dream of
a chicken

The dream of a chicken

A project in which I got to explore what chickens might dream of tonight - apart from living at the wounderful chicken farm "Hof Blumeninsel" or course!

The dream of a chicken - Calendar Illustration. Photo of the Calendar with the illustration on it

The dream of a chicken - Full Calendar Illustration

Detail of the Illustration showing the head of the chicken on the girl on it.

Detail of the Illustration showing the farm on a cloud with cows and a tractor.

Sketches:

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Franziska - A story about a graphic recorder

Franziska the
Graphic Recorder

Franziska and the art of turning ideas into pictures

An illustrated Book, showing the importance of graphic recording, wrapped up in a nice little story. This Project was a commission from the studio VerVieVas, who are creating outstanding explainer videos and graphic recordings. I illustrated the story, and designed the characters based on their Corporate Character Design.

Client

VerVieVas

Text & Layout

Magdalena Achleitner

Concept & Graphic Recordings

VerVieVas

Illustrations

Sonja Stangl

Cover Art of Franziska and the art of turning ideas into pictures

Page of Franziska and the art of turning ideas into pictures

Flip through the whole book here!

two little plant friends in Franziska and the art of turning ideas into pictures

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A Comic
about Trauma

An illustrated story about Trauma

In each issue the Great Snake Magazine is asking artists to create a comic based on a scientific text. I got the chance to tackle the topic "Trauma" and to show the inner landscape of a traumatized person, but also how outside help can bring you on top of yourself again.

Tasks:

Concept, Storytelling, Illustration.

First page of the Comic: A person crying inside himself, filling up with tears. His inner self is slowly drowning

First page of the Comic: A person crying inside himself, filling up with tears. His inner self is slowly drowning

Second page of the Comic: A person crying inside himself, filling up with tears. His inner self is slowly drowning

Third page of the Comic: Close up of the drwoning person. Hand hand comes into the frame

Fourth page of the Comic: The hand lifts the little person out of the water.

Fifth page of the Comic: It's visible now, that the hand was from someone else outside, holding the traumatized person and through the touch the inner character could get out

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Untangle
gif-art

Untangling...

Gif Art showing a little information monster being untangled by a giant hand

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Creative
Mornings

Creative Mornings - Serendipity

To celebrate my being part of the Creative Mornings Vienna Team for a year now, I got the honour to illustrate the monthly topic "Serendipity". It was used as cover and poster for the magazine.

A person finding nature and beauty in unexpected places

A person finding nature and beauty in unexpected places

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Hostel Beer
Bottle Label

A drunk elephant...

My favourite Hostel in Vienna started selling their own craft beer! I am proud that my little elephant illustration found its way onto every bottle and will hopefully bring wary travellers some happy moments :)

Holding the beer bottle with the illustrated label in my hands. The label illustration shows a drunk elephant asking for another round.

Illustration of a drunk elephant asking for another round.

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OEBB
Customer Care

OEBB Customer Care - A lovestory

"OEBB's Customer Care is award-worhty. Actually they just won an award for their Customer Care. The ECCCSA (ecccsa.com) And to promote their great service we created this short as an introduction for their submission to the award. Subsequently we take a closer look at three examples of the OEBB customer care."

Client

OEBB (Austrian Railway)

Animation

Polarfux

Art Direction

Polarfux

Design and Illustration of characters:

all the characters that have been designed for the animation

Sketches:

Video:

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Hug
gif-art

The moth and the light...

An animated gif about the dangers of affection - but it doesn't always have to end badly ;)

A little moth flying to a light bulb and hugging it.

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Kiss Me Water Bottle - illustrated water bottles with little kissing characters on them

Kiss-Me
Bottles

Beaver Brewing Company - Handprinted Toilet Signs - thumbnail

Signage
Beaver Brewing

Handprinted Signage

So that everyone at the Beaver Brewing Company finds the right way after a couple of tasty craft beers, I designed and handprinted their toilet signs - of course incorporating the beaver theme ;)

Tasks:

Idea, Design, Linocut Print

A Photo of the Hanprinted Toilet Signs with the two quirky beaver illustrations

A linocut print version of the illustration on paper

Sketch:

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Hostel Dorms - Interior Illustration Thumbnail

Hostel
Murals

Client:

Hostel Ruthensteiner Vienna

Tasks:

Concept, Painting, Mural Art

Another great collaboration with Hostel Ruthensteiner: we redesigned their dorm rooms and dedicate each of them to a different famous Viennese person. I am still sure I picked the best ones with Egon Schiele and Sigmund Freud ;)

Interpretation of dreams: while you lie down on a very freudian couch you can think about your dreams and share them on a chalkboard-paint locker, accompanied by a dreamy illustration.

hostel dorm Vienna - locker illustration of a man sleeping on a cloud and having all those yet unwritten dreams surrounding him

hostel dorm Vienna - locker illustration of a man sleeping on a cloud and having all those yet unwritten dreams surrounding him

Inspired by Egon Schiele:

hostel dorm Vienna - A tribute to Egon Schiele

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Commercial Illustration for accessible hearing aids

Hörwelt
Illustrations

Accessible Hearing Aids

Together with the design studio BUERO R we thought about ways to explain accessible hearing aids by die hörwelt. I developed the concept of "the man in the ear" which fishing for important information and letting pass all the noise.

Tasks:

Concept, Illustration

Illustration of hearing aids helping to pick out the important word within the noise

Photo by bueror.com

Illustration of the little man in your ear picking the right voice from the person you want to listen to

Illustration of hearing aids helping to find the speech bubble in a very noisy surrounding

Illustration of hearing aids helping to listen to music and blocking out street noises

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Neighbours
gif-art

Upstairs Neighbours...

A gif art project showing upstairs neighbours at their best ;)
Upstairs neighbours jumping around the place

Stills:

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Wall Clock
Illustration

The Thief Of Time - Wall Clock Illustration

Illustrated Wall Clock with a thief stealing away the numbers.

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Emotion
Studies

The Emotional Celt

a character design mood study

Character Design Illustration - The celt in an angry mood

Character Design Illustration - The celt in a happy mood

Character Design Illustration - The celt in a gloomy mood

Character Design Illustrations - overview of all three modds

Character Design Drawing - Sketches of the Characters

The lines are hand drawn with digital colouring added later.

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Jump!
gif-art

Jumping through day and night...

gif art of a girl jumping a light switch on and off in a loop.

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Say it with
drawings!

Stuck for words?

These illustrated cards can be a lot of things: A conversation starter, a little help when you are stuck for words or just a nice and different way to say something. (Created in close collaboration with Magdalena Achleitner)

Communication Cards: Say it with a drawing!