I recently found this series on Netflix which explores the design processes of a variety of practitioners, working across all creative platforms. The first episode was about Illustration and focused on the work of Christoph Niemann. His thoughts and ideas when tackling specific subject matter were really eye opening - it was amazing to see first hand how a designer uses illustration to aid his process.
Though the episode is based around 'Illustration', I feel that Niemann could be considered more of a designer in the way that his work does not have a specific subject matter or style, and that he solves problems using the most appropriate visual tools at the time. This can be seen on his website where he shows a range of drawing, vector work, photography and animation:
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| www.christophniemann.com/portfolio/ |
He is clearly very skilled and has had work on countless New Yorker covers - my only question is, how is his work commissionable if he uses a different method of working each time? Even his Illustration work is all extremely diverse which confuses me - perhaps the client has alot of trust in his design choices and he constantly gets it right first time?
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