Centre for Language, Music and Emotion / New Yorker Magazine III
Doom Boy / The Dirty Nil
One Big Conspiracy Theory / New York Times
Wandavision / Empire Magazine
Disspatio H.G. / The New Yorker Mag
Centre for Language, Music and Emotion / New Yorker Magazine I
Privacy Project / New York Times
Future of Everything Festival / Wall Street Journal
Wildfire / Cinema Sahara
Specialist / Die Zeit
Save the Night / Jägermeister
High Life / Mondo
Hazard / Long Distance Calling
Undergods
The Future of Crime / Die Zeit
The Big Lebowski / BFI / Bloomsbury
Truly Originals
Privacy Spots / The New York Times
How Do We Want to Live? / Long Distance Calling
Apollo11 / National Geographic
Episode 5 / Weird Waves / Vans
Slaughterhouse Five / New Yorker
Afro Futurism / Bandcamp
LSD Microdosing / GQ Germany
Ayahuasca / GQ
Done With Drugs / The Dirty Nil
Netflix / Hollywood Reporter
Fukuyama / The New Republic
Broad Dialect / Die Zeit Z Plakat
Here Be Monsters / The New York Times
Powwow Festival Festival Poster
How To Contain Iran / The Economist
Time Travel / Weird Waves / VANS
The Artificial Kind / Weird Waves / VANS
Cliffs of Insanity / Weird Waves / VANS
Weird Waves Tapes / VANS
Gaso-Line / Weird Waves / VANS
3D Printed Guns / Medium
Racism in Video Games / The Hollywood Reporter
Excess / FULL FAT Magazine
Mirror Worlds / The Economist
A Scandal in Bohemia / Folio Society
Unten am Fluss 2018 Festival Poster
Privacy in Russia / New York Times
Umsonst & Drinnen Festival / Stadthalle Lohr
Christmas Card 2 / SchleeGleixner
On the Rise Album Cover / Imperial Jade
The Party is Almost Over / WirtschaftsWoche
Therapy Taboo / GQ
Police State / Usbek & Rica
KOMMZ Music Festival
Transhumanism / Usbek & Rica
Privacy / The New York Times
The First Man / The New Yorker
The Oympians / High Tide NY
This Life / The New Republic
Smart Guns / Bloomberg Businessweek
The Shrine Gig Poster
Christmas Card / SchleeGleixner
Mein Herzund Ich / Cicero
Privacy in China / The New York Times
Sound System Playlist Cover / High Tide NY
The Less I Know The Better / Tame Impala / Secret 7's
ELDER T-shirt
Light and Motion / PUNCH ROOM LDN
Braille Face
Why So Angry / GQ
The Right Moment / WirtschaftsWoche
EF T-shirt
Milk Tooth
NO HOURS T-shirt
Max was born in rural Germany in 1989 and started out illustrating extensive album artworks for punk and metal bands after doing his homework. After graduating from the Graphic Design department at Hochschule Darmstadt in 2017, he began working as a freelancer with renowned clients like The New Yorker, The New York Times, Adidas and Google. He still enjoys creating artwork for bands.
Influenced by the classic surrealists as well as retro science-fiction book covers, he likes to look below the surface of one-to-one visual translations, adding meaning and room for inference by wrapping his illustrations in the dense atmosphere of a surreal and melancholic parallel universe. His urge is to translate and decipher what can only be felt, not directly seen, and to amplify this visually, particularly in his personal work.
Max has worked with clients such as: The New Yorker , The New York Times , Google, GLOBE Brand, Future Islands, Bloomberg Businessweek, Folio Society, Atreyu, GQ Magazine, WirtschaftsWoche, DIE ZEIT, Adidas, Bandcamp, Medium, Cicero, The Economist, Variety, Wall Street Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Shrine.
Awards:
2019: 3x3 AWARD SHOW Merit
2019: WORLD ILLUSTRATION AWARDS 2x Shortlist
2019: AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 38 Winner
2019: SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS “Illustrators 61” Exhibit & book
2018: JOSEPH BINDER AWARD Distinction
2018: GERMAN DESIGN AWARD Newcomer Nominee
2018: FOLIO SOCIETY BOOK COMPETITION Winner
2017: 3x3 STUDENT SHOW Gold
2016: JOSEPH BINDER AWARD Distinction
2016: ADC GERMANY Silver
Books:
Lürzer’s 200 Best Illustrators 2018/2019
Freistil