illustrator-session-speaker at the invitation of raban ruddigkeit, freistil / qved2015, typografische gesellschaft münchen – tgm
oliver sperl belongs more to the wild ones, who plays with set pieces of photo history and pop culture in his illustrations for clients such as berghain in berlin. girlish fairytale images of flowers and horses become free, occasionally painful interpretations of actually harmless stories – like that of little red riding hood – which the graphic designer describes as sometimes not quite politically correct. instead, these illustrations tell their very own provocative stories with the greatest possible artistic freedom: oliver sperl dedicates the famous iwo jima picture by joe rosenthal to criticism: his illustration, based on the 70-year-old photo, shows the american flag, hoisted on the ruins of (swiss) banks; sperl sees his task and freedom as an illustrator in the exaggeration of reality in order to make connections clear to the viewer. (qved2015 / blog)