Plötzlich bist du da

At the end of last year I started to create a large series of collages for a book-album Plötzlich Bist Du Da, the idea of which belongs to Viktor Hildebrandt, a young father and author from Berlin. Together with Victor and George Lozano, a very talented graphic designer from Colombia, we worked on the book project for six months and it was printed in May'22.

The book

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This album is designed for parents who want to keep a memory of the experiences and emotions they had before and after their baby was born. Here I want to share some collage illustrations and drawings from the book, as well as the creation process and sketches.
(C) Viktor Hildebrandt | shnipps.de

Collages and drawings
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Each collage illustrates a certain quote​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
"Beloved child has many names"
Proverb
"The children find in the nothingness the everything, the adults find in the everything the nothingness".
- Giacomo Leopardi

"How the parents are, how they affect us by their very existence - that decides".
-Theodor Fontane

"For whom enough is too little, nothing is enough".
- Epikur


"How does man learn to walk? He stops clinging to others".
-Pavel Kosorin


"Education is example and love, nothing else".
 -Friedrich Froebel

"All fear stems from the fact that we love something."
-Thomas Aquinas

"Models should try to resemble the portrait."
-Salvador Dali

"It is only with the grandchildren that one is then at the point where one can roughly understand the children."
-Erich Kästner

"It takes a whole village to raise a child."
-An African proverb

"The life of the parents is the book in which the children read".
-Augustine Aurelius

"For every child, the world begins anew".
-Henry David Thoreau

In addition to the collages, I also made some drawings that are placed next to the text or illustrate tarot cards.

The cover
For the cover, I made a collage with long arms that offer the child different things
The process
At the beginning of the work, I made line drawings to give an idea of what the collages will look like.

Thanks for watching!

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(C) Viktor Hildebrandt | shnipps.de