Ingo Fast is an award-winning illustrator and designer for over 25 years. His drawings have appeared in more than 200 magazines and newspapers in the U.S., Europe, and worldwide, and have often been featured in advertising campaigns, books, brochures, annual reports, museum & university publications, websites, apps, holiday cards, calendars, and novelty print products, as well as on transformation workshops & conferences and large scale permanent and temporary installations, such as a series of illustrations fabricated in the form of seventeen glass panels, assembling a permanent public arts subway station installation for the MTA Arts for Transit Program in New York; an oversize, wrap-around image on a four-story warehouse building in Chicago, for ABN Amro Bank via EnergyBBDO; and a colorful, multi-layered outdoor glass sculpture to be realized in Paderborn, Germany (work in progress). Ingo’s work has won recognition and awards from American Illustration, the Societies of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles, Communication Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, the Society of News Design, Print, HOW, Luerzer's Archive in Germany, Graphis in Switzerland, and Page One in Singapore. One of his drawings was chosen to be included in the Society of Illustrators "100 Best" publication, a book to feature one hundred selected illustrations from a period of fifty years of commercial art in America. Additionally, Ingo has on occasion been invited to co-judge several competitions that were held at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Ingo is proudly represented by Jim Hanson Artist Agent Ltd in the U.S., by Art Act Illustrators Agency in Germany, by Prodigar in the U.K., by Hugo Weinberg in France, and by Art Liaison in Japan. Selected Clients: The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post The Boston Globe TIME Magazine Newsweek The Atlantic Fortune Forbes GQ Reader's Digest Sports Illustrated Condé Nast Traveler Entertainment Weekly Disney Deloitte Coca-Cola McDonald’s Avis AXA Bayer Roche Unilever Johnson & Johnson American Express Banco Popular Discover UBS IBM Petronas United Airlines Malaysia Airlines Isetan Department Stores Century 21 Columbia Harvard M.I.T. MTA Arts for Transit The Museum of Modern Art Boston Children’s Museum United States Postal Service Unicef

Ingo Fast is an award-winning illustrator and designer for over 25 years. His drawings have appeared in more than 200 magazines and newspapers in the U.S., Europe, and worldwide, and have often been featured in advertising campaigns, books, brochures, annual reports, museum & university publications, websites, apps, holiday cards, calendars, and novelty print products, as well as on transformation workshops & conferences and large scale permanent and temporary installations, such as a series of illustrations fabricated in the form of seventeen glass panels, assembling a permanent public arts subway station installation for the MTA Arts for Transit Program in New York; an oversize, wrap-around image on a four-story warehouse building in Chicago, for ABN Amro Bank via EnergyBBDO; and a colorful, multi-layered outdoor glass sculpture to be realized in Paderborn, Germany (work in progress). Ingo’s work has won recognition and awards from American Illustration, the Societies of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles, Communication Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, the Society of News Design, Print, HOW, Luerzer's Archive in Germany, Graphis in Switzerland, and Page One in Singapore. One of his drawings was chosen to be included in the Society of Illustrators "100 Best" publication, a book to feature one hundred selected illustrations from a period of fifty years of commercial art in America. Additionally, Ingo has on occasion been invited to co-judge several competitions that were held at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Ingo is proudly represented by Jim Hanson Artist Agent Ltd in the U.S., by Art Act Illustrators Agency in Germany, by Prodigar in the U.K., by Hugo Weinberg in France, and by Art Liaison in Japan. Selected Clients: The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post The Boston Globe TIME Magazine Newsweek The Atlantic Fortune Forbes GQ Reader's Digest Sports Illustrated Condé Nast Traveler Entertainment Weekly Disney Deloitte Coca-Cola McDonald’s Avis AXA Bayer Roche Unilever Johnson & Johnson American Express Banco Popular Discover UBS IBM Petronas United Airlines Malaysia Airlines Isetan Department Stores Century 21 Columbia Harvard M.I.T. MTA Arts for Transit The Museum of Modern Art Boston Children’s Museum United States Postal Service Unicef

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Ingo Fast is an award-winning illustrator and designer for over 25 years. His drawings have appeared in more than 200 magazines and newspapers in the U.S., Europe, and worldwide, and have often been featured in advertising campaigns, books, brochures, annual reports, museum & university publications, websites, apps, holiday cards, calendars, and novelty print products, as well as on transformation workshops & conferences and large scale permanent and temporary installations, such as a series of illustrations fabricated in the form of seventeen glass panels, assembling a permanent public arts subway station installation for the MTA Arts for Transit Program in New York; an oversize, wrap-around image on a four-story warehouse building in Chicago, for ABN Amro Bank via EnergyBBDO; and a colorful, multi-layered outdoor glass sculpture to be realized in Paderborn, Germany (work in progress).

Ingo’s work has won recognition and awards from American Illustration, the Societies of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles, Communication Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, the Society of News Design, Print, HOW, Luerzer’s Archive in Germany, Graphis in Switzerland, and Page One in Singapore. One of his drawings was chosen to be included in the Society of Illustrators “100 Best” publication, a book to feature one hundred selected illustrations from a period of fifty years of commercial art in America. Additionally, Ingo has on occasion been invited to co-judge several competitions that were held at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Ingo is proudly represented by Jim Hanson Artist Agent Ltd in the U.S., by Art Act Illustrators Agency in Germany, by Prodigar in the U.K., by Hugo Weinberg in France, and by Art Liaison in Japan.

Selected Clients:

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
The Boston Globe
TIME Magazine
Newsweek
The Atlantic
Fortune
Forbes
GQ
Reader’s Digest
Sports Illustrated
Condé Nast Traveler
Entertainment Weekly
Disney
Deloitte
Coca-Cola
McDonald’s
Avis
AXA
Bayer
Roche
Unilever
Johnson & Johnson
American Express
Banco Popular
Discover
UBS
IBM
Petronas
United Airlines
Malaysia Airlines
Isetan Department Stores
Century 21
Columbia
Harvard
M.I.T.
MTA Arts for Transit
The Museum of Modern Art
Boston Children’s Museum
United States Postal Service
Unicef

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Skills

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Freelance Gig

Experience Level

Freelance Gig
Expert

Language

English
Fluent
German
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Intermediate

Education

Bachelor of Art at Hochschule der Künste Berlin
October 1, 1987 - June 1, 1991
Design / Industrial Design
BA (continued) at Parsons School of Design New York
September 1, 1991 - May 1, 1992
Illustration (Senior)
MA Equivalency per Expert Opnion at Loyola University Chicago
November 20, 2020 - November 20, 2020
Expert Opinion Confirming Educational Equivalency and Recognition of Expertise

Qualifications

Adobe Creative Suite
January 1, 2000 - June 1, 2023
High level proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, AfterEffects, as well as Procreate and Canva

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Non-Profit Organization, Education, Healthcare, Government, Travel & Hospitality, Telecommunications, Financial Services
    uniE613 Ingo Fast / Portfolio 2023
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    uniE613 Ingo Fast / Large Scale Works
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