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Hi, I’m Carsten Mell, a Cologne-based illustrator and designer with a passion for turning ideas into vivid visuals. Over the years I’ve collaborated with brands and publishers worldwide, creating editorial illustrations, cover art, and visual storytelling that supports communication goals. I love teaching and sharing knowledge too: I’ve taught at Comicademy, contributed to the PcGO! Grafik & Video editorial team, and I now create vision imagery and graphic recordings for workshops and events, including projects with McKinsey, Roland Berger, and Kearney. I’m fluent in English and German, and I enjoy making complex topics approachable through art and design.…Hi, I’m Carsten Mell, a Cologne-based illustrator and designer with a passion for turning ideas into vivid visuals. Over the years I’ve collaborated with brands and publishers worldwide, creating editorial illustrations, cover art, and visual storytelling that supports communication goals. I love teaching and sharing knowledge too: I’ve taught at Comicademy, contributed to the PcGO! Grafik & Video editorial team, and I now create vision imagery and graphic recordings for workshops and events, including projects with McKinsey, Roland Berger, and Kearney. I’m fluent in English and German, and I enjoy making complex topics approachable through art and design.

Carsten Mell

Illustrator, Children’s Book Illustrator, Designer, +5

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Hi, I’m Carsten Mell, a Cologne-based illustrator and designer with a passion for turning ideas into vivid visuals. Over the years I’ve collaborated with brands and publishers worldwide, creating editorial illustrations, cover art, and visual storytelling that supports communication goals. I love teaching and sharing knowledge too: I’ve taught at Comicademy, contributed to the PcGO! Grafik & Video editorial team, and I now create vision imagery and graphic recordings for workshops and events, including projects with McKinsey, Roland Berger, and Kearney. I’m fluent in English and German, and I enjoy making complex topics approachable through art and design.…Hi, I’m Carsten Mell, a Cologne-based illustrator and designer with a passion for turning ideas into vivid visuals. Over the years I’ve collaborated with brands and publishers worldwide, creating editorial illustrations, cover art, and visual storytelling that supports communication goals. I love teaching and sharing knowledge too: I’ve taught at Comicademy, contributed to the PcGO! Grafik & Video editorial team, and I now create vision imagery and graphic recordings for workshops and events, including projects with McKinsey, Roland Berger, and Kearney. I’m fluent in English and German, and I enjoy making complex topics approachable through art and design.

Available to hire

Hi, I’m Carsten Mell, a Cologne-based illustrator and designer with a passion for turning ideas into vivid visuals. Over the years I’ve collaborated with brands and publishers worldwide, creating editorial illustrations, cover art, and visual storytelling that supports communication goals.

I love teaching and sharing knowledge too: I’ve taught at Comicademy, contributed to the PcGO! Grafik & Video editorial team, and I now create vision imagery and graphic recordings for workshops and events, including projects with McKinsey, Roland Berger, and Kearney. I’m fluent in English and German, and I enjoy making complex topics approachable through art and design.

Skills

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Editorial Illustration

Book Illustration

Experience Level

Adobe Photoshop

Expert

Adobe Illustrator

Expert

Adobe InDesign

Expert

Editorial Illustration

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

German

Fluent

English

Advanced

Work Experience

Freelance Illustrator at Self-employed

January 1, 1995 - Present

Started freelance work as an illustrator in 1995 with publications and client work including covers for major publications and collaborations with BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Porsche, Warner Bros., McDonald’s, BILD, Lufthansa, Deutsche Telekom, and others; involved in international comic publications across five languages and ten countries.

Freelance Editor at PcGO! Grafik & Video

January 1, 1998 - December 31, 2005

Freelance editor for PcGO! focusing on product reviews of graphics software and illustration workshops.

Lecturer at Comicademy

January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2002

Lecturer at the Comicademy – seminars on comic drawing.

Graphic Facilitator / Vision Imagery Specialist at Self-employed

January 1, 2015 - Present

Creation of vision and goal imagery for companies; facilitation of workshops and events; projects in collaboration with management consultancies (McKinsey, Roland Berger, Kearney); graphic recording of content at events for numerous, partly international, industrial companies.

Freier Redakteur at PcGO! Grafik & Video

January 1, 1998 - December 31, 2005

Testberichte über Grafiksoftware sowie Illustrations-Workshops.

Dozent / Lehrtätigkeit at Comicademy

January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2002

Seminare über Comiczeichnen.

Dozent / Kursleiter at b.itmap Akademie

January 1, 2010 - Present

Schulungen zur Thematik „Grafisches Arbeiten mit dem WACOM Grafiktablett“ (Präsenz und Online).

Graphic Recording / Visuelle Prozessbegleitung at Self-employed / Diverse Kunden

January 1, 2015 - Present

Erstellung von Ziel- und Visionsbildern für Unternehmen; Begleitung von Workshops und Events; Zusammenarbeit mit Beratungen wie McKinsey, Roland Berger und Kearney; Graphic Recording von Inhalten auf Veranstaltungen.

Graphic Visualization / Workshop Facilitator at Independent / Client projects

January 1, 2015 - Present

Creation of vision and goal imagery for companies; facilitation of workshops and events; graphic recording for international projects (from 2015).