Jochen Schievink makes himself at home in newspapers and magazines

Judging by his bulging portfolio, Jochen Schievink has had one hell of a year. The Hamburg-based illustrator has played a pretty key role in creating editorial illustration for German newspapers and publications, clocking up commissions for Die Zeit and Der Spiegel among a bunch of others, and in doing so he has made the art of boiling down complex, sprawling news stories into neat, engaging imagery his standard. As a result, his blank-eyed characters are beginning to look right at home on thin newspaper stock surrounded by blocks of tiny black type, proving that Jochen has all the necessary tools to add exactly the blotch of colour and the dynamic figures to make an uninspiring story look unmissable. We’d best get used to his spot illustrations being dotted across the newsstands – it looks like we’re going to be seeing a lot more of them.