Who I am and what I do 

Amelie Persson studio words & illustration

swedish-german illustrator and writer based in central London

• visual storytelling

• book and editorial illustration

• live and event illustration

• graphic recording

• handlettering and calligraphy

• workshops

personal interests

coffee, reading books/comics/magazines/newspapers, nature, cities, all kinds of pens, movies, tarot, djing, cooking

member of

THE AOI / I.O. / VG Wort & VG Bild

the long story…

I took a master in sociology and modern contemporary literature (with a focus on the aesthetics of items of everyday life and modern romance), founded my studio words & illustration 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, where I worked from a spacious atelier in the Basis studio complex in the Bahnhofsviertel.

After having been to Brooklyn/New York for a month in 2010, I went back for an illustration residency in 2013, returned to exhibit at the NY Art Book Fair 2014 and came in winter 2015 for a long stay.

Love brought me to London in 2016 where I now live with my daughter and my boyfriend and work from a studio space in Camden.

Clients

I worked for, among others

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

• Hugo Boss

• Messe Frankfurt

• Stella McCartney

• De'Longhi

• Allianz

• Merck

• Chrismon

• Journal Frankfurt

• Boehringer Ingelheim

• Ferrero

• Ogilvy & Mather

• IBM

• Hellwigbank

• Meininger

• Missy Magazine

• The Oval Space

• Kitchen On The Run

published by

• Jaja Verlag

• Dumont Verlag

• Verlagshaus Stuart & Jacoby

• Verlag Hermann Schmidt

• Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

• Willegoos

new personal project