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I am Stina, I write and illustrate picture books with all my heart, always thinking of the next story to tell. I live and work in Hamburg, Northern Germany.

In 2022 I graduated in graphic design (BA) at the HAWK Hildesheim where I worked as a student assistant for animation and design for the corporate design team and other departments. After my graduation I worked in the corporate design team at the university and had a teaching assignment for the typography class there. I also started my freelance illustration and design work in 2022 with the channel Glanz&Natur, WDR/Funk. Since then I worked for different clients including WDR, WBS.LEGAL and Carlsen Verlag. I am currently studying illustration (MA) with a focus on book illustration at the HAW Hamburg. My first two picture books will be out this year.

Awards

Selected for The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 6 by dPICTUS (2024)

Winner of the Telling Images Contest by Pato Lógico (2024)

Nomination for the award of the Faculty of Design from HAWK Hildesheim (2022)

Publications

Als Rudi sein Herz verlor published by Buchfink Verlag, September 2025

Beterraba published by Pato Lógico, Spring 2025

Illustrated alphabet in The Type Book, 2021

Exhibitions

Rundgang Finkenau, HAW Hamburg, 2024

Pathfinder exhibition, Alliance Française Bologna, 2024

Collage, graduation exhibition HAWK Hildesheim, 2022