Contact me: hi@stinasemrau.com

Hello! I'm Stina, an illustrator and designer working from my studio in Hamburg.

Vita

since 2023
MA Illustration, HAW Hamburg

since 2022
Freelance illustrator and graphic designer
Carlsen Verlag, WDR/Funk, WBS.LEGAL, HAWK Hildesheim, Spellmeyer Design Ntwrk

2022–2024
Illustrator and graphic designer, Glanz&Natur WDR/Funk

2022–2023
Lectureship for typography, HAWK Hildesheim

2022
Corporate/brand designer CI/CD-Team, HAWK Hildesheim

2019–2022
BA Graphic design, HAWK Hildesheim
Student assistant for animation und design

2018
Intern at d248 Design

Awards

The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 6, dPICTUS 2024

Winner Telling Images Contest by Pato Lógico, 2024

Nomination for the award of the Faculty of Design, HAWK Hildesheim, 2022

Publications

»Beetroot« by Pato Lógico, 2025

»Als Rudi sein Herz verlor« by Buchfink Verlag, 2025

Illustrated alphabet in »The Type Book«, 2021

Exhibitions

Rundgang Finkenau, HAW Hamburg, 2024

Pathfinder exhibition, Alliance Française Bologna, 2024

Graduation exhibition Collage, HAWK Hildesheim, 2022

Exhibition Talismanische Ereignisse, Hildesheim, 2021

Visit me on instagram!

Another river illustration 🐟 #picturebookillustration #gouacheillustration
Watching the river #picturebookillustration
Illustrated quote from Wolfgang Borchert »Vielleicht sind wir garnicht so weit ab vom Himmel« about the stars in the river Elbe ⭐️ #picturebookillustration #gouacheillustration
Imagined book cover for an illustrated biography of Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra #picturebookillustration #janeausten #illustratedbiography
Swimming in the river 🐟 #picturebookillustration #childrensbookillustration #gouacheillustration