Kai Klimiont

Overview

QUESTION: What drew you to illustration/design?

KAI: Becoming an Illustrator has always been my dream.

QUESTION: Do you have any formal design training? KAI: No, learning things was my motivation.

QUESTION: Where do you live?

KAI: I live in a mixture of imagination and realism and quite naturally in a world of clients requirements and all of that mostly in Hamburg.

QUESTION: Can you describe your studio for me?

KAI: The sanctuary, the treasure box, the "site of crime"… The one room where I spent most of my time.

QUESTION: What is your biggest inspiration?

KAI: Anything original and queer. I love good movies in comfortable cinemas.

QUESTION: How do you get the best ideas?

KAI: I harvest them, when they are ripe from the big tree of imaginations.

QUESTION: What technique do you use?

KAI: With everything that is helpful for the particular job, but mostly digital.

QUESTION: Tell us about a favorite project you have recently completed.

KAI: The foxes for the Fuechschen brewery.

QUESTION: Who are your illustration heroes?

KAI: All of the good illustrators and great images. Gentileschi, Boticelli, Rubens, Pixar.

QUESTION: Do you keep a sketchbook?

KAI: Many, also with loose papers.

QUESTION: What are your hobbies?

KAI: Drawing and painting.

QUESTION: If you were not an illustrator, what would you be?

KAI: Female illustrator.

QUESTION: Who would you like to meet?

KAI: God at eye level.

QUESTION: If you could travel back in time, where would you go to?

KAI: I would have loved to paint an entire cave in the Stone Age and nowadays people would find it and make a big fuss over it.

QUESTION: What kind of music do you listen to?

KAI: Anything inspiring. Classic, Rock, Metal.

QUESTION: What is the funniest thing you have ever done?

KAI: A long time ago, or was it only yesterday? On a lush, but not too lush summer evening, I sat on a meadowy and flavorsome hillock underneath a lovely roof of leaves and furthermore a twinkling and starry sky and drew a picture, when a little multi-armed angel sat down gently on my left shoulder…. but this would lead us too far.

QUESTION: If you won the lottery, would you still work as illustrator?

KAI: Clearly a yes and no.

QUESTION: Do you collect anything?

KAI: Only happy clients.

Client List

• Brauerei Im Fuchschen
• Oki
• Vitanas
• Rewe Osterreich
• Neue Leben Versicherung
• Kosmos Verlag
• Storck KG