KARIM BLANC, the gentleman with the red cap, the illustrator with the culinary knack. His compositions are analytic, witty, and critical in terms of content. Homogenous in color and far from boring. Never afraid to flex an artistic style now and again – if that’s what the client requests.
Karim Blanc was born in Iran as the child of French expats and has lived in Algeria, Burkina Faso, Lebanon, Norway, Canada, and France. He has been living in Vienna for twelve years, where he started a family. Since April 2023, he has been broadening the illustrative bandwidth at the Ambassador of Illustration.
Guided by the visual arts (painting, drawing, engraving) ever since studying at art school in Aix en Provence, France, and at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, he worked as a graphic designer in Montreal in the 1990s, an interior designer in the south of France in 2000, and as a chef and foodstylist in Vienna in 2010, before finally devoting himself mainly to digital illustration.
A focus of his visual work is on collages. He skillfully crafts multilayered compositions using photos, textures and his illustrations to document topics.
“The relationship between humans, nature and food is the focus of his commissioned work again and again.” Caroline Seidler.
He illustrates for book companies and publishing houses in the area of design, advertising and communication, … with clients including Vice Magazine, Falstaff Publishing, and Meinl am Graben. He is frequently booked for events or live illustration.
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