Simon Prades

Simon Prades was born in 1985 into a German-Spanish family in southwest Germany. Since graduating from university in Graphic Design with a focus on illustration, he has been working as an illustrator and teaching drawing and conceptual illustration.His work is done primarily in ink and pencil using digital tools for further processing.

Literature and social awareness, as well as nature and architecture have been a source of inspiration from early on. He works in the fields of editorial, book publishing and advertising for clients such as The New York Times, Bloomberg, The New Republic, The Guardian, HarperCollins, Vice, Nike, Medium.com, BBDO and Serviceplan among others. His work has been published by Gestalten Verlag, Novum, el Pais and Taschen.

“Pencil and paper, the first tools we were given as a child after crayons and play-doh. They’re pretty good, and even better when put in the hands of someone with an eye for detail and precision. Over the last few years, illustrator Simon Prades has been churning out amazingly-detailed and technical work in a way that makes my hands feel like they’ll never be able to achieve anything that good, ever. His portfolio is packed full of pencil drawings, ink work with slices of colour and etchings.” (Source: It’s nice that)

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