From Santa Monica to Silicon Valley: The Origin of the First Google Doodles In 2000, I was hired by Google to illustrate what would become their very first Google Doodles. Long before it was a global company, Google was still a bold new search engine looking to stand out. These […]
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Handgezeichnete Erklärvideos für LAP-Vorbereitung in der Schweiz Für LAP-Vorbereitung.ch und Blocklearning.ch entstand eine Serie kurzer, handgezeichneter Erklärvideos für Schweizer Lernende, die sich auf die Lehrabschlussprüfung (LAP) vorbereiten. Die Videos verbinden Educational Animation, Business Illustration, Cartoon-Storytelling und klare visuelle Kommunikation für ein konkretes Bildungsthema im Schweizer Berufsbildungskontext. Die Aufgabe war, die
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Visual Architecture for a Professional Software Engineering Training Tool Download FULL CASE STUDY PDF In 2025, I collaborated with Loïc Audiger (CTO, Audiger EURL) to develop the visual identity and instructional framework for a professional software engineering training product: a 59-card deck designed to teach core principles of modern development practice. The training
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Handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo für Planungs- und Baugesetz in St. Gallen Für ein Erklärvideo-Projekt im Bereich Planungs- und Baugesetz, Raumplanung und Sondernutzung im Kanton St. Gallen entwickelte ich eine Serie von handgezeichneten Illustrationen, Character Designs und animierten Szenen im Stil von Business Illustration, Business Comics und visueller Kommunikation. Der Auftrag entstand für
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New York Friars Club: Cartoon Friar Characters, Website Illustrations and Animated Intro The New York Friars Club commissioned me to create a series of custom cartoon Friar characters, website illustrations and animated sequences for its official online presence. The assignment combined cartoon illustration, character design, caricature, vector artwork and short-form
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Illustrated Explainer Video for Graph Database Workflows For Elephant Bird Consulting, I created a custom illustrated explainer video to help explain a graph database workflow: from initial client requirements to architecture, database administration and developer implementation. The project was commissioned by Tom Geudens, a graph database specialist and O’Reilly author,
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Google MentalPlex: the first Google Doodle project I created Google MentalPlex went live on 1 April 2000 as an April Fool’s Day page on Google, inviting users to search not by typing, but by staring into a spiral and mentally projecting what they wanted to find. The original page is
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Mon portfolio d’illustration sélectionné par Ultra-book Mon portfolio figure actuellement dans les dernières sélections d’illustrateurs freelances sur Ultra-book. Ultra-book fait partie des plateformes de portfolio bien installées dans le paysage français des métiers visuels. Elle est utilisée par des illustrateurs, graphistes, directeurs artistiques et autres créatifs indépendants, et consultée par
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LinkedIn Profile Updated — 75+ Projects Across Illustration, Branding, UX/UI, Animation & Visual Storytelling A searchable archive of client work, career history, and selected case studies My LinkedIn profile is now fully updated and includes more than 75 detailed project entries spanning two decades of international work across illustration, character
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Visual Storytelling for Business Communication — Strategic Wealth Creator System Case Study Visual Identity, UX Interface & Instructional Visual System Design Case Study — Visual Storytelling for Business Communication and Executive Education The Strategic Wealth Creator System™ (SWCS) is a visual learning platform developed for executive training and strategic business
Explainer Video Full Pipeline, One Creator: A Studio Model for Clear Visual Communication When the UK charity 52 Lives commissioned me to create a hand-drawn explainer video for its School of Kindness initiative, the task was not simply to animate a script. The real challenge was translation: how to turn
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ModicumEditions Hand-Drawn Art Prints by Ian David Marsden – Modicum Editions Modicum Editions is a curated gallery of hand-drawn illustration prints by Ian David Marsden — created in Claret, Occitanie just north of Montpellier, and available exclusively on Etsy. City & Landscape Collection Montpellier Arc de Triomphe — Day &
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The French Cartoon Wolf of Pic Saint-Loup (Near Montpellier) Why France (and the whole world) Fell in Love with a Hand-Drawn Wolf If you somehow missed the extraordinary success of Intermarché’s animated short Le Loup — a tender, hand-crafted commercial about a wolf who becomes vegetarian — then you truly have not
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Cozy Holiday Wishes – Santa & Rudolph Christmas Card Illustration | Ian David Marsden As the year draws to a close and winter wraps the world in its quiet magic, I wanted to take a moment to send you my warmest wishes. Here is my Christmas card to you —
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Gezeichnet 2025 Schweizer Pressezeichner & Massen – Doppel-Ausstellung in Bern Ich freue mich sehr, dieses Jahr gleich bei zwei Ausstellungen in Bern vertreten zu sein – beide eröffneten am 12. Dezember 2025 und zeigen, wie vielseitig Illustration, Satire und visuelle Kommunikation sein können. 1. Gezeichnet 2025 – Die besten Schweizer
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Nouvel article dans Midi Libre : un portrait de mon travail d’illustrateur, de dessinateur de presse et d’auteur BD Publié le 1 décembre 2025 Ce lundi 1er décembre, le journal Midi Libre a consacré un bel article à mon activité d’illustrateur, de dessinateur de presse, de créateur de vidéos explicatives
