llustrated software engineering card deck box on a desk with four sample cards; blurred team meeting in the background.

Visual Architecture for a Professional Software Engineering Training Tool

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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Titelbild für ein handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo zur Sondernutzungsplanung und zum Planungs- und Baugesetz St. Gallen mit Pinsel, rotem Kreuz und Häuserlandschaft.

Handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo für Planungs- und Baugesetz in St. Gallen

Handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo zum Planungs- und Baugesetz St. Gallen Wie erklärt man ein Planungs- und Baugesetz mit Zeichnungen? Für ein Erklärvideo-Projekt aus dem Jahr 2014 zum Planungs- und Baugesetz, zur Raumplanung und Sondernutzung im Kanton St. Gallen entwickelte ich eine Serie handgezeichneter Illustrationen, Character Designs und animierter Szenen. Das Projekt entstand für YJOO Communication

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New York Friars Club: Cartoon Friar Characters, Website Illustrations and Animated Intro

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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Logo illustré pour tee-shirt de la fête votive de Quissac VIELE 1936–2026, créé par Ian David Marsden, graphiste et illustrateur à Claret près du Pic Saint-Loup.

Logo événementiel et illustration vectorielle pour les 90 ans de la fête votive de Quissac VIELE

Logo événementiel et illustration vectorielle pour les 90 ans de la fête votive de Quissac VIELE Le Comité des fêtes VIELE de Quissac m’a demandé de créer une illustration originale et un logo événementiel circulaire pour les 90 ans de la fête votive de Quissac VIELE, 1936–2026. Le visuel devait

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Illustrated Explainer Video for Graph Database Workflows

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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Composite image showing the Domaine Les Tuileries hand-drawn logo, bird illustration and produced wine bottles with illustrated labels.

Domaine Les Tuileries — Hand-Drawn Wine Label Design and Winery Logo for the US Market

Domaine Les Tuileries — Hand-Drawn Wine Label Design and Winery Logo for the US Market For Domaine de Coursac, a wine estate based in Carnas in the Gard, I created a complete illustrated label system and custom hand-drawn logo for Domaine Les Tuileries, a range of IGP Cévennes French wines

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Google MentalPlex illustrations page showing correct and incorrect usage examples from the April Fool’s Day 2000 hoax

Google MentalPlex: the first Google Doodle project I created

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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Featured image for Dräger’s infection prevention and control campaign, showing a Roy Lichtenstein–inspired comic scene of a smiling retro housewife with floating food packaging above the title “IPC | Prevention and Control.”

Dräger Global — Illustrated Healthcare Communication Campaign for Infection Prevention and Control

Dräger Global — Illustrated Healthcare Communication Campaign for Infection Prevention and Control For Dräger Global, I created a series of large-format illustrated campaign posters and short animated visual pieces for an international communication initiative on infection prevention and control in hospital environments. The project sits at the intersection of healthcare

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Screenshot of Ian David Marsden’s LinkedIn profile header showing illustrator, creative director and visual storytelling profile based in France.

Let’s connect on Linkedin

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 case study showing UX interface design, instructional illustration and business diagrams for executive training system

Visual Storytelling for Business Communication — Strategic Wealth Creator System Case Study

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

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Cartoon artwork by Ian David Marsden featuring a modern update of Uncle Sam, a caricature portrait, and a woodland scene with cartoon squirrels in a children's book illustration style and an owl

Custom Cartoon Portraits, Illustrated Gifts & Animated Greeting Art

Custom Cartoon Portraits, Illustrated Gifts & Animated Greeting Art I create custom cartoon portraits, illustrated gift artworks and animated greeting pieces for people, families, companies, teams and special occasions. Some are intimate one-off portraits. Others are larger scenes built around a couple, a group of friends, a band, a retirement,

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Dicht bevölkertes Nebelspalter-Cover von Ian David Marsden aus dem Jahr 1991 mit prominenten Persönlichkeiten, Popkulturfiguren und Partyzelt.

Ian David Marsden und der Nebelspalter — 43 Jahre Cartoons, Titelbilder und Schweizer Satire

Mein Nebelspalter — 43 Jahre Cartoons, Titelbilder und Schweizer Satire Als meine ersten Cartoons 1983 im Nebelspalter erschienen, war ich 16 Jahre alt. Angefangen hatte ich allerdings schon mit 14, Zeichnungen an die Redaktion zu schicken. Der damalige Chefredaktor Werner Meier sah irgendwann in einer meiner Sendungen offenbar einen Funken und bezeichnete

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Collage mit Cover und Innenseiten des Nebelspalter 09/2025 sowie Karikaturen aus dem Artikel „Bin ich ein Heuchler?“ – gezeichnet von Ian David Marsden

Cartoonist Schweiz — Editorial Cartoons für den Nebelspalter und über vier Jahrzehnte satirische Illustration

Cartoonist Schweiz — Editorial Cartoons für den Nebelspalter und über vier Jahrzehnte satirische Illustration Diese Serie von fünf farbigen Editorial Cartoons entstand für die Septemberausgabe 2025 des Schweizer Satiremagazins Nebelspalter. Die Zeichnungen begleiteten den Artikel „Bin ich ein Heuchler? – Der grosse Ehrlichkeitstest“ von Stefan Kämpfen, eine satirische Selbstprüfung über

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