Christoph Niemann

Bio

Christoph Niemann is an illustrator, author, and visual storyteller based in Berlin. His resume includes numerous cover designs for The New Yorker (including its first-ever augmented reality cover), Wired, and the New York Times Magazine. He’s authored a string of children’s books and the monographs Sunday Sketching, Words, and Souvenir, and was the first to illustrate the New York Marathon in real-time–while actually running it. In 2008, Niemann relocated with his family to Berlin, in an attempt to switch up his work method. He has since designed two apps, “Petting Zoo,” and “Chomp,” and become a prominent voice on social media with his “Abstract Sunday” channels. In 2010 he was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame, and in 2017, the Netflix documentary Abstract: The Art of Design devoted its first episode to his work.