Exhibition of student works from the Picture Book Lab in the University Library

Since mid-December, students from the Department of Design at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences have been presenting picture books for children and adults in the university library.

In the Picture Book Lab, students develop picture books for children and adults. They write and illustrate their projects from the first simple idea to the complex medium of the book and see themselves as visual inventors and storytellers who work equally with words and images.

The Picture Book Lab enables students to concentrate intensively on developing their personal style and finding their own narrative language. The resulting books range from fictional stories to non-fiction and everything in between that can be discovered and told.

The Picture Book Lab also regularly welcomes illustrious guests such as authors, illustrators, agents and publishers. Past guests have included artists such as Eleonora Marton, Leo Timmers, Christina Röckl and Sonja Danowski, as well as publishers such as Herwig Bitsche (NordSüd), Ziggy Hanaor (Cicada Books, London) and Barbara Gizzi and Marco Ghidelli from Italian publisher RaumItalic.

The Picture Book Lab is led by Sven Völker, author, artist, designer and professor of experimentation and strategy in graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. 
Sven Völker found his way to picture books via his debut "There Is a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today", which he published in 2015 together with musician Sting. His book "A Million Dots" was recognised as one of the best illustrated children's books by the New York Times in 2019. His most recent books are "The Museum of Forms" and "L'altra meta".