Maren Amini
(She/Her) • Hamburg, Germany
Biography
Maren Amini from Hamburg draws and develops stories with charming, authentic characters in a reduced drawing style, using digital ink and watercolors. She gets to the heart of topics and emotions and often uses humor as a means of communication, because laughter is more important today than ever.
Selected clients
Jägermeister, The Washington Post, Federal Foreign Office, Federal Agency for Civic Education, EKD Evangelical Church in Germany, Terre des Femmes, Federal Center for Nutrition (BZfE), HHLA (Hamburg Port and Logistics), Fraunhofer Institute, Credit Suisse, STERN, SPIEGEL, die ZEIT, Chrismon-Magazin, Telekom, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Verdi, AOK, Greenpeace, Hamburg Wasser
Awards
- 2025 American Illustration A/44 Chosen winner
- 2025 Nomination for the German Youth Literature Award – Special Award ‘New Talents Illustration
- 2023 German Comic Book Prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation
- 2021 World Illustration Awards, longlist selection
- 2021 American Illustration 40, the Archive selection
- 2020 Category Consumer Magazines, German Society for Nutrition
- 2019 Winner of the competition for successful patient brochures of the Netzwerk Patienten- und Familienedukation e.V. and the University of Witten/Herdecke
- 2019 audience award „der Meefisch“ children´s book competition
- 2016 silver medal 9. international „Grafikatur“
- 2013 „LeadAward“, bronze medal in the category: newspapers, contribution of the year (die ZEIT)
- 2011 best project of the year, mdm-sponsorship award
- 2010 „Red Dot Design-Award“, category: illustration
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