Small, smart, a team of three – that’s HeyStudio from Barcelona. HeyStudio focuses on illustration and graphic design for print media. Their illustration projects are all about presenting complex contents in an easily readable and understandable way. The Nokia Annual Report, thus, includes individual stories told by illustrations: the origin of the company, corporate values, how mobile phones work … little narrative pieces in each and every picture, translated into legible visual pieces of information that convey ideas and background information.

»A shoe box full of illustrators copied phone numbers,« is how Raban Ruddigkeit describes the beginnings of »freestyle«, a website that presents approximately 1,000 Illustrators - now sorted alphabetically, supplemented with stories and personal profiles which Ruddigkeit has here gathered into a selection of five: