Larissa Bertonasco
Graduate designer Larissa Bertonasco has been working as an illustrator since 2003 and has established herself as a versatile artist. She works internationally and is fluent in German, English and Italian.
Larissa has a preference for analogue techniques and prefers to use brushes, ink, acrylic and watercolours. She often combines her illustrations with collage elements, which gives them a special texture and depth. She uses Procreate on iPad for her digital illustrations.
She loves working live on location and graphic recording is her passion: Larissa uses sketchnotes or complex hidden object images to capture the content and atmosphere of events, whether at corporate gatherings, cultural events or scientific conferences. One moving project was her visualisations of Marino Ruga's diary entries in three emotional live illustrations for Hamburg Wasser.
Her analogue light projections with an overhead projector, which she creates both indoors and on outdoor facades, are particularly eye-catching. This allows her to spontaneously and easily design stages and public spaces with light and create a versatile venue. Larissa also realises permanent murals.
From comics and animated films to packaging design, editorial and book illustration, Larissa has realised a wide variety of projects.
As an art director, she has supervised numerous book projects, including her bestselling cookbook "La nonna La cucina La vita – The wonderful recipes of my Italian grandmother". She developed the design for the "Café Wunderbar" line for fair trade brand GEPA. Larissa was particularly inspired by the graphic recording at a symposium organised by the Dachverband Tanz on the topic of "Diversity in Dance" – she prefers to get involved in socially relevant projects.
Larissa is a real team player and is always in dialogue with her creative network. Together with the artist group SPRING, she publishes a monothematic publication every year. Together they work on the magazine concept and the design of the format, colour scheme and paper.
Larissa's flexibility and curiosity constantly drive her to take on new challenges and she is currently continuing her education in the field of art as social practice.
