Observational drawing

Trend Receiver Portraits

For an international foresight project around the central question we have been talking to 30 Trend Receivers in Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Zurich, London, New York, Boston and Shanghai. We have been focusing on the question “How do we want to live in 10 years time?“ and thus discussed in depth both individual wishes and expectations in different areas of life as well as related dynamics of change in society.

Site+sites

Sometimes we sit and look and enjoy the place where we are. And partly we focus at our digital devices. As I’ve always been fascinated by picture-in-picture images I started the “site+sites” drawing series.

People and their devices

I like to observe and draw people and their intense interaction with their devices.

Nude drawings

Nude drawing is a very traditional practice. And at the same time we never focused more on human bodies than in digital times.

Head studies

Faces and heads are contoured and characterized by lines.

Hand studies

Hands are versatile and expressive and an endless motive for (hand)drawings.

Cafés and Co-working spaces

Cafés and Co-working spaces are part of urban worklife and I have been drawing people and their devices at various locations.

Connection to Brazil

Brazil feels like a second home to me since I have been living in Barra Mansa, state of Rio de Janeiro, for a year and a half for a social-practical service time after school.

Drawings for Visionary Competence

Amjad

Drawing Amjad