Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (fullpage), “Instead of saving CO2 itself, one of the richest countries in the world is paying poorer countries to do so“, 2023
Illustration for Bloomberg Businessweek (US). “Layoffs and AI are drastically changing the once-invincible job market”, 2023.
Illustration for SES Magazine (Swiss Energy Foundation). Global warming, 2023.
Club Zukunft Zurich (mainly electro). Excerpt from a 30 page fanzine (carte-blanche) which I transformed into a gif, 2023
Illustrations for NZZ Folio (CH), current permanent order, selection 2021–2023.
Illustration for Albert Koechlin Stiftung (CH). “beautiful!?.”, 2023.
Illustration for Apollon (Magazine of Bayrische Staatsoper, Munich, DE), 2022.
Illustration for Lily's Restaurant (Zurich, CH). Fullpage in their Postermagazine on “meatless cooking”, February 2022.
Illustration for the New York Times Magazine (16/2022). “American Culture is Trash Culture”. Text by Wesley Morris. It was chosen by the New York Times Art Directors Jury in their selection of “the most memorable New York Times illustrations of 2022”.
Illustration for Bloomberg Businessweek (US). “The looming threat of the United States hitting its debt ceiling”, 2023.
Cover Illustration for Das Magazin (CH). “The most beautiful day of my life (on Instagram) – Why do so many couples get married in the Seychelles?” Reportage by Linus Reichlin, 2022.
Illustration for Die Zeit (DE). “There are still good news in 2022”, 2023.
Illustration for Die Zeit (DE). “Camping”, 2022.
Gif Animation and online Illustration for Bloomberg Businessweek (US). “Elon Musk Keeps Quoting Elon Musk About His Genius”, 2022.
Illustration for Elsewherespace “Elseworld monthly cosmic celebration” in Brooklyn NYC (US), November 2022 - April 2023.
Record Cover Designs for Ester Poly (CH), Luzius Schuler (CH), Danger Boys (ITA), Schnitthart (DE), 2020–2022.
Illustration for Kiblind Magazine (FR), 2022.
Illustrations for Reportagen Magazine (CH). Reportages about young Russians who fight on the net against Putin, a doping case in the sport "walking“, a Moldavian family, two Swiss prisoners and another about Aldous Huxley, 2020 - 2022.
Singlecover Illustrations for Bronze (CAN), Danger Boys (ITA), Kapitelcast (CH/DE), Luzius Schuler (CH), Softlander (CH), 2021–2022.
Five-year-anniversary-compilation-cover “A lot of Love” and Flag-Design for the Lot Radio NYC (US), 2020–2022.
Illustration for the Poster “Infotage Hochschule Luzern Design und Kunst 2022” (size F4). Graphic Design by Velvet, 2022.
Illustration for the American Football Magazine Spiraljournal (LA, US), 2022.
Coverillustration for The Wire Magazine (UK), 2021.
T-Shirt Designs for Ester Poly (CH), PatienceImpatience (US), Tame Impala (AUS), Magma Ventures (FR), 2018–2022.
Cover and full page illustration for “041–Das Kulturmagazin” (CH). “What is art?”. Questions to the inner life of the art scene, 2019.
Illustration series for Les Others (F) N 11. “Mangez-Moi”. A reportage on psychedelic mushrooms, 2020.
Fullpage Illustration for ZüriTipp (CH), 2020.
The image was also used as a Vinyl Cover of the band “Group” (LA, US), 2022.
Double-page Illustration for the book “There—Failure is not an Option”, which was published on the occasion of the cancellation of the “Swiss Design Awards—Exhibition 2020” due to the pandemic, 2020.
Coverillustration for Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (DE), 2022.
Record Cover Designs for PatienceImpatience (NYC, US). Illustrations and Graphic Design. Music: Experimental, Electronic, Ambient, Kraut, 2018–2022.
About
Luca Schenardi is a Swiss based Illustrator and Artist. He studied “Illustration Fiction” at the HSLU Art & Design. Since 2003 he has worked as a Freelance Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Artist. His Illustrations appear in renowned international Newspapers and Magazines like New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and Die Zeit to name a few. During the recent years he has made a name for himself in the Music Scene as a Designer of LP, Single, Cassette Covers and Band Merch Shirts. Luca has been a visiting Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern (HSLU), The Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), The Staatliche Hochschule der Künste Karlsruhe (HfG) and The Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Art de Besançon (ISBA).
In 2021 he was the Winner of a “Swiss Design Award” in the Section “Graphic Design”.
Since a four-month studio residency (Central Switzerland Cantons) in 2017, he has lived and worked in New York City for several Weeks or Months each Year.
In 2012 and 2017, his two books “An Vogelhäusern mangelt es jedoch nicht” and “Meyer spricht von Gratiskaffe” were published by Edition Patrick Frey.
Clients
Bloomberg Businessweek (US)
The Baffler (US)
Elsewhere (US)
Hochparterre (CH)
The Lot Radio NYC (US)
Les Others (F)
Das Magazin (CH)
The New York Times Magazine (US)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ (CH)
NZZ Folio (CH)
PatienceImpatience NYC (US)
Reportagen Magazin (CH)
Pro Helvetia (CH)
Rolling Stone (US)
Schauspielhaus Zürich (CH)
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (DE)
Tame Impala (AUS)
The Wire Magazine (UK)
WOZ (CH)
Die Zeit (DE)
Zeitmagazin (DE/CH)
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Awards and Grants
2022
The illustration “American Culture is Trash Culture” was chosen by the New York Times Art Directors Jury in their selection of “the most memorable New York Times illustrations of 2022”
2021
Winner of a “Swiss Design Award 2021” with a selection of current illustrations
2020
Grant/Werkbeitrag Pro Helvetia
2019
Nominated for “Swiss Design Awards 2019” with the illustration series for “Journal Schauspielhaus Zürich”
2018
Nominated for “Swiss Design Awards 2018” with the drawings “Meyer spricht von Gratiskaffee”
2017
Prize winner “100 best posters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2017”
2016
Prize winner “100 best posters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2011”, with Lina Müller
2015
Awarding of the New York Atelier (Central Switzerland), with Lina Müller
2014 Awarding of the cabinet exhibition of the Heinrich Danioth Arts and Culture Foundation, with Lina Müller. 2013 Travel scholarship from the “Otto Pfeifer” Foundation. 2011 Prize winner “100 best posters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2011”. 2009 Grant from the City and Canton of Lucerne (first prize). 2006 Prize winner “100 best posters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2006”.
(Selection)
About
Luca Schenardi is a Swiss based Illustrator and Artist. He studied “Illustration Fiction” at the HSLU Art & Design. Since 2003 he has worked as a Freelance Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Artist. His Illustrations appear in renowned international Newspapers and Magazines like New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and Die Zeit to name a few. During the recent years he has made a name for himself in the Music Scene as a Designer of LP, Single, Cassette Covers and Band Merch Shirts. Luca has been a visiting Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern (HSLU), The Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), The Staatliche Hochschule der Künste Karlsruhe (HfG) and The Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Art de Besançon (ISBA).
In 2021 he was the Winner of a “Swiss Design Award” in the Section “Graphic Design”.
Since a four-month studio residency (Central Switzerland Cantons) in 2017, he has lived and worked in New York City for several Weeks or Months each Year.
In 2012 and 2017, his two books “An Vogelhäusern mangelt es jedoch nicht” and “Meyer spricht von Gratiskaffe” were published by Edition Patrick Frey.
Clients
Bloomberg Businessweek (US)
The Baffler (US)
Elsewhere (US)
Hochparterre (CH)
The Lot Radio NYC (US)
Les Others (F)
Das Magazin (CH)
The New York Times Magazine (US)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ (CH)
NZZ Folio (CH)
PatienceImpatience NYC (US)
Reportagen Magazin (CH)
Pro Helvetia (CH)
Rolling Stone (US)
Schauspielhaus Zürich (CH)
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (DE)
Tame Impala (AUS)
The Wire Magazine (UK)
WOZ (CH)
Die Zeit (DE)
Zeitmagazin (DE/CH)
(Selection)
Awards and Grants
2022
The illustration “American Culture is Trash Culture” was chosen by the New York Times Art Directors Jury in their selection of “the most memorable New York Times illustrations of 2022”
2021
Winner of a “Swiss Design Award 2021” with a selection of current illustrations
2020
Grant/Werkbeitrag Pro Helvetia
2019
Nominated for “Swiss Design Awards 2019” with the illustration series for “Journal Schauspielhaus Zürich”
2018
Nominated for “Swiss Design Awards 2018” with the drawings “Meyer spricht von Gratiskaffee”
2017
Prize winner “100 best posters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2017”
2016
Prize winner “100 best posters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2011”, with Lina Müller
2015
Awarding of the New York Atelier (Central Switzerland), with Lina Müller
2014 Awarding of the cabinet exhibition of the Heinrich Danioth Arts and Culture Foundation, with Lina Müller. 2013 Travel scholarship from the “Otto Pfeifer” Foundation. 2011 Prize winner “100 best posters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2011”. 2009 Grant from the City and Canton of Lucerne (first prize). 2006 Prize winner “100 best posters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2006”.
(Selection)