...For a long time I worked mainly for children’s books publishers. Then I had the wonderful experience of getting in contact with Françoise Mouly and The New Yorker. I felt free to do things that were in hiding for a long time. MY INFLUENCES: There is no special artist. Sometimes it is just the color of a photo, or of someone’s dress that inspires me to draw something. Also David Hockney, Max Beckmann, Christian Schad, James Flora, and the title sequences of Saul Bass. MY CREATIVE INSPIRATION: An inspiration can be a color of a skirt of the woman in the row in front of me. Or a part of a song in the radio. It’s not necessarily something from art or illustration. A MEMORABLE ASSIGNMENT: That would be is 2 years ago, when I made my first New Yorker cover. That was something that you do not necessarily expect for an illustrator from Hamburg, who lives in the boonies... [https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/14717/illustrator-profile-birgit-schossow-i-like-to-f.html]