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Thomas Kuhlenbeck

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Handelsblatt / Cover: The Great AI Frustration. High costs, a lack of control, and disappointing results—how customers are rebelling against Anthropic, OpenAI, and the like.

IKON Images/ Obesity – The healthcare system faces the threat of being overwhelmed by rising levels of obesity in the population.

Welt am Sonntag / Lead illustration: Return of the Empires – The US, Russia, and China are dividing the world among themselves.

IKON Images/ Burn Out.

Welt am Sonntag / Lead illustration: Back into the children’s room – Boomerang Kids

IKON Images/ Meditation.

Handelsblatt / Cover: The China trap – Germany has made itself dependent on China. Now, it is paying the price. But there are ways out.

IKON Images/ The ostrich effect in a digital world.

Rotary Magazine / The dialogue edition, June 2025, commissioned, but not printed.

Handelsblatt / Cover: Trump’s Bold Dollar Bet – The President Ushers in a New Era for the Federal Reserve.

Rotary Magazine / The elite edition, February 2026 – The people at the top. Cover, lead and spot illustrations.

IKON Images / Angry boss.

Handelsblatt / Cover: Musk’s risky bet – The billionaire is preparing the biggest IPO of all time, yet the space business entails gigantic risks for investors.

Welt am Sonntag / Lead illustration: Overcoming the intergenerational pension dispute.

IKON Images / A plea for diplomacy and empathy instead of loudness and confrontation.

Handelsblatt / Cover: The Strategy of the Super-Rich: How Professionals Steer Large Fortunes Through Every Crisis.

IKON Images / Expensive medications

Welt am Sonntag / Lead illustration: Europe is pushing back. The USA wanted to force a peace plan on Ukraine. The Europeans successfully resisted.

Handelsblatt / Cover: The Empire Strikes Back – Inside Google

IKON Images / Depression

Handelsblatt / Cover: Showdown at Volkswagen. Oliver Blume must downsize the group.

Go Magazine #20/2025 / Lead illustration: Thy kingdom come. The prophet Ivo Sasek captivates his followers.

Frankonia Online Shop / Key visual

IKON Images / Opening your heart.

IKON Images / Speaker.

Handelsblatt / Cover: The Transformer: How Siemens CEO Busch is shaping the once-sluggish conglomerate into a digital corporation.

Rotary Magazine / March 2026 – Club activities, lead and spot illustrations

FORWARD Magazine 1/26 / Cover and lead illustrations – Access to the future. How we make tomorrow’s technologies usable for companies today.

Handelsblatt / Cover: Passive income. How to earn extra money without working.

Handelsblatt / Cover: Operation „Epic Failure“ – The Iran crisis reveals the limits of the Trump method—and the cost to the global economy.

Handelsblatt / Cover: The End of Managers? What Remains of Leadership When AI Makes the Decisions. (Commissioned, but not printed)

Rotary Magazine / July 2026 – The USA Edition, Lead and spot illustrations

Welt am Sonntag / „When populism catches on – Excerpt from the Biography of AFD Leader Björn Höcke“ , Lead and Spot Illustrations

Rotary Magazine / Cover „The Pension is secure.“

Handelsblatt / Cover „The better Apple? Xiaomi is attempting where Apple failed: the Leap from the Smartphone to the Electric Car Market.“

Handelsblatt / Cover „The Debt Experiment – Is the next financial crisis looming?“

Welt am Sonntag / „This is how Merz governs – The Price of Power“, Cover, Lead and Spot Illustrations

Handelsblatt / Cover „Apple in the AI ​​Trap – How the admired global Corporation is at Risk of failing in the Future“

Welt am Sonntag / Lead Illustration „Big Entrance, short Breath. US President Donald Trump ignites conversational Momentum where others fail, but he quickly loses Interest.“

Rotary Magazine June 2025 / „Back to Dialogue“ Issue about Reconciliation / Lead and Spot illustrations

The Milken Institute Review / „Behind the Hype – What Artificial Intelligence is and isn’t“ Lead and Spot Illustrations

Rotary Magazine May 2025, „Back to the Beginning“ Issue about „Zero Hour“ / Cover, Lead and Spot Illustrations

Welt am Sonntag / Cover „Where to buy now. Real estate prices up to 2035“

Welt am Sonntag / Lead Illustration „Everything can turn out well. Friedrich Merz will be Number Ten in the Line of Chancellors“

Hörzu / Spot Illustration „More Respect please – about Germany’s deteriorating Manners“

Welt am Sonntag / Lead Illustration „When the Judiciary is under Attack“

Handelsblatt / Cover „Trending Neighborhoods 2024 – Where it’s worth buying again“

Welt am Sonntag / unpublished Cover „The rocky Road to the Chancellery“

Handelsblatt / Cover „The Luxury Bunkers of the Super-Rich. How the US Elite is preparing for the End Times“

IKON Images / „Job Requirement“

Suhrkamp Verlag / Book Cover for Jens Beckert: „How we sold our Future The Failure to fight Climate Change“

Personal Piece / „Disruption“

Welt am Sonntag / Lead Illustration „Election Campaign of Hypocrites. Who gets to move into the Chancellery?“

FORWARD – The Magazine of the Fraunhofer IAO / Cover „Sustainability Business Models“

Hörzu / Cover „TV Duel of the Super Chefs“

Fraunhofer Institut / Key Visual „Networking“

Handelsblatt / Lead Illustration „Trump and Kim Jong Un at the North Korean Summit“

The New Statesman / Lead Illustration „Too big to grow“

Personal Piece / „Escapism“

No Cube Gallery / Group Exhibition „The Time in front of us.“

Welt am Sonntag / Cover „Divorce Daddys“

Welt am Sonntag / Cover “ Medicine of the Future.“

Personal Piece / „Flut“

Private Wealth Magazine / Lead Illustration „Debt“

Fraunhofer IAP / Key Visual „Bioeconomy“

Finanztest magazine / Lead Illustration „Owners Corporation Troubles“

Handelsblatt / Cover „The End of Security. Traditional Life Insurance Policies are being phased out“

Handelsblatt / unpublished Cover „Embracing A.I.“

Private Wealth Magazine / Lead Illustration „Resisting the Economic Downturn“

Welt am Sonntag / Cover „The Lexicon of Lies“

DPA / Cover and Lead Illustrations – Annual report 2021

IKON Images / „Dementia“

Stern / Lead Illustration „Smart Home“

Würth Company / Annual report, „Truth and fake“

Welt am Sonntag / Cover „How Love and DNA are connected.“

Cicero / Lead Illustration „Save the Middle Class (from Globalization)“

Playboy / Lead Illustration „Chinese Adultery“

Welt am Sonntag / Cover „Longing for Authority“ – Parents that want self-confident Children while creating selfish Tyrants

Die ZEIT / Lead Illustration „Putin tries to turn back the Clock“

Die Zeit / Lead Illustration „TV’s Dinosaurs“

Welt am Sonntag / Cover „Family Doctors, prevented from helping with Vaccination“

Stern / “ Job Killer AI“

Die Zeit / Cover „Berlinale Movie Festival“

visuphil® design studios / Hering Schuppener Consulting, Booklet „Issues“ 2020

visuphil® design studios / Hering Schuppener Consulting, Booklet „Issues“ 2020

Personal Piece / „Kante“, Acrylics, Ink, 140 x 100 cm

DPA / Cover and Lead Illustrations – Annual Report 2021

Die Zeit / Comicstrip „Showdown of the Presidents – The Power Games between China and the U.S.“

Finanztest / Lead and Spot Illustrations „Dog insurances“

IR-One AG & Co. / Timeline of FRANCOTYP POSTALIA HOLDING AG

DPA / Cover and Lead Illustrations – Annual report 2021

Zeitungszeugen / Coverillustrations – Reprints of Second World War German Newspapers

Personal Piece / „Bruch“ Acrylics, ink, 70×100 cm

Handelsblatt / unpublished Lead Illustration „Economic Wizardry“

London Transport / Poster Competition „Sound of the City“

Personal Piece / „Floss“, Acrylics, Ink, 140 x 100 cm

Streaming Magazine / Cover „Money Heist – a heist crime drama television series“

Personal Piece / „Sprung“ Acrylics, ink, 100 x 120 cm

Die Zeit / Cover „The Plight of Education“

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