André Rösler graduated in visual communication from Pforzheim University in 1997. He works as an illustrator, designer, painter and animated-film director. He has published several children’s books and design books. His works have received numerous prizes and have been exhibited in Berlin, Paris, Zurich and Dakar. He was appointed professor of illustration at the Design Faculty of the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt in 2010.