Two years later, he returned for a European backpacking expedition and eventually moved to Frankfurt to major in graphic design at Kunstschule Westend for Grafik und Design.

s Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst's prize pupil's signature style is well known: the exquisite painterly composition of scenes that refuse to cohere in space or time; busy details that open out into echoing voids; recurrent characters or archetypes (the worker, the farmer, the soldier) that seem utterly detached from one another; drab or lurid color applied in a manner ranging from grand to stolid to whimsical all on the same canvas; and an imposing catalogue of influences (

Grafik Integrale is a lighting control system designed for small offices, conference rooms, lecture theatres and home cinemas.