Help me find this artist please
So in 2010 or so my father sent me this postcard
I recently tried to find the artist and reverse image searching only revealed that this is the cover for a book by American novelist Tao Lin
That appears to be the German version of one of his works, but I'm having a hard time finding any further info. I really love this image and was hoping to find more from the artist. Any help is appreciated
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Maybe you can write to the publisher, Dumont, and ask them?
https://www.dumont-buchverlag.de/verlag/kontakt/
Anyway, the book "Gute Laune" or "Good Mood" by Tao Lin was published in German by German publishing monstrosity DuMont in 2009. This link goes to the site for the division that handles literature publishing, and near the bottom there's a link you can use to email them questions about their books. They might be able to tell you directly where they got the image. I mean, I would hope they can. This book is the only place you can find that image as far as I can tell, and when you look up the book itself you almost need to be looking at a picture of a physical copy as most sites seem to just replace the image with the cover of Taipei, Lin's more recent and more successful book. At this point I find it more likely your dad chopped it off an actual book he found than bought it at a store.
Assuming it is a real postcard he bought at a store, you can also look for the copyright mark on the back and try to contact whoever owns the image.
You can try reaching out to Lin via twitter or something, but it seems he is a character and I'm not sure he'd necessarily know the details of whatever the German publisher slapped on there anyway.
The rabbit hole deepens
https://www.stereohype.com/book/3419-postcard-book-english-edition-signed.html?content_only=1
So it's a book called "Postcard" with 20 postcards included
Postcard (English edition)
compiled, written and designed by FL@33
Paperback with pockets holding 20 postcards
With 800 colour illustrations
224 pages
218 x 164 mm
English edition
ISBN – 978 1 85669 569 5
Laurence King Publishing
Published September 2008
Product page.
https://www.flat33.com/
They even show the art book on the front page
Amusingly, I can buy it on Amazon used (but probably missing the postcards) for 5 bucks or new... For 100 dollars. Even though their own site sells it for 20 euros lmao
I blame the algorithm.
http://www.postcard-book.info/ENG_02_info.html
Here's the list of artists for the postcards:
Contains 20 free designer postcards to send or
collect by Daniel Eatock, Juju’s Delivery,
Jeremyville, 123Klan, Geneviève Gauckler,
Catalina Estrada, Marion Deuchars, Hellovon,
eBoy, Gregory Gilbert-Lodge, Supermundane,
Anthony Burrill, Tabas, Rinzen, Andrzej Klimowski,
Yorgo Tloupas, Mark Adams, Elisabeth Lecourt,
Vaughan Oliver at v23 and FL@33.
So now I just gotta see if these have art online I can check for but hey, I'm almost done
It was Juju's Delivery (awesome name!)
https://jujus-delivery.com/
this immediately started playing in my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vP0sy84hIM