Otis Werner

Otis Werner

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Photographic collage editorial with torn newsprint, halftone fragments, and highlighter accents

Berlin-based collage illustrator who came up making zines in the early 2010s and now works for business magazines and longform op-ed sites. He keeps stacks of clipped newspapers, expired mail-order catalogs, and old encyclopedias in his studio and assembles editorial illustrations by hand before scanning. He thinks the rectangle is overrated; everything in his work is torn, taped, or pinned. He uses fluorescent highlighter pens like a punctuation mark.

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Vintage-collage scene of a stained linen apron hanging from a bent iron hook, sc
Collage of a stacked rolodex of paper cards, each card a different cut of magazi
Editorial collage of a workshop scene rendered in cut paper — sticky notes, whit
Editorial collage on cream paper of overlapping abstract paper shapes, a torn ri
Layered collage of a coffee cup with steam shaped like a question mark, halftone
Photographic collage portrait poster of a torn newsprint silhouette of a synthes
Collage portrait poster of a halftone bass drum face with torn paper concentric
Mixed-media collage of vintage advertising fragments cut and reassembled into a
Cut-paper collage zine cover with torn newsprint, a halftone face, and masking t
Halftone collage unit-header for Reaganism, layered campaign-poster fragments, f
Editorial collage portrait poster of a torn newspaper guitar silhouette layered
Torn-paper collage of overlapping document silhouettes drifting like leaves, hal
Layered collage of multiple identical doors photographed at different scales, ta
Torn newsprint cutouts of clocks, calendars, and watches arranged in concentric
A photographic cutout of a single matchstick laid across a stack of folded newsp
A halftone collage of a long queue of paper figures funneling into a single narr
Stacked newsprint cutouts of identical sofa silhouettes pinned in a tight column
Layered photographic collage of an empty staged living room photographed too per
Halftone collage of a megaphone made of folded newspaper, dozens of small image
Stacked photographic cutouts of doorways, logos, and storefronts pinned together
A single torn newsprint paragraph at the center, photocopied multiple times acro
Torn newsprint fragments arranged into the rough shape of a face, halftone eye l
Halftone hand passing a small cut-out lamp to another halftone hand across a cha
A row of doors cut from halftone architectural photos lined along a torn newspri
Cut-paper composition of a small figure standing on the edge of a giant halftone
Newsprint collage of a tiny figure crossing a rope bridge between two enormous h
Giant balance scale built from halftone gears in editorial collage, with small c
Small figure looking up at a vast dam built from layered halftone strips in phot
Torn newsprint scene of a balance scale where one pan holds halftone images of c
Photographic collage editorial of a tiny cut-out figure standing before an enorm
Editorial cut-paper collage of a hand-drawn key hovering over a halftone door cu
Layered torn rectangles of solid color paper fold roughly into the leaning shape
Wall imagined as torn brick photograph carries a fluorescent pink seam cutting t
Through a torn photographic doorway taped sideways onto layered halftone paper,
Floating above a torn keyhole shape, a halftone photographic key hovers with bri
Three identical halftone faces clipped from a magazine fan out like cards above
Scribbled fluorescent yellow arrow drawn across torn newsprint points at an empt
Clipped pile of paper money torn into rough quarters carries one fluorescent pin
Two halftone hands torn from different photographs almost touch across the wide
Half of a clipped photographic clock face peeks from beneath layered newsprint s
Cutouts of small running figures torn from a sports photograph rearrange themsel
Beneath a torn photographic stairway leading up into a fluorescent yellow rectan
The IDEA of trust as a torn handshake with one wrist replaced by a strip of brig
Stacked torn paper pages form a precarious leaning tower with one yellow highlig
Repeating cut-paper squares arrange themselves in a grid where one square has be
Concentric rings of torn newsprint surround a fluorescent pink dot pinned dead c
Several taped-down photographic feet walk off in different directions across a p
A torn halftone hand reaches up out of a stack of overlapping torn newspaper rec
Behind a clipped photographic mouth halfway hidden behind torn halftone gray, a
Pin-shadowed cutout of a giant ear floats above small torn fragments of a black-
Idea of a bottleneck rendered as repeating cut-paper triangles squeezing into on
Vintage-collage scene of a stained linen apron hanging from a bent iron hook, sc
Editorial collage of a workshop scene rendered in cut paper — sticky notes, whit
Layered collage of a coffee cup with steam shaped like a question mark, halftone
Collage portrait poster of a halftone bass drum face with torn paper concentric
Cut-paper collage zine cover with torn newsprint, a halftone face, and masking t
Editorial collage portrait poster of a torn newspaper guitar silhouette layered
Torn newsprint cutouts of clocks, calendars, and watches arranged in concentric
A halftone collage of a long queue of paper figures funneling into a single narr
Stacked newsprint cutouts of identical sofa silhouettes pinned in a tight column
Stacked photographic cutouts of doorways, logos, and storefronts pinned together
Torn newsprint fragments arranged into the rough shape of a face, halftone eye l
A row of doors cut from halftone architectural photos lined along a torn newspri
Newsprint collage of a tiny figure crossing a rope bridge between two enormous h
Giant balance scale built from halftone gears in editorial collage, with small c
Torn newsprint scene of a balance scale where one pan holds halftone images of c
Editorial cut-paper collage of a hand-drawn key hovering over a halftone door cu
Wall imagined as torn brick photograph carries a fluorescent pink seam cutting t
Floating above a torn keyhole shape, a halftone photographic key hovers with bri
Clipped pile of paper money torn into rough quarters carries one fluorescent pin
Half of a clipped photographic clock face peeks from beneath layered newsprint s
Beneath a torn photographic stairway leading up into a fluorescent yellow rectan
Repeating cut-paper squares arrange themselves in a grid where one square has be
Concentric rings of torn newsprint surround a fluorescent pink dot pinned dead c
A torn halftone hand reaches up out of a stack of overlapping torn newspaper rec
Pin-shadowed cutout of a giant ear floats above small torn fragments of a black-
Collage of a stacked rolodex of paper cards, each card a different cut of magazi
Editorial collage on cream paper of overlapping abstract paper shapes, a torn ri
Photographic collage portrait poster of a torn newsprint silhouette of a synthes
Mixed-media collage of vintage advertising fragments cut and reassembled into a
Halftone collage unit-header for Reaganism, layered campaign-poster fragments, f
Torn-paper collage of overlapping document silhouettes drifting like leaves, hal
Layered collage of multiple identical doors photographed at different scales, ta
A photographic cutout of a single matchstick laid across a stack of folded newsp
Layered photographic collage of an empty staged living room photographed too per
Halftone collage of a megaphone made of folded newspaper, dozens of small image
A single torn newsprint paragraph at the center, photocopied multiple times acro
Halftone hand passing a small cut-out lamp to another halftone hand across a cha
Cut-paper composition of a small figure standing on the edge of a giant halftone
Small figure looking up at a vast dam built from layered halftone strips in phot
Photographic collage editorial of a tiny cut-out figure standing before an enorm
Layered torn rectangles of solid color paper fold roughly into the leaning shape
Through a torn photographic doorway taped sideways onto layered halftone paper,
Three identical halftone faces clipped from a magazine fan out like cards above
Scribbled fluorescent yellow arrow drawn across torn newsprint points at an empt
Two halftone hands torn from different photographs almost touch across the wide
Cutouts of small running figures torn from a sports photograph rearrange themsel
The IDEA of trust as a torn handshake with one wrist replaced by a strip of brig
Stacked torn paper pages form a precarious leaning tower with one yellow highlig
Several taped-down photographic feet walk off in different directions across a p
Behind a clipped photographic mouth halfway hidden behind torn halftone gray, a
Idea of a bottleneck rendered as repeating cut-paper triangles squeezing into on

Otis Werner's top subjects

illustrationeditorialcollagehalftoneop-edconceptualnewsprinthighlightermagazineblog headerlayerededitorial illustrationtorn paperfluorescent accentphotographic fragmentlongformbyline artscanned papermasking tapemixed media

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