Rachel Katstaller nominated for Ö1 Graphic Design of the Year award

Rachel Katstaller originally comes from the small tropical country of El Salvador, where she studied strategic design. After spending time in New York, where she participated in the Summer Residency in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts, Rachel moved to Innsbruck with her cat Hemingway.

She now works for several international publishers, focusing on children's books, editorial illustrations and creating insightful and honest illustrations for brands. She also runs a weekly architecture and storytelling workshop for children at the bilding art & architecture school. 

‘Every year, I am amazed by the sudden blossoming of spring – as if out of nowhere, the world seems to explode with colour. After many years in a country with only two seasons (dry and rainy), the blossoming in Tyrol feels like a small miracle. This work plays with the moment of wonder and the attempt to capture it – whether in photography or in the delicate gesture of the figure holding a butterfly in her hands. The work combines a photograph with a digital drawing. The two layers were composed into a collage on the computer and then realised using the Risograph printing process with six colours in CMY mode (+G) plus an additional pastel colour."

- Rachel Katstaller

Ö1 Graphic of the Year

As part of the Ö1 Talent Exchange, the ‘Ö1 Graphic’ has been published annually since 2023 in a limited edition of 150 copies. A total of twelve proposals are available to the public for selection in an online vote.

Four art students from the participating Austrian art universities each designed three graphic proposals exclusively for Ö1 – until 20 June, you can vote online to decide which graphic will be printed in summer 2025.

The winning graphic will be raffled off among all those who take part in the online vote – vote now!