Rachel Katstaller is an illustrator with a background in strategic design, focusing on insightful illustrations for commercial clients and children’s books. You can find her facing her fears on a skateboard or see more of her daily art practice on social media.
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Rachel Katstaller is originally from tiny tropical El Salvador, where she studied Strategic Design. After a period in New York, where she attended the Summer Residency in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts, Rachel relocated to Innsbruck, Austria together with her cat Hemingway.
Rachel now works for several international publishing houses concentrating on children’s books, editorial illustration and creating insightful and honest illustrations for brands. She also leads a weekly architecture and storytelling workshop for children at the bilding art & architecture school.
Hemingway still remains skeptical about the cold weather and lack of palm trees to climb.
For children’s books inquiries please contact Abigail Samoun at Red Fox Literary.
Picture by Thomas Schrott.
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Selected Clients
✺ Editorial & Books
Bravery Magazine, Carpe Diem Magazin, Domestika, Kids Can Press, Laurence King Publishing, NordSüd Verlag, Princeton Architectural Press, Scholastic Inc., Simon & Schuster, The Washington Post, UND Magazin, University of Innsbruck.
✺ Brands
Adobe Live, Alpenverein Österreich, BIPA, Blue Tomato, Centro Cultural de España El Salvador - CCESV, Foxing the Band, Haymon Buchhandlung, Patagonia, Skateboard Club Innsbruck, Special K, Stadt Innsbruck, Vans, Verkehrsverbund Tirol - VVT -
Awards & Recognitions
Selected - Women, donne, femmes, … , Bologna Children’s Book Fair, 2023
Selected - Illustrators 65, Society of Illustrators New York, 2023
Selected - Joseph Binder Symposium Exhibition, 2022
Best 100 - Bologna Ragazzi Awards, 2022
In-Show - Society of Illustrators Original Art Show, 2020
Shortlist - Creativ Club Austria Venus-Awards, 2020
Selected - 11 Catálogo Iberoamérica Ilustra, 2020
Finalist - Bienal de Ilustración, 2020
Finalist - Hiii Illustration Awards, 2019
Nominated - Serafina Nachwuchspreis, 2019
Selected - 27 Biennale of Illustration Bratislava, 2019
Selected - Best 100 Creative Quarterly, 2017
Selected - Latin American Ilustración 6
Winner - Latin American Ilustración 5
Winner - Creative Quarterly 45 -
Interviews & Features
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