If you don’t know about Illustrative ’09, its about time you did: Paris, Zurich and now Berlin: IL­LUS­TRA­TIVE 2009 will re­turn to the cre­ative cap­i­tal to cel­e­brate the cut­ting-​edge works of con­tem­po­rary graph­ic art for the fifth time around. From the 16th of Oc­to­ber to the 1st of Novem­ber, works rang­ing from draw­ing, graph­ic prints, paint­ing and mon­u­men­tal mural col­lages to graph­i­cal­ly in­spired 3D-​il­lus­tra­tions, book art and an­i­ma­tion will be on show. With more than 60 artists from all across the world, IL­LUS­TRA­TIVE brings to­geth­er an in­spir­ing cor­nu­copia of vi­su­al con­tem­po­rary cul­ture in the Villa Elis­a­beth lo­cat­ed in the heart of Berlin. IL­LUS­TRA­TIVE show­cas­es an in­ter­na­tion­al scene of artist-​de­sign­ers, whose works have been in­spired by sub­cul­ture move­ments like comic and graf­fi­ti as well as by ap­plied arts like il­lus­tra­tion and book art. The ex­hi­bi­tion ex­plores the merg­ing of in­fi­nite ma­te­ri­als and tech­niques in wide­ly un­prece­dent­ed com­bi­na­tions, which chal­lenge learned ways of see­ing – e.g. the lat­est de­vel­op­ment, where il­lus­tra­tion and graph­ics are trans­lat­ed into the third di­men­sion, or new nar­ra­tive strate­gies in 3D-​an­i­ma­tion.