Mina Braun is a Berlin-based illustrator. After studying Visual Communication in Kassel, Germany, she continued her studies in illustration in Edinburgh. As a student, she practised printmaking and discovered screen printing whilst conducting independent experiments. After graduating she focused on producing and selling her own screen prints. In 2015, Mina moved from Edinburgh to Berlin, and started to further develop her illustration work alongside selling her prints. 
Her commissioned work includes illustrations for children, as well as book illustration and designs for posters. Mina spends a lot of time with her sketchbook, brainstorming ideas with pencils and pens. She then turns these drawings into digital illustrations or prints, working either with Photoshop, her Wacom Cintiq or with Procreate on her iPad.
Mina is interested in the relationship between humans and nature, and enjoys depicting the mundane moments of everyday life, using imagery from nature to illustrate different emotional states. In her work, Mina mixes playful lines with bold shapes and grainy textures.
She first discovered Risograph printing when creating her zine, How to Swim, which is about visiting swimming classes as an adult. “I really enjoy working with a reduced colour palette and therefore totally fell in love with the process of Riso printing, especially how it enables you to work with colours at different opaqueness” describes the illustrator. Mina also regularly runs workshops with Berlin-based Risograph printer Drucken3000.
Currently, she is working on a new Riso printed zine which is all about vegetables. “I really enjoy visual storytelling and would like to do more book illustration as well as doing some editorial illustration” concludes Mina.
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