A modern worldview
Artist Marc David Spengler turns daily doodles into fine art.
Marc David Spengler is a pro at filling up sketchbooks.
An illustrator, designer, and artist Spengler is based in Stuttgart, Germany. A recent graduate of Stuttgart State Academy for Art and Design, Spengler’s unique artwork can be found in many forms.
Filling hundreds of A6 notebooks, Spengler uses colorful Posca markers to bring geometric shapes to life. He draws impossible staircases, rotating cylinders, and modern art versions of mundane objects. Some scenes even repeat across multiple pages, making pieces to a stop motion film when quickly flipping through the sketchbook.
Although he just graduated with his degree in Communication Design in 2022, Spengler has collaborated with many brands. He put together printed and animated invitations for the Hermes Paris store opening in Kuwait City. Alternating blue, orange, and yellow horse motifs put a new spin on the classic Hermes logo.
Spengler won the Vans Custom Culture Contest Europe in 2021, and recently did a really fun collaboration with clothing company Petit Pli.
Finding inspiration in the graffiti that covers Stuttgart, Spengler experiments with block letters and negative space in his daily doodles. He makes sure to draw as much as he can so his work is always evolving. In each process video he posts, his drawing style is incredibly clean and methodical. With geometric shapes filling each page, the structured drawings are strongly contrasted by the explosion of scribbled colors found on the pages he allocates for testing his pens.
Seeing his artwork in different formats is a testament to how versatile his designs are. Clean color blocks in his consistent color palate of blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple read well whether on the page, a large mural, printed on fabric or made of wood. As a final project in college, he transformed a blue and white wavy rectangle into a functioning wooden stool. The result is a unique piece of furniture perfect for any colorful maximalist.
He is currently open for collaborations and is continuing to share is artwork on social media. Follow him Instagram and TikTok @_marcdavid_ to see daily drawing and process videos. He also has finished work available through Ampersand Gallery and Fine Books here, and has a design portfolio on his website here.