The German Chicago (/the Chicago of Europe) is a collection of Mark Twain’s travel letters about Berlin.

I designed this book with a new layout adding illustrations and I call it The Timeless Berlin.

The illustrations were inspired by my love for the New Yorker’s cartoons. 

I wanted to create a good experience by redesigning this book since the text is available online for anyone who wants to read it anytime.

So, I created three characters, or better say three storytellers. The Mark Twain character symbolizes the text. The cat for the purpose of comics, and the girl would be the modern reader interacting with the text.

These interactions are happening in a place with no timeline. The experiences are floating in time. So you see the past and present mocking each other. Sometimes the old ways win sometimes the methods in the modern world.

As for the cover, I used the famous yellow trains of Berlin transforming to their 1800s version, the horse cars.