When Stefan Kuhnigk mistakenly spilled a cup of coffee during a work meeting, he thought the mark it left on his paper resembled a monster. He grabbed a pencil. The rest is history.
Artist Stefan Kuhnigk making a Coffeemonster drawing in Hamburg, Germany, where he lives. By Cathy Free May 23 at 8:00 AM Eight years ago, Stefan Kuhnigk was stuck in a meeting at the ad agency in Germany where he worked as a copywriter when he accidentally spilled his coffee on a blank piece of paper.
Since then, Kuhnigk, 35, has made more than 600 Coffeemonsters — some sweet, some subversive — and has sold them across the globe as coffee mugs, T-shirts, wall clocks, tote bags, prints and original sketches. Each monster has a backstory and a following, and shows how one person’s mistake can be transformed into his inspiration.
View this post on Instagram #coffeemonsters 572 ✍️ . Storytime: Once they fled from the police they never gave up. Gabe and Jakyllo were closing in on the finish line but then they ran into a police barricade. What happened then is legend: They both ate all officers and ran on. And if noone catched them by now they are still running and laughing. . Follow me drawing monsters on www.youtube.com/coffeemonstershome . The FB with Livestreams: fb.com/coffeemonsters .
“The drawings connect creativity, quirkiness and coffee,” he said. “They’re also relatable and easy to understand, which makes them very likable, I think.”“I’ve always enjoyed doodling — in school, I always doodled and drew on my homework,” he said. “There was almost never a blank page. I like the romance of it — me, in a cafe, doodling.”
"I drink some and spill some, then leave the stain to dry and come back to it someday for a drawing,” he said. “Most of the time, I live the cappuccino life,” said Kuhnigk, who now works as a copywriter for a different ad agency. “But you can use pretty standard office coffee too and get a perfect result. A stain is a stain.”Kuhnigk’s Coffeemonsters range from grotesque to goofy, with some sporting bulging eyes and two or three heads, and others resembling mocha-colored sea creatures and space aliens. Among his personal favorites is one he calls “the angry chicken.
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