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Illustration & Hand Lettering for Food and Lifestyle brands, Packaging, Advertising and Editorial

Traditional Austrian Christmas Cookies

Cookies illustration collection

ÖAW Christmas Card 2025

Seasons Greetings from the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Rolling Stone Germany Review page about Blur's new album The Ballad of Darren, Illustration by Julia Kerschbaumer

Rolling Stone Blur Review Opener

Illustration for the review of the new Blur album „The Ballad Of Darren“

End of the Year Campaign

for STIB-MIVB Public Transport Service in Brussels

Oh, Vienna

Packaging design for a range of traditional Viennese Christmas cookies

Magazine Cover with an illustration of a woman who embraces the golden autumn sun, with autumn leaves in her hair, rose hips and chestnuts as earrings and golden autumn leaves and twigs as tattoos on her back, in golden, red and green fall colors

Aurelia

Beauty & Lifestyle magazine cover

Spread of a lifestyle magazine with an article named „Mushroom Mania“ with illustrations of Mushroom silhouettes around the title and a retro styled illustration on the right page with a mother and three children, collecting mushrooms in the wood and wearing hoods that look like mushroom hats, in retro pink, orange, purple, red, light green and white.

Mushroom Mania

Editorial illustration and design

A hand opens the andererseits inclusive magazine and provides a peek into it, where an illustrated map of the middle east is displayed

„What is happening in Israel and Palestine?“

Editorial Illustrations for the inclusive “andererseits” magazine

Banner saying From our house to yours - merry Christmas, which winds its way through Vienna's houses, ending as a stream of air from Santa's sleigh, in front of a starry sky.

From our house to yours

Christmas Card 2023 for ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Face of a lynx put together of illustrated plants and seeds, for a Pinot Noir wine bottle label;
Black wine bottle with a lynx on the label on red background

„Rreqebulli“ (Lynx)

Pinot Noir Wine Label

Magazine spread with Design and illustration of Oranges and Orange leaves on a turquoise wooden table

Oranges from Valencia

Oranges still life for a food magazine

Packets of cream of mushroom, pumpkin and potato instant soups with illustrations, hand lettering and design in funky autumn colors by Julia Kerschbaumer

Cream of Vegetable Soups

Packaging illustration and hand lettering for cream of mushroom, pumpkin and potato instant soups

An illustrated skull with hand lettering on it that says "It's Halloween - you're home alone - having no sweets - doorbell rings -what would you do?" in dark blue, orange and yellow retro tones

It's Halloween

Hand Lettering Illustration for Halloween

Cookbook Cover with illustrated vegetables in a papercut style and retro autumn colors and a papercut styled hand lettering

Simply Veggie

Vegetarian Cookbook

Wine Label design and illustration for a Cabernet Sauvignon red wine with birds in a jungle that at the same time look like hidden eyes that peak through the leaves.

Mirada Oculta

Cabernet Sauvignon Wine Label Design

A woman in traditional bulgarian clothing enjoys a glass of wine

Glug Magazine Bulgaria

Cover for Glug wine magazine

Rolling Stone Magazine photo opening on the page with a review of indie rock band Sleater-Kinney's new album, depicting the band and a screaming ice devil, illustrated by Julia Kerschbaumer

Rolling Stone Sleater-Kinney Review Opener

Illustration for the review of the new Sleater-Kinney album „Little Rope“

cosmetic packaging for shampoo, curly spray and shower gel with tropical fruit design in white, blue, pink and yellow on a pink background

myNature

Cosmetic Packaging

Dive

Pattern and label design for a tropical fruit juice brand

Arrangement of a glass of smoothie with a straw and ingredients like oranges, a cut banana, a glass of honey and a cup of yoghurt on a desk in front of the sunset over a sea coast, in yellow, orange and turquoise tones

Yoghurt Smoothie Breakfast

Food Illustration for a Travel Magazine

Hand lettering saying slow down in the shape of water waves with a relaxing redhead woman in white bikini in the middle upside down on white background

Slow Down

Summery image for merch and editorial use

Can design for traditional Austrian premixed summer drinks with illustrations and hand lettering, designed by Julia Kerschbaumer

Summer Drinks

Can design for wine/prosecco based mixed summer drinks

Rolling Stone Magazine photo opening on the page with a review of indie rock band The Folk Implosion’s new album, depicting the two band members Lou Barlow and John Davis on a black and white wavy background, illustrated by Julia Kerschbaumer

Rolling Stone The Folk Implosion Review Opener

Illustration for the review of the new The Folk Implosion album „Walk Thru Me“

Vector illustration with textures of a traditional wooden table with a bottle of Vogelbeerschnaps on it, surrounded by birds, leaves and rowanberries, in the background is an Austrian landscape in the alps and a cheering couple in traditional Austrian clothes.

Vogelbeerschnaps

Advertising and label design for a traditional Austrian rowanberry brandy.

Cover of Lifestyle magazine Crosswalk with a graphic illustration of a girl in a raincoat with an umbrella standing in the dark while it rains and catching some raindrops with her hand, a paper boat floats by, colors in high contrast dark blue, light pink and grey.

Crosswalk Magazine

Lifestyle Magazine Cover and Spread illustration

“I tend to assign Julia Kerschbaumer for particularly tricky tasks, as she is prepared to go the extra mile to master them. She works conscientiously, researches extensively and, even under time pressure, creates unique three-dimensional spaces that are visually enthralling.”

Nils Stelte, Photo Editor at Rolling Stone Germany

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