
Illustrations for Project M Magazine for BurdaYukom Publishing GmbH. Art direction by Benno Sänger.
The above illustration was for an article about Andrew Sheng, one of Asia’s most highly regarded financial regulators. He wrote in his column for finance magazine Caijing a parable about monkeys who create a derivative market for bananas. In one episode, their wheeling and dealing causes a market collapse and in another the inevitable bailout undermines the credit rating of the Kingdom. A commission sagely concludes that, “A monkey in an Armani suit is still a monkey!”