Max Bode
Visiting Instructor
Maximilian Bode is a born and bred New Yorker. He was raised in the tough streets of Soho, where he lived until he moved to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute in 2000. In 2004 he graduated with a BA in Illustration from the Communications Design department. A year before graduating, his work was being published in the New Yorker, The New York Times, and a slew of other publications. Out of school he supported himself solely on freelance illustration money and his clients Include MTV, Vibe magazine, High Times magazine, Nickelodeon magazine, The Financial Times, Paste magazine, St. Martins Press, Fischer Verlag Press, and many more.
In January of 2006 Max was asked to join the art department of the New Yorker magazine as an art director, and the youngest employee in their organization. He remained there for four and a half years, all the while focusing on his art. During that time his work was shown in galleries in Brooklyn, the East Village, DUMBO, and Chelsea. He published a three book (150 page) comic epic with Rotabene press; the books are printed in German, Japanese, and English. Max has lectured at the Society of Illustrators, SVA, Parsons, and Pratt Institute. He has also sat as a judge for the American Illustrations annual and the Society of
Illustrators annual.
In 2010 Max left the New Yorker to devote more time to his own practice and to teach.
Max teaches Illustration Senior Project C.
