Behind the maps is illustrator and art director Natascha Schwarz. She takes a real city and draws it as one big isometric story, building by building, character by character. The lady walking her dog along the promenade. The fishermen on the pier. The neighbours you only notice on the third look.

Natascha was born in St. Petersburg and studied at the Stieglitz Academy of Industrial Art. Most of her life, though, she has lived in Germany, where she took her degree in Communication Design at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. You can see both schools in her work. She still fills sketchbooks, draws just as surely on screen, and has spent more than 20 years on art direction and visual concepts for clients like Porsche, Deutsche Telekom, Handelsblatt and Staatsballett Berlin.