About the author

Pia Wieland studied communication design at the Stuttgart Art Academy and works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. She loves travelling the world and being in foreign countries, absorbing and reflecting on the diversity of cultures. Everything is best done hitchhiking and with a guitar in her luggage, as randomly and spontaneously as possible, always looking around every corner for new inspiration and a new, creative project. In her everyday life and on her travels, it is a matter of course for her to live and act as sustainably as possible.

Tobias Ertel worked as a freelance photographer for several years and is now studying interaction design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd. His love of faraway countries and nature is reflected in his photographic work. Despite several overland trips to distant countries in recent years, regional destinations are close to his heart, true to the motto "Why go far, when the good is so close". When Tobias is not travelling or studying, he likes to fill his days with reading scientific articles on climate policy and social issues.