Daniela Olejníková is an illustrator and graphic designer from Bratislava. She graduated in graphic design and other media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Currently, she is mainly engaged in digital illustration, but she likes to alternate it with other techniques (linocut, watercolour, acrylic). She also works with traditional techniques of linocut and screen printing in combination with technological possibilities of digital software. She has illustrated several books, e.g.Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar, Katarina Kucbelova's poetry collection He Knows What He Will Do, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. She has illustrated almost two dozen books for children and youth for domestic and foreign publishers (Artforum, BRAK, Slovart, Nota Bene, Baobab, Akropolis, Argo, Little Gestalten, Boycott and others), such as About the Drawing that Came Alive by Daniel Pastirčák, Thirteen by Jana Bodnárová, áí (The Witcher) by Jiří Dvořák, and her own authorialbook A Cure for the Wolf. Her illustrations have appeared in Denník N, Slniečko and Raketa magazines and she has long collaborated with the association Čierne holery (Black Holes). In addition to graphic letters with motifs of forgotten or endangered industrial architecture, she created illustrations for the publications Lost Bratislava (2019) and Black Holes I and II (2018, 2021).
