About
Monika Gause is a graphic designer based in Hamburg, Germany. After being involved in the production of a couple of interactive installations in museums she is now a freelancer designing mostly for print. She teaches workshops and speaks at conferences. Monika is a lecturer at Designschule Schwerin and has produced a couple of LinkedIn Learning (formerly video2brain) trainings on Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer and Inkscape.
Her »Adobe Illustrator Praxisbuch« has been published in its 9th edition in 2023. She celebrates her love for vector graphics writing about it for German design and computer magazines. As an active Adobe Community Expert she is helping people in Adobe’s online forums, in Facebook groups and wherever she comes across an interesting problem.
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See all articlesInterview with Monika Gause, Print Designer and Illustrator Expert
Q&A with Monika Gausse, who is presenting at the 2026 Design + AI Summit for CreativePro.
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