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Like a logbook, this Journal shows the working method and sources of inspiration of Jochen Gerner. The daily work of A designer requires learning to look before being able to create. He is led to to feel reality and to interpret the things seen, in order to transcribe graphically his own perceptions. In this book, Jochen Gerner returns to four years of observation and image creation. He details his process work allowing him to publish press cartoons every week, create illustrated books or exhibitions. Drawing is seen as a reservoir of frames, pictograms, and is available through the principle of ink covering on a multitude of printed media to study them the details. This permanent pairing of writing and image and this inspiration daily reality prompted Jochen Gerner to transcribe its effects, thread of the days, without any particular regularity. Dust or meteors, observations of sandfall from the Sahara or hailstone clusters, reflections on the representation of beings and things, study of forms abstract or insect wanderings, analysis of the curves of a staircase helical or sectional thermal power stations: each of these situations or micro-events occurring in everyday life therefore feed the inspiration of the illustrator and is transcribed here, in words and images. This representation of the world through drawing confronts the minuscule and the gigantic, to the private sphere and to wars, to everyday accidents and to the global pandemic.