Marie Åhfeldt

Four chapter-opening pages featuring interior illustrations by Marie Åhfeldt for Próxima estación, a Spanish learning series published by Liber.

Próxima estación is a Spanish learning series for upper secondary school, published by Liber. I created interior illustrations for the series, including chapter-opening illustrations and visual elements used throughout the books.

The books move through Spanish-speaking contexts, from Spain to Latin America and Cuba, with themes such as school life, family structures, music, hobbies, everyday situations, traditions and cultural practices. The illustrations follow these themes and appear in chapter openings, exercises and other interior pages.

Publisher
Liber
Author
Sara Gröndahl
Graphic design
Nette Lövgren
My role
Interior illustration
Educational level
Upper secondary school, years 1–3
Scope
Chapter-opening illustrations and interior illustrations

Chapter-opening illustration for “Ritmos latinos” in the Spanish learning series Próxima estación, with line drawings of hands playing drums, a speaker, musical notes and a dancing woman on a turquoise background.

Chapter-opening illustration — “Ritmos latinos”

Illustrated alphabet page for the first book in Próxima estación, with hand-drawn letters and small vocabulary images such as animals, food, objects and places.

Alphabet illustrations for the first book in the series.

Interior page from Próxima estación showing a Spanish exercise spread with small blue and black spot illustrations for “22 ways to relax”, including activities such as taking a bath, listening to music, writing in a diary, cycling, meditating and going for a run.
Collection of small blue and black spot illustrations for “22 ways to relax”, showing activities such as taking a bath, listening to music, writing in a diary, cycling, meditating, running and spending time outdoors.

Spot illustrations for “22 ways to relax”.

Illustrated infographic page from Próxima estación about Indigenous peoples in the world and Latin America, with portraits, maps and hand-drawn statistical elements on a turquoise

Infographic-style illustration about Indigenous peoples, with a focus on Mexico and Latin America.

Illustrated map of Latin America from Próxima estación, showing the regions of the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas with hand-drawn cultural and historical details.
Illustrated map of colonial Latin America from Próxima estación, showing Spanish viceroyalties and Portuguese territory with hand-drawn labels, ships, figures and historical details.

Illustrated maps for a section about Latin American history and colonial territories.

Hand-drawn spot illustrations of dancing people in varied poses, showing movement and rhythm.

Spot illustrations of dancing figures.

Chapter-opening illustrations across the series, shown as square crops.
Square crop of a chapter-opening illustration from Próxima estación, with a hand-drawn volcano, litter, a small plant and environmental motifs on a green background.
Square crop of a chapter-opening illustration from Próxima estación, with a hand-drawn volcano, litter, a small plant and environmental motifs on a green background.
Square crop of a chapter-opening illustration from Próxima estación, with a hand-drawn parrot, palm tree, boat and street scene on a turquoise background.

Chapter-opening illustrations across the series, shown as square crops.