Max-O-Matic is a designer, illustrator, and collage artist based in Barcelona. His clients include BMW, Netflix, and Panenka, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, the Washington Post, and New York magazine.
I was perched, fully clothed, on Erich Honecker’s toilet seat, hoping for the night to end. My friend Isa was turning fifty and she’d invited every Berliner of her acquaintance from the over three decades she’d lived in the city to her...