Robin Thiesmeyer has been drawing meta bene since 2013, publishing his first drawings on Twitter and metabene.de. Later, Facebook and Instagram were added and in 2016 the first meta bene book was published. The minimalist ink drawings received their own column in ZEIT online and were published in DIE ZEIT and elsewhere. Robin studied philosophy and political science in Bonn and is a graduate of the University of Hildesheim in "Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism". He has published short stories and narratives in magazines and anthologies, works as a copywriter and is currently a staff member at the Faculty of Design at the Berlin University of the Arts.