From a hand-drawn ladybug sparked by an instinctive moment in 2016 to a growing universe that spans illustration, storytelling, and digital worlds, Doris Taussig’s journey with HappyTottii is shaped by intuition, discipline, and lived experience. With a background that moves fluidly between ballet, design, painting, and entrepreneurship, Taussig creates work that balances realism with gentle optimism, often inviting audiences to pause, reflect, and reconnect with ideas of love, happiness, and hope. Now based in Cyprus, she continues to build HappyTottii not only as an artistic expression, but as a product and a long-term mission. In this interview, she reflects on creativity, patience, symbolism, and what it truly takes to bring an idea into the world.

At that time I didn't have the feeling that I was drawing something significant, I just had a special urge to want to draw this ladybug. Even as a child, I had the ability to observe people closely and through my ballet studies, where I also learned pantomime, this has intensified.  It was only in the following years that I got more and more the intuition to be guided to create something meaningful. And so the ladybug was the ideal emoji for my needs.

In every phase of my life, I have learned a lot that benefits me today. Even today, I still learn every day whether technology, interpersonal, business, etc. Most of all, I would put patience in the foreground. Everything takes time, which you often don't want to accept in your youth.

In Cyprus, I'm not so creative at the moment, but more in the process of getting the product off the ground. By that I mean sales channels, production, PR and so on, just what a product needs to reach the consumer. It's nice to be artistically active, but there also has to be a bit of a sense of achievement and that's sales. This also requires creativity in a different way. It is not easy to bring a new product to market.

This is certainly the proximity to the sea that gives rise to feelings of happiness. The inner peace that captures me also gives me a lot of strength to survive the ups and downs that inevitably break in. This makes it easier for me to find my way back to my work and draw motifs that make others feel positive and put a smile on their faces.

I'm a realist and don't see things with rose-colored glasses. There are two personalities living in me. The realist there, and on the other hand the artist who is guided and draws her motives by love and happiness, although I don't believe in these values at all that they could be permanent. In my life I was not allowed to experience this, but there will certainly be blessed people who were allowed to experience it.

As I said, I am guided – spiritual guidance. I can't always determine when and where something happens or should be done. Day after day I do my work, which gives me a lot of joy and I am grateful that I can still have such an exciting life at my age. I'll wait and see what HappyTottii has in store for me. I also see a mission in the far future of HappyTottii that I cannot yet estimate.

The collages are titled "Mirror Of Society" and are intended to encourage everyone to think about their actions. Collages are made with dried flowers, leaves and trash from the nature like cigarettes, papers, plastic and more. The combination should show the dirty in nature around us.

The stories have different purposes. From educational, to psychological, to adventure content depending on the use whether book, short film, video games or other.

Love, happiness, hope can be brought in everywhere.