SO LAST YEAR, LAST YEAR

This was originally a Skin project we sent in to a christmas paper design competition. It was selected as one of 10 show pieces, but never printed. However, a good chance for recycling it came through Tonje Høyberget, a friend of mine at the time designing Utflukt #3 – 2007, an Oslo based literature magazine. She needed an illustration for a conceptual piece called Grupper (Groups), where the author had isolated all the social groups mentioned in the annual televised speach by the Norwegian prime minister. Some small adjustments and a regrouping, and Voilá!

THE OSLO GUIDE TO GAMLEBYEN

The guys at Your Friends gave me an offer I couldn't refuse: make an illustration for the alternative Oslo guide named nothing less than Oslo – the connoisseurs guide to happy living in one of the most expensive cities in the world. What would I like to promote as something really worthwhile discovering in Oslo? The result: an advert for Gamlebyen Sport og Fritid, the skatepark/ hall of fame underneath Dyvekes Bro in Gamlebyen. I've spent so much +quality+ time there, and have enormous respect for the effort put inn by Snurre Sprett and the other local ildsjels building and funding the whole park. The guide is promoted by the Bylarm festival 2009 and was released at their opening concert. Ball pen on paper. Easy does it!




(Mobile snap from pre-release event down in the old Fortuna Brewery beer cellars)

ELEVATE

Pen drawing on paper, bubbles cut out of pink paper. Meditative study, continuing some previous experiments with birds, and branch shaped typo.