Illustration...

One of four illustrations for a cd cover.

decorating marzipan

I tried out different decoration alternatives for the marzipan cd-cover. Here are one of them.

update...

To get you updated. At the moment I'm working on a logo for a carpenter company, layout for an underground zine, poster for an art exhibition, cd cover for a 16 year old norwegian pop band, 2 tattoo's, another cover for a great and funny punkrock band, totebag cd-cover for a crustpunk band, a pretty damn big mural and a toilet at a radiostation, monthly posters for Revolver events, redesigning a website, logo for a metalband, cover for a punkband, another logo for a rockband, and finally a cover made in marzipan! Cross my fingers I won't die yet.

Birthday posters

Did some quick posters a while ago for my friend Erik on his 30th birthday. They were hung up in the basement of Revolver pub in Oslo. Translated to english the posters says: "Put your pants on!!" "What color does Erik have on his hair?" "Welcome down to a fucking birthday!" "No it isn't Il Tempo Gigante!" "Move! I'm pregnant!" ...and the yellow you probably understand.

In the process...

I will now start to operate this site more as a workblog than just a channel to distribute my work. You will see more of my process than just the finished work. I will not publish links or pictures taken from other sites if it doesn't have any link to what I'm doing.

Until I get my own site, my finished work is going to be published here.

Don't Cry Wolf Release Poster

A poster for the releaseparty of the Don't Cry Wolf cd. It's based on 80's skateboard graphics as same as the cd. The text below is there to make the illustrated text more readable for the untrained eye. But I can assure you that it says approximately the same above in the bloody illustration.

I went a bit crazy on this cause I got a lucky deal, so I printed it in four different sizes. Flyer: 210x74,25mm, normal poster: 70x25cm, medium big: 174x61cm and the big one: 200x76cm! As you can see from the photos, the big and rectangled size did it more efficient to put it up, as it covered a bigger area on the board, so we didn't have to put up 5 of them to make it more visible. It also saved us money on printing. All in all a good advise!

Manhattan Skyline

Cover and booklet art for the band I play in. Done together with my buddy Fredrik Melbye. It's basically based upon the title of the cd "Curses". We wanted to do it black and white, but not only B/W, so we did some of the illustrations in uv coating as well on the cover to give it a bit more dimension and feel. There's also added a silver pantone color to some of the text and elements.






The booklet is a fat one! 24 pages with illustrations that visualizes the text. Fredrik and I talked a lot about doing the illustrations combining both pictures and drawings, so that's what we did. I basically did all the drawings while Fredrik put together collages, then we mixed them together till we were satisfied. Here's some of the spreads.

Manhattan Skyline T-shirt

Here is the t-shirt. Not much left to say. It's based on the idea and print on the cd-design.

Safari yoghurt

My first game! I remember when my teacher in the fourth grade told us to draw what occupation we thought we would have when we grew up. I drew myself as a creative game developer. Well, that's not that far from where I am today. Not after this project anyhow! I mainly did all the illustrations together with Henning at Suddenly Oslo. Simen, at the same agency, flashed the whole thing. Great bunch of people!





An interactive advertisement game for Yopait Safari yoghurt. This is a game for them kids. The first of four. The story: A big lump of ice have slid into the ocean, causing the sea level on the "Safari island" to increase. The animals in the jungel are worried about how this will affect them and the island in the future, and they want to do something about it. The first task is for you to drive the monkey through the jungel so that he can deliever the message to the elephant. YOU CAN TRY IT OUT HERE! Good luck!

Threadless Tee

I did a quick t-shirt out of the print on the Don't Cry Wolf cd, got it out on threadless, and now hoping for the best. Please feel free to vote for it!

Click on this link to give your vote for me on the Threadless site:

Don't Cry Wolf

The new e.p. for Don't Cry Wolf. Illustrations based on old 80's skateboard graphics. The whole cover is based upon a wolf's one-second-story. From when the wolf get shot, till it's dead.
Front cover illustrates the entrance of the bulletwound, and the entrance to/birth of his life:


The innside is basically further down the wound. With the slime, guts and all... The other stuff (bugs, deer, fog, moon...) represents things the wolf has seen in his time alive. His life flashes before his eyes, as we say:


The print on the cd is him running in some sticky, bloody slime. Away from danger, down towards freedom:


The back of the digipack shows the wolf dead with the songtitles splattered on the wall behind him. If you can't read the titles, it says: «Speed Thai, Facial Friendship, The Last Computer Kid, Second Solution, Fire Occasion, Next To Come and Million Men March»:

Suddenly Oslo

Did a quick ad for Suddenly Oslo, a digital communication agency. They are in need of some extra help. The text is set up as a quote.

City Slangzine logo

The logo is based upon a grotesk, but I altered the corners to make it more organic. Its classic and clean style brings out the contrast to punk, and the irony to fashion.

KRIG

A font for the Oslo based punkrock magazine, City Slangzine.
It's based on this issues header; WAR (between the bands in Oslo). The font is inspired by chaos in war. The random movement of a stroke that emerges from one action and becomes a chaotic pattern. This issue (#5) is also the first City Slangzine in colour, and is being sold in Narvesen stores around Norway. Props! I will make more fonts based on the theme of the issue as they come out.

Don't Cry Wolf

Gig poster for Don't Cry Wolf, Vicuna and St. Helen in the spring of 08.

Gullkalven 2007

This is the visual profile for the yearly event at Westerdals School Of Communication, that brings creative people together, to compete with eachother from all over Norway. The profile is new every year, and each year made by different people from Studio 3. This year they changed the name as well to "Gullkalven", translated as "the golden calf" in english. The whole visual concept is based upon the story behind the golden calf, and religion in basic. Typography style, documents and church illustrations made in that period. Since it's a creative event, we also brought elements of that into the illustrations.

First poster:





Second poster:






Brochure:




Diploma:



T-shirt:


Medals:

Beer bongs:

Stamp:

Far Coast

Details:

A mural for Far Coast, the new coffee brand from Coca Cola. Their logo made in coffeecups and their illustration elements representing all the different blends of smell and taste.

Manhattan Skyline

T-shirt:

Buttons:

Merch for the band I play in, Manhattan Skyline. The t-shirt was a collaboration with my fellow guitarist and graphic designer Fredrik Melbye. Buttons were produced by Håkon Mella.

Dennis Lyxzen

Layout for 2 spreads containing an intervju with Dennis Lyxzen. Inger Lise Hammerstrøm's underground magazine City Slangzine.

The Modern Atomic Bomb Hospital

Layout and design for a book about the consequences of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the incident until today. Japanese binding style. Cover design inspired by the different layers of the atomic bomb.

Grand Hotel Tjuvholmen

A visual profile for the the new Grand Hotel in Tjuvholmen.

Oslo Museum

Visual profile for Oslo museum. Three museums merging into one. I also made badges, banners, ads and business cards and such. The logos are based upon the tourist attraction symbol.

Musikkens Dag

A poster for the biggest music festival in Oslo. Also used on the front of the festival magazine, on flyers, web and elements on t-shirts for the security guards.

668 Engage Visual Interest

A magazine for people who are interested in art and design. This issue is about street art.

Twinings

3 package designs for Twinings 3 flavors; Chai tea, green tea & the classic earl grey tea. Plastic meets cardboard, covered with decoration, inspired by the 3 different countries.

Sloth vs. Diligent

Two photo based posters representing the opposites, sloth and diligent, in human behavior.

ICE-T

Package design for Tine Iste. This got a diploma in the same design contest as the poster (Gullblyantspisseren 2005).

Pants Up

A visual profile for an inefficient invention, or as the japanese call it; Chindogu. This is for holding your pants up, so they don't get damaged and wet.

MAN AT ARMS

A poster for one of the bands I play in, now called Don't Cry Wolf. It won silver in Gullblyantspisseren 2005.

Starters

Hi. I'm an artist/graphic designer from Oslo, Norway. I'm 27 years old and pushing myself everyday. Here I will post some of my graphic design work, small & BIG. I will start by putting up a selection of the old ones, then some of the more rescent work will follow. My portfolio. Enjoy...