As I'm out there looking for work, I need to go around showing my portfolio, and so I came up with a complete concept for it too. This came from some of my personal observations and ideas about this experience of constantly being on the move from place to place, showing people what "tricks" you know. Obviously its inspired by circus posters and design of the early 1900s.
So, schools almost over for me, and I've done some drawing now that I have more time to sit down with it. Here's a allover-print I made. Used pencil, inked on top of that, scanned and added color in photoshop. I'll be using these skulls some more I think. Maybe make some stickers and stuff like that.
Really sorry about this picture, but I mean, I won a gold award! I entered my two Far Coast murals in the illustration category of and won gold for one of them at Gullkalven 2007 (Student Award in Creative Communication). Tried to look very cocky posing for the picture, but I didn't really pull it off, hehe.
Long story short, we made a poster for a second year school project, and a year later they wanted to use it for real for their music festival!
I entered Far Coast's contest for a promotional mural on a huge wall on Majorstua in Oslo with these two. The second one won me a pretty respectable 3rd place in the contest :D No surprise the first one didn't win, but it was still very fun to make, hehe.
Just played around in illustrator one night, making a flyer. Wanted to use DesignBum's stuff for something nice. He's got some really nice downloads people (you, designer-people) should check out.
Three full-page ads we made for Aftenposten, one of Norway's biggest newspapers. This was a really fun challenge for us, as we'd never done ads like this before. We didn't have any art directors or copywriters in our team, so had to act like we were.
Full profile for OptimalPrint, a new company printing businesscards, using the same concept as vistaprint.
And a t-shirt print I made using the little cannibal.
Digipack, CD and booklet designed for Kaada's album "Music for an imaginary film". The concept behind the album is creating the atmosphere of old Norwegian fairytales, especially inspired by the paintings of Th. Kittelsen. This was a really great assignment, we got to work together with the artist, and had Martin Kvamme as our teacher.
Above and below: spreads from inside the booklet.
I designed a biography on one of my favorite movie directors. This was mostly a typography assignment, to learn treatment of text and images.
Here are some of the spreads inside the book..
A magazine about music related design, including albums, psters, music videos and more. This issue was about Norwegian designers and design. Shown above is the cover.
Above is the contents page, where you can turn the big black disc to read the main featuring articles.
The magazine also includes some interviews I did with Martin Kvamme and Are Kleivan, they are made as folded posters you can tear out of the magazine.
Some collages I did for a recent design pitch for a jeans client.
