For the moment my happiness about finally being able to sketch has given away to frustration about not being able to find good motifs. But I had a good talk with my prof, took a break, went home and decided to stop drawing for a bit until I've found a solid / more subtle / more simple concept to visualize my thesis. Still confident it's gonna work out somehow. I'll still have time to panic one month prior to the exams :D. Until then, here's a closeup of one of the better sketches.

Ooouweee, diploma update. Work is progressing at an ok speed I think. Last week my prof and I decided on two pretty nice theses on which I will base my illustrations: "In fear, one cannot but spread fear." and "Can there be monsters in the eye of the one who knows why they are, how they became and how they should not have had to become what they are?".

Since then I've started with some rough pencil sketches – probably none of which will be part of my final result – and am in the midst of trying out old school watercolor paints. Pretty excited as I've never really worked with these – I'm just not a big painter, always been more of a 'drawer'. Anyways, here a couple of the very rough pencil drawings.

Diploma research is in full bloom, oral exams are a week away, workspace has been claimed. Sleeping rhythm is suffering already, procrastination always a threat, Slacker action with the boys. Loads of new faces, a few old ones, first sketches are being drawn. A few examples.

Prends le pilule bleu. And we'll show you just how deep down
the rabbit hole goes...

This little piece is almost a year old but I never got around to posting it. It's a birthday card for my Dad's 50th. Still kinda like it, so why not share :)

Whoopdeewhoop – I've been published again! This time in the very fine Neuland – The Future Of German Graphic Design, curated by Twopoints and published by Actar. Although the work in there isn't exactly my most recent – and most favorite for that matter – I'm still a little proud to be noted alongside such great designers as Pixelgarten, Node or Purple Haze. Also, there is a long list of ex-Mathildenhöhe colleagues and friends like Tobi Becker, Michi Satter, Charlie Hoffmann or John Russo & Gina Mönch presented in there. Heck, with U9 even one of my ex-profs is showcased! Ok, enough with the name dropping, but I guess Darmstadt wasn't such a bad choice after all ;)

Anyways, the custom made font of the book takes some getting used to just as well as the black on silver print of the body text. Also they translated my English 'interview' into german rather stiffly. Nonetheless I think it's great book, delivering a nice overlook of contemporary german design while adding a fun personal note with the casual questionnaires. I'm very happy and honoured to be part of it. Go out, buy a copy and become the giggly little schoolgirl that is me right now :)

I've been asked to contribute an illustration to the soon to be released book Nachts In Darmstadt. I can't really tell you what the exact concept of the book is 'cause I honestly don't know. Something about nights in the town of Darmstadt obviously, but other than that, no clue. Anyways, I was supposed to illustrate the poem "Reiß' mein Leben aus dem Staube" ("Rip my life out of the dust") by german lyricist Heinz Winfried Sabais. Here is the full poem in German and here's my work, yippey!



Hope they don't bust my ass for posting this prior to the release...
EDIT: Bunny replaced with monster, still not perfect but a better fit.

So here, as promised, the logo I did for Kiteforum.no, André's little baby. The old logo consisted of a flying eagle silhouette as well as the initials 'KF' in a script font – you can see it here. André wanted to keep the eagle for recognition / identification purposes but spice the image up a little and maybe add a logotype – and so I did. All in all it was a three week process, most of it done after hours. I don't think I've ever made quicker decisions...

Finally able to put some work up again, been over two months already since the last time. Here are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place diplomas for the winners of the Norwegian final of the Bombay Sapphire Designerglass Competition. Prints are 250x353mm with glossy gold/silver/copper paper on the back and signatures printed in gold/silver/copper foil on the front. The diplomas were then actually put between two glass plates and framed with black wood – it looked as if the diplomas were floating within the frame. Unfortunately I was in Germany when everything was finished (also during the award ceremony) and therefore unable to take pictures of the final results. Only thing I could find was this teeny tiny image here. Well, anyways...

My Bombay Sapphire stuff made into the March issue of Norwegian design magazine Kreativt Forum as one of the 'Monthly Picks'. Yippee-ki-yay.