Challenge:
Create hard and soft bookcovers for historical thriller novel.
Solution:
After conversations with the author about mood and ideas, designed a bookcover, using photos and images of textures and historical texts by Søren Kiergegaard (a prominent figure in the book).
Overlay handdrawing by Anders Heeboell-Holm.
Skills & tools:
Photoshop
Illustrator
Iphone camera
Client:
Martin Svaneborg 2021
Challenge:
Give voice to how I often feel going on social media and reading the news these days.
Solution:
Explore an image idea that had come into my head, using both personal and found imagery, and creating an image, same way as I often did when I was younger, to express feelings and moods visually rather than verbally.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Collage
Image research
Personal project:
2019
Challenge:
Create Christmas card to send to friends and business contacts alike.
Solution:
Create collage from 4 different images in photoshop and make them blend together, using the recurring character of the Itty Bitty Squirrel and elements from my life, which first came about when making the first digital card in 2005.
Skills & tools:
Photoshop
Image research
Graphic design
Client:
Private project 2021
Challenge:
Produce Idea, 5 illustrations and a written story, based on real technology and it’s potential in a near, 100 year future, for Blank Space Project's Outer Space Copmpetition.
Solution:
Taking outset in NASA’s and other studies of nano technology and it’s potential uses, I wrote a narrative from the point of view of a fictional company, toting it’s line of nano based field-use products, aimed at the discerning mom and pop space pioneer and explorer.
Skills & Tools:
Design and writing
Image and scientific research
Photoshop collage
Thanks to:
The lovely people at 5te Sted for support and feedback.
Challenge:
Produce Idea, 5 illustrations and a written story for Blank Space Project's Architectural Fairy Tales competition 2018.
Solution:
Came up with a concept idea for a story of a design movement and an idea taking hold on a greater scale, and asked writer/director Simran Sidhu to collaborate in producing the story: "Paint The World White" and illustrations to go with it, and use it as a creative ideas workshop for future projects as well.
Skills & Tools:
Design and concept idea
Image and scientific research
Making reference library
Photoshop collage
Made in collaboration with:
Writer/Dir. Simran Sidhu
2018
Interesting fact:
10 months after our story was submitted, dealing with themes of global warning, and the theory of painting the world white in order to keep temperatures down, the city of Los Angeles in the US is doing just that.
See clip on CBS news
Challenge:
Make a portrait of Anna, 2 year old daughter of friends of mine, that reflects her world.
Solution:
Take fotos of Anna and all her favorite toys and her parents in their garden, and from images that has personal meaning to the family, combine them into a Photoshop collage, that brings imagination and play into an everyday setting.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Collage
Photography
Personal project:
2019
What is your challenge?
Challenge:
Produce Idea, 5 illustrations and a written story for Blank Space Project's Architectural Fairy Tales competition 2019 in two days.
Solution:
Based on the baffeling real world slimemold Physarum Polycephalum, I wrote a story about the “worklife” of a very versatile organism and it’s potetial uses.
Story
Skills & Tools:
Design and writing
Image and scientific research
Photoshop collage
Thanks to:
Ekaterina Petrounina for putting me on to my protagonist.
Challenge:
Create illustrations to communicate Danish artist Marianne Hesselbjerg’s ideas and concept for proposed permanent art installations in the as of yet unbuilt Absalon Production School in Slagelse.
Solution:
Working from a 3D model supplied by the Absalon architects, we explored the building and found suitable places for the artworks and looked at how they related to the flow and layout of the building structure. Based on this we picked out views, which where then built up into illustrations, using a mix of 3D Rhino/Vray renders, images of existing artworks and Photoshop, which was then compiled into a presentation folio.
Skills &Tools:
3D Rhino + Vray renders
Photoshop
InDesign
Client:
Marianne Hesselbjerg
2019
Challenge:
Make a portrait of my 1 year old niece that reflects her world.
Solution:
Take fotos of my niece and all her favorite toys and her parents and dog Frode in their home, as well as my photo archives for background that has personal meaning to the family, then combine them into a Photoshop collage, that brings a bit of imagination and play into the everyday setting.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Collage
Photography
Personal project:
2019
Challenge:
Create Christmas card to send to friends and business contacts alike.
Solution:
Create collage from over 10 different images in photoshop and make them blend together, using the recurring character of the Itty Bitty Squirrel and elements from my work life, which first came about when making the first digital card in 2005.
Skills & tools:
Photoshop
Image research
Graphic design
Client:
Private project
2018
Challenge:
Make personal birthday present for my 9 year old niece.
Solution:
Take pictures of my niece and photograph her favorite street, skies and a rainbow in Copenhagen. Make collage in Photoshop based on her current obsession with unicorns adding another 7 images found online to the mix, and finally inserting her mom and myself cheering in the background.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Photography
Image research
Personal project:
2018
Challenge:
Create Christmas card for MBYland, using a recent playground project design of theirs and people it with little “Christmas monsters”.
Solution:
Sketch Christmas monsters all over a print of the project drawing, then pen draw all the monsters individually and scan the drawings using my phone. Then put the whole composition together in illustrator.
Skills & tools:
Illustrator
Hand sketching
Graphic design
Client:
MBYland Landscape Architects
2017
Challenge:
Re-imagine posters for famous films for #FilmdooCreativty poster competition.
Solution:
Working from imagery and colour suggessted in the title of “A Clockwork Orange”, attempting to convey dual meaning, and exploring the general feeling of being watched in “1984”, made collages using still photography, type and graphic elements.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Illustrator
DSLR camera
Photography
Image research
Competition Entry for:
#FilmdooCreativity
2015
Challenge:
Create portrait of imaginary character, dreamed up as a running private joke between my cousin and I, as a personal birthday present.
Solution:
Taking an outset in 18-19th century natural history illustrations of flowers and animals, I created a series of prints of “animal personalities”, emulating classical scientific style with accurate colour drawings and Latin descriptions of the portrayed subject, and gave it a subversive twist.
Skills and Tools:
Photoshop
A sense of humour
Personal project:
The Animal Personality Series
2018
Character description on the graphic:
The Gull
A surly animal with rebellious tendencies. The Gull is a well know kleptomaniac, unparalleled undercover agent and master of disguise. It has developed it’s own secret language: “Bab bab”, and if you are particularly lucky, you can catch a glimpse of it performing secret missions around Europe.
Challenge:
Do something instead of being bored on a random Saturday.
Solution:
Explore an image idea that had been bouncing round my head, finding compelling imagery and creating a dream scape suggesting adventure travel and faraway exotic destinations.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Image research
Personal project:
2012
Challenge:
Make poster proposal for Amnesty International utilizing their logo.
Solution:
Created an size A3 poster design, using the Amnesty candle logo to light up the universal declaration of human rights in the dark.
Skills & Tools:
Graphic design
Photoshop
Competition entry for:
Amnesty International
Challenge:
Make poster and theatre programme for "All For Love - A Tribute to Michael Jackson" dance show, and find images for on-stage back projection.
Solution:
Do research into Micheal Jackson’s back catalogue, find iconic imagery, and make a selection of images for back projection on stage, then make graphic design and layout based on his silhouette and stage iconography and produce a poster and full theatre programme for the show.
Skills & Tools:
Image research
Photoshop
InDesign
Web banner
Poster design
Theatre programme design and layout
Made with:
Sceneindgangen
2010
Client:
Gladsaxe Teater, Copenhagen
Challenge:
Create portrait of imaginary character, dreamed up as a running private joke between my cousin and I, as a personal birthday present.
Solution:
Taking an outset in 18-19th century natural history illustrations of flowers and animals, I created a series of prints of “animal personalities”, emulating classical scientific style with accurate colour drawings and Latin descriptions of the portrayed subject, and gave it a subversive twist.
Skills and Tools:
Photoshop
Image research
A sense of humour
Personal project:
The Animal Personality Series
2011
Character description on the graphic:
Panthera Bovis a.k.a. The Cowpard
This rare animal hails from the outer moor in Jutland, and is know for its keen business sense and special talent for infiltration of Copenhagen affairs, due to its unsurpassed ability to sneak unnoticed around the capitol, and its extensive network of underground exile Jutlanders. The Cowpard is sought after for its fair coat with printed black spots, and can best be observed driving around in its private limousine while enjoying a glass of champagne in its natural element.
Challenge:
Create personalized wedding and birthday presents for friends.
Solution:
Take the personal favorite things, places and activities of good friends and integrate them in collages made specifically for them.
Skills and Tools:
Photoshop
Graphic design
Photography
In-depth knowledge of the recipient’s lives and likes
Discreet questions
Personal projects:
2013-14
Challenge:
Find expression for the frustration of financial uncertainty when freelancing.
Solution:
Draw the "Economy Moster": a surly creature who sits in the corner of your room and grows bigger or smaller in proportion to your level of financial worry. Then sketch a mental image of what he does and how to deal with him.
Skills & Tools:
Sketchbook detail
Pencil drawing
Personal project:
2004
Interesting fact:
I subsequently found that many of my fellow freelancers know him well, and have had him visit their homes from time to time, and that they had a good laugh and found solace that they where not alone in this feeling and in seeing a somewhat humorous interpretation of their worries sketched out.
Challenge:
Originally to make a baptism present, for my niece.
Solution:
Starting with her baptism present, I subsequently made series of images from my niece's "secret" and real lives, using both fantastical and real life elements, emulating the way imagination, play, personality and everyday life blends together for a child.
Skills and Tools:
Photoshop
Illustrator
Photography
Image research
Graphic design
Personal project:
2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2018.
Challenge:
Create annual Christmas cards to send digitally to clients and business contacts in order to keep in touch.
Solution:
Make one card a year, based on events or projects that took place in the last 12 months, and send it along with a personalized email.
This tradition eventually triggered getting me invited to come and work in Australia on projects located in Bali and Java for 2 years.
Skills & tools:
Painter
Photoshop
Illustrator
Hand sketching
Photography
Personal project:
2005 - 2019
Challenge:
Create poster for short film “ Termination”.
Solution:
Put together several poster layouts, based on still images from the film, picked out by the director, which where themed on the freedom to choose and consequences of choices we create for ourselves.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Layout
Client:
Writer/Dir. Simran Sidhu
2013
Challenge:
A shot from a run on a moody day in Fælledparken, Copenhagen turned out too good not to do something creative with it.
Solution:
The foggy conditions seemed like the the perfect opportunity for great lumbering monsters to pass unnoticed through the city, so I added in Godzilla slowly making his way across the park, only briefly glimpsed by the odd, hapless jogger.
Skills & Tools:
Photography
Image research
Photoshop
Personal project:
2013
Challenge:
Create concept posters and titles for short film, “Shadow Walker”.
Solution:
Put together several poster layouts, based on still images from the film, picked out by the director, then added grit and typeface reflecting the film’s mood and storyline.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Layout
Client:
Writer/Dir. Simran Sidhui 2012.
Challenge:
Create concept poster for "Progeny" feature film script pitch.
Solution:
Read script, then interpret and illustrate key scenes, condensing the elements into one image, to help give prospective producers a feel for the story.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Image research
Client:
Writer/Dir. Mehul Desai
2009
Challenge:
Create concept illustrations for "Frontiers" feature film script pitch.
Solution:
Read script, then interpret and illustrate key scenes to help give prospective producers a feel for the story.
Skills & Tools:
Photoshop
Client:
Writer/Dir. Mehul Desai
2008
