Challenge:
Design 5x5x5meter installation for the Danish Design Awards arrival area, built with shrinkable plastic-wrap, LED and 55x55mm wood scaffold, provided by sponsors in Kolding, Denmark.
Solution:
Made 10 sketch design options, doable with the materials and labor provided for the project, and presented the top 3 to DDA. Documentation drawings and renders clarifying the project where made in 3D for the option chosen by DDA.
Skills & Tools:
Concept and design
3D SketchUp model
Vray renders
Construction drawings
Client:
Danish Design Awards
2017
Night photo taken by Baks Arkitekter
Challenge:
Make a No.5 “Disco ball” done for party at 5teSTED.
Solution:
Sawed out and glued polystyrene 10x 60x120cm blocks, gold paint, glue varnish, gold glitter and hairspray, wire and motor. Thanks Britt Christiansen for the video and Bo for help at the workshop.
Skills & tools:
Illustrator
Model Workshop
Client:
5teSted 2022
Challenge:
Create story and visuals for Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series competition "The Script", with dialogue predetermined, to be produced as a professional short film if chosen.
Sollution:
Wrote story: "Heaven on Earth" about a bookshop where you literally dissapear into the stories, and created mood boards as a starting point for production design.
Skills and Tools:
Concept collage and moodboards
Image research
Image composition
Photoshop
Writing
Story made with:
Maya Gilham Mørch
2012
Challenge:
Create and develop production design concept for "The Silver Glove", a musical/dance show based around the music of Michael Jackson to be produced in West End London.
Solution:
Came up with idea of using video projection mapping 360 degrees for a fully immersive experience, using a new technology, in the spirit of MJ’s own productions. Found, contacted and got major production collaborators on board in the UK, which could open the doors for financing the project. Had initial animation tests made by MPC Film.
Skills & Tools:
Original design concept idea
Concept poster
3D video mapping stage design concepts
3D SketchUp Models + Vray
Photoshop
Networking
Contacted and got production collaborators
Client:
Legacy Stage Productions
2011
Production collaborators:
MPC Films
Delstar Engeneering
Production Manager Matt Towell
Performing Artist Omer Bhatti
Challenge:
Create early 3D concepts for the pressure tank used in feature "Nordic Noir" crime thriller "Kvinden i Buret"/"The Keeper of Lost Causes", and draft fictional Copenhagen Police station basement set.
Solution:
Study pressure tank shapes and sizing, and come up with the most uncomfortable room possible, like the grille floor detail, which could be lit from below and where grime could slide down and settle. There was at one point a steel and a concrete upright version.
Draw police station set using traditional drafting to provide texture.
Skills & Tools:
Design development
3d SketchUp models
Traditional pencil drafting on the board
Made with:
Production Designer Rasmus Thjellesen
2012.
Client:
Zentropa Film
Film premiered 2013
Challenge:
Make and put up decor for Roskilde Festival Arena Stage tent holding 30.000 people.
Solution:
Make, put up and take down decor as part of 10 people team, while finding practical solutions and make sure safety regulations and aesthetics go hand in hand inside a tight budget.
Skills & Tools:
Putting up decor
Teamwork
Using lifts and practical hand tools
Made with:
Stage decor team 2011, 2004 & 2001
Challenge:
Visualize set design for Audi R8 commercial.
Solution:
Make accurate 3D model based on sketches provided by production designer, to be used to clarify design for producers and director, and work out set build practicalities.
Skills & Tools:
3D sketchUp model
Visuals from Sketchup
Made for:
Production Designer Peter Grant
2011
Client:
Bacon CPH
Challenge:
Create image to support "Eden" sci-fi feature film pitch to prospective producers.
Solution:
Read script and produce compelling imagery, illustrating the core story (stranded on virgin planet) to peak interest in the story and attract financiers.
Skills & Tools:
Concept illustration
Image compostition
Drawing
Photoshop
Client:
Writer/Dir. Mehul Desai
2008
Challenge:
Write script and create concept design for short film project based on Patricia Highsmith's short story "The Snailwatcher".
Solution:
Write script treatment to use as basis for the project, and explore ideas for characters, environments and setting of mood within a small, confined set piece.
Skills & Tools:
Concept drawings in pencil
Storyboard
Writing
Copy rights research
Personal project
2002
Challenge:
Make cover illustration and find design references for production design pitch for "The Secret of Moonacre" (working title: The Moon Princess").
Solution:
Read script, then created cover illustration to set the mood, and researched reference imagery for architecture, furniture, characters and props to be put together in a production design pitch document that won the job.
Skills & Tools:
Coverpage illustration in Photoshop
Image reference research
Client:
Prod. Designer Sophie Becher
2007
Winning production design pitch
Film completed 2008
Challenge:
Draw set and props for Guinness "Fridge Pub" commercial.
Solution:
Make accurate 3D model and illustrator drawings based on sketches provided by production designer, to clarify design for producers and director, and be used as working drawings for the set build.
Skills & Tools:
3D model
Illustrator drawings
Made for:
Art Dir. John Ebden
2005
Client:
Guinness
End product:
See clip
Challenge:
Draw kitchen set for Jamie Oliver Sainsbury’s commercial in London, England.
Solution:
Make accurate plan and perspective hand drawings based on sketches provided by production designer, in order to clarify design for producers and director, and be used as working drawings for the set build.
Skills & Tools:
Design development
Technical drawings
Hand drawn constructed perspective
Made for:
Prod. Des. Sophie Becher
2005
Client:
Sainsbury’s
Fun fact:
This commercial, has had the dubious honour of being re-interpreted by the UK techno music underground :) -see clip.
Challenge:
Work out design and make set drawings for "Monster.com" commercial.
Solution:
Work out “revolving ring” design and how to fit the set inside the studio, making an accurate 3D model, based on sketches provided by the production designer, in order to clarify design for producers and director, and be used as working drawings for the set build.
Skills & Tools:
Concept design
3D Sketchup model
Visuals from Sketchup
Made with:
Art dir. John Beard
2007
Client:
Monster.com
End product:
See clip
Challenge:
Work out spirals and tree size for BBC1 Christmas Ident.
Solution:
Work out size and shape of the design in an accurate 3D model, so children age 5 will be able to walk around a spiral up a Christmas tree. The 3D model showed that spiral design idea wouldn’t work if it was to meet safety requirements, and the design was accordingly changed into circular platforms.
Skills & Tools:
3d model
Christmas tree spiral calculations
Made with:
Art Dir. John Beard
2005
Client:
BBC
End product:
See clip
Challenge:
Create imagery to support "iWant" film pitch to prospective producers.
Solution:
Read script and produce compelling imagery and concept poster, illustrating the core story in order to peak interest in the story and attract financiers.
Skills & Tools:
Concept illustration
Drawing
Photoshop
Illustrator
Made with:
Writer/Dir. Simran Sidhu
2010
Challenge:
Design and draw life size toy cars for Award winning Peugeot 407 "Toy Car" commercial made in Sydney, Australia.
Solution:
Measure up existing stripped down car chassis, then design and draw “toy” designs made from foam and plywood to fit on these, based on real toys, but without copying any known brands due to copyright issues.
Make site plans for production use in order to be able to place cameras and cars.
Skills & Tools:
Toy car design
Traditional drafting
Dokumentation
Site dokumentation
Site planning
Made for:
Art Dir. Tom Nursey, Dir. Phillipe Andrè
2004
Client:
Peugeot
End product:
See clip.
Challenge:
Draw Crypt in Highgate Cemetary, London, England.
Design and draw "Egg Pavillion" concept in Sydney, Australia.
Solution:
Visit and document site and draw up crypt, to demonstrate drafting ability, due to not being able to keep original hand drawings from proffessional drafting jobs.
The Egg pavillion was a concept design of mesh “leaves” to sit “floating” on a shallow pond in a skyscraper atrium garden in Singapore.
Skills and Tools:
Original concept
Pencil technical drawings
Constructed perspective
Site documentation
Personal project
2005
Client:
Room 403 Landscape Architects
2003
