In two busy weeks, I single-handedly developed a new identity for The Wine Monopoly in Norway. Good thing it was just a school project… Fun project, but it would have felt more realistic if the pretend client was somewhat smaller.

The fictional book café Signs was the project for my exam at the end of the first school year.

A fun school project about magazine layout and getting better acquainted with our new Tria Markers.

Driving a forklift truck can be great fun. The working conditions, bosses and salary that goes with it, are not. So I went back to school and became a graphic designer instead. This is an early project on patterns and symbols.

One of the very first projects in school playing around with gouache paint. I don’t remember the project description now, but it seems I went for an animal theme to convey the concept of colour theory. I think I have to go and buy some gouache paint again.

An early school project about playing with shapes of the letters in our name. Here are a couple of sketches for the project.

This project was about designing a brochure using fonts from FontShop and capturing the spirit of jazz through different decades. My spread was on the 1970ies and I used the following fonts: FF Elementa Rough, FF Super Grotesk, FF Bodoni Classic.

I decided that I wanted to use this project as an opportunity to teach myself Adobe Illustrator. I had hardly done any digital drawing before, so these illustrations are my first work with the program. The story I wrote is about a girl called Tara. She lives with her mother in a country where dragons burn down all the trees in the Christmas Tree forest. Or perhaps everything is not as it seems? Exciting stuff indeed… ;-)

Part of this project was defining a concept. I made a promotional brochure for the shop Tramp, a fictional shop that would specialize in selling boots had it existed. I had a lot of fun experimenting in different techniques for the illustrations here.

I chose Frida Kahlo. She wasn’t on the list of «important artists» that we were supposed to choose from, but I guess my teacher agreed that she should have been.

I didn’t really know that much about her at the time, but though this project I learned a lot about how (male) art historians have overlooked important female artist. Lucky me, later that year I had the opportunity to catch the Kahlo Exhibition at Tate Modern.