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Happy New Year! Still hung over after the holidays? If you’re feeling blue, go for green! In today’s perfume review in D2 Magazine, Bjørn explains why smelling absinthe a.k.a. “The Green Fairy”, is the choice if you want to embrace gloominess and get miserable in style. Above: Happy in the haze of a drunken hour. An attempt to [...]
This is what Bjørn Brochmann wishes to see under the tree this year. Read about it in todays D2 Magazine or here.
Classic tailoring with a twist: So sharp that you’d better watch out for paper cuts when tying a Windsor. For D2′s article on the French high-end shirt maker Charvet, we sharpened our scalpels to make these cutting edge paper illustrations. To see the Wing, Round, Spread and Button-down, click here. Ready for assembly Buttons down [...]
Some unhappy leaves that didn’t make it for todays article on autumn perfumes in D2 Magazine. Brooklyn based CB I Hate Perfume’s, has hit the comfort zone with Burning Leaves and M3 November. Go check them out, and cuddle up in front of the fireplace. Below, the final illustration. CB’s perfume M3 November pays homage to “Moominland [...]
Origin of the Species
The visual evidence of Bjørn and Alf Marius Opsahl’s hipster search in New York is covering five spreads in todays D2 Magazine. Here are the illustrations and some unpublished sketches. For those of you who read Norwegian: Go and by the magazine, and read Alf’s text, it’s quite funny.
We were commissioned by our old friends at SMFB, Carl-Erik Conforto and Stig Bjølbakk, to work with them on an advertising concept for Tele2′s smartphone campaign. These little fellows emerged out of the shapes in Tele2′s own design manual, and we immediately fell in love with them. The print and television campaign is out now. [...]
We are happy to have Bjørn back from NYC, where he has been spending the last week as a reporting illustrator. These are some rough sketches from the Finnair flight.
It’s always a bit frightening to dig in to the archives of older work, but it can be a good exercise. Sometimes you see that you should have choosen a completely different approach, but sometimes you find work that you’re pretty proud of, even after many years. The 1881 campaign we did for Hei! and [...]
As you might have noticed, we have redesigned our website as well as our identity. The old horse is gone to where the grass is always green, and a new horse has taken its place. We feel that this horse truly reflects our spirit – it’s stronger, clearer and even more dedicated. We like the [...]
Typographic dress for the launch of new women’s magazine Alt for damene. The idea from the creative team at Kitchen was “stories that stay with you after you have finished reading”. Sketches of various dresses and poses during art direction of the photo shoot. Backstage First rough sketches off the different styles were drawn in [...]