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The Green Fairy

bjorn — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:40:15 +0000

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 make an equation showing that a green gnome and a bottle of absinthe, equals a green fairy.

Above: A crack at calligraphy “under influence” .

Above: The final illustration, picturing wormwood as the poet’s ink.

All I Want for Christmas is Blue

Katinka — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:05:01 +0000

This is what Bjørn Brochmann wishes to see under the tree this year. Read about it in todays D2 Magazine or here.

White-Collar Origami

bjorn — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:32:59 +0000

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

Made to measure

Opening spread for article in D2 magazine

Leafovers

bjorn — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:04:59 +0000

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 Midwinter” written by Tove Jansson. It therefore felt appropriate to quote her ”Autumn Song” with the following line: “I’m looking for something we once had and maybe lost.”

Origin of the Species

maria — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:42:43 +0000

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 Here are the illustrations and some unpublished sketches.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.

Smartass Phones

maria — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:31:13 +0000

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. The animated film is made by Toxic, and if we are lucky there will be more to come.

Flight AY005 HEL / JFK

maria — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:10:22 +0000

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.

Back to 1881

nico — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:58:44 +0000

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 AD John Kåre Råke in 2005 is one of those. At the time, 1881 was the yellow pages service with “most electricians”, “most lawyers”, and so on. The brief was simply to illustrate the concept “more”.

The Dark Horse

maria — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:25:02 +0000

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 connotations to the chess knight – with its mobility it’s a versatile and strong piece. And of course; we do like the ambience of the dark horse! The little flip book animation is put together by our fab French intern Charlotte Lamy.

Type Couture

Mari — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:51:43 +0000

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 the studio at the end of the shoot.

Rune Spaans and his team commenced to do the 3D-work. Firstly, the body had to be rebuilt in 3D to get the stance right. The dress was then modeled onto the frame. To the left: The flat sketch. To the right: The draped 3D-model.

When the shape was ready, the UV-map was passed over to us so that we could start working with the text layout.

The typography was meticulously filled in.

It required a lot of testing and “alternative kerning” to get the typography exactly in the right spot. With the UV map ready, Rune could now make a render of the final dress. Here are the results.

The ads were published in a nationwide campaign that ran in magazines, newspapers and on boards .

The campaign was commissioned by the creative team Ole Henrik Stubberud, Heidi Mittun and Elin Dorum Bengtsson at Kitchen.
Foto: Massimo Leardini
Model: Kari-Anne / Team models
Hair & Make-up: Agnes Guldbrandsen/Pudder Styling: Linda Myrseth/Pudder
3D work: Rune Spaans/SuperRune (Light, render og compositing) Christer Sveen (Modeling)