To celebrate its reopening Humac invited four illustrators for a friendly showdown at the Nobel Peace Center on Friday 29. January. The illustrators who participated in this collaborative event, were Jon Burgerman, Robin Snasen Rengård, Jimmy Andersson, and Bjørn from Commando Group. In four hours the four illustrators swapped four illustrations four times to produce four [...]

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Sketches for the “Ugress” gardening column in D2 magazine. The article was about the use and preparation of a fermented brew of stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) for fertilizing, and the olfactory experience thereof – which is apparently very manly, indeed. Hence the connection with the most virile member of the gods, namely Thor, God of [...]

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We were appointed by D2 magazine to do the illustrations for a cover story on perfume.
On our first meeting I presented these sketches – pastels on coloured paper. Although well received, there were expressed concerns about the “crudeness” of the sketches – admittedly, there was a certain “art-schoolish” flair to them (which I thought were [...]

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First sketches for a new textile pattern made for Mette Møller. Inspiration is drawn from the 50’s song book “Syng med Barna” (Sing with the Children) and this strange little poem: Den som er liten og ikkje fer sove, han kan gå i skogen og byggja seg ei stove, ospelauv og bjørkelauv det skal han [...]

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Sketches for a new textile pattern for Mette Møller. We wanted to keep the Norwegian theme from the “Norwegian Weather pattern”, and work with typical Norwegian houses, and multiply, layer and deconstruct them in to a pattern.

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Two sketches for the Fretex campaign we did for the advertising agency Kitchen.

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We were appointed to make sketches for a large mural for Sony Ericsson. It was supposed to promote one of the new Sony Ericsson music phones. After some fumbling around with ideas about good vs. evil, and Jeanne d’Arc (where did that come from?),  Alice in Wonderland entered – rather off-kilter, you might say – [...]

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Initially there were supposed to be three illustrations in the Samsung campaign, but the client settled for two illustrations. This is the sketch for the last one – I was starting to get the swing of it, and it sure would have been nice to finish it. By the way: The comment from our polite and [...]

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The classic bob and the glasses, and suddenly you have Anna Wintour.

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