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This is the story of how an idea went from Jane Austen to Little Bo-Peep and back again, and how almost everything got lost in the process. The theme for the gardening column in D2 was titled “Hyrdelandskap” or “Shepherd’s landscape”. I though it’d be quite nice to use the title quite literally, and did some [...]

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2010-01-21 :: bjorn // Commando Group
The Smell of Thunder

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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 [...]

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2009-10-08 :: maria // analogue + illustration + sketches
Style Notes

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Further explorations into the art of puppeteering.

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Sketches for the 2007 Nordic Samsung Campaign. Other participants were Kustaa Saksi from Finland and Linn Olofsdotter from Sweden. Check out the finished work on the Commando Group portfolio.

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