Once more I’d like to bring focus to the Illustrative festival in Berlin. In my opinion, illustration and graphic arts are the most interesing elements of visual culture. Therefore, anything supporting that is worth a visit! I’ll be participating, and I’m looking forward to doing some non-commercial work, and competing against some of the very talented people around! I’ll put the official invitation in here, and be sure to visit their website for all the info

Until October 22, 2010 applications for Illustrative 2011 can be submitted

In May 2011, the 6th Illustrative- the leading international festival for contemporary illustration and graphic arts, will take place in Berlin again. Artists from all over the world can now apply for the festival: Until October 22^nd, 2010 they can submit works in order to be considered for the Young Illustrators Award. On November 5th, 2010 the nominees will be awarded in advance and invited to the “Illustrators Night”, a celebration at Direktorenhaus in Berlin. The Young Illustrators Award is an unique competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. The award encourages and supports designers in their artistic practice and offers an international and worldwide recognized platform for them. Illustrative is the leading international festival for contemporary illustration and graphic arts. The exhibition displays an inspiring collection of fresh illustration and graphic art showcasing over 600 works from more than 60 artists. Over the course of two weeks, the festival celebrates the illustrative arts, presents new talents and trends, exchanges ideas, marvels at progressive technologies, and rediscovers forgotten styles.

Check out their website for all the info: http://illustrative.de/1065

The other day my buddy and I joked about a drink consisting of Gin and Bacon. We thought the name has a nice sound to it. The taste on the other hand, is completely vile. I was inspired by constructivist posters such as A.M Cassandre when I made it

I knocked this together tonight. Its for an event I will be hosting in the fall. I was inspired by the famous Jack Daniels bottle

It’s been a while since I posted anything. I’ve been really busy starting my final project in school, and there’s been tons of freelance work (will definately post that when I get the all-clear from the client).

It’s ironical that what I’m posting now is a personal project, since I have no idea how I managed to put the time down for it. It’s actually a drawing I’ve been working on for quite some time. It started as a sketch I made, just after my mom died a couple of years ago. At some point I scanned the sketch, and placed it in an Illustrator document. It’s been something that I’ve put a couple of minutes work into whenever I could find the time, and now it’s done.
I’m also posting the sketch, since that’s the piece of the artwork that actually means something to me. The finished render is just a lot of gradients and clipping masks

I’ve just started my final project at the Danish Designschool. I’m going to work with implementing illustrations in the online edition of the Danish newspaper Politiken. I rarely see any illustration work made exclusively for the online editions, and I think it’s about time that we do.

These first examples were made without taking the layout limitations into notice. I guess I was just doing one last free assignment before succumbing to rules and regulations
The illustrations aren’t used on the site, but maybe one day some of my work will be. who knows?

The articles are about surveilance of the Danish Population, and the original articles can be found (in Danish) here

This is an example of the Newspaper cartoon project I’ve been working on. Most of them have involved Danish society, so they wouldn’t have made much sense translated. This one is pretty self explanatory I think

I did these for a competition where the winning artist gets to illustrate about 80 different songs.

In true movie-sequel style I’ve chosen to make another robot poster. I rarely find the time to do personal projects, which it seems is every designers regret. When I do find the time to do exactly what I want, I also think the passion shows. I’m quite satisfied with this, and would love to do commisioned work like this!

An illustration for an article about how teens spend a lot of time on games, internet etc. and how it isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

I have made a self portrait as part of my project on caricatures. I’m really beginning to rely on shading via clipping masks, which Chris Leavens helped me understand in this article he wrote, describing his workflow.