Be a part of Illustrative in Berlin!

mortenfc — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:05:11 +0000

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

Gin n’ Bacon

mortenfc — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:56:18 +0000

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

DOE - efteraaret

mortenfc — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:09:27 +0000

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

Article illustrations from my final project

mortenfc — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:44:50 +0000

I’m working hard on my final school project, but thought I might show a few of my illustrations. Basically they’re all article illustrations, but specifically for the internet newspaper pol.dk (Danish). I’ll post more when I get the time

funeral

mortenfc — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:45:51 +0000

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

Big Brother 2.0 illustrations

mortenfc — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:18:30 +0000

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

Bosses need to be caring and tough at the same time

mortenfc — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:10:02 +0000

One of the last illustrations from my school project that ends this friday. It’s from an article about how your boss should be tough enough to fire employees when necessary, but also be considerate and caring.

Newspaper cartooning

mortenfc — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:21:43 +0000

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

Vector illustrations for a collection of children’s songs

mortenfc — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:13:05 +0000

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

When Men Rode Robots part 2

mortenfc — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:03:43 +0000

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!