Category: Yleinen
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Downsizing big and bold
Two years ago I arranged an exhibition big and bold. 16 illustrations, height 2,3 meters, width 6 meters. Altogether the exhibition was nearly 100 meters wide, it was outside, and it was my first exhibition ever. No one knows how many people saw it during those 2,5 weeks, but I…
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You’re the designer
“Longest way round is the shortest way home”, wrote James Joyce, and Debbie Millman with her story illustrated the sentiment aptly. In her keynote speech at the Huiput Creative Festival in Helsinki Millman focused on rejections and walked us through her career – and the worst day of her life.…
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Five years
I started this blog in January 2015. I wanted to have a platform of my own to do something, to post something. I have done so and enjoyed! In preparing my own portfolio update recently I updated this blog first. Whilst testing out themes I compiled together the illustrations I…
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Motorcycle Stories
Alongside my very dear book project “The Baron” I drew some other motorcycles as well during last year. You can say I kinda fell for them ❤ Especially in the old race motorcycles there’s such simplicity and beauty. And the thought alone to be illustrating motorcycles for kids charmed me……
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Hello Goodbye Blackbird
Some personal work pieces just never get finished. You go back to them over and over again and change the colors or change the composition or change a teeny-weeny detail in a character’s foot. Bye bye Blackbird! That’s what I’ve tried to tell this piece several times. Do you think…
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#36daysoftype
#36daysoftype 2017 was fun! It’s a design / illustration challenge, where there’s a letter or a number for every day during the challenge period. Here are my letters. Diamonds, girls, french-kissing snakes, legs, wheel of fortune, mountains to climb, moon, cartwheels, kangaroos.. And even one of my favorite song of…
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