I will be a judge at D&AD next year, I’m on the Crafts for Design jury. The awards are now open for entries and the deadline is the 30th of January, so get your best work out and send it in!

As it’s a design category I probably won’t have to sit through any case study videos, but just to remind you all of how “effective” they can be I’m reposting this classic for your enjoyment.

 
Here is the new cover art I have done for the Mungolian Jetsets new album called Schlungs. Released on Smalltown Supersound in Norway sometime around about now, then worldwide later in year

Here is some recent work I did for Coney, who are a company that make adventure and play and happenings happen – mixing storytelling, digital and the lovely old real world. This work was for a project project called Mr Eks’ Camden Players for Camden City Council, it’s an online fortune teller / events listing site that asks you a series of questions then determines where and what you should be doing in Camden for the month of July. Magic.

My work for the band Mungolian Jetset and the record label Smalltown Supersound was nominated at this years Visuelt. It was in the Best Cover Illustration category. www.visuelt.org/vinnere/2011/illustrasjon/cover/

It was an interesting evening being at an awards ceremony where I understood about 5% of what the presenters were saying (in Norwegian). Helpfully though Google translate tells me the juries comment on my work – “The jury was immediately glad for this. Welcome madness in a category that often can be well predictable”. So here’s to more madness.

HELL YEAH! Woop Woop! Etcetera.

Details:
I have been awarded a project grant by the good people at Grafill to make an interactive music video and am looking for a programmer/coder/scripter to work with. We will make a dedicated site as the video itself, although what we develop depends on two things:

1 – The Idea.
2 – The programmers forte (Action Script, JavaScript, HTML 5, Processing, Canvas… other things the world has never heard of).

This is a bit of a chicken and egg situation as the idea cannot be conceived without knowing what it’s going to be built in and I can’t know what it’s going to be built in until I find my code partner. Anyhow, no-one ever said this was going to be easy and if I don’t find my wizard I can always make it in Dreamweaver myself

It is probably important that you share a similarish taste in music as myself as the work will be for some of the Norwegian “Fjord Disco” musicians I already do cover art for. So if you think that Disco Demolition Night was a high point in American culture then this is probably not the gig for you.

My role will be to do the design and the idea alongside whoever I work with. Hopefully I’ve got the chops for this, with Webby, FWA, BIMA, D&AD, One Show award winning interactive work in my portfolio. Got the same high hopes for this, but none of that will happen without a great person to collaborate with.

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Please title messages “Yes, I CAN go for that!”

Most of my work is a mash of all different types of techniques including traditional and digital but this time I wanted to just paint the whole thing. The canvas I used is exactly 12 inches and the inner label canvasses are 6 inches. I feel it is not correct to use metric when describing record covers.

It’s for Mungolian Jetset, it’s called Moon Jocks and Prog Rocks, it’s disco, and it’s coming out on Smalltown Supersound soon.

Inevitable work from someone with chronic long term exposure to lolcats, B3TA, Strongbad, MySpace, Rather Good et al. Here are the printed cards of my new ‘Graphic Interchange Format’ paintings. That’s the .gif file extension for all your geekeroonies… and here’s an emoticon for good measure

Acrylic on canvas – now digital print on card.

…with my work for Mungolian Jetset and Hotrod magazine. www.visuelt.org/vinnere/2010

Visuelt is Norways leading awards for the creative industries and I was very happy to have been recognized here. The jury described the work as “En form – og stilmessig vellykket tolking med en fabulerende og mørk slagside. Dansbare illustrasjoner som vekker nysgjerrighet”.

I have posted the work on this blog before but if you would like to see it big you can visit my Flickr pages.

Translated as ‘For the children’s best, do you dare to think the worst’, is a campaign created by McCann Norway for the children’s welfare charity Stine Sofies stiftelse.

Aimed at raising public awareness of our responsibility to all children and questioning how we often feel we shouldn’t get involved when we see something amiss with a child’s welfare. The site prompts you to take action in a surprising way.
I worked alongside the team at McCann Norway, Paradox films and Christopher Einarsrud and was responsible for the design and interactive direction of the website.

Norwegian language only – www.forbarnasbeste.no/

Here are a few screenshots: