The long awaited update!

Hello, dear readers! (should you exist)


I would lie if I said that I've been too busy to update my blog, but I just have never got around to actually doing it. The tasks we have been given lately have not exactly been ones that are very representable at a blog either, but now! I have things to share with you again, and I will try to make updates come more regularly.

Sardine box

Some time after the new year, we were given the task to make the design for a box of sardines which would eventually be a part of a competition made by Stavanger Sardine Museum.
Many people chose to go the modern way, and try to make sardines which appealed to the youth, in a heroic task of trying to get sardines "hip" again. I too was originally thinking of approaching the task in this way, but for some reason I ended up on an entirely different idea, where I took a picture of an old street in Stavanger, and then traced it in AI.
I was rather pleased with the result, and I think it represents the sardines well, as Stavanger was pretty much the center of the industry.




My most recent project has been to make a poster for the educational website Vigo.no, which is where we have to log inn in order to get secure our school place for the upcomming year. The issue is that you have to remember to log inn and accept your place, in the middle of the summer. People have a way of forgetting, and therefor we were asked to make a poster which would remind people - even though they were out having fun in the good weather - that they must remember to accept their place.

Strengthen your country's education!

At this task I was stuck between two ideas, one of them being to just tell people straight out that they had to remember, with a big "YES" button in the middle. This idea was a very good contestant, but there was still something which didnt feel completely right about it. So I scratched the idea and went over on more nationalistic thoughts, where I wanted to play on that if you remember to accept your school place, you will help strengthen the country's education, and strengthen Norway as a nation.

In addition, me and a couple of classmates have started our own litte movie production company, I advice you to take a look at Vettsje.com

Photomontage

This project is about two weeks old (personal favorite so far).
I must admit I was very skeptical in the idea phase, since I struggled to think of any ideas that were usable, and I was able to pull off. The fact that I'm as photogenic as a pile of dirt did not make it any easier.

The camera I used was a Nikon D40, a camera I was quite pleased with.The photoshoot was a bit problematic, since the darkness came surprisingly quick and it led to the latest pictures being alot darker than the first ones. I accidently bumped into the camerastand a few time, so the background was slightly changed at some of pictures.
After many hard hours in photoshop, I managed to get it together in one image, despite the problems I encountered with the light and background difference.

The idea for the photoshoot slowly came to me as I was taking the pictures, I had an idea in my head, but the result was not quite as I had pictured in my head (by no means negativly).

The inspiration have I taken from the movie Resorvoir Dogs, and a touch of Film Noir.

If you should you be in doubt, it is me being all the characters in the picture. the

location I used is a workshop/warehouse nearby

All in all I'm pretty happy with the result.

Pictrogram

Here are my pictograms, can't say that I was 100% satisfied with the result.
This was my first project done in Illustrator, and I can with hand on heart say that I'm not a big fan of Illustrator... but I aim on getting better with time!
One of the first week of school we had the task to create pictograms with pencil and paper, when we had no computers, it is these pictograms that I have continued working on in Illustrator.

My main pictrogram

My other ideas

My first entry

This is a pretty sad day. I am writing my first blog post, and it will be the first of many!
Fortunately, this is no ordinary blog where I'll tell about how many hours of sleep I got last night, or explain in detail how to make a sandwich *. No, this is a factual blog, where I will post pictures, videos and more as I make in the media bay for hours VGS.

* Should you still be interested in how to make a sandwich:

You need:
Knife, butter, bread and Nugatti

You do not:
Sheep, computer, pencil sharpener, pen

1. Start by applying a thin layer of butter onto the knife
2. Then take the butter you have on the knife and apply it to the sandwich
3. Then take a thick layer of Nugatt, which should also be applied to the sandwich

Congratulations, you've now read my guide to "How to make a sandwich"