Stockholm pt 2

Here are some more pics from my little Christmas break. This is Ester, one of my oldest sisters cats. She loves to cuddle and cannot put her tongue back properly into her mouth. There's another cat as well, Iris.

Iris is addicted to grift wrap and ribbons so all the Christmas presents had to be put into boxes and baskets or Iris will eat all the ribbons and strings. My sister told me that it got so bad that this cute lady like little cat actually was shitting a few meters of string...imagine that, pooh coming out attached to a few meters of string...yeaick...

And I thought that this was very cute, big brother William and big sister Amanda gave their little sister a Christmas present and on the note it says "Even-though you are so stubborn and sulky we love you very much".

Pimped street sign.

Now I am going to panic clean my flat before all the New Years eve guests arrive, Happy New Year everyone!

Stockholm pt 1

I am back in London town after a few lovely days in Stockholm. It feels like I have been on a spa trip, fresh air, great food, really nice tap water and long forest walks and coffee breaks by the ocean. But the days are unbelievably short, the sun starts going down already at three o'clock so I ended up walking around in a zombie state in the end. Here are some pics from Gamla Stan/Old Town in Stockholm and of-course the infamous tunnbrödsrulle, the vegetarian option with roasted onion, mashed potatoes, salad, mustard and ketchup and soya hot dogs... mmm,definitely a must try for anyone visiting Sweden.

Ho ho ho

There's only a few days left to Christmas and I am really looking forward to going to Sweden for a few days and spend some time with family and friends, but most of all I miss my sisters super cute kids. I don't get a lot of time to hang out with them as I live in London so I hope to get plenty of lego and snow fight time with them. Now, to get in the right Christmas mood, how about a little give away?

I am giving away a I Love My Bike T-shirt in size M and a Hello Tiger pocket-mirror in blue as a little thank you to my blog followers, so if you are following my blog and would like to win these items, then please leave your name in the comment box and I will use the Random Number generator to pick a winner when I am back from Stockholm in the beginning of January.

I Love My Bike T-shirt for Men in size M

Blue Hello Tiger pocket mirror, perfect size for your hand bag or pocket.

Thanks for 2011 and I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

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Hello!

Just wanted to let you know that I have made a t-shirt design over at Plork,

if you think they should produce it let them know by voting or liking it here,

Cheers!

My toe and I

When I am not working on various projects or my own products I work as a designer at Ella Doran Design Ltd. and today it was time to shoot some new products and I was asked if I could do some styling and maybe photograph some of the new stuff. And you have no idea how fun I find that kind of work! So fun that I almost broke my toe. I got so hyped up about doing styling that I ran straight into a metallic ladder and yeapp, that was it. Now my toe and I are chilling in bed.

I blame it on myself first of all but nr 2 is definitely the amazing home that we photographed in, I wanted to cry when I saw their massive open brick wall NY style kitchen and the living room filled with designs and objects of all kinds, or the bath room with a large free standing bathtub and a balcony outside, I got so über excited that I started running into objects, big, metallic, objects. But even-though my toe now is three times bigger, deep purple and hurt like hell, it was a great day and here are some pics from that amazing home.

...and my contribution to styling and product photography, Ella Doran's lovely Bugs and Butterflies cushion;

Now my toe and I will watch a film. Have a nice weekend!

Untitled Print Now Available at Welcome Home

My Untitled print is now also available at Welcome Home in Glasgow

Welcome Home

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street

Glasgow

G2 3JD

UK

London Aquarium

Me and my shitty camera spent the day at London Aquarium - and it was awesome, even though I never been a fan of watching large animals kept in small spaces, I can't deny the fact that I love to get the chance to see them and getting so close to them. Unfortunately my photos are not that great, I did not have a tripod and you are not allowed to use flash in the aquarium but anyway, here are some pics from today.

If

If you put up posters in East London you better have your spelling in control...

Party, party... again

Here's a little sneak preview of some more of my work for that children's songbook that I am working on, have a nice weekend everyone!

Out and about in London

The last few days has been completely insane and I have been very busy - and I love it! Some really fun things has happened that I am not allowed to talk about yet but at least I could celebrate quietly and eat some amazing Italian cake and walk around secretly smiling for a day. Something else that is good, there is finally something worth watching on TV, the Danish crime series The Killing is back with a part 2... this will not be good for my work moral.

And to all Londoners, the cake is from one of the best places to eat in central London, Princi, on 135 Wardour Street, their cake section will make you cry.

The Wild West in Progress

Here's a glimpse of my hand drawn Cowboy/ Wild West Project, I haven't had time to work on it for quite a while but hope to get back into it soon. Here's Clint in progress for now, I haven't drawn humans for ages so I find it hard now and have started to think a bit to much instead of just drawing, have to start getting back into it and remember that I do not want it to look realistic and pretty anyway, but, I do want it to be clear who the Clint is :)

Mmm... acrylic paint

I am working on some new prints and have messed up my entire kitchen with acrylic paint...

Cass Art has this amazing acrylic paint box with 48 different colors but the best thing is the price, £18, brilliant.

Other then that, thanks to my sister Malin for acting as my PR woman in Sweden ♥

Play

Slightly bored even-though I have plenty of work to do, need something new to plunge into and has hooked up with a few illustration and design friends to plan a exhibition for the beginning of next year, fun, fun fun!

Here's a good talk with Stefan Sagmeister about the importance of time off and playing, so I am having a little play today and the images above was what I came up with.

And yes, one more thing, I started to sell my prints in a few shops here in UK and US but I would love to sell some in Sweden as well but don't know any shops dedicated to independent art and design, if you happen to know of any please let me know!

Cheers!

The Winter Exhibition at PVA

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Lemonade Magazine

Today the first issue of the new magazine Lemonade Magazine is released, design, art, music and photography and oh, did I mentioned that there is a interview with me in it? :)

You can read the magazine and the full interview here

Untitled Print Now Available at Hermit Editions

My Untitled Limited Edition Hand Print is Now Available at Hermit Editions, yeay!

Baby Squizle

This is little Squizle, the name that we gave a baby squirrel that me and my boyfriend ended up being adoptive parents to for two few days last spring. Some guys had found her in their studio and took her to the park where we live, the story sounds a bit suspect I know, why and how would a baby squirrel get into a studio, but who knows? They left her in the park where we live at the same moment as our friend happened to walk by on the way to our house. She was very weak and you could tell that she was not well and it did not feel right to just leave her there in the park but we decided to wait and see if any other squirrel might come and help her but nothing happened. In the end we started getting afraid of a dog or a fox attacking her and ended up taking her to our flat while calling animal organizations to see if there was anyone who could help. 

She was the cutest little thing and ate loads and seemed to get more energy and even started to play with us a little bit, but the last day she all of a sudden got worse and just wanted to sleep and be close to us. After two days a animal organization came to collect her and take her to the vet and she was ill and could not be saved. 

Forget about cute dogs and kittens, this little squirrel baby with her massive feet and big eyes broke our hearts, it's a shame that we could not save her but at least we could save her from being eaten by a dog or a fox in the park and made sure that she was well taken care of her last two days in life.

R.I.P Baby Squizle

A very nice elephant

Swedish Illustrators & Graphic Designers A-Ö

The catalogue is here!

Swedish Illustrators & Graphic Designers A-Ö 2011, and I am very happy to be on page 448-449. 

If you would like to order a catalogue contact Illustratorcentrum

Untitled Print Now Available at Little Paper Planes!

My print is now up on Little Paper Planes website, and I am ridiculously pleased about it as I love Little Paper Planes , definitely have a look at their website if you are an illustration lover!

Penguin Party!

Hmm, making nice, funny penguins is harder then I thought, this one is not finished yet, but I think that me and my Wacoom pen slowly, slowly are getting there. I am working on a spread with lot's of wacky penguins and a tired and distressed penguin dad at the moment, lot's of fun! 

I don't like to listen to music when I work, I don't know why but I prefer to listen to films and here is a documentary that I recommend about a small Pacific Island which a British mining company decided to exploit with no thoughts of it's environment or population, there was only one problem, the people that lived on the island was not going to let some greedy western  company destroy their homes and stroke back. Arrows and poisonous plants vs helicopters and the Papua New Guinea Army, and guess what? 

They won! 

Watch The Coconut Revolution here.

Mr Crocodile, play that song!

Hello. My name is Burt. Burt the Crocodile.

I love this new project that I am working on. The author likes my quirky ideas so a guitar playing crocodile is definitely no problem. Here is a glimpse on some of the new characters in the book, or booklet actually, cos it's booklet with song lyrics to a cd that I am illustrating.

I am drawing with a Wacoom pen, which I bought in Bangkok many years ago while thinking, "I will never draw digitally, never, ever " but still for some weird reason I had to get it and for years I had that Wacoom tablet in my room staring at me making me feel guilty and greedy for buying it and never using it. But now it's my savior and I have to take it back, it's actually fun to draw digitally and I am slowly getting used to it and it has a different feel to it and I don't think I will ever want to choose, I like the challenge of working with both hand drawn and digital illustration and the different feel of the different mediums. Enough about that, here is Mr Crocodile and his guitar, not quite finished yet, but almost.