Aisukuriimu - Our visual archive

New blog!

2010-03-24T14:49:00.003+01:00

here!

English language

2009-12-15T22:19:00.004+01:00

Nice poster made by Michael Ciancio

2009-09-22T19:43:00.008+02:00

Hello! its been about half a year since I posted something, but now I will hopefully write a bit more in the future:) Here are some pictures form our holiday, nice nice nice:) In the meantime I've moved from Stavanger to wonderful Copenhagen and my Yoshi, hurra hurra!

Be square!

2009-07-09T08:37:00.010+02:00

Coffee and cigarettes! I love this film, the conversations, lots of coffee, the actors and the lovely Jarmusch scenery. It struck me when I once again saw stillpictures from the film, that a poster I created together with Mejdej for nightclub Vega reminds me of these coffee table shots!

Summerish cups!

2009-07-08T15:29:00.004+02:00

I try to make some new decorations for our exhibition everyday, these are some of my latest creations..and last ones, friday will be my first day of a three weeks holiday, jupi!

R.I.P Michael Jackson

2009-06-27T09:54:00.007+02:00

Linn Eriksen

2009-06-17T15:42:00.004+02:00

Great graphics from norwegian/dutch designer Linn Eriksen

Morning glory

2009-06-13T12:39:00.006+02:00

This is me having a looong breakfast this morning:) now I'm off to my summerhouse, wish you all a nice weekend!

Collage Club!

2009-06-09T16:28:00.004+02:00

Found these really nice collages via Bevel and Boss

Megan Whitmarsh

2009-06-04T16:51:00.004+02:00

Really nice colour combinations and impressive embroidering by
Megan Whitmarsh

Tokyo and my Daughter

2009-06-04T14:14:00.006+02:00

This is one of my favourite zine at Nieves; a serie of photographies by Takashi Homma named Tokyo and my Daughter

Unika exhibition

2009-06-03T11:27:00.003+02:00

These are two of my series from our unique sales exhibition at Figgjo. The exhibition started yesterday, and there has been decorated over 30 series "Mugs and Jugs". So if you happen to be around the Figgjo area, come and have a look! Both of these series were sold yesterday, joy!
(Though my mum bought one of them:))

A Number Of Small Things

2009-06-03T08:16:00.003+02:00

At Anost, you can buy a number of small things, such as these lovely posters; Crystal by Grandpeople and Triangle made by Yokoland.

Dysfunctional cup #2

2009-05-24T12:54:00.003+02:00

The 3rd cup of my mini serie dysfunctional cups

Knitted Dish of the Day!

2009-05-20T09:54:00.005+02:00

Found these delicious dishes via Annelinnting. yum yum

Sorry I'm late

2009-05-20T08:40:00.002+02:00

Check out this nice stop motion film.

It made my day and late for work this morning.

Espen Friberg

2009-05-19T18:40:00.005+02:00

Espen Friberg is one of the founders of Yokoland. Now he is working as a freelance designer in the US, and has just launched his own website. One of my favourites:)

Sponge Bob

2009-05-14T10:04:00.010+02:00

I'm a big fan of Sponge Bob, love his grin:) Here's my version of him! And also a photo of him lurking in my wall organizer.

SquarePants Mickey & SquareHead Donald

2009-05-13T02:22:00.005+02:00

via ffffound

Desktop

2009-05-12T08:49:00.002+02:00

This is Helge Hjorth Bentsens desktop. I like:) Have a look at his drawings and photos here

M-U-S-K-E-L-P-U-S-T

2009-05-11T16:10:00.003+02:00

website!

The White House flickr

2009-05-10T13:42:00.003+02:00

Become friends with Obama at flickr! Found via Kjefta

Rearrange

2009-05-09T13:47:00.006+02:00

My room without Yoshi is quite a mess, today I decided to rearrange everything in my living-room. I even arranged my books after colours, I'm very satisfied with the result:)My sofa also got some nice duck feet, and looks much more happy now! My friends sitting in the window is wooden fellow Per, he is a Xmas gift from Stine. She found him in Trondheim, but we think he has his origins even far more north. the lovely cube I got for my birthday from Sara, and the wooden apple I bought in a wooden store (selling a lot of different wooden fruits) in York. Yes!

Dish of the Day

2009-05-08T11:11:00.005+02:00

Great cover design made by Anders Jandér for TSR records release “Naks - Sellout EP”

HEI!

2009-05-07T10:23:00.006+02:00

Trampoline is back on track! I've been busy lately; travelling, working and gardening! I will be posting some photos from my lovely weekend in CPH very very soon!

Wonderful Copenhagen

2009-05-07T08:18:00.011+02:00

I had a lovely weekend to Wonderful Copenhagen:) Not only I got to see Yoshi for three whole days, we also met a lot of good old friends, went to the spring exhibition at Charlottenborg (I will post some pics from the exhibition later) and spoiled ourselves with lunch and dinner at many of my favourite places; LéLé, Bang & Jensen, Bento Sushi and Dyrehaven café. Dyrehaven was really crowded and a bit chaotic though, and we got all the wrong dishes, but it doesn't matter,you can't get brunch like this anywhere else:)

My room without Trampoline

2009-05-07T00:49:00.005+02:00

I had a wonderful weekend with Trampoline. She was here in Copenhagen for the weekend. Before she came I fixed up my room to make it look halfway respectable.

I know she took a bunch of pictures during the weekend. Hopefully, she'll post some soon....? :-)

Paper dish of the day

2009-04-28T22:59:00.004+02:00

Stumbled across this paper dish of the day at Ffffound. It was created by Sarah Illenberg.

At work

2009-04-28T16:29:00.006+02:00

This is my beautiful view from the office at Figgjo! Joy! Below are some images of my experiments on colour layers and sketches.

Talented Lady; Stine Belden Røed

2009-04-24T14:19:00.006+02:00

My favourite girl and illustrator has finally launched her website! I'm going to visit her in Bergen this weekend, hurra! See you in a bit Stine:)

A day off on a sunny day. Perfect!

2009-04-23T11:05:00.004+02:00

I have decided to take a day off from work which means I shouldn't be sitting here writing this post but I just wanted to share one more thing before I leave.

The weather here in Copenhagen is...

I stumbled across this nice weather graphics at Ungt Blod that shows the weather forecast - powered by Yahoo - from various cities around the world.

I know, the above forecast is for tomorrow but Yahoo's weather service is a bit off.

From my window it's day of perfect blue skies and sun sun sun! See you on the next cloudy day! According to the forecast that won't be until next week!

BON BON KAKKU

2009-04-20T17:27:00.004+02:00

I just received my fabrics from Bon Bon Kakku!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOSHI!

2009-04-20T16:40:00.000+02:00

Aisukuriimu!

2009-04-20T16:35:00.005+02:00

I love this drawing made by finnish illustrator (and my flickr friend)
Elina Minn

Have a nice weekend!

2009-04-17T15:19:00.016+02:00

It's finally spring! I can't wait to go outside:) Go helg alle sammen!

A wolf and a pig

2009-04-15T08:37:00.003+02:00

A wonderfully made stop motion movie by Takeuchi Taijin that I guarantee will make your day.

Found at booooooom

STOUT/KRAMER

2009-04-14T16:19:00.001+02:00

Dutch designers Marco Stout and Evelyne Kramer

It's Our Thing

2009-04-13T11:12:00.005+02:00

Swedish designer PMKFA has been living and working in Japan for several years, where he runs his own t-shirt brand It's Our Thing. I love this sweatshirt:)

My view

2009-04-13T11:02:00.004+02:00

At least you have sun, Stavanger is grey..maybe I should stop by? :)
Go arbejdslyst!

Deadline in a sunny spring day

2009-04-13T08:54:00.003+02:00

This is the view from my sleeping room. A nice sunny spring day in Copenhagen.

It isn't really tempting to get out of bed with the sole purpose of going to the office and working on a competition deadline. Yet, that is my fate for the next couple days.

Mystery shoes

2009-04-12T22:41:00.005+02:00

I found this shoe on flickr about a year ago, and got so inspired by it that I started drawing these shoes on my characters, at a time i couldn't draw a shoe without adding a nose and a couple of eyes:) I assumed it was a new design, but recently I found out that its made by Tokio Kumagaï
in the 80s. I can't really find any information about either the shoes or the artist. Is it really true that he past away some years ago?

KnitKnit

2009-04-12T21:22:00.006+02:00

Danish fashion designer Isabel Berglund makes extraordinary knitted shapes and sculptures. This spread is made for Cover by Jakob Holmsberg studio.

Eyeballs

2009-04-12T18:13:00.010+02:00

When I'd posted the last post, I realized that I've come across a lot of eyeballs lately. The two first photos I found at ungt blod. The other images below are made by danish designers UFEX.

Dish of the day!

2009-04-12T17:54:00.006+02:00

I especially like the colors in this image by Bott Scarry/SacredMtn.
He also makes a lot of nice drawings, have a look at his wonderful work here

Takashi Iwasaki

2009-04-12T17:13:00.006+02:00

These colourful embroideries made by Takashi Iwasaki brightens this rainy day in Stavanger. Yoshi went back to Copenhagen today, and I've been sitting in front of my computer all day, luckily I stumbled across Mettes lovely blog and her post about this talented japanese artist,
thank you:)

Robot lost in New York

2009-04-12T13:28:00.006+02:00

This is a story about a robot created by Kacie Kinzer. It's called Tweenbot.

It's a simple constructed 10-inch tall robot made out of cardboard and an engine that makes it move forward.

Its objective is to make it from point A to B. In New York City.

Armed with a little smile on its face and a flag that carries the text of its purpose and journey it is surrendered to the fate of the city and the people it encounters.

Prior to the journey Kacie Kinzer didn't expect the Tweenbot would survive the trip in the urban jungle where it most likely would trip in a pot hole, get stuck under a bench or fall over at the street curb.

Which it also did.

Most people ignored the fallen Tweenbot but every once in awhile it got picked up by strangers that read the message on the flag and sent it along its intended journey.

On its first mission, it took the Tweenbot 42 minutes and the help from 29 people to get from the Northeast to the Southwest Corner of Washington Square Park.

A nice little narrative about random encounters and the helpfulness of strangers in sending a small lost robot along towards its destination.

Hvass & Hannibal

2009-04-10T20:06:00.003+02:00

Hvass & Hannibal are two talented girls and Trampoline's former fellow students from The Danish Design School.

I love their playful design approach.

Here's an example of a furniture and decoration they did for DGI in Copenhagen.

Here's what they say,

"DGI-byen invited 7 artists and designers to redecorate their conference meeting rooms, in order to make meetings here a different and inspiring experience. For this project we worked on a scheme aimed at creating possibilities for dividing the room into smaller spaces with mobile boxes that serve as a system of flexible walls giving the room atmosphere and colour. In this mid-city meeting space we wanted to bring in a reminder of nature and did so by painting mountains on the wall. These, together with the highrise-like boxes, are meant to create a dynamic interaction between landscape and cityscape. Thank you to our assistants Nina and Lasse for their help on this project! Photographs by Hans Kruse."

Paint drops

2009-04-09T22:14:00.002+02:00

Dots of colors

Build it

2009-04-09T22:10:00.001+02:00

Eatphabet

2009-04-03T01:24:00.003+02:00

Luiza P has been playing with her food.

Nieves Zines Exhibition

2009-04-01T00:38:00.006+02:00

Nieves are exhibiting a retrospective of their nice collection of 100+ zines since 2004.

I got a copy of "Rabbit and Turtle" by Yukari Miyagi for Trampoline a while ago.

Bouncing Dots

2009-03-30T08:25:00.006+02:00

American Apparel

2009-03-26T09:10:00.003+01:00

Yoshi forgot his Helvetica Alphabet t-shirt last time he came to visit Norway. He doesn't know that I'm wearing it in the meantime

Aisukuriimu!

2009-03-24T17:28:00.002+01:00

Ice cream sweater made by norwegian fashiondesigner
Fam Irvoll

Cup Stack

2009-03-24T17:08:00.007+01:00

This is some of my work made for Figgjo. I love these old stackable cups, and I wanted to underline its functionality with my decorations

Dysfunctional cups

2009-03-24T17:03:00.004+01:00

A couple of cups I've put together at work.

Productlove Desktop

2009-03-23T16:36:00.003+01:00

Lovely furniture made out of styrofoam from Productlove

Dish of the day!

2009-03-23T16:04:00.008+01:00

I bought this book about japanese dishes (for children) in Hong Kong a couple of years ago, will try to make some of them one day..

Happy socks

2009-03-22T22:02:00.003+01:00

Happy socks :)

Dish of the day!

2009-03-22T21:17:00.003+01:00

Another dish of the day serie. This one is made by swedish Museumstudio

Bar Code Revolution

2009-03-22T12:58:00.007+01:00

Yoshi:
Bar Code Revolution is a japanese graphic design studio that aims to start ... well... a Bar Code Revolution.

Meeting strict industry standards for bar codes, they approach it in a playful manner that would look great on any package.

Animated Heart

2009-03-21T17:59:00.003+01:00

Dish of the day!

2009-03-21T11:58:00.008+01:00

Trampoline:
Talented girls from Copenhagen; Hvass & Hannibal. Love this dish of the day serie. Have a look at their colourful work here

Yoshi:
Brilliant! I would eat those dishes any day...!

Fuck Charles De Gaulle

2009-03-20T09:46:00.004+01:00

I guess, Trampoline doesn't like flight delays in Charles De Gaulle.

I can relate to that.

I stumbled across the drawing on ffffound.

Christian Brandt

2009-03-19T14:31:00.005+01:00

Nice work by Christian Brandt. Found at Manystuff

The seed - paper animation

2009-03-19T07:03:00.003+01:00

Here's a lovely little paper animation.

The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

And even better, here's a video showing how the animation was created.

Making of 'The Seed' from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

Scenographic projections

2009-03-18T08:06:00.002+01:00

I can't see how this has anything to do with Puma shoes but apart from that it's a pretty nice movie clip showing the use of movie projections to create simple yet creative scenography.

Ruler books

2009-03-17T20:11:00.002+01:00

Kaarina Kaikkonen

2009-03-13T16:48:00.005+01:00

Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen makes extraordinary installations out of simple objects such as jackets, ties and toiletpaper. I was lucky to see her exhibition at Charlottenborg Kunsthal a couple of years ago, it was amazing to see it in real-life.

Smalltown Supersound

2009-03-13T10:27:00.010+01:00

Great sound and super graphics from norwegian music label Smalltown Supersound

Amazing Miniature Worlds

2009-03-13T00:42:00.004+01:00

Anybody who has ever played with miniature models before will will love this!

The amazing tilt-shift footage by Keith Loutit gets my imagination going and a feeling of watching things in Godzilla perspective.

Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Snow man army

2009-03-12T22:06:00.004+01:00

Spring should be around the corner but today it started to snow...

Talented Lady

2009-03-12T09:01:00.006+01:00

Have a look at Veronica B. Vallenes' wonderful design!

Nieves

2009-03-12T08:44:00.006+01:00

Nieves books probably doesn't need any introduction, but I wanted to post this link and lovely drawing anyways :)

Daft Punk Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger keyboard

2009-03-12T00:30:00.003+01:00

About Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster Stronger.

I love the song. I love the dance (see below) and today I stumbled across this Daft Punk keyboard.

Sweet!

Desktop, website and stationary design

2009-03-10T22:55:00.003+01:00

Stationery and website design - Het Souterrain - created by Angela Lidderdale.

Amazingly playful poster

2009-03-10T02:10:00.006+01:00

I stumbled across this amazingly playful poster created by Lenancker Romain for the Festival of Lights in Lyon 2008.

Found it via Kitsune Noir ... Thanks!

Seeing the behind-the-scenes images makes it even better!

Nice typography

2009-03-09T23:30:00.005+01:00

You've gotta love the typography for PUMA / Foot locker's latest ad campaign

Found via Notcot

PAPER RAD

2009-03-09T23:13:00.009+01:00

Another flashy site by Paper Rad

M.I.A

2009-03-09T22:56:00.008+01:00

She's not only producing her own music, M.I.A also makes all the artwork for her albums.

It's just a hobby that I picked up in the lobby

2009-03-09T22:40:00.011+01:00

Norwegian artist Andreas Banderas has recently made a zine for Nieves, have a look at his other work here

The Whitest Boy Alive

2009-03-09T22:26:00.002+01:00

The Whitest Boy Alive have made a new album,
listen to some of the tunes at their myspace page.
Illustrations are as usual made by Geoff Mcfetridge

The black ballons

2009-03-09T08:42:00.005+01:00

Found these nice images taken by Andrea Galvani via Booooooom

"Nothing is original" by Jim Jarmusch

2009-03-08T15:50:00.002+01:00

Nice basic shapes

2009-03-08T09:54:00.001+01:00

Huy Vu shows some of his work in progress.

Thanks!

I can't wait to see the finished result whatever it'll end up to be.

Void Typeface - Strobe Animation Loop from Huy Vu on Vimeo.

Where on Earth is Waldo??

2009-03-07T10:46:00.006+01:00

As a major fan of Waldo and Google Earth, we absolutely loved this!

A graduation project created by Media Arts student Melanie Coles.

Where is Waldo?

2009-03-07T10:41:00.005+01:00

I love these these images.

Trampoline got one of the "Where is Waldo?" books recently and we spend hours mesmerized by these amazing drawings.

I felt like I was 10 years old again trying to find Waldo for days...

Objectified by Gary Huswit

2009-03-06T21:48:00.004+01:00

The poster for the much anticipated documentary Objectified by Gary Huswit came out yesterday.

The World Premiere of Objectified! March 13-21 at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

Gary Huswit was also the director of the documentary about Helvetica.

Below is the trailer for the documentary.

Aisukuriimu!

2009-03-06T15:49:00.012+01:00

Poster designed for summer-party at the Danish Design-school. Made by Sara Andersson & Petter Odevall. Sara & I founded the studio Mejdej two years ago, have a look at the work here

TINY

2009-03-06T15:45:00.003+01:00

This short film by M ichel Gondry always makes me smile

Aisukuriimu!

2009-03-06T09:42:00.002+01:00

eTokyo by eBoy

2009-03-05T10:47:00.004+01:00

A not so far from reality portrait of Tokyo by eBoy.

How I miss Tokyo.

The mechanics of the brain

2009-03-05T04:26:00.004+01:00

It pretty much illustrates how my brain works.

My (messy) desktop

2009-03-03T16:46:00.011+01:00

Working as a graphic designer at a porcelain factory, my desktop easily gets filled up by cups and mugs! Right now I'm making decorations for Easter:) The Safe as milk poster hanging in the back is made by norwegian designbureau Grandpeople.

Hiragana wallpaper

2009-03-03T08:51:00.004+01:00

Hiragana, is a component of the japanese writing system. Here's an image of it as a wallpaper in Superdeluxe.

Helvetica relived

2009-03-03T08:15:00.010+01:00

I recently rekindled with the nice Helvetica documentary (2007).

One of my favourite characters was Erik Spiekerman. He hates Helvetica. It's hilarious to hear how much he hates it. Here a some of my favourite quotes:

Interviewer: "Why 50 years later is it - Helevatica - still so popular?

Erik Spiekerman:"Bad taste..."

Erik Spiekerman:"Type is like a person. If you are slightly heavy in the middle. You are not going to walk around in a tight t-shirt. You'll look like an idiot. And helvetica is heavy in the middle."

Erik Spiekerman:"... you'd recognize any Marlboro ad miles away because of the stupid typeface. But if you use Helvetica... helloooo... It wouldn't quite work."

All of it is true... but how can you truly hate this all-applicable-default typeface? Perhaps because it's overused? Anonymous? It will "bore the shit out of you"? Check out the dvd if you need more reasons...

Below is a clip of the documentary - the part where you get introduced to Erik Spiekerman:

The Lights of Tokyo

2009-03-02T22:53:00.003+01:00

An image from my trip in Akihabara aka. Electric City, Tokyo.

RBG 6

2009-03-02T22:30:00.008+01:00

Great motion graphics from swedish design duo RBG 6.

My desktop

2009-03-02T22:08:00.005+01:00

Here's my desktop from when I lived in Berlin, 2005.
The hortensia plant was named Barbara.

My desktop

2009-03-02T21:54:00.009+01:00

Here's my old desktop when I worked as an intern at PLOT. It also served as my business card when I was in Japan.