New orientation towards CAD/BIM

Visualisation of BIM-model, 2014
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In September I started studying construction planning, a building engineering programme that focuses on Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Building Information Modelling/Management (BIM), at YRGO in Gothenburg. It's great for someone who, like myself, is looking for a more pragmatic way of combining the love for aesthetics, building preservation and urban planning. I get to implement and draw on the skills and experiences made in art school, while enjoying the challenges of taking things into a new context. My graduation is scheduled for June 2016.

Design for Hagabion

Hagabion (tote bag design), 2010
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Over the last few months I have been part of a small design group at Hagabion, Gothenburg's independent cinema, with the mission to develop a new design for a tote bag to be sold at the cinema. Work began in early April and since then we've had several feedback rounds on a wide variety of individual designs. Many proposals were discarded, others developed further, and a few made it all the way to the final round where one of my designs, inspired by the sign above the cinema entrance, was chosen for the first load of tote bags which has just returned from the production.

Bags can be bought for 40 SEK at the cinema ticket office, and are avaiblable in an off-white print on black fabric as well as purple on green (limited edition).

Hagabion
Linnégatan 21
Gothenburg, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)31 42 88 10

Opening hours:
Mon - Fri 17-21
Sat - Sun 13-21


Other designs of mine, at various stages of development (might show up on other forms of printed material in the future).

KONSTPOST - POSTKONST, opening 6 March 2010

Untitled, 2010
Envelopes with re-used stamps
23 x 32,5 cm each









On saturday, the open-call exhibition KONSTPOST - POSTKONST opens at Sigtuna Kulturgård. Anyone interested has over the last couple of months been able to send in 1-3 artworks, with the only criterion being that the consignment itself is the artwork - exactly as it is sent.

Begreppet "Postkonst" är en översättning av engelskans "mail art" och är en genre inom konceptkonsten, där konstverken är objekt som går att skicka med posten. Själva konstverket kan vara gjort i vilken teknik som helst; teckning, måleri, collage, textil konst, etc - så länge det går att frankera. Konstverket ska alltså inte ligga inuti försändelsen, utan det är själva försändelsen - med frimärken och allt - som är konstverket.

Some of the submissions can be viewed on their website.

Unfortunately I am unable to attend the exhibition myself, but I'm interested to know whether my intentionally plain envelopes with re-used stamps have been recognised as submissions - or whether they've been lost amongst the piles of cut-and-paste items that seem to characterise the other sent-in goods. For myself I decided (this time): less is more.

The exhibition stays on until March 21.

Föreningen Sigtuna Kulturgård
Stora Nygatan 1
Sigtuna, Sweden
Tel: +46 (8) 592 515 08

Opening hours:
Saturdays and Sundays 12-16

2D variation

I've had the opportunity to get some fun variation lately, both with the correspondence project (see below) and 2D work. Last month I made a cd-cover for the Gothenburg-based musician Euphoria and the lazy boy, just in time for his European tour together with Winter Took His Life, Hajen and Tvärvägen.
To listen visit his website http://www.myspace.com/eatlb

Euphoria and the lazy boy (cd-cover: front), 2009
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Bodymap

Wool, cardboard
119 x 80 cm

Hero book (extracts)

Charcoal on paper
42 x 29 cm

A few of the original pages from the short Hero book saga, eventually reverse-printed onto cardboard.

Mixed drawings

Acrylic ink on paper (/ chalk on metal / felt-tipped pen on wood / ginger bread)
30 x 21 cm

City (preparatory sketches)

Felt tipped pen on paper
43 x 59 cm