Posters for Palestine

Well hi everyone.

Over the last weeks of ongoing horrors, I’ve channeled some of my unbridled rage into designing some posters for anyone to print, put on your socials, or whatever you like.

The choice of the word Decolonise stems from the underlying problem of all these recent conflicts, not just in Gaza but also in Yemen, Congo, Ukraine, and beyond. We must call this beast by its proper name: The colonialist mindset.

It has been an interesting design challenge of doing “non-design” — as I found that “clever” designs would only steal energy from the message onto the messenger . A subject such as this relies on communicating the substance with as little in the way as possible. Yet color and personality must remain, that which we are protecting.

Some of these have been printed, and can be picked up in Bergen while stocks last.

Free for non-commercial use <3

Mainroom Simulation

Today we dropped MAINROOM SIMULATION on Youtube.

Right now we all need some good escapism. So I went digging through my collection for all the 90’s epic optimism that was promptly killed by the age of ironic distance that followed it. The 2020s will be all about a return to earnestness, and the most earnest sounds of all lies in the monumentally indulgent arpeggiated chords of early trance.

I found minidiscs ripped from TV programs, shady whitelabels, bootlegs, and worse. But all amazing. And we are playing on the internet, so I don’t have to be as particular about sound engieneering as I would at a club. To keep it authentic to a club setting though, we kept all the mistakes and bad mixed in there, I want to keep taking risks so that one third of the time I mess it up. This makes the other two thirds so much better.

I wanted to focus in on a special collection of ambient acid and trance, the stuff you listen to while coming down from a marathon dancing session, lying in a field as the sun rises. This means I included a long chillout section on the end, pushing the peak energy to the middle of the mix. I’m into it!

So get on your living room dancefloor, get a spray bottle of water to simulate other peoples sweat, and join in!

Rave for the climate

Made this poster for a fundraising event for climate activism. It’s happening this week, you should come hang out with us!

Keen eyes will notice I’m also on the lineup, playing as my musical alter-ego Lysgaard. Gonna play all my best jungle sounds 😎

climate rave poster

Bonus: Here’s a different idea, too.

More DOT branding

DOT is at it again! So i made this ting.

Posters, as you might have seen in the city already:

detail
detail 2
full poster

Something fishy

So little did I know when waking up this morning I could really animate fish.

This was made for a client in the fish industries here in Norway.
Check this out: First I made this horrible animated fish vector. Yeah, looks BAD.

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