I’ve had a lot on my plate these few days, so it’s been a little quiet on the blog. But fear not, my return will be swift!
In the meantime, here’s a friend of mine remixing another friend, to amazing results. I give you; Skatebaard‘s remix of Njaal‘s Me and Hugh, out now!
Image credit: Feltron
It’s time to ease up from the recent serious posts and look at some pictures, folks.
These are all photos I’ve taken this and last week in Copenhagen. Earlier today I happened to come across a demonstration in the middle of the city, inspired by the occupy wall street protest it seems. Hope you like the photos!
Did you just upgrade to iOS5 on your iPhone/iPad/whatever? Yeah, me too. One small feature they added without anyone noticing, it the ability to use your own ringtones for various alerts, not just the main ringtone when someone calls. So, naturally, I went completely overboard and made you a musical theme, a whole suite of sounds way better than the boring default ones.
The theme is called “Humans”, as it’s basically made from robots telling you what is going on with your phone. So instead of trying to remember that the “bzzoing” sound means “new tweet”, your phone will just tell you; “new tweet”, in a robot voice.
And if you’re thinking about getting a new phone with the fancy new virtual intelligence Siri, this is the perfect robot companion.
The main ringtone is a bit more fancy of course, a Nintendo inspired composition to psyche you out while you scramble between the sofa cushions for your phone.
As you may have noticed, I regularly post images to my inspiration blog Adrian, that you see a small feed from in the sidebar of this site. In this post, with content from Adrian as examples, I’m trying to delve deeper into that material, and show you how I look at the material I see every day.
It is a common myth about all designers, musicians and artists in general that all of our work comes purely from a mental connection to the cosmos; as an artist and “creative person” we just make stuff completely out of nothing. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. Whether one is aware of it or not, we pick stuff up from all around us all the time. 
Some artists claim to be 100% original in all that they do, my proposition is that they simply are unaware of how they acquire their inspiration.
The “Ether” is a more fitting description than the “cosmos”, I suppose. Some things are just floating around, and we end up picking it up often without being aware of it. One of the more established definitions of the word creativity is the ability to see connections where no connection seem visible, which is exactly what this post is about. The most important skill taught in art school is in my opinion, is the ability to see how and why something is inspiring, and so be able to draw inspiration from nearly anything, by analyzing it.
The inspiration blog I keep mostly as a tool in my own creative process, as a toolbox of ideas that can be tweaked and hopefully made better in my own work. I have one basic rule: I’m not posting images, I’m posting the idea behind the image. Also, the idea has to be actionable. Let me give you an example. Continue reading
I just re-made my entire portfolio, from being in its entirety on the Behance network, to a new, more concise and focused presentation. The site is powered by Cargo, which should be familiar to those of you in the creative business.
So take a look, and tell me what you think!
A friend and brilliant designer from Oslo, Jon Arne Berg, just made a funny type experiment he named cloud A.
So, naturally, I got all inspired and stuff. So here’s my take on the idea, far less readable, just because I can(mouse over the image if you wanna know what it says).
And of course, he actually worked on his version, I’m just waiting for the coffee to finish brewing here.
Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you probably have Spotify already. So here is my first playlist, specially made for working! It’s a nice mix of ambient and bordering genres, to put your head in the right place for churning out awesomeness from your brain, whatever your profession. At least it works like a charm for me!
Click here to load it up in your Spotify player! And tell me what you think in the comments…
Nabovarsel is kicking the scene in gear once again in Bergen, hot in the heels of the Ekko festival. I would say that anyone in Bergen should make sure to come, but anyone living there reading this are already going. What do you guys think about the poster?
I often get requests to do stuff for free, like most people in the creative business. Usually I would love to help them, but resources are limited, so referring to this chart helps. Feel free to share it.
The wonderful girls at Fin magazine just launched their newest edition, with moi in it.
The interview was super funny, and they managed to boil down my batshit theories to an actually coherent article. Way to go, girls.
