our colour cities.

I just got back from my final presentation for the User Centred Design Studio class. As I've mentioned earlier, my concept involved taking photos of Melbourne where I captured certain colours and creating a map from that. With these elemants I created a little booklet that comes in a case, with some complementary postcards. The postcards were supposed to be printed with a slogan in clear vanish, e.g no ink - but a glossy effect. It was an absolute nightmare to discover this morning that the printers, who were supposed to do the job, had messed it up and printed the thing in white. Since I had no time to fix it, I had to simply go with it. My heart felt heavy like a stone as I entered the classroom. I'm such a perfectionist when it comes to final presentations. If it's not perfect and out of my control I feel like shit. Of course there was nothing I could do but to go on with my presentation. And yeah, it went pretty well. Very well actually. I had thought of my work as rather crappy when it wasn't perfect. But when I had finished the presentation I realised that had actually done everything I could do and should have done. And from other people's comments it was actually pretty damn good. So maybe I can sleep well tonight, knowing that I did a good job.

party of the decade.

Önskar så att jag kunde ha varit där...

the prahran date (or ditch) guide.

Looki looki! This is my group's final brouchure for Information Design class. This brochure takes you through three kinds of dates in Prahran (the area where Swinburne is located, and a lot of hipsters hang out). You can chose to take the Anniversary Date route, the First Date route, or the Desperate Date route. The last one is the kind of date that someone may have set you up on, and you simply just want to escape it. So, in this little guide, we explain just how you can do that. Aren't we just aweful...

miss dancing.

A Dance For One. from LOVER® on Vimeo.

Having dislocated my knee-cap a few weeks ago, I'm off ballet for about 6 weeks to recover. Excuse the language, but it f***ing sucks! I miss it a lot...

dance of porcupines.

Just thought I'd share this little clip with you, folks. I saw it for the first time a few months ago, but I keep coming back and watch it from time to time. Simply because I think it's so genius. Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat Pray Love) is f***ing awesome.

intangible asset number 82.

I saw this documentary a little while ago. It's about a Melbourne jazz musician who travels to Korea to learn about rhythm and music, from a completely different view point than what we Westerners usually do. I found it very interesting and inspiring, I definitely recommend it.

stephen baynes illustration.

These are a couple of illustrations I've done for my Print class assignment. The dude in the pictures is Stephen Baynes, an Australian choreographer, who is the reason for the event that I'm "promoting" in my project. I created this illustration by tracing a photo of Baynes, then tracing the tracing with a fine-liner, then tracing the outlines in the fine-liner tracing. And the rest is Photoshop magic.

colour yellow.

Some more photos for my Colours of Melbourne project. These ones were taken in Oakleigh.

beyond ballet stuff1.

Here are some first roughs of how things may look like in my event brochure assignment for Print Technology class. The photos in these collage illustrations were taken by Rasmus Malstroem and the typeface I've used is called Machi (mmm, love it - and it was on sale, how awesome is that!). The whole layout will be based on the lines from this typeface, and is also the guides I've used to cut these images up.

somebody to love me.

Just came across this video of Mark Ronson's song "Somebody to love me" featuring Boy George. The whole video is shot as a home/on tour-video set in 1982. Diane Kruger portrays Boy George. Pretty well I must say. It's very hipster, but a fun concept nonetheless.

retro illustrations today.