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The winters in Norway and very long, dark and cold. Surprisingly enough, my city isn’t known for having a lot of snow, but still very windy and cold. Snow did eventually fall in Stavanger though, and in the middle of the night and in the dark, we set the scene for an expressive portrait shoot, of the dark Norwegian winter nights.
Model: Marie Øvstebø
This is an a dual advertisement that ran in the local region newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad advertising for the city of Sandnes and it’s recent achievements. One of them being awarded as Norway’s 2nd best city for doing business. Based on value words I created a typographic illustration shaped as the city coat of arms.
This work was created as Procontra.
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Added on December 30, 2011
Pace & love is a little journal for ALIGN, a supplier of production- and safety critical equipment and solutions, showing their company values; Professional, Ambitious, Caring and Enthusiastic. Because of the season, they wanted a flavour of christmas added to the illustrations in the journal. For the project I decided to build the Pace & Love typography out of tools related to engineering and safety equipment, especially when building emphasis on the letters and their values. The typography is build up from over 100 deep etched objects. I did the typography, design and illustrations for this project.
This work was created as Procontra.
As a yearly tradition at Procontra, they always give away a donation to different causes in the christmas season to spred joy and help others. This year, we decided to donate money to the Movember movement and support prostate cancer. In that occasion, we made a movemeber themed christmas card, which include a moustache for the ones who didn’t save up for one during Movember or had not heard about the movement yet, and we encourage people to take photos of themselves wearing the moustache to continue supporting Movember, all the way until christmas. The tagline on the front says “Movember lasts until Christmas”.
This work was created as Procontra.
Pouring down drinks, starting to blur the lines and lose focus of the image, like watching a 3D movie but lacking both the extra dimension as well as the glasses. Giving you a double vision.
Model: Marie Øvstebø
Photographer & Retouch: Daniel Brokstad
I decided to make another typeface after working on some custom typography for another project, and I liked the interesting idea of having the typeface work with angles and direction with very strong base shapes most letters are based on and having thinner lines actually define the letter. It’s not a very ordinary font made for legibility, almost an arrogant font in it’s carelessness towards the reader – hence the name – but still has style and interesting ways to set the letters together.
Janne Joakim is a photographer recently returning to Norway after studying in London at London College of Fashion, and is now based in the Bergen area in Norway. I did the visual identity and website for her. I custom drew the logo to create a more unique and dynamic look, together with the strong purple, making it different from most “capital serif type” logos in fashion, but still making it relevant.
I created the new visual identity for Ruben Hestholm, a photographer in the Sandnes/Stavanger area who’s mainly doing wedding/family/portrait photography. The identity was to be professional and clean, and show relevance to his field of work.
Who doesn’t love coffee? I can at least testify that I freaking love it and it’s a huge part of my everyday life and creative process. But which dose is the right for you? And what is the outcome of the different dosages of coffee? I have created a series of posters, cards and coffee cups called “Choose your dose” to guide you to the right level on coffee intake. Find your dosage below.
As most of you people know, on the 22nd of July 2011 there was two attacks that happened in Norway, a bombing of the government block in Oslo and then a shooting that took place at an island called Utøya about 1 hours drive outside of Oslo. Both of these hideous crimes was performed by the same guy who’s a social outcast and right wing as his “revenge” on society. The guy was thankfully caught.
Not long after this happened, Positive Posters released their brief on this years poster competition and based on the brief this was the first event that came to mind for me, so I decided to make a poster about the recent events, mainly focusing on Utøya but still keep it as a motivational poster as in reminding of the tragedy but still showing how well people kept together and opened themselves to others afterwards.
My rationale:
My poster is based on the attacks in Norway, with focus on Utøya where 69 people got killed. The shape of the heart is the same shape as the island where the massacre happened. “Heart Attack” has a double meaning on how it shocked us and the attacks that took place there. After the tragedy, it shows people coming together, solidarity and companionship.
Restrurante X is a high end, young and edgy restaurant focusing on delivering an amazing dining experience in Stavanger, Norway – or for those who just want to sit down for some exclusive drinks. I created the identity, as well as it’s own custom monolined typeface called “Resturante X Regular”, used in the logo and overall the identity. The identity uses both a emblem/seal logo and a regular logo and together with the strong yellow colour it creates a strong contrast.
During my short stay in Barcelona and already within the first day it was quite clear to me that Barcelona was a city of contrast, in more than just one aspect of the word. It’s quite the tourist place, and it has nice buildings and locations, but you don’t need to even walk into any dodgy back alley to see all the huslters walking around to trick some stupid tourists or snatch their wallet. But when the night actually comes around and you do happen to walk in the alleyways, it’s almost absurd how frequently you’ll be bombared with offers of everything from the illegal scene. From all the drugs you can imagine to completely ongoing hookers that are pretty much begging you for sex(and money).
Based on my experience, I wanted to illustrate this with some of the photographs I took there. Overexaggerated of course, by splitting a scene in half, showing 50/50 of the good side and the bad side, to display the contrast of the city.
With the use of mix tapes I wanted to create a typographic series drawn with only one continuous line, per side of the tape. Mainly sticking to writing one word in one seamless line. This was an interesting challenge typographic wise and made the project quite fun to work with. Each of the posters and typography has it’s own style of music. Here is the results, inspired by the days of the cassettes and homemade mix tapes.
Stereotype is a collection of characters fitting into the stereotypical look and feel. This collection contains hipster, punk and gansta.
Snopp & Fisse are two different tees based on Swedish and Danish slang for… well, the private areas of boys and girls. I wanted to use awkward and funny slang words from scandinavia in a typographic setting for some tee designs. These t-shirts are released alongside my new online apparel store, so they are up for grabs!
The T-shirts, along others can be bought here: http://danielbrokstad.spreadshirt.com/
Mother’s ruin is a Premium London Dry Gin, with a focus on sleek looks and excellent gin, delivering a pleasing high end experience for any gin lover with taste for good gin. While being new, it also links back to the roots of the Gin in England with it’s name; “Mother’s Ruin”, which was a slang at the time for Gin.
Resist is the name of the RMIT Printmaking graduate exhibition of 2010, exhibiting the graduates in bachelor and honours. I designed both the catalogue and the invite to the exhibition, with the additional help from Tara De Pasquale who helped out a lot with communicating with printers, finding the right paper stock and keeping everything within the budget applied by our editor team with the printmakers.
The idea behind the catalogue and the logo of the exhibition, is the printmaking surface texture shining through the diecut of the logo, resisting and holding back, not showing you everything straight away but only parts of the surface. Not to mention the printmaking surface itself is also a symbol of resistance as it withstands all the chemicals they play around with in printmaking.
A little recap on different posters I’ve made.
Crazy Shit Now
This is a self initialized project where I wanted to crate custom typeface for a poster, something that was organic and dynamic in movement instead of basing everything off hard and edgy fonts, I wanted something that was unique as a handwriting.
Sex, Death, Rock ‘n’ Roll
“Sex, Death, Rock ‘n’ Roll” was made for the Scanart 2010 Exhibition in Melbourne which focuses on Scandinavian art. This was the only piece for the exhibition that was purely made for the exhibition itself, while the other features was photographs I had taken earlier.
I am your father
This was my submission to the Positive Posters competition. The idea was to show two opposites turning friendly, I was thinking about taking some political standpoint, but instead I went for maybe one of the most recognized tales ever told, about a father and son and everything that happened between them. The poster was originally an illustration and then adapted over to displaying pictures from their full journey.
I_Poster
I_Poster was an in house exhibition at RMIT University, which focused on us showing ourselves as a designer and what kind of designer we are. Since photography is such an important thing to me alongside design, I decided to show the 2 different sides and how they together create the full me.
This photo series is expressing the feeling of having insomnia and being restless, of not being able to fall asleep, waking up in the morning and feeling unrested and restless. It’s one of the most frustrating feelings of actually being tired, wanting to sleep, but simply not being able to by your body or mind, out of your control and will. It will just make you go crazy at some point.
Model: Candice Li
The “Hipster” series is a collection of different hipster girls promoting different old school, vintage and different cameras, in a total collection of 3 different cameras and girls. This shoot is also meant to capture the hipster look and feel, which is all the popular at the moment and maybe in particular in Melbourne, Australia, as one of the major “hipster cities”.
Models: Mel Wong, Annie Nguyen, Jolin Phuong Vo
For a long time I’ve been a fan of old cameras and the unique images they produce, but also vintage fashion and the two combined. In recent years the vintage fashion have expanded a lot and it has become a lot more popular, and there are several magazines with editorial photography based on the vintage feel. So.. I wanted to have my own take on it, give it a nice summer feeling, light clothing, washed out colours and sunbeams.
So on a warm weekend day, we went down to Fitzroy gardens for a shoot.
Models: Millie Foreman & Aimee Suckling
MUA: Sheridan Dixon
Almost 2 years ago, I created my first visual identity when I had almost come to an end at my studies back in Norway, a whole lot have happened since then and I have both improved and changed since, so it’s time to update my visual identity and looks to my current status at a designer, and also since I have reached another milestone, finishing the graphic design education.
The visual identity is literally representing myself in the way I am and the way people see me. I have been told I look like a fox, or that I’m sly as a fox, maybe calm like one as well. But in a contrast to this, there is a skeleton head on the inside to show a bit more edgy side which people who know me know of, and know I like stuff that are a bit crazy of different at times.
Inferno is a self promoting illustration journal, displaying and featuring my illustration work. It’s main theme is the first part called “Inferno”(hell), picturing sad and hurting feelings in combination of horrible visuals. The idea in technique was to combine the flowing paint together with hard and geometric lines as a contrast, where the geometric lines are “responding” to the illustrations. The book comes with a slip cover. The 2nd part of the book is called “Four eyed girls”, and as the title says, is all about girls with glasses.
I might not have had a direct urge to inflict pain to others or get into a real fight anytime soon, but I what I really felt like doing was visualizing it. Together with the local Melbourne metal band; Naberus and the MUA; Tania we came together to create a fight scene amongst the band members. Kicks and punches where delivered, and a mash up like this have never looks better before, despite it also having a slight disturb factor. This was also a good chance for Tania to show her special effects make up skills.
Models: Naberus
MUA: Tania Zhang
LE PÉCHÉ is a Premium Absinthe from Switzerland. It was Founded under another name in 1880 in the canton of Neuchâtel. However, in 1910 absinthe was banned from sale and production in Switzerland, and it was at this time some continued to make the drink in secrecy, to please the lovers of the drinks. In the social aspect, it was considered “The Devils Drink”. And this is where LE PÉCHÉ, meaning “The Sin”, got it’s name.
In 2005, the Absinthe ban was lifted in Switzerland, and LE PÉCHÉ was officially released and sold for the first time in almost 100 years. They kept their traditional unlabeled bottle from during the absinthe ban, and gave it a “new face”, being the label the bottle is hiding behind now. LE PÉCHÉ also got a new designed emblem, overall mixing tradition with modernism to create an interesting and appealing Absinthe drink and experience.
This is a fictional concept design for the Absolut Vodka range, adding a creative and mad and insane mix to it all. It comes in 2 different variations; “Absolut Insanity” and “Absolut Madness”. All over the bottle there are different figures and random things going on, always something new to read each time you pick up the bottle. I like the Absolut Vodka range and I always wanted to make my own version; here is my take on it.
Amee from Perth joined me for a shoot while she was in Melbourne, punky look, little clothing and awesome makeup by Merav Katz. Alphie LaFray was supposed to join us for this shoot, but had to cancel last minute. The shoot went good still. It was done at the edge of the CBD, which equals a lot of crowd and people overall. So we had a few people peeking in during our shoot, but went good for the most part. And the shots ended up awesome:
Model: Amee-Lee Hadley
MUA: Merav Katz
I'm a graphic designer and photographer form Stavanger, Norway. I specialize with custom typography and illustrative design.
I got my bachelor of design at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and currently working both fulltime and as a freelancer.
