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Added on February 22, 2012
Jishin is a Norwegian industrial metal band located in Oslo. I was contacted to make their debut album “JISHIN” almost 1 year ago and everything went well until contract issues surfaced. For about 10 months this album has been kept on hold, but finally put to print in a limited promo run. The album art itself is a visualization of the of their gritty music and expression.
You can listen to some of their music at soundcloud.
Graphic Design & Photography: Daniel Brokstad
Model: Marie Øvstebø
Studio: Anne Lise Norheim
Possession is a limited edition unholy wine collection, featuring “Evil Demon – Bloody Shiraz”, “Haunting Ghost – Spoory Cabernet” and “Old Witch – Cursed Pinor Noir”. All the wines comes in a solid coffin shaped glossy casing, which adds to the exclusiveness of the wine series. Each are based on different occult themes as satanism, the paranormal and witchcraft. The type design on each bottle reflects it’s theme and was made in a rough way to contrast the otherwise clean setup and design, to give it more of an edgy look.
This is a self initialized conceptual design.
More photos from the series:
Possession – The unholy wine collection
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.
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.
In the occasion of Dag Terje’s partner – Bent Høie – turning 40, he’s throwing a grand party for him, and decided to make the whole event have it’s own identity, look, and website for inviting the guests. Young yet moderate, outgoing and style aware, these was some of the keywords I was given when I started this assignment. Now the website is finally up and running.
The weekend hosting the party has now passed, and I’ve updated with more design works from the event, such as the Warhol-portraits, champagne labels and seating arrangements.
Client: Dag Terje Klarp Solvang
Design: Daniel Brokstad
Coding: Edvard Brygfjeld
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.
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.
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.
Pixel is a sub brand for Bambra Press, providing an online service for students to more easily put things to print instead of the tedious task of waiting in a queue only to print a few pages. The online service is called Pixel since it is a digital service but also because it’s digital print – which also makes it more affordable for students to use. The look of the logo is overall very cubistic/pixelated, but the touch of vibrant colours still make it stand out as being fresh.
Brain Juice is a new healthy juice on the marked, but with a new approach! It’s aimed towards teens and young adults who usually consume a whole lot of coca-cola and other unhealthy drinks, and try to make them drink a healthy natural juice. Instead of making a pure and clean design, looking very fruity and fresh and healthy slogans… Brain Juice takes a different approach by being funny, raw and just strange! A guy is sawing his own head off while strangling himself on the package! That’s not normal? It’s brain juice crazy!
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.
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.
