In January we had a workshop with Andreu Balius from Typerepublic. It was intensive work and fun at the same time. I started to work on this type, I wanted it to have big contrasts between thin and thick lines. Drawing these thin lines in Fontlab was a real pain, I’m still recovering:)
My this year’s Christmas cards in English and Finnish. I might develop these letters to a new display font …
We had a really good workshop with a German designer Anette Lenz. Our topic was the New Year’s wish for Helsinki. The first assignment was collecting photos of different places that reflect certain emotions (respectful, profound, encouraging … ) We had to share moments in our life when we were unexpectedly and positively touched by something and also write a paragraph about what Helsinki means to us. Posters came out of these stories and places. It was really great to get to know Anette!
A slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek (his picture is taken form his website) gave a lecture in Kiasma today, titeled Cinema and ideology: report from battleground. He talked about ideology – he described it as an invisible background noise that is never spoken about, but is rather everything that stays between the lines and compared it to consciously codified scenes from famous Holywood movies (Casablanca had quite a leading role in his talk). He was provocative, interesting, funny and gave us a lot to think about. After the lecture there was a screening of his movie in three parts Perverts guide to cinema. I sure won’t look at David Lynch’s movies the same way as I used to anymore:)
This week we had an interesting ‘poster’ workshop with the Image-shift guys. It all started with questions about politics and ended with a bunch of very personal problems that we all share as graphic designers. These were then glued all over Taik.
Arabia Maskerad 2009 at Korjaamo. With Marieke we painted mustache on everyone:). This guys are getting some serious mustache treatment.
After visiting another great fleamarket I decided to pay more attention to old book covers. So I’m starting a flickr group – I want to make a proper collection. I’ll post a link when there’s enough interesting book covers to show.
My friends are organizing a pop jazz festival and this is the poster for the latest event. I was too busy so this is done by computer …
My work will be shown in the 4th Biennial of Slovene Visual Communication, Brumen. Nouvelle is also used in the catalog for the yearly exhibition of Academy of art and design in Ljubljana.
I finally arrived to Helsinki and I hope to start an exciting new school year:)
This week we had a photo shooting of some of my work for this website and I hope to upload pictures very soon. This is a part of my Nouvelle specimen, more pages to come asap. Thank you Nataša!
Last weekend I attended a short japanese calligraphy course. We practiced modern and ancient kanji. Below is one of my early attempts to write yama (mountain) and kawa (river). Our sensei Shin Watanabe used an orange ink to correct our lines!
On this year’s typographic workshop we carved letters into stone. Everyone was given a name of a typical tree that grows in the close area of the village where we stayed and we carved it on the stones that we found close to the village. Since letters carved in the stone are much more durable then anything else, we left a message to the next generations on what types of trees were growing in that particular area.
I just finished a 2 week intensive japanese language course. It was really great, I always wanted to learn the language and hopefully some day I can continue with studying. On the last day our teacher Ikumi brought origami with her and we could choose one to take home with us. I thought this little warrior was just hilarious.
