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Feature in Boligliv

Our studio and homes are featured in the March 2010 issue of the Danish magazine Boligliv – We hope you´ll enjoy it – and will feel welcome inside our studio and homes. And yes off course it´s always so tidy!

New beginnings

Somethings in life are worth waiting for, like spring, Prince Charming and new websites.
I can´t tell you how happy I am to welcome you at my new website now - I´ve just moved in - so it´s still a little messy - with lots of work to be done - but it´s bigger and brighter!

I´m also slowly putting the new blog together - so stay at this adress for a little longer.

Wishing for...

I´m wishing for spring now - eventhough I enjoy working from home due to all the snow and the low temperatures at the studio. Today my little shy assistent drew this wishlist for her upcoming 6-years birthday - and as a surprise to her (and a help to our guest) I turned her drawing into real photos. Nothing pink - and no mice please!

Working from home

I´ve been working from home the last couple of days - and enjoy my view from the dinner table and the company of my little creative assistent now and then... she is already quite clever when it comes to working in Illustrator - but also a little messy and she talks a lot - so next week I´ll be back in my studio.

If you look at the second photo you can see the artwork I posted about here - we got it as a wedding present this summer - love it.

I´m going to Copenhagen on saturday to meet up with a lot of Danish bloggers - and I´m sooooo looking forward to this.

Walk & Talk

Today I spent most of my workday walking & talking with a new client on her land. And what a perfect day for spending the day outside with clear blue sky, sun and crisp snow. Walking and talking is a great way to start a new project - especially in this case when the job is all about branding this little piece of heaven and the unique business she has started here. I´ll tell you more later...

Studio greetings

I´m busy at the Studio right now with lots of deadlines before we leave for Thailand - my brain is overheated and my to-do-list is long - but we still have time to light a candle, drink coffee and enjoy some Smooth Jazz. 

Hope you´ll have a great weekend too.

Cop15 - from a graphic point of view

Untill the 18th of December COP15 is taking place in Copenhagen - so let us hope The United Nations Climate Conference will result in a global agreement to protect the Earth.

Looking at it all through my graphic design eyes - I like the blue COP15 logo - eventhough the one to the right was my favorite when I first saw the other winners last year. But I have no idea why a professional jury selected the last 2.prize logo - since it´s everything a logo shouldn´t be - maybe they just wanted an icebear! Anyway I always like to see the runner ups in such logo competitions.

My small contribution to COP15 was to design this magazine about Danish and Greenlandic climate research for a client - I always end up reading the articles while I design because I like science and love Greenland - and if you wish to read about The Melting Ice you can do it here and in Danish here, Isen smelter.

And if you are confused and don´t know what to think about the whole climate debate here´s a wonderful Climate Change visualization from Informationisbeautiful.

Vidunderlivet T-shirt

I designed this t-shirt some months ago for The Danish Cancer Society as part of their campaign, Vidunderlivet, which aims to inform young girls about the HPN vaccine against cervial cancer.
And now that the t-shirts have been printed - I hope to see a lot of young girls and mothers wearing it!

Here´s some of my thoughts about the design in danish.
"Motivet til den nye kampagne-T-shirt er en collage, hvor det blå logo-hjerte 'invaderes' af symboler og motiver fra de unge pigers univers. Collage-stilen understreger, at der er mange ting, der spirer og vokser i pigernes liv i netop den periode. Og symbolerne i collagen antyder nogle af de emner og den udvikling, som er på banen.

Det kribler og krabler, der drømmes, tænkes og tales. Der kigges ud i verden og ind i sig selv. En skitse på fremtiden tegnes - og det feminine blandes med rå power i tidens (rock-chick) stil. Motivet signalerer til omverden, at der foregår meget både udenpå og indeni."

Kampagne-T-shirten koster 129 kr. og kan købes her i Vidunderlivets webshop.
Med dit køb støtter du kampen mod livmoderhalskræft.

All Is Well

Hello again and thanks for all your sweet comments - I´m happy to tell you that I´m now slowly getting back to normal - I´ve finished my treatment, I can type, I can spend time in front of my screen, I even went to a Magazine Design Conference - and the fatigue and headache has gone. I´m still tired and have given myself one more week to recover completely before I start working again - knowing that when I start working my clients will keep me busy right untill our Christmas Holidays (I´m already dreaming of beach-life and Thai-food).

The All Is Well design above can be downloaded here - it´s based on my wedding-pattern and one of my favorite affirmations from Louise Hay´s book You can Heal your Life.

Take care and have a healing and cozy weekend!

Berlin Berlin

One of my oldest and dearest friends is having her first book published today. Berlin Berlin - a different guide book about Berlin, where she has been living for the last 5 years with her husband and 2 daughters. It´s written in Danish -and is the perfect gift for any Berlin lover or Berlin traveller! And last night I was busy making this temporary website for them- while I wait for the hosting to work out!

Berlin Berlin
En anderledes guide til en forlænget weekend eller storbyferie i Berlin. Henriette Harris, skriver om Berlin og dens begivenhedsrige og dramatiske historie i seks tematiske kapitler. Læseren kommer rundt i byen til både kendte og ukendte adresser og steder. En guide, der fører læseren helt ind på livet af Berlin, dens indbyggere – og dens historier gennem et turbulent århundrede. Mere info her.

Nye baggrunde

Inspireret af Pernille Melsteds tankevækkende video - om ikke at lade sig nøje - designede jeg fluks disse 2 baggrunde til skærmen forleden. Du kan downloade den øverste her - og den nederste her.

Jeg er færdig med at nøjes med Nescafé og en out-dated hjemmeside for mit design|studio.

This is a post for my Danish readers - have a great weekend!
And please answer my little survey to the right about my new feature from LinkWithin.

Pimp my Time - workshop

I recently made this illustration with a confused and stressed out little bird for a clients secret project about time management. My client is an expert on this subject - and Line and I felt we could learn a lot from her. So we have invited her to come and teach a workshop at our studio here in Århus in October - you can read all about the Pimp My Time workshop on our studio blog. We hope to see you -there´s 4 places left!

in the paper...

My contribution to the local Festuge this year - was in the newspaper yesterday. It is a part of a Grib project - where the members have teamed up to make an illustration each day for the local paper JP during the festival.

I went to my daughters kindergarden with photographer Pernille Holm Andersen - who is so clever when it comes to childrens portraits - and we asked the children what they think a Festuge/Festival is - and we got some very wise answers - some great portraits - and some self-portraits drawn by the kids - and afterwards I put it all together.


Here´s the final result - with the kids´ answers to the question - What is a Festival?
You play loud music- and dance...
Maybe there´ll be a timemachine!?
The men drink beer and eat sausages - and the women drink wine.

Flower girl

We had the most fantastic wedding-party this weekend - and I´m so happy and thankfull that we shared this day with our wonderful friends and family - and I still have sore feet from dancing untill 4 in the morning! Here´s a photo of the studio friday morning when I did all the flower arrangements - and a photo of how they looked in the restaurant this saturday. p.s the vases are from Ikea!
(having a small flower studio is an old dream that came through - at least for a day!)

busy busy

I´m a very busy wedding bee these days - lots of small details to organize before our big party on Saturday - Here´s the pattern I designed for the party...

An apple a day...

Outside the studio our apple trees and pear trees are now full of ripe pears and sour green apples. So I think it´s about time I get around to post some of the collages I made this spring, inspired by our Hanami-event and the flowering appletrees.

The collages measure 20 x20 cm and are sold in pairs for 180 $/900 ddk- and you can mix and match them as you like.



I´ve also made a new background image for your desktop which you can download here. Enjoy!

Summer Holiday

I´m busy at the studio with the last deadlines before our holiday next week. And after 2 weeks of wonderful weather I´m more than ready to kick back and enjoy the summer here in Denmark. I´m leaving you with these interiors from some Swedish summerhouses from Skona Hem and I wish you all a wonderful summer - I´ll be back in August.

Adopt an Owl

I´ve just added a White Owl and a Flower Owl to my shop so they are now ready for adoption. And they now come with a brand new logo designed by me - and a small description of their personaleties.

Flower cards

I´ve been working with these wonderful photographs of flowers for a client, and everytime they pop-up on my screen I get so happy! If you like these motives too - you should keep an eye on your local "Søstrene Grene" shop - where you can buy greeting cards with these flowers and many more -real soon.

Copyright by Photographer Hanne Stoyer.