I whipped this quickie up before heading home for the holidays. Sadly not for Life Day, but it might as well be. So happy Life Day from all of me to all of yous.

This logo was made for a student group in Lillehammer, Norway. They needed a facelift for their visual profile and I totally stepped up to the task. They wanted a serious, classical logo with a recognizable symbol, and that is what I tried to give them. You can visit their social networking site here and tell them how much you love their stylin’ logo.

The the sneering underdog and pitch black sheep of holidays, Samhain, All Hallows Eve, friggin’ Halloween is getting closer, and to celebrate this spooky occasion, I’m posting a recent assignment from the nice people in Hutchinson, Minnesota. They wanted an illustration and logo for their annual Halloween themed fun run and I was happy to help them out. The logo is up now on their website, and it will also feature on some swanky brown long sleeves. If you can’t tell already, I really love Halloween, so I had a lot fun doing this illustration. If you need some help getting in a Halloweeny mood, I suggest buying Double Fine’s game Costume Quest, which came out last year on XBLA. It’s basically the cutest thing ever.

Some friends arranged a fanzine night at a local pub recently, where anyone could sell / give away their own home made magazines. My contribution was this faux-french co-op with the awesome Stig Bruksås, and featured 5 tiny illustrations from each of us, depicting various freaks. I made the left one on each spread, and Stig made the better one on the right side. We cranked it out in two days, and printed and produced about 50 A8 format leaflets ourselves. It was a really inspiring and fun, I would love to do more of these spontaneous little self assignments.

Meet the Inklings! I can finally reveal the characters I designed for Mediacircus’ upcoming augmented reality iPhone game “Inklings!”. The game is inspired by Tamagochi and Pokèmon, and since I’ve played quite a few installments of the latter, I found this assignment incredibly fun. The elemental monsters are all designed with the same green glowing eyes and can be combined to make stronger creatures for battling. The game is due very soon, and I urge everyone to buy it. Good sales means I get to make more of these guys, and we only need to design 629 more to match the current amount of Pokèmon! Hurry!

I updated the header again. New logo, new slogan, same kitten. How is that for a july update? I am currently working on the fourth issue of Fnugg, which hopefully will be done this fall, or by the end of the year. It. Will. Be. Fantastic. And I never exaggerate. Ever. In other news, the iPhone game I worked on earlier this year is nearing release. I haven’t seen the end result yet, but I hope I get to feature the art here at some point. I’m quite happy with it.

This is a small assignment I did for a local seafood restaurant. They wanted an illustration for visiting kids to crayon all over. The houses in the background are my attempt to draw the famous landmark in Bergen, Bryggen. The monocle wearing, briefcase and cane sporting, top hat enthusiast fish food connoisseur… fish, is a reference to my friends comic “The Fish”, which can be read in the first issue of Fnugg. Also anthropomorphism is just really fun when coupled with cannibalism. I wonder why you don’t see that more often in Disney movies.

I’ve recently devoured all the episodes of the truly excellent animated series Adventure Time with Finn and Jake. It has everything! Absurdist, surreal, random humor? Check! Insanely charming artwork? Check! Magic dogs and autotune songs? Check! Enough nerdy references to make any Futurama fan moist? Check! I can’t wait for the third season!

These cuties are early character sketches for a project I’m working on with Mediacircus that still might get completion, so I’m just posting the first round. Let’s just say one of these lucky kittens might get his own interactive story in the future. Fingers crossed!

This mostly happy bunch were drawn for my old school, The Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB), to promote the them during the weeks before the applications. They were to be posted on their website, each having a postitive phrase to say about the school and the nice people who study and teach there. Some of them are secretly based on people I know from the school, but I’ve taken lots of liberties in trying to make them as diverse possible. I think they turned out really colorful and cute.