The Hairdo

The other day i had a dream about my hairdo. Someone told me it has a name: »The hairdo of 69«. Why so? Well – it's logical – it's as much hair in the front as it is in the back. You could easily put a 6 and a 9 there. In the middle there's a circle and its »arms« spread towards the forehead and the back of the neck. They are merged somehow.
This is what I drawed when I woke up.

Summer!

Yesterday was a good day:

The day was as long as the night and I got fired from the »standards« job. I couldn't make up any better ideas than the sketches I posted recently. As I'm rather (mentally) exhausted after my MA project I think I'll have a creative pause for a while.

I was asked the other day to send text samples to a publisher – if they like my texts I'll write a foreword in a big Swedish illustrator book (sold internationally)!
Maybe I'll hold lectures as well this fall. So – as it seems – my book generates new kinds of jobs.

I met with my friend Maja the other day. She asked me if I draw often, as I used to do before. Unfortunately I don't. As I've seen some of her diary pics on her Myspace-site I presupposed that she draws every day. She told me something very inspiring: not only does she draw a picture every day, but she uses the »wrong« hand!
She's been practicing her left hand for seven months, and now she controls it rather good. I decided that I'll try to use my left hand, too. What's the point of having a dead hand?

So left-hand-drawing – and drawing in general – is what I will do this summer.
My first try:

Standards III

As the honeyfont was rejected, I continue on the old stuff. I've browsed through tons of pictograms on the internet, and I've come to the conclusion that there are very few ISO standardized pictograms, strange enough.

Standards II

Honey font:

Moa Edlund @ Panorama Art

Go there! Moa's drawings are great. Dreamy, still sharp and direct.
Panorama Art, Engelbrektsgatan 19, Stockholm.

Standards

Poster sketches to be presented tomorrow. Note the standardized pictorial language.
(Also see my posters/flyers for Kompani Labil 2005!)

Tecknarens Manifest

Tecknarens Manifest är en bok som handlar om bilder, inspiration och fantasi. Om att hitta ett eget språk och om vikten av att tro på sig själv.

96 sidor
Mjukband
Upplaga 450 ex.
Till boken hör en bilaga i form av en illustrerad affisch (500 x 700 mm).
ISBN 978-91-633-0458-3

För försäljningsställen se länk.

Woo-hoo!

School's out, 200 books are sold, and the response has been overwhelming! Yesterday (breaking-up day) we had the annual huge dinner in Konstfack. I recieved a grant for deserving students. I ran over the floor (like sportsmen do on television) screaming woo-hoo. It was something I've been looking forward to be doing since 1st grade.