Vi fick för någon månad sedan pro bonouppdraget att göra julkort till MSfonden, vars intäkter går till att stödja fondens verksamhet. Efter lite letande hittade vi vektorgrafikbilder  med en blandning av både retro och modern känsla. Fantastiske illustratören Aleksandar Velasevic i Florida har en stor kollektion med just sådana bilder och där hittade vi två motiv som vi kände skulle passa bra i sammanhanget.

Lite fixande med att göra motiven liggande i stället för stående, välja format på julkort, montera text på fram- och baksida så var det klart. Nu har dom kommit från tryckeriet och är till försäljning på MSfondens hemsida. Runt 80% av försäljningskostnaden går till fonden. Hoppas på gott resultat!

Korten sälj i buntar om tio st med band runtom. Eftersom illustrationerna är så rena och tydliga i färgerna var det enkelt att få dem att se bra ut på bild.

I övrigt har det plåtats produktbilder på långpeppar, för mig en ny bekantskap …

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Förra veckan antydde jag att nästa nummer av Vismagazine var på gång för fullt. Det var den och nu är den klar. Sista svängarna med korr och småfix är undanstökade. Jag sköter layout och formgivning och Peter skriver, översätter och projektar frilansar. En hel del av materialet är förarbetat i Norge och ska göras på svenska. Det blev ett läsvärt och bra nummer, tycker vi.

Den kommer som tryckt papperstidning och kommer också att finnas på Vismas hemsida som en nedladdningsbar pdf. Precis som tidigare nummer.

A while ago I was asked by the food producer ÖNOS (a brand under Procordia Food) to make one of their labels. They are a producer of delicate syrups and jam. There were allready several products in the product line so the illustration had to resemble the others. The new taste of rhubarb syrup was produced in the middle of the cold winter and there were no rhubarbs in sight in the store. I had to by some stockphotos to be able to remember how a rhubarb actually is constructed.

After some different mockups and sketches I found a nice disposition suitable for text and design of the label. I put one of the rhubarb  stems so it followed the “V-form” in the bottom of the label.
It´s nice to see a lot of them in the supermarket and of course I had to buy one of them .-)

The illustration was sketched and scanned into photoshop to be colorized.

And finally the label in use:

The week has passed with great speed as usual. Time to sum up what happened in the studio.
Sanna typed all the balloons for all the comics  for Donald Ducks Summerspecial (Kalle Ankas Sommarlov) with unbelievable speed and accuracy as usual. 36 pages of pure comics! In the meantime I have worked with the rest of the issue, 16 pages of activity puzzles and cover. Now it´s time for me to put in all the “BOOOM”, “ZAPP” and “BADAAAM”-words wich is great fun but takes a lot of time.

An internal AD for the issue was also needed and after a little thinking I managed to find an (IMHO) nice design for it. Uploaded to Egmonts ftp-server in several sizes.

Peter and I (very much mostly Peter this time) have completed an assignment for Visma with their client magazine Vismagazine. Another interesting number, I hope.

I ‘m in the middle of production of four new pages of children activity puzzles for Hemmets Journal. They are due to next week.

A 10 meter E-TTL cord and three E-TTL radio triggers refuse to be delivered from Hongkong due to the volcano ashes. I´m very curious about the triggers (Pixel TR-332 Remote Triggers) and I hope to be able to use them instead of the too expensive TTL  Pocket Wizards, both in the studio and on location. And when needed, also to trigger the Speedlights (hence the TTL-function). Thanks David Hobby aka the Strobist, for the tip!

A little upload to the Stocksites of random pictures (some of them shown above) were made. To iStockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Bigstockphoto and Fotolia. I have yet to tag and categorize them.

Well, that´s it for this week, I believe.

Not to forget some meetings and a lot of delicious coffee from our fantastic new Nespresso machine! This was another good week in the studio!

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(PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E) For people living in layers.

It´s the command I tend to forget so often, and that I need so often.

It´s the command to keep all the layers in a Photoshop file and make a merged copy on top of them!

FANTASTIC for all us people living a layered life in Photoshop.

Or  elsewhere…

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We were commissioned to design all the  material for their exhibition. The assignment started with the request for a tiny sketch and grew to a fairly big gig with konceptual sketches, signs, roll ups, project planning, product folders, planning of what would be needed in the showcase, ordering all the material needed and a couple of product shots.

And we were ready in time for the show.

Quite nice! Great fun!

Sample material for Gothenburg Motorshow

My friend photographer Leif Johansson shot the all the pictures to the album. I was asked to make the design/print originals and I was happy to help.

The album was released worldwide by King Records in Japan last week and is well worth a chech up.

Anders Danman cd-cover

Finally I decided to get rid of this old friend. It´s almost all of my airbush equipment. Compared to Photoshops airbrush tool this guy is big! Stopped using it long time ago. Kept it because I thought it looked cool.

But it also took up quite a lot of space –  more space than it was cool, in the end.  And it didn´t have an “undo button”.

So eventually, I got rid of the compressor, the filter, most of the brushes and some other small paraphernalia. Making up some space for a new softbox or something…

Time to sum up this week. Today I delivered a batch of kids activity pages for the weekly magazine Hemmets Journal. Its a nice ongoing assignment I´m lucky to have . To keep the production price low, and to be time effective  I often buy complementary illustrations from my collegues on iStockphoto.

The work on this batch have been going on now and then for a couple of weeks. As usual I had great fun making it. Hope the kids will like it…

This is a project I did a couple of years ago. It became actual again since the client needed it with a slightly new layout to use on an exhibition on

Some time ago one of our customers needed an instruction to show customers how to mount one of their products. Since the instruction needed to be visual, clear and should be printed on paper and board, an should be easy to view on their website, we chose to illustrate it.

Traditionally. Black and white with outlines. To reduce time effort I sketched up the layout with the camera. That way I got the form and perspective right without too much effort. The pictures are really ugly but they fulfill their purpose.

After choosing and printing the photos I threw them into my absolutly fabulous, lifesaving, drawing machine, the Liesegang (more on this in an upcoming post), and sketched.

After some proofing with the client it was time to draw the original with black pencils, scan it and put some grey fields in it to increase the contrast and visibility.