mad week

Well it has been mad. Since Monday Cat, Ben and I have been in the office until midnight drawing, scanning, drawing again. We were here all weekend as well. But it was fun in a stressed out kind of way and it did pay off, nearly finished now.

Got this short mail from Mark who was in NY speaking to the client.
"Great work rebbeca ... Just so u know we just doubled your wages keep up the good work thankyou"

BEST FEEDBACK EVER

British packaging

Well, the hunt is on! As always I am on the lookout for awesome packaging design and this is what I have collected on the precious occasions that I had actually brought my camera.













This is a delicious white chocolate powder for hot white chocolate. It is as delicious as its packaging.

On the same theme I found this jar of white chocolate buttons on my trip together with Cat to Chichester.










There were a lot of nice things in Chichester actually:












And some serial from the super market. cereal and chocolate, they do make the nicest boxes...

Dad visiting!

Dad came to visit on the weekend and we met up in London for lunch and sightseeing. We went to a wonderful restaurant on what was called the Roof Gardens and there we had a fantastic lunch with some wonderful white wine called the Black Lagoon. He also announced that this was my birthday lunch (two weeks early) and gave me my birthday present, a brand new digital camera!

So now I can post the photos from the unusually sunny weekend with dad.

Finally got a table at the Roof Gardens and I got my camera!
Wonderful white wine, Black Lagoon


Tate Modern, more impressed with the building than the art.

Metro!
Sunny breakfast at home in Portsmouth, in the garden.

Walk along the beach
At the carboot sale (I bought a book)
Lunch at gunwarf
The TOWER
Me at gunwarf
Hooooover craft! (We took the fast cat, a more ordinary ferry) to the Isle of Wight
Dad at the sunny island before we started our hunt for scones.
Taking a beer break at the student bar called the Registry.

pics!

My camera is, as you can see, complete crap (I only have my cellphone) but here you get some idea of our cramped little office looks!

Meanwhile in a small village called Emsworth...

Yesterday I moved to the UK, to Portsmouth. It was weird and a little scary. Got up frightfully early, Jonatan followed me to the airport and kissed and hugged me good-bye. Then there was an air-plane, heavy bags and a train and dragging the bag to Liss Rd.

I was scared of fitted carpets in every room and the strange smell that they create but I was pleasantly surprised to find the bottom floor completely carpet free and two super cute and cuddly cats in the hallway. The upper floor does have a fitted carpet but that’s ok. It really is a lovely hose and I’ve got a nice room and a really great bed.

My landlord, Paul, is a great guy and he took me around town, showing me the different parts of Portsmouth, taking me to a bank to get an account, even taking me to the supermarket. We visited my second roommate Nadine at work, she works at an Ecco store here and hates it. But she is really outgoing and friendly and terminated to get me drunk during the evening when we went to the local pub (very British of us) and later when we sat in the garden.

I can proudly and smugly report that I was the only one not hung over the following morning even though I gave in to the friendliness and free drinks. One litre of water before you go to bed, that’s the very simple trick.

And this morning I went to work and it was great. I mean really. I was nervous and a bit insecure of course but it really worked out, everyone I talked to was funny, friendly and helpful. I worked on a t-shirt print for Artful Dodger and by the end of the day I was on the right track and feeling a bit proud actually.

There is talk of me maybe accompanying some of the others to New York for a week at the end of August and help paint some walls for a exhibition. That would be so much fun, I hope I can go.

So far the UK is nice and the people are great. The only thing I can’t stand is the water which is frankly undrinkable. Tastes like it comes directly from a swimming pool. But otherwise I am happy and I can’t wait until work tomorrow.

I think I am jinxed

The way nothing is working out as it should right now is making me suspect that I am jinxed. Or maybe it is bad karma? In a few days time I have drowned and killed my cellphone, lost the receipt for it, managed to crack the plastic shell of my computer I don’t know how and I feel my expenses running away. Nothing seems to work, everything is hitting complications. Hope it passes over soon.

Shut in on a beautiful day again

The fun and great Cooper Island project turned into a mess. I am now stuck with the very boring documentation of it and why it went so wrong. I guess this is a learning as well. It really sucks though, that it didn’t work out. I feel responsible, even though I think I know deep down that there wasn’t much I could have done. But I could have done things better.

On the lighter side of things, check out this blog if you haven’t found your way there already. Pure eye-candy; the dieline

Written during design-block

Things are good. We are working on a very fun project for Cooper Island Beach Club, making there new website and logo. They are a caribbean resort so we spend much time looking at pictures of nice, sunny beaches.

The project is part of a module were we have put together our own agency, called Sushi Bomb. Not a very nice name, but for some strange reasons that was the one that survived all the discussions and sorting of suggestions.

The SVT people decided to run with OUR project! So proud! Still can’t show you anything here, but I am still very proud. I have worked for SVT, that is a big thing.

I’m looking for an apartment in Portsmouth at the moment, mainly through a website called easyroommate, a very good site despite it’s rather unfortunate name. But if you have any tips on where I can find a place to live I am grateful for all help I can get.

Update

It has been a long time since I wrote anything now. It’s because of the London trip. We all went to London for our release party (I, Tove and Tilde arranged it by the way) and I really didn’t want to write anything until I could post pictures. But I still haven’t developed that one-time-camera and this is getting ridiculous.


So there is a few things I just have to blog about before they too are out of date. The first is that I have my internship almost ready. I am going to ilovedust, the coolest place in all the world. It is a bit to good to be true actually so I am secretly waiting for of to fall to pieces. But hopefully that day will never come and I will have the internship of my dreams. You should really check out their site, it is well worth the trouble of clicking on this link.

In other news I gave up on the technology specialisation. It was no place of beginners. And I am lucky that I did, because I got to work on an amazing brief from SVT, which is huge. We did an intro, end credits, breakers, game concepts, webdesign, logo, everything for their show Djursjukhuset. I am not sure I should be showing you any of the work, but we kicked ass.
I will find out in a few weeks if they will use any of it.

Love.

Asian stores

The past weekend I went to Malmö, to Möllevångstorget, where the fun Asian stores are. Me, Jonatan and Sara walked around, buying both delicious and simply strange things, such as coffee flavoured peanuts and cola/banana flavoured jelly. I also took photos of some of the merchandise, simply for the love of comparing Swedish packaging design with the Japanese and Chinese.

For your enjoyment I have also thrown in what is currently my favourite package design, a couple of Chai Latte jars I discovered here in Karlskrona at the little teashop.

Game on!

Specialization one is about to begin. Or has begun. I have chosen technology in a heroic attempt to improve myself and although I admit to having doubts about this choice (I am a designer, other people can do the damn coding for Christ sake!) I am now very happy. I am learning what I have always wanted to know, I am working alongside people I have wanted to try and work with and I am, against all odd, having a good time too.

I am really looking forward to starting my own small project and explore this strange concept of building a site. It will no doubt be challenging and difficult, right now I only understand every forth word people say, but at east I am grasping the main idea.

I am happy, I am evolving.

Best mag ever!

If you are not already reading it, you should definitely check out PingMag, it is by far the best online design magazine I have come across. It has interviews with design agencies, artist and long articles about the use of strawberries in Japanese advertising.

My milk!

Hey, found this in my local grocery store! This, ladies and gentlemen, is the backside of a milk carton I made last spring when I worked at Stenmark & Co. How cool is that?

My portfolio is up and running!

Finally! My portfolio has been almost ready for so long that I began to despair but now it is finished! I am all happiness and sunshine. Check it out!

www.rebeccaberg.se

Perfection may not be everything

…but I do refuse to publish my portfolio until I am satisfied with it. I can’t have people judging me by incomplete works now can I?

Things are rainy here in Karlskrona, at the end of the world. Rainy and windy. We are struggling with the class promotion site and it’s promotion. Not running smooth yet, but I really do think that the final outcome will be great.

Feel like I got lost in the organisation of the marketing groups, I was in the strict marketing of the site group, but I came in late since I thought that I might be in production. But that turned out to be false, so I was handed over to marketing. Where everyone had already started, forgot that I had joined, I didn’t get any information about meetings and well… In the end I wasn’t really in marketing anymore. Now I am going to be part of some sort of left over group, working on marketing ourselves. I should be trying to think positively and on all the things we might do, but I just feel depressed.

Not a very positive post, it might be the weather.