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So there is a few things I just have to blog about before they too are out of date.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.