American paper people!

The best surprise all week was this lovely email that came to me all the way from America. Suddenly the paper family got a little bit bigger, and the world got a little bit smaller.

LOVE these! ^_^

C'est la vie.

Sadly I am very allergic to cats. I finally realized that, after living with cats for several years and just believing I had a very very long running cold. I can't ever have any. I am, however NOT allergic to these wonderful illustrations by Gemma Correll. How great are they?!

Check out her portfolio! Lots and lots of great stuff there ^.^

Details

Sometime in the near future I would like to have

a big studio

and a small dog.

Or maybe the other way around -  a big dog and a small studio. As long as there is a bit of a contrast it is all good.

Happy Tuesday friends! 

Saturday sketch

Sloppy sketch for a paper-illustration in the making. About the office of the future.

The dilemma of (illustrating) growth

Before I went to Japan I was commissioned by Folkuniversitetets tidning to make four paper-illustrations for an article about the dilemma of growth, and some possible sollutions. In order for me to finish the illustrations before I left for Tokyo I had to start illustrating before the article was even written. Luckily I got to talk to the journalist about the text, and he also sent me this video to use as a starting point.

The first illustration, illustrating the thought of measuring happiness rather than GDP  .

The second illustration - One of the solutions for the future, a place where you can rent all kinds of stuff instead of buying it. Here is just a light test, where I tried out some night light.

And here is how the actual illustration turned out, the daylight-version.

The third illustration was supposed to depict civilization's decay and so I made these two children, playing among the garbage and debris in front of a rundown building. 

Finally I had only one illustration left to make, the main illustration where I was to illustrate the main contradiction, the Pros and Cons of growth basically (not the easiest thing to illustrate!). I kept spinning it around and around in my head, making lists and tried to come up with that one perfect idea. How was I to fit all different aspects in one illustration? I kept ending up in the same idea: polar bears on Wall street and Wall streeters on the North pole (???). Not good. So i wiped my mind clean and simply made a good old fashioned man vs. nature on a balance scale.

I was afraid that the pieces of OHP-sheet would show in the photo,

but magically the edges didn't show at all!

Snacks and cherry blossoms.

Remember I told you I was doing some research on snacks? This is fifty mini bags and twenty small pipes of snacks later: 

A snack shelf to illustrate the new way of watching TV, described in the article as a form of snacking, where the viewer can choose what to watch from a wide range of different services.

The illustration was for this weekend edition of Metro, so this morning I picked up the paper and a cup of coffee.

And since I was nearby I also went by Kungsträdgården to look at the cherry blossoms.

And even though the sky was kind of grey today,

it was still very pretty of course,

like a temporary pink roof over everything.

And now I suggest that we finish this week of

  

with a lifetime supply of snacks.

Happy Wkd! ^.^

New illustrations for Reumatikervärlden

Happy Monday!