OFFF, Barcelona 2007

Jorge, me & David talking about Get the Glass project.

WOW! What a town! Lovely Barcelona! We took a weekend off the whole company (North Kingdom) and went to Barcelona to get some inspiration! Me and David Eriksson also did some speaking at the OFFF conference which took place the same weekend. We was invited to OFFF together with Jorge Calleja who we did the Get the Glass project with (when he was working for Goodby). Our lesson was about just that project! We had a great time! Met lot of cool people. Finally I had a chance to met Scott Hansen who I have know through email during a couple of years (who´s work I have at Blaugallery).

Charlotta Havh, Scott Hansen & Jorge Calleja.


Charlotta (Chalet) had her work from 2Faces at their exhibition area from IdN. The exhibition and the book was awesome! Good work IdN!

FITC, Flash in the Can 2007

My company North Kingdom was invited to Toronto and FITC 2007 this year (Flash in the Can), so myself and Staffan Lamm visited this beautiful town in Canada. We where very impressed how professional arranged this Flash festival was! Everything was located in Hilton Hotel. Great job by Shawn Pucknell among others (he has btw taken the photo from the poker with me in the foreground). We had the last lesson and we could not believe our eyes when over 1000 came to hear about what we had to say. We talked about North Kingdom projects; "How is a small company like North Kingdom, located in the north part of Sweden, thinking and working so leading global brands/agencies would like to work with them? North Kingdom will go through some recent projects from sketches and ideas to final production."

Here is my presentation of myself btw.

And here is a short review from Ping Mag from Japan.

ADAPT 06 & Journée Grafika, Montreal

I visited ADAPT 06 in Montreal this autumn with some of the world leading international digital art masters. I had the change to see some of Holywood´s best digital artists showcase the techniques behind their works in 2D & 3D.
The main reason of why I was in Montreal that week was becuase I where speaker at Journée Grafika, a web/design conference. At the conference we met Sid Lee (also speakers) who invited us to there office. They are the guys behind the magnificent MGM Grand site. Cloudraker was another nice agency we met and visited.


At ADAPT.06 I met a legend; my new topp favourite artist; Syd Maed! He has been designing futuristic concepts for corporations and the movies (including Blade Runner, Tron and Mission Impossible 3) since the '60s. He is making "retro future" in a way I have not seen anywhere else, and he does not use the computer!


Another great artist I had the chance to see was Mark Goerner! Stunning work from one who has make concept drawings for Minority Report, X-Men 2 and Superman Returns. Mark is currently working on James Cameron´s Battle Angel to be released in 2009.


Thierry Doizon gave a lecture in speed painting and I can just say "WOW!". His team was demonstrating the use of custom brushes and team work. Just f***ing amazing what they could make by drawing for 1,5 hour.

Some other really great artists I had the chance to see; Dylan Cole, Christian Lorenz Scheurer, James Clyne and Sebastien Larroude.