'Njord Vin' wine-label design...together with Ib Kjeldsmark

many months ago, I was the owner Njord Vin (wine) .. asked if I would design the label for their new Danish Pinot Noir wine. I had no experience with this type of assignment and allied myself with my skilled and experienced colleague Ib Kjeldsmark, and together we learned to put typography and graphics together.

 

Njord is a god of Norse mythology. He is the father of Freyr, the god of fertility, and Freya, the god of love. Freyr rides around a large golden brushed boar, if his father has the same way to transporte himself is uncertain .... but we decided to give him a wild boar. Maybe it's not historically accurate, but it looks good!

I am looking forward to tasting a glass of wine Njord when the first harvest is ready to get on the bottle. A bottle which now bears lbs and my design.

I'm not a big wine connoisseur, but when Paul Giamatti is willing to run through most of California in the movie "Sideways" just to drink different Pinot Noir wine ... I look forward to drinking a glass

from the aquarium in Dubai Mall

sketches from Frankfurt Zoo

Yesterday I got a chance to visit Frankfurt Zoo and sketch some animals. The Zoo seemed smaller than the one here in Copenhagen, and they had fewer animals, but they had two Black Rhinos, and here we only have the White Rhinos with small horns...so I was excited.

sketches from the henhouse

I did these some time ago to find the right design for the main characters in this picturebook

sketching animals

Yesterday I took a trip to the Copenhagen Zoo to sketch animals, with my friend Magnus Værness.
Here are the results from the day + a photo of Magnus drawing a Kattalemur. The young ones can crawl out between the bars of the cage, as you might be able to spot. Here you can see a little movie my friend Ib Kjeldsmark shot at the same Zoo a little while. Here you can see how a Kattalemur manage to get through the bars and crawl outside the cage.
Theres also a photo of a cow with a bra on its utter. Very strange...the only place I have seen this before is in Jørn Villumsens cartoons in Politiken.

Drawings from the Zoo

I spend three hours drawing animals in Copenhagen Zoo in my sketchbook yesterday with a bunch of collegues.