Some plain and nice decks from Wohill - this time I have just made some simple graphics that give a clean and nice look - so the skateboarder gets to wear them down. A couple of scratches and stickers would give it a personal feeling too. I have used the Wohill flamingo in white. The flamingo has a very clear silhouette.

Each deck’s main colour is still kind of earth-like - just like the board-decks I did the other day. These have more of a seventies look - which is enhanced by the bubbles too.

Skate when you get the time.

This time I have been inspired by the colour scheme from the seventies and maybe even the sixties - but I have mixed it a bit with the graphic shapes that separate the different colours. I have also used the Wohill flamingo. So one could actually call them Wohill skateboards. Now in the future, I wouldn’t mind making a few boards for Wohill - and maybe some nice sneakers too.

These boards that I have designed today, I would say, are traditional shapes of today’s boards. I remember the first time I saw a board shaped like this. It was a friend of mine that got a “Vision”. All the friends in the gang thought it was quite a remarkable board - compared to what people were riding then! The graphics on the boards then were very different too - although today’s boards do have some resemblance of the ones from back in those days.

I also like the nice long-boards for cruising – I will make some graphics for boards like that in the future.

Don’t forget to SK8!

I use a lot of different fonts and typefaces to give a special feeling or look to some of the designs I make. A lot is said with the font, even graphically. One can make patterns and shapes built with the different styles and their characteristics. This time I have used a font that is often used as headings and for text that you want the public to read - a “look at this” kind of font. I made it into a pattern that gives a city feeling to it. Like roads and streets crossing each other.

I have used our names – Randolph Guy and Niklas Waller - and also Wohill Design and Development as the text in the graphics.

I often do a lot of prints, for clothing or design for web-pages or for similar things like that - sometimes even for invitations or ads. It is nice to have a graphic look and feeling that runs through your presentation. It can be done by using patterns that resemble the company logo or something that reminds you of the person sending out this feeling or information. So try to get the flow that this person likes and you will be able to use it in several different versions on clothing or ads – or what ever you will need it for.

It is nice if patterns and graphics appear several times in a presentation – it gives a solid look and also makes the viewer recognize the style all the way.

Go with the flow!

I have an Uncle that lives in Burleigh Heads. He surfs every day almost and is a great surfer I would say. He enjoys it very much and actually moved up from New Zealand to get even better and legendary waves. He thought the water was getting pretty cold down in the seas of Aotearoa. My Uncle’s name is Douglas and he is usually called ”Doug”. He is a great person and really creative. He likes to paint a lot too. I’ll see if I can post something he has painted some day in the future. No wonder he is creative – if you surf you understand right away… otherwise it is because surfing gives a great feeling of freedom and inspiration.

I made a psychedelic text that says ”Doug, Surfers Paradise”.

Hang Loose!

This Easter has really been full of eggs and lots of candy to eat. But, off course, there has been some egg-painting and here is an egg gentleman. I made a big moustache and gave him only one eye. So he would suit the girl I did before. The other eye is shut or maybe missing – that is up to you and your imagination. Eggs are a fun challenge to decorate!

Other things you can do, more than the obvious – eating the eggs - are games like egg-pecking. This is when you hold one egg each and peck them against each other. If your egg cracks – you lose. If not – YOU WIN.

If you follow my Twittering you could see my combat-egg. I will post it here for you to see. It is inspired by the old fighter-planes.

Eat more eggs!

Easter is coming along and I grew up with the tradition to paint Easter-eggs. You can paint them with different patterns and colours as you wish and in as many different ways as your imagination will allow. I think that it is great fun. The space and shape of the egg sets the canvas and off you go. This version above is a female face with black hair. I made it black and white so as to give it a more graphic feeling. The egg is a symbol of rebirth so maybe a female face also enhances this look. I also let the light come from underneath in the picture to get the nice shade behind the egg. I like the tones of grey going into black in the girl’s hair.

Other beautiful eggs are the Fabergé eggs that where made originally for Czar Alexander III’s wife Maria Fyodoro. Even though this egg I have painted gives a different feeling I think it will be a great gift for Easter. Maybe I could make it into a big photograph and frame it. That would make it last a bit longer that the egg itself.

So hurry up as the tradition says to eat up all the eggs before Lent - or maybe the Easter-Bunny has been hiding some eggs near by!

The other day, or more exactly the 16th of March, there was an article in the Herald Tribune about psychedelic poster art. Really interesting since I just that day started to sketch a psychedelic design myself. Now my design is a hair-inspired design and the text about psychedelic poster art. A bit creepy that it was in the paper that same day!

My design, as I said, is a hair-inspired design and the text says “Hair-time”. The hair and text move into each other and everything is meant to have a psychedelic touch to it.

I must say that the posters from the sixties and seventies really have inspired a lot of graphic design styles through the years – like for example Wes Wilson’s poster from 1966 that is mentioned in the article. If you feel like getting more inspiration you can check out Alice Rawsthorn’s slideshow, which she put together on iht.com/design.

I think a lot of this psychedelic design goes well in several different genres – everything from music and concerts to skateboarding and surfing.

A couple of weeks ago we, Niklas Waller and myself (Randolph Guy), were asked to design a new website for photographer Stefan Granström – also known as Steff Granström. He needed a new site where he can post his latest and most recent work - but also a website that can show work that he has done over time. So he needed a few different categories and an easy way to upload more pictures.

Niklas Waller has also developed an interface that the user, or in this case Steff G., can use by himself without contacting us every time he feels like adding a photograph to his collection. Niklas W. has talked about this previously on Wohill.

I have chosen to make a design that doesn’t interfere too much with Steff G.’s artwork and pictures. So the grey scale of colours is so his pictures will “pop-out” and stand out nicely towards the background. To give the website some depth and creative feeling I have used some leaves framing the “picture-box” where you can see the art-work.

If you ever need a photographer - or just want to check out Steff Granströms site and beautiful work – go to www.steffgranstrom.com

I have the pleasure to tell you that a new restaurant and patisserie has opened – Nybrogatan 38 in Stockholm. You should take the chance to visit and look in to this new establishment. We have now completed the whole project – one probably would say though that this is when it really begins.

Before the doors were opened there was some designing and suggesting of ideas that had to be done and of course a lot of equipment and work was needed to get this place up and running.

As I have mentioned earlier it is Mattias Ljungberg (owner of Tössebageriet, in English - the Tösse Bakery) that has wished to broaden his business from making and baking bread and deserts to opening a restaurant / patisserie. He asked me to help out with a graphic profile and logotype. So we got started about a couple of months ago. He of course had some more help on the way… friends and workers, Stephanie Tham, who you can see on one of the pictures talking to Mattias Ljungberg, has been there from the beginning and helped out and seen to it that this project will succeed.


So guys – everyone – all the best of luck!

I was passing by again outside the new restaurant and patisserie – Rue du Pont Nouveau. We decided that I would design a few drapes to hang up in front of the windows while they are tearing down the old place for complete renovation. This gives the habitants of the building a nicer look outside and also might interest a few new customers – even before opening.

I have used a few graphic elements to support the symbol for the restaurant. They symbolize roads / streets leading to “Pont Nouveau”. The swirl resembles a bridge. As you might know the name of this place is: The new bridge-street. This is also the name of the street in Swedish – Nybrogatan.

The main colours for the restaurant & patisserie are red, white, chrome / silver and black. Most of the graphics are based on the pattern I have shown above. I have also made a font reminding us of the design-style back in the early 20th century.

This Monday I would like to share a little design inspiration from MTV engineroom. A nice concept put together by MTV and HP. Usually I post my own designs and ideas on Wohill, but would like to show you this time where I, for example, can get inspired. This is about a bunch of talented digital artists from different parts of the world – competing in digital design and ideas. The winning team brings home $400,000USD. Just like in real life they get a mission and have to complete it in a short amount of time… You can check it out, or even compete with your own portfolio.

Nice to hear a bit about what the teams have been thinking of and so forth. We’ll see if they ever hit one of the TV-channels too. I think the graphics on the website are looking nice, but the logotype could have needed a few more minutes of work. Otherwise it’s a cool show and concept.

So check it out!

Today there seems to be no problem whatsoever to get the coolest pictures or graphics on your board. Designing board-tops or board-bottoms - I have designed two or three myself. This time I felt like designing one to suit the logo-example I made the other day. This one I made thinking of the northern part of Sweden. That’s also where the company Extrem comes from - or more exactly – Åre.

I have used the mountain called ”Kebnekajse” - in different blues and snow-like colours to give it a cool look. So the whole colour-scheme is built up on blues and mountains – with even an outline that shows the Kebnekajse silhouette. Kebnekajse is 2104 meters high. I would call the board Kebnekajse.


This would be an enjoyable board to ride.

Enjoy the snow!

Patterns are fascinating to look at – so are organic and different elliptical shapes. The elliptical shape is easy for the eye to look at and has a nice and flow-some feeling. I first made a shape with a kind of psychedelic look. It’s a mix between a bland and some kind of being - a Pokemon kind of character - or at least a cartoon look-alike. You might see the fish-fins at the bottom of the figure or they could just as well be feet. I have used ellipses to build up the pattern. They are placed to look like the symbol in black – the psychedelic figure. If you would lay the ellipses on top of the figure you would easily see that they resemble each other. Putting the shape or pattern in a circle makes the whole feeling easy to grasp and understand - a sort of calmness in the flying ellipses.

This would also be a nice pattern to use for a wake- or snowboard - or even for a whole outfit for the board-rider. The spinning ellipses would give a great resemblance to all the spinning tricks one does on a snowboard / wake-board.

One more day out on the wakeboard in the sun. We had a great day here with nice sun and a warm breeze. Really good for trying out the wakeboard again. A lot of other boats out on the water too – so there were lots of waves coming now and then. This doesn´t make it easier - but just as much fun I must say.

This design is inspired by the tiger’s patterns or stripes. A solid black bottom with yellow graphics stand out a lot. Would look nice if, or when, you make BIG jumps and airs. The tiger head is a strong symbol and nice to use as a graphic logo or pattern for the board. On the top I have used a bit more of the tiger-stripes as you can see. I have also used a bigger version of the tiger’s head in the background and also made a yellow outline to go with the bottom design. A little thin line in the middle of the board to give it some extra finess and detail. Farthest in the backgraound I have used some more of the tiger’s coating to give the black parts some depth.

Now back down to the shore to get some more time on the board. Niklas (Waller) said he might come by and give it a go too!

Some wakeboard companies:
Hyperlite
Liquidforce

Wake-boarding has evolved into a great genre of its kind and there are lots of competitions and people doing it. Really fun to do too I must say. Even though I don’t do that well - I’d rather do it, than not do it at all. Maybe one should be out there every day practicing and getting better. The weather doesn’t really allow it - or not often enough anyway.

Yesterday we were out having a go and having great fun. We are all pretty bad at it. Gives everyone a good laugh and it’s just to get up and try again. Glad we aren’t competing!

I think the graphics on a lot of boards are pretty cool – so I thought I wanted to make a design for a wake-board too. A wake-board usually has two bindings for your feet and is made out of fibre-glass and several other components of course… There are many different styles of boards for different kinds of riders. Still - there should be some cool graphics on them.

This time I chose to make a skull and use the skull-shapes to give the board a dynamic and hard look.

If you haven’t tried wake-boarding – I recommend you too – It’s great fun for the beginner or the pro!

If you have some nice friends, who like cars, and want a spectacular one too, or you might be a handy guy even – then you should build a ”Rat rod”. A car that is cool and nice to drive around in. Maybe it doesn’t have to have that extra finish and shiny touch – if your goal is just to get a cool car to drive around in.

There are lots of “Rat rods” on the streets that people have sculptured with creativity and soul. If you don’t have the time - I guess you even can buy one! There are lots of websites that sell parts and cars as well.

The cool thing about this type of car is that a lot of them are painted with a logo or symbol that stands for something this person likes, or belongs to that gang of friends and so on…

I talked about the gang, crew or bunch of friends that you have – that need a logotype or symbol that stands for your friendship. So maybe the cool dude in the red circle is just that kind of a symbol - for your “Rat rod”. I think that it would be pretty cool on the door or boot of the car.

If you look hard enough - you might see me out there - with Niklas or Nippe (Haddoc) driving around in our “Rat rod”!

There are lots of different kinds of perfume in the world. Many of these have very beautiful bottle designs. Every bottle design is made just for you or the person who likes that perfume. It’s an identity – a three dimensional logotype. A lot of other products use the three- dimensional logo too - for example the Coca-Cola bottle. Many different soft-drinks have their own type of shape. This time I’ve made a perfume bottle that mainly wishes to attract a customer that likes the rougher look like vehicles that are fast and impressive – a Ferrari or a Hummer for example. Hummer even has it’s own perfume. This could be an alternative bottle for their next perfume. Most perfume-bottles are in made in glass. This is probably to keep the fragrance fresh and exact as long as possible. For this “Block” perfume I have designed the bottle in metal. The inner container could be made of glass so the metal doesn’t destroy the fragrance. The outside though, should be in this slightly brushed steel look – with the logo in relief. This would also make the bottle feel heavy which would give it some extra dominance. The scent will be the next challenge, of course. What should the scent be like for a fast-lane and dominant perfume?

A car taking you to and from the beach -a convertible that can you can stuff your board in and tag off to the shore to catch a couple of waves. It would be an open car that would be battery-driven so you just plug it in when you park it - might even be an alternative so we don’t pollute the air too much. There aren’t so many cool battery driven cars yet. There are a few hybrids – but they still haven’t pleased the public that want a cool car at the same time as one is polluting the air a wee bit less.

The tubes at the front and side of the car should be in chrome or in brushed steel and a pair of sport seats that would be made in some kind of wet-suit material - so that they dry quickly if your trunks still are wet when you hop in the car and of course big broad tires to give a nice grip feeling when driving. I want there to be a surf-rack at the back of the car so it is easy to bring your board along. The steering-wheel should be in a cock-pit kind of way…might draw one of those in the future.


Drive safe!

I have made a graphic pattern again that is more similar or goes in the same style as the ”leaf-pattern”. This would look nice on a heavy sofa. A deep one – broad sitting area with a sofa to enjoy your rest and give you a nice welcome home feel. The pattern has a wave like and organic look with several dots to enhance curves and the flow of the pattern. I often look for a nice regularity in the pattern – wanting it to give a pleasing look covering the furniture. It would also make a nice daybed or divan. I wanted this pattern to be bright with a dark background to give the divan a heavy and inviting look.

There are several ways of designing furniture. There is a lot of comfortable furniture and there is a lot of uncomfortable furniture too. The more stylish furniture I think is nicer when having a clean cover or "pastry". But a softer and more inviting sofa or divan can have a more intricate pattern. The pattern should not be to small – one wants to get the whole look from far away and be able to sit and follow the flow of it when relaxing in the sofa. Sit and enjoy – maybe even meditate in the middle of this hectic world.

The tree has been portrayed in many different cultures and has been worshipped as where the super-natural, or gods lived and slept. The trees are also known to be calm and give us human-beings a relaxing feeling. Some Asian culture even says that the trees are the ones most sure of themselves. The Trees always know that they are trees and have no hurry or intention to go anywhere else. A nice soft and non stress environment – the woods. The archipelago with its trees far out in the cost band of Sweden give just that sense of calmness.

So the leaves in this pattern are made by oak-tree leaves. Green fresh leaves. Maybe this could actually be a pattern for curtains or bed-sheets. Just so one could get a peaceful and pleasant nights sleep. Encouraging you and making you get the well needed sleep to be ready for next days work. I was thinking of printing some garment with this pattern to see how it would lift up the room. With some fresh picked flowers in a glass vase in the same room would give the room an outdoor experience.

I have shown a part of the pattern and also a square where you can see the flow of the pattern. This pattern should not be made to small. The leaves should be a bit larger than in real life. Just too enhance the leaf-feeling.

The design here is of a group that is known as “Lunch Club Monday”. Three guys singing and playing club-music in a nice low-key place. Only very carefully selected places are chosen as venues to play their gigs. Three characters give out the third album “Strong”.

This is the briefing I gave to this band poster / logotype. A red, orange and yellow colouring is given to suit the album name – Strong – with the text in a block-font to give it a kind of Jazz record-cover. You might have seen some in their very characteristic style. Often silhouettes on the front cover too. I have made facial expressions in black pencil-like strokes and shading in a plane and simple grey. This is also to give a simple and cool look. The eyes on the faces don’t have any pupils to give a more secretive and harder feeling. The band has to get some extra cool or toughness. The different lunch-club-texts in the background are to give the poster some kind of depth… and the faces have a bit of white sprayed behind them so one can see them clearer. So now I’m waiting for some cool music to accompany this groovy band!

I like to put a lot of thought into my work, designs and art. Proportions, colour, shapes and size are all important in their own way. I got a question about how I have made my pattern inspired by Josef Frank. The starting idea was awoken by the lecture about him the other day and my interest in his work, that I have come across before. All images and shapes that I meet in everyday life also have their impact on what one wants to use in the next design one is going to do. You want your artwork or design to awaken a thought or feeling with the viewer… or maybe several emotions and thoughts. Hopefully - even want to take them on an emotional journey and that they will carry that image with them for the rest of their life. Even a little pictogram - you want it to make the right impact suitable for the occasion within it’s genre.

Back to how I made the pattern. I very often like to sketch on paper with an HB pencil. Just to get the right feeling and flow to the idea that is being born. Then, in this case I inked the graphite drawing and scanned that into my computer. There I start redrawing the work in Adobes Illustrator so I have a vectorized file - since it probably will be used for print. It also is an easy way to work with shapes and sizes - if you want to get a quick feel for the design, if it needs to be bigger in some parts or smaller in others. So my main goal is to get the shape right – the flow in the picture – the right feeling. After that I coloured the pattern’s main shape and gave it some extra circles and dots. Here I’m totally up in my own idea – but somewhere in the back of my head I have thoughts about the inspirational lecture the other day. Finally I try out the pattern’s main-shape to see how it works as a complete pattern.

Now you might want to order a pattern from me or even get started on one by yourself. Set your mind free and get going.

Would you like go get started quickly with your site but don't know much about design?

Here is a tip for you. There is a site called Open Source Web Design that lets you download templates for free. Browse through all of their designs, choose one that you like and simply download it as a zipfile to your computer. Several files will follow; index.html, style.css and an images directory,

'index.html' has a predefined structure that uses the cascading stylesheet 'style.css' which in turn uses images. You can tweek the style sheet and/or index.html. If I was to use it here I would probably rename it to 'index.php' and get some dynamic content from a mySQL database into it as well.

Good for newbies to start with. Also useful to veterans that lack design skills (like myself ). It would also be a good choice for people that already knows this stuff but want a clean start with a well-defined html- and css file.

On Tuesday evening I attended a lecture about Josef Frank organized by the Swedish store, Svenskt Tenn. The lecture was held by Kristina Wängberg-Eriksson, Fil.lic, and author of two books about Josef Frank. I really recommend you to go to this lecture. She is probably one of the few people that have studied Frank and his work so thoroughly as she has. So the stories and things she had to say about his design were truly enjoyable. Most of all, it gave me lots of ideas and inspiration.

Briefly about Josef - if you haven’t met him or his work:

He was born 1885 and passed away 1967, so many of you probably never met him including myself. Frank was born in Baden bei Vienna. He studied architecture 1903-08. - but he designed much more than houses… He designed more than 2200 pieces of furniture, different patterns for carpets, upholstery and many more things. He had a nice idea about furniture not taking to much place in the room, especially cupboards that he gave an Asian-like design. The cabinets and cupboards where often put on tall legs making you see the whole room character… Of course their is lots more to tell about him, but I’m going to round it off now and see if you can tell that this lecture has inspired me a little extra.

If you ever get the chance to go to ”Svenskt Tenn”, which is situated in Stockholm, Sweden, you should go. They have lots more than just Josef Frank designs.

The thing is - his designs really catch your eye!

Right now there are a lot of brands and riders. The brands have team riders and so forth. Today I have added a team rider to ”The Circle of Action” (CoA). He will have his home park – “circle of trust” and the clothes-brand “circle of trust”. I made a little ad about his signature sneaker coming out. One has to expose the brand and also give his fans, or fans to be, a little info and a visual feeling too. The brands today, DCshoe – Quicksilver – Independent - Volcom and many more have really great riders and promote them in lots of cool ways - but I still want to show an alternative way that one could take this brand. So I used my friend ”Nippe” and made a little icon of him. He is in the left corner of the ad, as kind of a header for the ad. The CoA logo is in the right hand bottom corner to be like a sender. A little information should be given, as I said – his favourite trick – Impossible. All this - in the colours of the brand - to show that he belongs to this family of riders and that he also lives their lifestyle.

So hope you get back here soon and check out the sneaker I’ll design for NIPPE.

Today I have taken the “23. Empire” restaurant a bit further. I tried out a menu as you can see above to your right. I used a tomatoe held by two chopsticks. The little cherry tomatoe is red and helps give the oriental feeling we had from the beginning. A similar red that I used in the flower. The flower is still inside the logo – so the association to the main logo still remains. The two numbers are designed so they can be used in small print to and keep their look, or the restaurant’s look. It�s important to make a graphic profile like this give the same signals all the way. As you can see they even work on chop-sticks. The 23 would of course work very well on clothing for staff and other details. For instance – tables and interior are also just as important to brand. One can even have pillars and lights on the side-walk that can have the brand / logo on them. I made the background black to give a night-life and club feeling to the hole establishment. Today it is very popular with blank surfaces. So black blank and red with white details.

What do you think – would you come for dinner?

A character from the surfing world is proving that anyone can surf – including myself. Or as commented in the illustration – I get wet anyway and it feels great. I love the feeling and the atmosphere, the sea and the waves - even the washy ones – or maybe they are actually the ones that you catch easily. So as a tribute to great surfers through time – such as Duke Kahanamoku, Laird Hamilton, Kelly Slater and many more that made surfing into what it is today and also all those people who have inspired me to ”getting wet” - this illustration shows a pretty average dude, standing on the beach checking out the waves, in a pair of surf-trunks with a Hawaii-theme and the big gun under the arm – all set. This cartoon is also inspired by the very well known surf-cartoonist – graphic designer – Jim Phillips. He has done a lot of really nice art.

As you can see I have given my surf-dude a loose look - he is getting the hang of the surfer lifestyle from the bottom of his soul. The sun has tanned his leather-thick skin to be able to ride the board without needing to wear the rash-shirt. He’s even got the build of an old school ”Big Wave Surfer”.

Hang loose!

That’s someone who plays pre-recorded music on different occasions for an audience. In this case I even know this DJ, and I call him that too. I met him Tuesday and it’s been a while since we went for coffee as we usually do now and then. I have sketched him down for this post today and also made a symbol for him. Headphones are often used when you are DJ:ing so I drew a pair hanging round his neck - just to give it a little extra music touch. He has a simple outline and a simple character draft to make him look loose and easy-going which actually suits his personality very well. Adding ”The” in front of ”DJ” makes it look like he is one of the best. It’s also made softer and more like handwriting to fit the look of the cord coming from the headphones - as you can see in the combined picture to the right of the facial sketch. The letters D and J are merged together to make them into a logotype. I have mirrored the two letters to make them look like a head with the headphones round about - just like the character of him - well, not as a spitting image of him, more a sense of similarity.

Don’t forget that it’s the music that sets the mood…

Surfboards have been round for ages. Even I have had the pleasure to get out on the waves and splash about a bit here and there. It’s a fascinating experience that you should try if you haven’t already. I recommend that you try out Australia – Surfers Paradise. There is everything from everyday people, surf-bums to pro surfers hanging out there. My Uncle lives there and he and some good friends have started up ”The Table of Knowledge”, a group of surf-dudes that surf and once a month they meet to run raffles, auctions and raise money for CANTEEN (cancer support for teenagers).

The shape of the board itself I would say is a statement of design. Beautiful shapes for the person wanting to be free and ride the waves and enjoyable to look at too. With the right graphics one could almost think the boards were magic. There are of course lots of different shapes of boards and the one I have done here is meant to be for 7.8 feet or a bit longer. The different lengths call for different approaches in ways of design. This one – made for a longer board needs a design with more flow than a shorter board that can have a more aggressive style. This board has a wave-like look - circular and elliptic shapes. Blue in three different shades, to resemble the many million colours that one can find in the ocean, and orange - as the sun - but also because it pops out very nicely in the blue tones.

Taking a drink in the sky - a possibility to see the town or city from above.

A fantastic feeling and impressive view call for a drink - or even a drink in a sophisticated glass! The glass gives the bar the atmosphere and the drink a nice way of serving it. This glass is thought to give you the feeling of the Hancock building itself - a structure reaching for the sky and taking you up there to it - making the view your wallpaper. That’s why the top part of the glass is bigger because you should get the same feeling when you are sitting by the window looking out at the night-life below. The stems and support-beams are there to resemble the cross-going beams on the outside the building itself. The glass is of a dark shade, but still transparent to let the drink itself colour the glass. The glass foot is made out of mirror to enhance the colour and catch the lighting from the ceiling so as to reflect up into the drink.

I would call it – “the Drink of the sky”. What it would contain will be the bartender’s privilege! So one – yes, you, - could sit up in the bar sending your e-mails, using your e-stamps, while – at the same time - having your evening drink.

An e-stamp.

Today I’ve been inspired by Chicago’s John Hancock – The John Hancock Centre. One of Chicago’s most impressive buildings, it was built in1969. It is 1.127 feet high with a massively impressive view from the top and a nice architectural look.

This set my imagination going and I thought about putting ”The Hancock” on a stamp. The stamp has to give the same feeling of greatness just like the building. So I have made a very tall stamp compared to its width. This is to enhance the feeling of height. I also gave it a night-life look - thinking of ” The Signature Room on the 95th Floor”. A great place to go for a drink and enjoy Chicago from above. The suttle texts in the background give the information that it actually is the Hancock Centre.

Putting it on a stamp was mainly to give the stamp a thought - that one could use it even when communicating with today’s e-mail and other similar interactive ways of communication. So one could attach a stamp in your letter – this would show where you were sitting today and sending that info to your friend, relative or business-colleague. One could get it from the internet-caf� you are sitting at, or you have one made for yourself, or your office or hometown.

So now it may be time for the stamp to make a new approach to the world. In1840 I believe that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland made a great choice to start this widely spread way of getting people to communicate.

If you want one made I might just have the time – so send me an e-mail or write a comment and I’ll see what we can do.

A little extra focus on the subject of Paris Hilton - she, as I mentioned earlier, needs a symbol to make her brand even stronger. So I’ve taken up the challenge to use the logotype in a ”live” situation. This time I’ve looked at creating another perfume-bottle. Not the perfume itself - even though it would be very interesting - I leave that up to ”a good Nose” - a Perfumer.

The bottle is a circular shape that is pleasant to the eye. It has a slight “relief” on the top and a smooth bottom part. A dab of pink gives it an extra strong female touch. The PH in metal is set on an inner ring that also shines like the glass bottle. The band connecting top and bottom has the inscription ”Paris Hilton” all enclosed in the circular shape. Putting the ”PH” logo inside the empty space of the ring directs focus to fall on the symbol very clearly.

This perfume would direct itself to a sophisticated woman, who knows what she wants - a city-type person who likes to be on the move. The simplicity of the design of the perfume bottle would make it easy to have it in your purse or as an elegant statement on your ”lavoir”.

Enjoy.

Throughout the years people have wished to transport themselves to different destinations. Winter is here in many parts of the world so I’ve focused on a machine for transport on snow. Known as a “Snow-machine” in Alaska or Snowmobile in other parts of the world, these machines have looked very different over the years. The first patent taken for something of the kind was in 1916. Sometimes people would even rebuild Model T Fords with the undercarriage changed into skis. “Bombardier” was one of the first big brands and even became leading in their field. Actually, they are in fact one of the brands that are still around today.

So what I would like to do is to hype these machines a little bit more with some sketches above, thus designing a speedy-looking snow-machine. Would look great in blank white with details in dark grey and orange - mainly made for flying forward with a challenging and aggressive look. The track could be made of Kevlar and also the grey areas as well. So hopefully, you “snowmobilers” will like the interesting approach.

It would be called “The M” and I’ll show you a symbol for it on Monday. Just so it feels like a whole package…