Mawinkel

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

I HAVE THE DEEP SATISFYING PLEASURE

....of working with and for "The Centre of Conflict Resolution". This client is a wish come true, for me. Their work is one I find to be of the outmost importance for our global world, witch is experiencing conflict and war almost everywhere. I am very happy to be of help and try to improve their visibility in our society, here in Denmark.

This booklet I have designed, trying to get in touch with young men from far away cultures, who is working with youngsters on the street. The task is to get them interested in a workshop that will give them tools to handle conflicts...in a rough environment. It is quite evident for me that I'm competing with MTV, games and Paris Hilton ;-) ...therefore the very colourful form. Here you see some of the pages.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Latest update

This is a Logo from the visual identity i did for Alliance Rehab. A very interesting company who thinks with the heart and help people in new ways not seen before.

The letterhead and business card

I did this book cover for SAK recently. It contains 10 Rapports about the condition of the country.

Friday, March 09, 2007

Typography School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xg5O0l7ybY

Good old Logo's

It's fun to put some of my logos besides each other and see the difference with which they present themselves.

When the ministry of Health was merged with the Ministry of the Interior, they put out a wee competition. Normally I do not talk down on others....but my God the other entry's were terrible....luckily mine won though it looks a bit to much like some of the other Ministries's logos. We only had 5 days!!

In Los Angeles, buying books go together with cofee drinking. Enter a bookstore and you will see people hanging out for hours, entertaining themselves and enjoying a cup of cofee. Nice tradition. So this shop put the two together.

I don't know why I showed the client this...it has it's problems with too many grey tones to actually work truely as a logo. But they loved it....and it is rather artistic so it goes well with modern dance, bodys in motion

Copenhagen Sound Studio...funny name

I gotta put this in again. I love it. It's a very well functioning logo.

This was a Swedish company, that now are worldwide. They handle PC virus'es....oh it's so ugly, but the CEO are happy and that's what's important

Must admit I have made stuff I will never ever show anyone...it's just to darn ugly, but the client involved were extatic about it...and that's really my task. Or is it? Sometimes it's difficult to balance out, cause we designers are the proffesionals who knows what works and how to get the wanted effect. The client does not. They are good at what THEY do. If you put your foot down and take responsability you may lose the client - if you do not you may lose the wanted effect.....!! It's an interesting world we live in ;-)

Monday, January 15, 2007

Some fun exersises

FROM JANUARY 2007
I find it extremly interesting to work with the everyday stuff that sorround us and see the art that often is not recognised due to lack of presence. This is a photo of a bush on my local graveyard that I have zoomed in on.

FROM MATCH 2006
It was fun to play with other designers work. This is wallpaper with beautifull form and colours. I would never have a wall with one....not to mention a whole room. But they are amazing put together. I would like to make some lamps with these textures on.

FROM AUGUST 2005
On my travels around the world i photograph trees and other natural forms. They have interesting rythems/textures when tweaked and put together. Nature's a greate inspiration in my work.

A Vancouver tree and a twig from L.A. with a local bush

This tree on Hawaii goes well with a cherrytree branch from Vancouver

Vancouver items the lot

Grass'n snow in Big Bear, California with a root from a mountain tree in LA. together with top of Vancouver tree

Cherry blossom twig and root from LA

San Franciscan trees are amazing

Japan marked

Some years ago I redesigned the visual identity for Bodynamic Institute. This Diploma I created last year for them, as they have started up activities in Japan now.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Logo....

I just designed these two logos, for a jeweldesigner, and can't choose between them. My inspiration was to make a mark like the ones the good old Bauhaus artist used....and the old Chinese did too...the initials put in a box. Very clean, very simple. This mark wil have to do well hammered into silver. Hmm. Gotta choose.......

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Sweets from "the Old sweetbag"

Clicking on an image opens it larger, in new window. Enjoy
I was asked to redesign the products from a book club, of a Sweedish publishinghouse. The following are a few segments.

Segment of big folder

Letter for parents

This ia a total redesign, a new designline. I was very partiqular about getting a feel of this NOT being yet a boring Municipal print. The choice of using flowers was about symbolising growing into blooming / evolving. The client was a department (CUE) whose work is helping unemployed people back in jobs via workshops. To escape the dreary municipal-feel, colour is of the essence. I chose a group of colours out of the total of colours from the Municipals designmanual, that now identifies CUE. Mission acomplished.

Brochure, Copenhagen Municipal

Folder holder, Copenhagen Municipal

This is a new company trying to find it's feet. But just the mere fact that they have chosen a design from the start, makes the stand out -compared to the competition in that industry

Startpage, website

Busines card

This is a proposal on website, paperline and Logo

Website and Logo, draft

Website, draft

Website, draft

An ongoing process....

NGO Magazine about South Africa

Cover, Copenhagen Municipal

Inside folder, Copenhagen Municipal

Cover, Copenhagen Municipal

Inside folder, Copenhagen Municipal

Logo, Gallery MELLEMRUMMET

Artshow invitation

Logo

Businesscard

Website

Website

One delightful sunny afternoon I went to help the shop Yoyo getting started, design wise. So I photografed all the beautiful tableau's, and at night I composed these 11 pages. They are uploaded very simple, as 1 photo a page.

Flyer, Yoyo secondhand

Webpage, Yoyo secondhand

Webpage, Yoyo secondhand

While living in LA I created this logo for a group of people who was planning to buy good horses in Denmark and selling them in California....for great many dollars