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Circles in circles
2012
Graphic Design, Illustration, Pattern Design
Circular experiments seem to have endless possibilities. These are a few of them.
  • Circles in circles
    Experiments
  • Just some experimentations with circles, distribution and texture. Click for bigger images.
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  • Reykjavík Forms
    Finding and framing forms in every day life is an excellent eye training.
    Digital Photography, Photography
    2012
  • Børk
    My final project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Børk is a Scandinavian creative studio that designs patterns and artworks to use on items such as gift wrapping papers, blankets, pillows and wallpapers.
    Branding, Graphic Design, Illustration
    2012
  • Børk - Making of
    The process behind my final project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Sneak peak at some sketches, out-takes and the ideology behind the branding and the company in general.
    Art Direction, Branding, Illustration
    2012
  • Self Portraits
    Slowly evolving, but nevertheless, ongoing series of self portraits of myself. Self portraits are, if successful, a presentation of the self. I am apperantly not very flamboyant.
    Photography, Digital Photography
    2011
  • Thorsteinn Beer Brand
    School project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. We were to make a branding proposal for a microbrewery in Iceland and we decided to make 10 different bottle designs for the one and the same beer brand.
    Package Design, Graphic Design, Branding
    2011
  • Reifier
    Series of a photo manipulation done at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. Chairs and tables rearranged into an installation piece and then digitally manipulated.
    Digital Photography, Photo Manipulation, Installation Design
    2011
  • Untitled
    For this project, I was assigned to make a exhibition catalog and a poster for a fictional exhibition at the Living Art Museum (Nylo) in Reykjavík, Iceland. The exhibition would cover the graphics works of Dieter Roth.
    Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Print Design
    2010
  • RIFF 2011
    RIFF, the Reykjavik International Film Festival, is Iceland's number one film event with more than 25.000 guests annually. We were asked to design the 2011 campaign which drew record numbers.
    Branding, Photography, Costume Design
    2011
  • Mandalas
    "Mandalas are a symbolic offering to and of the entire universe, represented primarily by the circle and its center point of the axis mundi."
    Digital Art, Graphic Design, Pattern Design
    2009
  • Logos and brand marks
    My collection of logos and brand marks I've done since 2006.
    Branding, Graphic Design, Typography
    2012
  • Book design
    Thorleifur and Geir did the editorial-, infographic- and cover design of this politic & economics book. We were excited by the challenge of making copy-heavy material and complex statistics look at it's best.
    Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Pattern Design
    2012
  • Various posters
    Various posters and artworks, school projects and personal works, silk-screen printed, digitally printed, painted or hand drawn from 2006 - 2011
    Graphic Design, Typography
    2011
  • Ásmundur
    Typography course at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. This typeface is inspired by Le Bifur by Cassandre and is a tribute to Icelandic sculpture artist Ásmundur Sveinsson.
    Typography, Graphic Design
    2011
  • Whales + Enemies
    This 3D poster was a part of a school project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. We were supposed to find something worth protesting. Me and my team wanted to create awareness in Iceland about whale killings.
    Crafts, Graphic Design, Installation Design
    2010
  • Without destination
    Me and my friend Hörður Ellert Ólafsson went on a photography road trip around Iceland in June 2010 to capture the Icelandic landscape at night on the brightest time of the year here in Iceland.
    Photography, Photojournalism, Digital Photography
    2010
  • BW Mandala
    Black and White Mandala seen up close and in some detail.
    Graphic Design, Digital Art, Pattern Design
    2009
  • Heimasætan
    School magazine for Kvennaskólinn in Reykjavík. Editorial design and cover design done by Thorleifur Gunnar Gíslason, Geir Ólafsson and Hrefna Sigurðardóttir.
    Graphic Design, Editorial Design, Illustration
    2011
  • Heritage
    This is one of my 1st semester projects, done for a course called Heritage, where students are sent to a museum to discover our heritage of pattern design, trace it and place on a tea set.
    Graphic Design, Pattern Design, Illustration
    2010
  • Graphical study
    A school project for the Iceland Academy of the Arts. I was to make a personal map. I ended up with a graphical voyage, developing my graphical identity in the process.
    Graphic Design, Typography, Branding
    2010
  • Mundane landscape
    Being a passenger in a car driving long distances in Iceland can be a weird visual experience.. the landscape changes rapidly and you are likely to drive through all sorts of weather on the way.
    Photography
    2011
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