I've been busy with a lot of stuff lately - good stuff, too. Since flickr has always been a blog-like thing for me, I thought I should do a small rundown on good work-like things that has happened to me lately. Right now I study communication. In half a year I graduate from this, which nets me a masters degree in the subject. I already have a bachelors degree in swedish, so these two degrees should complement each other. I know the technicalities of the language as well as what one should say to make the right impression. I really enjoy working in the field of communication. Essentially, I will become a master on social interaction. I understand, or have the knowledge to analyze (well, as far as it is possible) how to get a message across, why some forms of communication are better in certain situations, and so on. Fun stuff. Lately people seem to appreciate me, my kind of thinking and what I contribute, so I've gotten a lot of extra work. Here are some fun stuff that I've gotten to do or are about to do: 1. Evaluated how well a military regiment had reached their audience on an open visitors day. Me and two others spoke to more than 900 people during the day and were able to draw a lot of good conclusions, which resulted in a 16-page report that has been well received. (Pictured above). 2. Analyze and give suggestions on a website for a Bag Pipe Band. 3. Taught students basic InDesign. Not that I'm a professional, but I know the basics in design and print and - of course - things to think about when wanting to convey a message. 4. Is about to do an official film for the university, to be shown on special events. 5. Photographed for a book that documents an industrial area in a town close by. 6. Do some thinking and sketching of some posters for the university. In this and other work I've gotten a few connections at places I might consider working when I'm done. I think I'd like to become a copywriter on a marketing bureau. If the bureau is good, it should be a fun place to express ideas and evolve my language use. All in all, it's just fun to actually get out in the real world and see that the knowledge I've gathered during my five years of studies are actually useful.

I was asked to design a poster for someone's degree subject work / dissertation. The topic: Social representations of homosexuality - Researching and finding solutions on the way homosexuals and heterosexuals face each other and react-like, also how they feel like in society. They asked this project to be followed by a poster idea (100x100cm) representing the topic. I don't know how the psychology students dealt with that..guess that's why us grafikers are here innit? So I was set free to create... I came up with this idea of a gay man who's not 'out' in society parts like his daily job, for the usual popular reasons. He is playing the double role cliche 'different person in the morning, different one at night'. I hope the image is saying it all. Reaching the background color part, which is quite a basic in my opinion, I happened to be also browsing the 'Color of the year' article, while my friend had a messenger avatar with pretty much the same color as in the article... You get the picture. Not to mention I love turquoise. But only this time I changed it giving the washed-out feeling by burning the image a bit. Green-ish. By the way, since I crossed the subject, I don't know what the hell 'Color of the Year 2010' is supposed to mean, but I like it! Pantone 15-5519 TCX sounds just right. What a color eh. Both retro and current, tropical and warm, kinda past but timeless. I also do not know if the right name is turquoise, well it must be cause it fits, but I like it too as it puts me to listen to Circulation's "Turquoise" again, what a track! Melodic tech house in all of its glory. Sweet. How amazing is that Circulation managed to actually turn the color turquoise into a song!