These are the pictures of my new "chocolate lover" chopping board that soon will be available in my shop. My first batch of them sold out first two weeks in december even before I got to list them in my shop, but now a new batch is on it`s way and I thought I`d give you a little peak.

The board is two sided, and the back has a retro 50s pattern inspired by the wallpaper in my grandparents guest bedroom that I used to look at before I went to sleep when I stayed there.
The back side of the product care hangtag also has the same pattern and is made to look like a mini version of the board. :)

For my non-norwegian blog readers out there I`give you a little translation of the text.
It is based on an old norwegian/danish nursery rhyme, but rewritten a bit and goes like this:

Look at my dress
it is to small
Everything I own
is like that
That is because
I love chocolate
and because
potatochips are my friend.

Top two photos are by Camilla Guldbrandsen of Ludoland. You can check out her blogpost about the board here.
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My new "Holland" cutting board is available in my shop! It is inspired by my many trips to the Netherlands and my love for cheese and windmills. :)

The board is made of laminated MDF, is moisture and heat resistant, and also works very well as a trivet.

Go check it out! :)
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Happy new year!

I thought I`d share some of my new years business resolutions. Last year Rilla told me about the Hello Etsy Berlin. It was a summit on small business and sustainability, and of course I had to hop on a plane and go. The Summit was very useful, and alot of things I already knew, but it was god to get the reassurance that I was going in the right direction.

I also have to share my absolute favorite speakers there: Jamboy, Tom Hodkinson and Natalie Chanin.

I love how all of them said that there were made so many mistakes underway, and that there cannot be growth and progress without mistakes to learn from. That is the most important thing I learned I think, and to keep going, and mistakes are good not bad. So that is what the hand is for, a reminder for the year to come to have fun, eat and sleep, keep going and don`t give up! :)
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Remember to come and visit me at Designernes eget julemarked at DogA saturday december 3rd and sunday december 4th!

I`ve got lots of new stuff like wooden bird ornaments and posters this year. And of course some old and new gocco prints and lots of other goodies! Can`t wait to see you there! :)

PS! If you are unable to come to the fair, you can always shop online here.
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The number five. 11/25/2011
 
Hot of the press, five A3 posters are now for sale in my shop!
Go check them out here. :)
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Earlier this year I participated in the missing link research project at the Berlin Pictoplasma conference.
And now he got picked to be exhibited along with the other 500 contributions at the upcoming Pictoplasma exhibition 7-11. december in Paris, at the new museum la Gaîté Lyrique!

So if you are in Paris, go say hi to him and all the other missing links there.
I just know the exhibition will be wonderful. :)
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They are finally here!! After one whole year of waiting, the Christmas chocolate pieces I designed for Freia last year are finally in the stores.

I really love how they came out and they even got all the details of the face of the fjøsnisse (the norwegian gnome-santa) and the little swirls in his beard. And they have that modern yet nostalgic feel I tried for. The package design is done by SDG.

So for all of you living in Norway, go out this instance and buy a bag of them!
Merry Christmas! :)

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Wooden birds 11/16/2011
 
New products for the shop!

Just in time for Christmas I`ve now lasercut some birds out of scandinavian birch veneer, gocco printed some of them, and stained them with a walnut varnish. They will be for sale at Designernes eget Julemarked at the 3rd and 4th of december at DogA here in Oslo, and will also be listed in my webshop around the same time.
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Finally it`s here, the Jamie magazine Christmas issue! I`ve been a fan of Jamie for years and have almost all of his cookbooks. I especially love his simple and straight forward approach to cooking, and his passion for getting healthier school dinners and the ministry of food project.

So, when I got asked to do a Nuremberg map illustration for their Christmas issue I of course said yes! It was so much fun to get to do the typography as well and to incorporate it all into the illustration. I really love the magazine`s extensive use of illustration and how well it all goes with the rich and colorful photos. And I also love the way they used the hand drawn typography (not mine) on the front as well.

I also had to take a picture of that wonderful moustache guy and gingerbread santa from the Nuremberg article. Love them!

So go to your local newsagent or Narvesen here in Norway and buy the magazine! It`s packed with lots of wonderful holiday recipes and illustrations. :)
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Winter has just started, yet I already dream of flowers and green leaves. So I thought I`d upload some flower sketches from my red sketchbook that I drew this summer to cheer myself up a bit.

And also there are some very exiting products coming in my webshop soon, hopefylly by the end of november, just in time for christmas. Yay!
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