On a personal note, today is some sort of an anniversary. I landed in Alaska for the first time nine years ago. Yeah, everybody comes to Alaska for one reason or the other, mine was a man, the man I met in Denmark and fell in love with. Here we are nine years later with a beautiful daughter, a wonderful house and a good life doing what we love to do. How quickly time passes by.
I’m celebrating my Alaskan anniversary in Hawaii with a cold drink by the pool. Mahalo.
The Alaska Design Forum have been doing lectures for years. Very motivating lectures. Who couldn’t use a mouthful of inspiration during the winter months?
This season of lectures is opening with a visit by contemporary artist Lincoln Schatz, best known for works that utilize video to collect, store, and display images from specific environments.
Go check out this lecture at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art on October 4th at 7pm. Admission is $10 and $5 for students.
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I love working from home and I like my space to be inspirational and fun. At first I thought I couldn’t possibly post a photo of my office (as it is this very minute)… but oh well, here it is without any censoring.
HOWEVER, if you want to check out some photo ready offices, take a look at Designer Daily’s beautiful collection 30 Enviously Cool Home Office Setups
I’m going to have to post another photo some time when my office is actually presentable 
Clark James Mishler was the first photographer I worked with in Alaska, this was in 2001. I’ve since licensed numerous of his photographs and hired him for specific jobs, both through local advertising agencies and for my own clients. Clark has also taken countless, stunning images of my Alaskan family.
Over the past twenty-five years, Clark’s editorial photography has been published in numerous regional, national and international publications. In 2007 Clark published ANCHORAGE, LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE FRONTIER, which was awarded first place for nonfiction by the Independent Publisher’s Association.
Currently Clark is working on a yearlong project named Portrait 365 – taking one portrait every day – all year.
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I signed up. I’m in. I’m getting an empty sketchbook to fill out. My finalized book will go on a tour around America with thousands of other sketchbooks and ultimately end up at the The Brooklyn Art Library.
Check out the The Sketchbook Project and participate with me. It should be a fun and creative challenge.
Shulman’s incredible photography brought modern architecture to the American mainstream, and by the 1960s he was the foremost sought after architectural photographer in the world.
This film provides a very warm and closeup look at Julius Shulman and his work; photographing modern architecture that remain revolutionary even today. He was a true master of creating a vantage point and often his pictures depict the buildings in a more beautiful way than you would see them in real life.
I love it and so should you. Watch the beautiful documentary Visual Acoustic – The Modernism of Julius Shulman. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman. Visit Arthouse Films for more good stuff.
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I’m so incredibly excited to learn about INDIGO, the International Indigenous Design Network. This is something that is close to my heart.
Designers in Alaska often do work for Alaska Native organizations and design collateral materials for target groups that very much include our indigenous population, so designers listen up, and to all of my artistic and creative Alaska Native friends, I hope you’re reading on because this stuff is exciting. Continue reading
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It’s not very often I refer to my Finnish heritage, but here we go. My mother was born and raised in Finland. She moved to Denmark when she was in her early twenties, and married my Danish father. I’m basically half Finnish and half Danish. That’s the short version.
Sharing here the website of the 6th annual Helsinki Design Week.
I wonder when Anchorage will be ready for a Design Week? We do have a lot in common with Helsinki, right? We’re on the same latitude, both cities are located on the coast, both cities want to be considered the greatest northern city in the world …and it’s freaking cold and beautiful during the winter, and even better in the summer. Continue reading
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This evening, AIGA Alaska is presenting the initiation of the monthly event: First Friday – Walk With Designers. This time around the casual walk is co-hosted by David Freeman and myself. Next month you could be co-hosting it.
Come meet us at The International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA) on 427 D Street at 5:30pm. Continue reading
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This is a neatly designed educational typography sheet for hanging in your office (or my office) made by Ligature, Loop & Stem. Hand stamped, two color letterpress printed limited edition prints for sale. Enhancing your typographic vocabulary has never been more beautiful.
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Since I first discovered Wallpaper* about 13 years ago when I lived in Denmark, I’ve been a subscriber on and off and at a minimum buy an issue every time I travel. So, here I am – a happy subscriber of Wallpaper* Magazine – again.
The magazine was launched in 1996 in London and quickly became a publishing phenomenon by talking directly to a globalized audience who shared common interests in design, art and fashion whether they lived in London, New York, Tokyo, Denmark or Alaska Continue reading
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Thanks to my friend Andrew Mitton, I can share a link to this well-written font book created by Font Shop. You should download the pdf – it will make you smile, and you might even learn a thing or two.
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