Blog revamp

Ah! What satisfaction!

I have at long last taken hold of the HTML template of my blog and made it nice and clean! Yay! It now matches my website. I am not sure if you can imagine just how much that appeals to my layout-and-colour-brain, but it is very relieved now anyhow. I hope to soon(?) be able to post some images that I am working on but they are top secret right now!

Happy snowy days everyone!

Illustrations for Folkteatern (for the play LYCKA TILL MED ALLT -- translation: "Good Luck With Everything")

Front and back of the programme, plus the "theatre-survival-kit" it came in:





























































This work (the eight illustrations for the front of the programme) is a considerable detour from my "usual" style to cater for a very specific conceptual idea.

In this case the graphic designer's guidelines (visit her site! http://www.simonea.se/) for how the illustrations were supposed to look came from the in-flight safety instructions you can find on board aeroplanes (as you may have noticed).

It was challenging to find the right tone humour-wise within what is quite a rigid syle. But in the end we all were really pleased with the outcome and we all agreed that it matched the tone of the play.

The theme of the play is "fear" (our fears as humans). The survival-kit-with-programme is given to theatre goers just before the beginning of the play.

If you're in Sweden go see the play:
http://www.folkteatern.se/

Here's a review (in swedish):
http://www.nummer.se/Templates/Review____6889.aspx

Conceptual sketches for future buildnings

Furuvik amusement park map

Righteo, pleased to present the latest job, that is at long last done. It was a tough slog getting everything in, mainly because the time was so short! Stress stress stress(!) But everbody involved seems pleased, so so am I! It is a map over an amusement park in Gävle, Sweden called "Furuvik". They have Sweden's only keeper who is an accepted member of a chimpanzee flock (read more about it at www.furuvik.se). They (Furuvik) also did a really insteresting behviour test there to see if chimps could plan for the future, which they without a shadow of a doubt could.

Treasure maps

Thought it was high time for an update here.

Why don't I have little magical gnomes that update my blog for me? Anyways, till then you'll have to accept the fact that I am not-so-great at posting new things regularly. I might promise to "from now on post more regularly" but we both know that's a lie even before it's left my lips, so I will refrain from promising altogether.

Here are some treasure maps I was comissioned to do for a magazine (Hem och Hyra Skåne-Halland -- check out their website www.hyresgastforeningen.se) here in Sweden. The maps show the locations of interesting second hand shops in Skåne and Halland. Enjoy!

New published work (colouring book)

Hello all!
Christmas and the start of the new year has been hectic but lovely, and as usual I am not very good at remembering to update my blog and website. So, I thought I would take the opportunity to post a selection of images from my latest work now fresh-off-the-press. It is a 17-image colouring book that is a companion to a story book (Djurens Andaktsbok by Kristina Reftel). Each image is a character from the short stories in the book. The book and colouring book are for sale here: http://www.argument.se/ -- type in a search: "linn ahlbom" and you'll find the colouring book. The colouring book is aimed at teachers wanting to have a reading session with the class followed up by a colouring-in session (the images are meant to be photocopied and given to the students to colour in).