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Images that are all over the place – the only red thread is my weird brain, I guess.

Vector illustration of a tiger's face, straight on and symmetrical. Background is the Swedish flag. The text "En svensk tiger" across the lower part of the frame.
A majestic creature
Soviet poster, re-creation of a design by an unknown artist.
Cracking down on the profiteers
A poster from the Golden Age of Wireless, based on a design on disp at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Prague. A yellow base with a sunburst line pattern in 5 degree increments, centre offset closer to the top left corner. A huge truss structure is symbolising the radio transmitter, the base showing a building and some vegetation. The Tesla logo and the words "Radio Tesla" is present, together a young lady in a pin-up style, wearing a red hat and dress, matching the colour of the logotype.
The Golden Age of Wireless
Vector drawing of Lady Mary, played by Michelle Dockery, emerging from a dark blue background into the sun. The brim of her semi-transparent sun hat drapes her face in hard shadow stripes. Dressed for a day at Ascot.
Lady Mary. Again.
Vector portraits of mr. Carson, the butler and Lady Violet Crawley of Downton Abbey.
Downton Abbey
A vector portrait of Michelle Dockery in the role as Lady Mary Crowley of Downton Abbey.
Lady Mary
Vector illustration of Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, Sweden. Blue skies, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish flags are flying in the breeze. Foreground is a modern building, built with stone slate exterior.
Five Stars
Vector drawing of Storkyrkan in Stockholm, Old Town.
Gamla Stan – Old Town
Vector drawing of Sergels Torg in Stockholm. No people, no traffic, no trees. Just human made structures. Two hot air baloons flying overhead at sunset.
Sergels Torg, Stockholm
Close view of a DC-3 illustration, showing only the cockpit and first two passenger rows.
Tormod Viking
Vector drawing of the futuristic looking air traffic control tower at Arlanda airport outside Stockholm. Warm tones on a bright summer's day.
Stockholm ARN
Close-up of the shops at the far corner of Sergels Torg, Stockholm
Åhléns City and other shops
Drawing of American actress Louise Brooks' profile, wearing all black and a pearl necklace against a black background. (Original photo by Eugene Robert Richee, 1929.)
Ms. Brooks
Vector portrait of Louise Brooks
Flapper Girl Extraordinaire
Drawing of a classic low-key photo of Louise Brooks. Her black hair and dress completely blends into the black background, leaving only her hands, face and her long string of pearls.
Beauty and Pearls in a low-key setting
The world's most dangerous techbros created the world's most dangerous practice: Straight Outta Chat GPT The story of outsourced thinking.
Yet another thing that scares me…
Vector portrait of Charlie Chaplin wearing his bowler hat. Text below reads "Charlie Chaplin, proud member of ANTIFA"
Excellent mocker of dictators
Keira Knightley in a small hat, fur coat and wearing large, sparkly ear pendants. Drawn in Affinity Designer.
Keira
Vector illustration of a DC-3 aircraft in Scandinavian Airlines System decor. The aircraft sits on the tarmac with the door open and entry ladder down. A woman is seated in 1A.
Currently known as “Daisy”
Helping where I can to remove the banned terms of the 47th US administration. We just call it "The Department of Portation" now… (The colors of the trans-flag helpfully added to the background.)
Yeah, that’s just what we call it now.
The logo for the U.S. presidential residence, corrected to reflect the 45th and 47th administration. Text updated to read "The White Supremacy House, Washington"
No lies detected
A kid in a black T-shirt with the text "rage against the maga" in front of Trump Tower in New York City. Lots of traffic on the street.
Me too, kid, me too…
Black and white poster, looking up at Dirty Harry pointing his Magnum 45 at you, demanding an answer to the question: "Being as we have armed guards in schools, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel safer now?" Well, do ya, kids?
School shootings: it the guns, silly!
Today comes true what common sense denies
Common Sense
Fictional movie poster for "Shame", based on the poster for "Fame". Plot
Now playing, in a courthouse near you.
Special Military Operation. What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING!
I stand with Ukraine
A billboard hanging from the roof in Victoria Station, London, reading "The apocalypse is already here. It's just not evenly distributed. Yet."
Via @Loukas and I’ve been thinking this astute observation really needs to be up on billboards.
May the Fourth be with you
May 4th
Globen in Stockholm, painted as R2D2
R2-Globen
Vector drawing of BB-8, the droid from Star Wars
Vector drawing of BB-8
R2D2 hanging at the club with his old friend, the Wurlitzer jukebox
Old Friends
Image composite of my BB-8 drawing, a sign from "Automation Academy" urging you to "sign up today", in front of a Star Wars backdrop (the backdrop is not my creation)
BB-8 on his way to class
Vector drawing of a Wurlitzer jukebox
Jukebox
The GANT logotype rotated 90 degrees with the stripes drawn to indicate a gantt chart
Elegant indeed!
Illustration of a cute dog's head. The dog is wearing big over-ear headphones. The text "Snarky Puppy" is set above, on a red background.
Woof!
Vector drawing of Wout van Aert
Wout!
Vector portrait of my wife, Kicki, for her business.
Kicki
A simple vector drawing of a puffin bird, sitting on a rock on an overcast day. Mountain in the background, very soft light.
Puffin
Illustration of young woman meditating in a tropical setting
Meditating Yoga Girl
Castell Belver, Palma de Majorca
Castell Belver
Black and white vector drawin of Carey Mulligan in Balenciaga, worn at the 2024 Met Gala
Inspired by #Inktober
A night photo I took back in December 2011 of the mosque at Hadaba, Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt. The text “Eid Mubarak” added below.
Al-Mustafa Mosque, Hadaba, Sharm-el-Sheik, Egyot
A poker game with 4 players - all of them me
High stakes, low risk
Billboard advertisement for Paradise Tree Museum.
Marketing!
PTM Main Parking area
P!nk Hotel in the background
Parking lot for Paradise Tree Museum
Even more parking space
Huge concrete building, sign in front shows direction to the entrance of Paradise Tree Museum
Paradise Tree Museum
WiFi Hotspot sign, supplied by "Swingin' Telecom"
A boutique and a WiFi hotspot
...a pink hotel with a poster of Joni Mitchell
P!nk Hotel – interior
Drawing of Alice in Wonderland, vector version of the original pencil sketch by Disney artist Marc Davis (as far as I can telll).
Alice in blue
Drawing of Alice in Wonderland, vectorized version of the original pencil sketch by Disney artist Marc Davis (as far as I can telll).
Alice in pink
Contrariwise, continued Tweedledee: "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Logic
Spaceman sitting on a small planet
Planet earth is blue
The Universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons. - Frank Zappa
The Universe
Boobytrap
Partyboob!
Constant submission to short term optimization leads to long term pain and business stagnation.
Short-term’ism
You are initially attracted to the brains and beauty. Then you stay for the heart and soul.
Heart and Soul
Strong people don't put others down, they lift them up.
Uplift
(Queue the intro to "Money for Nothing") I want my Me-Ta-Verse...
…not quite Dire Straits
Logo design for RETOX Bar and Pub
RETOX
Roy Batty's speech from Blade Runner
Time to die.
Estetik Syrran à Paris
Estetik Syrran
Pride colored poster in a Paris bus stop frame
a World of Fools
Strategy Thing - designed in the style of "Stranger Things"
Strategy
Mañana is soon enough for me
Island Time
Poster - Dyslectics UNTIE!
Join the Cause!
Oh, we've got BOTH kinds of music here: country AND western.
country AND western
Dream Team
Dream Team
Poster on wall
Stomp!
Mock-up cover for HQ - Henchemen's Quarterly
HQ – Henchemen’s Quarterly
Everything changes, everything is connected, pay attention.
Everything changes,
Everything is connected,
Pay attention!
Do you remember, the 21st night of September
21st Night of September (1984)
Invitation to Spectre's Annual Family Fun Day
Family Fun Day
Program for Spectre Family Fun day
Activities for all
Graphic design for Spectre
Spectre rebrand
For sale: Running shoes, never worn.
Story in six words
Atomic Blonde design in neon
Neon
Young people dancing at a club
T-shirt design
Max Headroom
ma-ma-ma-Max
Resist - decorative
Anya Major
Venezia poster
Venezia
Illustration from "The Exorcist" movie poster
“I’m not Regan”
Catherine Zeta-Jones, as Velma Kelly in front of the Chicago skyline
Chicago
Vector illustration of the Jaws movie poster
Jaws
Rocket Man - Kim Yong-un in a rocket ship
Fearless Leader
Summer in the City
St:Erik
Grandpa Simpson
With it!
Yabba Dabba D'oh - Homer Simpson and Fred Flintstone just did the FaceSwap filter
Yabba Dabba D’oh!
Fan-art poster for the Springfield Monorail. The scene is the monorail train moving in front of cooling towers of the power plant, and in the distance, the Springfield hills sign can be seen. Up front is Lyle Lanely, quite happy as he probably already signed the deal.
Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook
Roman Soldier
Roman Soldier
Owl graphic
Superb Owl Weekend
Have a nice zero day - drawing of a Guy Fawkes mask
Guy Fawkes
Scene from "The Handmaid's Tale"
Handmaids
Unapologetically PINK - flamingo illustration
PINK!
Ikano Bank, Hyllie, Malmö
Ikano HQ
Miami skyline with a Scarab speedboat and a flamingo
Vice
So long, Farewell, Auf wiedersehen, Good bye!
Mind the Gap
Stop starting. Start finishing!
Finish!
Lemmings (video game), the official "Follow Boris off a cliff" edition.
Follow Boris off a cliff!
T-shirt design
Eggheads – Scramble!
Forget love - fall in coffee
Forget Love
Photo of a Piaggio truck infront of a white building
Cute van
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - Mohammed Ali
Ali
Che Guevarra
Che – first version
Do not fear perfection, you will never achieve it. - Salvador Dalí
Perfection
Drawing of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Vector portrait of Greta Garbo
Garbo
Marily Monroe quote: "Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?"
Marilyn Monroe
Marily Monroe
Marilyn
Vector drawing, champagne, Tour Eiffel and Audrey Tautou
France
Life is party. Dress for it. - Audrey Hepburn
Audrey
Twiggy
Twiggy
The front plate of a Corn Flakes cereal box, late 1980s.
How I learnt to use the Pen tool.