Identity, packaging, website & business cards for Danish/English artisan honey startup.

Available across Denmark.

New 1970's inspired webshop for Danish vintage hobby boutique Husflid.

Stop wasting your time watching all that bad TV and start crafting.

Helping out with styling for the new music video for the Danish band (and recently Zulu nominated Best New Name) Shanghai, directed by Pingo van der Brinkløv and shot by Michael Sauer Christensen.

Theme is 1970's space lab.

Out late February

More illustrations & collages for Danish newspaper Berlingske's Sunday section called MS featuring love hormones and life with apps.

Four new watercolour works for Danish interior company HAY printed on heavy 270 g paper stock as postcards, double cards and A4 posters.

Available in stores now.

Mascot character design for Danish kids' excercise and sports organisation KFUM Idræt.

Oliver the Squirrel is a happy, carefree gym fan who likes to include everybody in the fun of sports. He doesn't leave the nerds and the gays standing in a corner feeling left out, but has the charisma to engage and invite anyone to join the games.

Needless to say I wish there had been an Oliver when I was in school.

2012 will be another busy year, hopefully with less Japanese nuclear disasters and more economic optimism.

Studio Arhoj will be working on and presenting more Oline stuff, new bar identities, new character worlds, a vintage hobby webshop, DIY quilting, lots of new ceramics and a great bunch of illustrations.

Thank you to all clients and friends for playing with and supporting Studio Arhoj.

I was asked by London based designer magazine FILE to write and take photos of my 5 favourite activities in Copenhagen.


Link:

http://file-magazine.com/citylikeyou/profiles/anders-arhoj

I love the Danish interior magazine RUM ("space" in Danish), their taste is impeccable, rustic and caters to no one.

And for the first time one of my designs is featured -  a Spirit piggybank is hiding in a corner of a page.

Big one page illustration for Danish newspaper Berlingske's Sunday section.

The article uncovers the new trend of NOT buying anything which leads to new business for the recycling/upcycling/sustainable living industry.

As a self employed ceramic manufacturer, book illustrator and game designer I can't say I fully support the idea of not buying anything new, since I'd be out of business then.

But recycling and trying to repair old stuff instead of just throwing it away - I totally support that.

In collaboration with Danish ceramic artist Louise Gaarmann I did a series of melting glaze experiments this summer.

In the process of designing and assembling different sets of patchwork squares ready to cut and sow:

- Buy a set of 16 swatches, match with your own leftovers and make a fun patchwork piece.

This one's from the East Germany 1974 set.

Coming sometime after Christmas 2011.

I was invited to illustrate the poem "The Bakery Apprentice" for the new Danish childrens' illustration anthology "Skrædder i Helvede".

The poem features a girl who's an apprentice at the local bakery, but just isn't able to let those delicously looking cakes in peace...

New single pack on iTunes for Danish band Shanghai's Smoke and Mirrors song.

The track is remixed by 80's electro pop master Michael Cassette and the cover is a pastiche between his own album cover from 2009 and the Shanghai logo 'S'.

The remix pack is available on iTunes.

This week I bought my very first ceramic kiln. Finally after having borrowed space in friend's kilns over the years I can now fire whenever I want to, yay!

I have founded my own ceramic studio far away from everything in the Northern parts of rural Jutland, close to the Western Sea and to deep pine forests filled with wild deer. Sometimes they even have a picnic right outside the studio windows.

As much as I love living in Copenhagen I think it's important for any creative mind to get out of the city now and then and get the physical and mental noise rinsed off. There's too much going on around any person living in 2011. Boredom and nothingness gives birth to new ideas.

The new studio will focus on producing Ghosts and Spirits as well as creating new products and art pieces. This is a picture of my very first glaze firing. The kiln didn't explode, hooray!

Preparing poster artwork for the big Christmas Market we're taking part in this year together with 15 Danish artists and designers, among others Louise Gaarmann, Tina Ratzer, Lucky Boy Sunday, Pi Björg and many more.

Dec 2-3-4 2011

Værkstedet Viktoria
Vesterbrogade 24B kld.
1620 Copenhagen V

I'll be selling my ceramics, woodwork, books, pillows and much more.

Will you be there?

I designed a range of 7 new wooden hangers - for your autumn branches or your Christmas tree.

I was invited to take part in a large shirt design exhibition in Madrid during Días Nórdicos, the annual Nordic festival in Spain involving Nordic/Scandinavian designers, artists and musicians.

The festival exhibits 14 of my shirt designs. Would have loved to pop down to Madrid and attend the opening, but too much stuff going on here in CPH right now to go on vacation in the Spanish sun.

http://www.diasnordicos.com

More shirt designs: http://www.arhoj.com/wear

Last week I used a new kind of glaze for a fresh batch of Spirit piggybanks. I mixed it with two kinds of blue coloured pigment and when they came out of the kiln, the glaze had run all down the sides, each one in a different way.

It was an accident - but a lucky one as I think they look even more fun now.

The new versions are available at Danish design store Furnish and at the HAY stores in Copenhagen.

More new emblems for labels at Danish mens shop Goods have been added to the project.

Newly illustrated emblems are for Japanese gear labels Mt.Rainier and Porter, and the Swedish architecture inspired fashion label Our Legacy.

If you're in need of a new fall/winter wardrobe, this is the place to shop:

http://shop.goodscph.com/

New project with Danish ceramic artist Louise Gaarmann.

Hand made all through, each figure is unique. Arts & crafts in a joyous mix.

They are limited so go get yours now at HAY interior stores across Denmark.

I am representing Danish design anno 2011 in the new Crafts Collection 15 in Paris next week with a textile design inspired by Alice in Wonderland, American quilting patterns and psychedelic drugs.

http://www.craftscollection.dk/grouping/view/466

Doing sketches and watercolour studies for a forthcoming mini collection of posters and postcards for Danish interior store HAY.

Out later this fall 2011.

Illustrations for article about personal, true and crazy experiences in Danish mens magazine Euroman.

The interviews feature people who have had experiences such as becoming a lottery millionaire, being bitten by a poisonous snake and having a threesome in the back of a taxi cab.

Slight redesign and new print edition of my Forest Walk poster.

60 x 84 cm / signed / 399 DKK

Available in the webshop and in Copenhagen based interior shop Furnish.