portfolio silje forbes

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2011-2013

DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN

PORTFOLIO THIS IS

SILJE FORBES


portfolio

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editorial design

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Adventure,

selected works

you say?

I want adventures. Come on, let’s go! The sun is ready to shine on us now! I’ve combed my hair and brushed my teeth. I even made the bed.

I run as a blast of wind hit my face and I realize I am still stuck in this small scale semi-industrial city that tries to disguise itself as a hip and upcoming location for design and technology. I run and realize there are not many places to run towards, because whether I like it or not, this is it for now. This is it. This white building in the center is the harem of my utopia and the beast of my nightmares.

4 years later. Still combing my hair, still making my bed, still looking for the sun. Still ready to run. Filled with experiences and explorations and colors and light that I have found in this beastly building. I’m ready for the sun! Let further explorations begin! My ambitions remain intact. Yes, I have learned and changed and grown and shed tears and sweat and love and hate over many cups of coffee and badly lit tables. My ambitions remain.

It’s adventure time.


Silje Forbes

2011/ 2012/ 2013

Silver Silje

Fox Forbes


project: fictional book covers for existing titles

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editorial design

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collages, print, photoshop


Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have

the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60s. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.


project: poster

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editorial design

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photo, scan, photoshop


album: The Whitest Boy Alivem, Dreams

2013

I want my life to spill like droplets of red wine

on people’s clothes

To leave a little mark accompanied by a fading memory of a great time.


brief: make a game about privacy

Ma materials:

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wood carton paint

product & package design

Me method:

silkscreen illustrator/ psd print

This is a board game about money and privacy - how much is your privacy worth?

Players can trade in personal information for money or power, and be able to manipulate and take advantage of other players by owning big companies that violate people’s rights.


2012

album: Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy


workshop: Ramiro Espinoza

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caligraphy & typeface design

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ink, bamboo, pencil, black carton

The Most Powerful Letter in the Alphabet.


2013

album: Kevin Drew, Spirit If...


project: animation

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art direction

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paint, carton, paper, glue. Editing in psd

A Journey. The paper scenery has been used as a set for telling a story about the different uses of pigments.


2012/ 2013

album: Air France, No Way Down


project: animation

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art direction

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paint, carton, paper, glue. Editing in psd


2012/ 2013

album: Air France, No Way Down


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poster

Welcome to the

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3D to 2D

Netherlands

In the Netherlands it rains 766 mm each year on average. 17 days of each month is filled

with ‘sleet, snow, hail or rain’. Needless to say it feels neverending. So which object will always come in handy when in the Netherlands? The umbrella.

workshop: Maureen Mooren


2013

album: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories


workshop: Maureen Mooren

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poster

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3D to 2D


2013

album: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories


workshop: Andre Thijssen

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These are my photographs archived in a

book of memories.

photography, bookbinding

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photographs


2013

song: Major Lazer, Get Free (Bonde do Role Remix)


workshop: Andre Thijssen

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photography, bookbinding

A Book For the

King

This book is a gift for the new king, His Majesty Willem - Alexander of the Netherlands, for his 46th birthday on April 27th 2013.

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photographs


Walking around the streets and corners of Eindhoven, I have asked passer byers this (among other things related to his birthday):

Asking people, my goal was not to figure out their personal stand point in whether or not

If you were invited to the new King’s birthday

Monarchy is something to be valued or not, but I did hope that these opinions may shine through in the answers given.

There are many opinions about monarchy in this country. Some people are very positive,

In the end the Royals are also just people. Would we still treat them as equals for their birthday? Do we need to act differently

to have a neutral ‘profile’ to represent the

neighbour? Does our judgements on what we

celebration - what would you give him?

saying it gives a strong connection to Dutch roots and traditions and that it is important country apart from politics and elections. Others find it unnecessary, old-fashioned and

toward them? Would the new King have other expectations from you than a regular read or have been told influence our choices?

pompous

After collecting answers I have used photographs from my personal archives or taken new ones to illustrate these gifts from the people in Eindhoven.


markt module 2

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identity, concept

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website, psd

Cultural Creatives Project crafts.

about

preserving

traditional

Cultural Creatives is a website that

encourages the use of local resources and asks its users to share knowledge

about materials and techniques. The aim is that designers and craftsmen

can browse through this “library� for

inspiration on how to use local resources where they are in similar ways. This is a concept based assignment and a fictional website.


2011

album: Håkan Hellström, Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg


fictional vinyl sleeves

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photography, collages

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2013

album: Rhye, Woman


man & communication

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poster infographic

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illustrator and photoshop

Lists.

I’m pretty good at lists. I can list them over and over. I can count them out like sheep in my head until I forget what the outcome I want from the list is. I still don’t know.

42 cm x 96 cm


2011

42 cm x 29 cm


lab 2

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3D and 2D typography

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brass wires, welding

Urban Typography For this project I welded 5 letters in brass and placed them in an underground tunnel in Eindhoven. The letters spelled “FRAIL”.

frail 1 (frl) adj. frail·er, frail·est 1. Physically weak; delicate: an invalid’s frail body. 2. Not strong or substantial; slight: evidence too frail to stand up in court. 3. Easily broken or destroyed; fragile. 4. Easily led astray; morally weak. See weak.


2011

album: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories

3D to 2D In reversed order, the typography was first made in 3D and then turned to 2D.


collaboration with Marcin Rusak Studio

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packaging and branding

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hand made chocolate moulds


2011

album: Bon Iver, Bon Iver

We wanted to design an easily reusable packaging of the product to encourage buyers to make their own

goods. The aim was to come up with an appealing but at the same time eco-wise packaging solution. Behind all the etiquettes you will find recipes and useful tips on how to do it yourself. The plastic moulds can be washed an re-used, and the rubber band ensures that there are no annoying stickers to remove from the maison jars.

as featured on Lovelypackage


man & well being module 2

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research, visual data

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website, coding

To Put A Value On Time There are a lot of statistics on what we spend money on, and why. For some people, money is not a subject to discuss openly, and for others it gives a certain satisfaction to be able to show off what the extra money is spent on. For such people, social media portals are a

perfect platform, with images and simple status quotes that leave room to hide their

money flashing behind “accidental” photos and humoristic statuses.

I pulled out sentences posted on Twitter by setting up a code that selected certain tweets containing certain keywords - such as “money”, “stress”, “time”. The bubbles on the website grow as more tweets come in, and each group of keywords has their own color.


2011

album: Warpaint, Warpaint EP


ceramics with Frank Otten

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product design

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porcelain, wool, reindeer

The Animalistic Teapot A slightly more conceptual way of brewing tea.

Ma materials:

porcelain

wool reindeer fur cork

Me method:

mould making by hand with foam slipcasting glazing


2011

This tea pot covered in heat isolating materials from reindeer and wool, transferes warmth between the pot and yourself through materials from nature’s resources. After boiling water and making tea, you can wrap the heated scarf from the kettle around your waist or neck to keep warm and help your muscles relax.

album: TV on The Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain


Illustration

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hand drawing, photoshop

Working day. There is much monotomy in the world. He goes to work every morning, thinking that this time he won’t let the shark get the coffee. He wants to put a post-it on his screen. It will read ‘fuck you.’


2013

album: James Blake, Overgrown


self initiated project

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research, visual data, sculpture

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wood, paint

Tactile Representations of Data What started as a material exploration of wood

and shaping has inspired me to create physical objects that represent factual information.

By collecting data about people’s mobility in Cape Town and the time spent relocating during the course of a day or a week I aim to make sculptures that individually represents each participant in the research.

Executed in the workspace of Thingkings, a fantastic Cape Town product design studio.


2013

album: Tupac, The Best of Tupac




self initiated

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art

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Untitled.

screenprint

(because that’s an approved title for artwork)


2011

album: Van She, Van She


forum 3

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research, exhibition

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dyeing, visual identity, website, book

Applicative Investigation of the Natural World. For this project we, a group of 4 students, researched dyeing methods with natural pigments and the process from dyeing to product.


2012

Our two research questions were as follows: How are natural pigments extracted and transformed into applicable substances? How far can we trace the process of product to pigment in two chosen Turkish crafts?

During our project we went to Istanbul to visit dyeing masters and the outcome was a film and a website sharing our thoughts and conclusions. This work was shown at the Designhuis in Eindhoven spring 2012.


project: No Money Fest

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concept, collaboration, event, platform

No Money Fest Crisis strikes in an era of buy-and-throwaway mentality in a time when it’s cheaper

to purchase new items instead of fixing the broken. In “No Money Fest” Design Academy students

collaborate to organize an auction without the exchange of money. A window of opportunity was created by emphasizing on our nearby existing valuables like time, talents, skills, craftmanship, ideas and ideals.

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hostess, props



Workshop Maureen Mooren

Objects Posters A1

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posters

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3D, photography, photoshop


2013

song: James Blake, Overgrown


atelier 2, DAE

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experimentation, material research

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textile, plastics, silkscreen, sewing

Tactile Experiments The title pretty much says it all. Experimenting with tactile extiles and materials- wool, rubber, silk, leaves, paint.


2012


Collaboration with Nic Young

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illustration

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carton, drawing

All That It Is To Be Me. Illustrations for a short story written by the spectacular Nic Young.


2013

song: James Blake, Retrogade






Various work

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crafts, collages

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photography, scans, cutting, photoshop

Collages I enjoy making collages, by scanning, cutting, arranging and playing around in photoshop. Sometimes I’ll incorporate the collages in my projects and other times, they just give joy in having made them.



Self initiated blog

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website

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photography, cooking, baking

Cooking Blog Feel free to visit at www.sundaybrunchcooking.com

This project is my passion, my hobby. I started it as part of a school assignment in 2010, got carried away and

have continued up until this day. The website has some thousand visitors monthly and I try to update it regularly. The theme of my cooking is “inspired by the Paleo way of ating�- namely simple, unrefined and healthy. Nearly all the recipes are made by myself after trials and testings.



Contact siljeforbes@gmail.com +31 616329737

Takk.


Silje Forbes

+31 616 32 9737

siljeforbes@gmail.com

CV EDUCATION 2009 - 2013 Bachelor Program in Product Design. Major in Visual Communication. Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands August 2012- February 2013 - Internship with One Small Seed and JesseJames Design, Cape Town. 2008 - 2009 Foundation year in Art and Design. Asker Kunst og Design College, Norway 2005 - 2008 Norwegian High School (highest level). Major in Languages and Social Studies. Eikeli Videregående Skole, Norway February 2006 - June 2006 Exchange semester to Argentina for 5 months.

include accounting at the end of the day. Extra: Completed 2 Barista courses, 2 cooking courses and a mandatory kitchen hygiene course. 2007-2009 Part time porsition as an assistant and subsitute teacher at an elementary school in Oslo (Lilleaker skole). Job tasks include planning the day, arranging activities and food, and fill in for teachers from 1st-7th grade. Extra: Completed first aid course.

WORKSHOPS & EXHIBITIONS 2011-2013 Maureen Mooren - Poster design (4 weeks) Ramiro Espinoza - Calligraphy & Type (4 weeks) Lernert & Sander - film workshop (4 weeks) Roel Wouters - film workshop (4 weeks) Soetcookie - Ceramics (8 weeks) Aldo Bakker - Ceramics & form (1 semester)

WORK EXPERIENCE 2013Interning with Part of A Bigger Plan, studio run by Art Director Christian Borstlap. Job tasks include helping out with execution of projects and brainstorming new commissions. 2012-2013 Interning with JesseJames Design in Cape Town, South Africa. Job tasks included smaller graphic design projects as well as being responsible to host, plan, execute and cook for a pop-up restaurant. 2012 Interning with One Small Seed magazine. Job tasks include editorial design, photography, web design and meeting artists and designers for interviews. 2007- 2012 Part time position working as care assistant at a facility for elderly people in a unit specialized for dementia. Job tasks include helping with daily routines such as hygiene, food preparations, and physical as well as mental wellness. Extra: Completed course in communication with elderly with dementia. 2008-2010 Part time (weekend) work as a barista and waitress at Bagel & Juice in Oslo. Job tasks include opening of the cafe, order supplies and groceries for the coming week, customer service (taking orders, preparing food, making coffee). Job tasks also

Exhibited 3 screen printed works at ‘it’s a house’ in Cape Town February-May 2013. Exhibited a project in ‘Craft and Culture’ at Designhuis in Eindhoven, February 2012.

LANGUAGE & OTHER SKILLS/ MERITS Norwegian - Native English - Fluent Dutch- Relatively good Spanish - Basic understanding I use the following programs: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Premiere Pro. Currently learning After Effects. Driver’s lisence, December 2008 Boat lisence, August 2011 Class representative , Design Academy Eindhoven 2010-2011 Editor of the foodblog www.sundaybrunchcooking. com

REFERENCES (contact details on request) James Bisset Kristine Hennie Robert Adolfsson Catelijne van Middelkoop


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