Today it’s the first of December and the new year begins in a month. So it’s really time to say more about urbnCal 2012! We started with Stockholm 2010, then Copenhagen, and 2012 it is Helsinki!
How long does it take to make the calendar?
The first part is ”collecting” all the numbers. We spend about a week biking around the city, one area at the time, shooting […]
Last time it was a “tote bag cover“, this time we have made a digital record cover (see above) for the EP What We Lost by The Forest and The Trees.
Thursday night we spent at Manos celebrating the release of urbnCal 2012 Helsinki. Finnish liquorice, nice people and Tauno Palo in the speakers, in combination with the great atmosphere that’s always present at Karins boutique, made it a happy celebration!
Yesterday we were at the Trosa Printing House, an environmentally certified printer close to Stockholm. We were there to see that everything went right when our baby, urbnCal 2012, came into the world. And it did, we are very delighted! Now we just wait for the ink to dry completely, the sheets to be trimmed and the holes to be punched. Then it’s time for release!
At the Hietaniemi Graveyard in Helsinki. Sometimes you find inspiration at unexpected places. Here are some mobile camera photos taken while getting our son to sleep. And the last picture shows a hard-to-read hospital sign.
On our first trip to shoot urbnCal 2012 Helsinki we immediately got a feeling for Kallio, a part of Helsinki we were not so familiar with. We can’t help but love signs like this one. If you look close you will see the whole Tanttu family in this picture.
A forest silhouette in magenta on a tote bag. The silhouette is shot in the forest by the clear-felled area where our prints “Sisaret” and “Long Play” come from. We enjoy going to this remote place in the finnish country side for inspiration and recreation.
Today is the eve of May Day or Walpurgis Night and in Sweden we traditionally burn a fire to celebrate the coming of spring. This picture is taken a week ago when we spent Easter in Finland and took the chance to clean the attic. So our fire was a bit early.