Design projects & workshops
Where visual, tactile, spatial, interactive and performative aspects meet and merge over time
Design projects & workshops
Where visual, tactile, spatial, interactive and performative aspects meet and merge over time

Good you found me
Freelance Designer & Artist (MFA) • Based in Copenhagen • Freelance since 1996 • Part time Associate Professor at The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design & Conservation • I design and deliver animation & motion graphics for online use & video projections for opera-, dance- and theatre performances • I do spatial design for scenography and exhibitions, as well as concept design for games • Also, I did some research and published some articles
Good you found me
Freelance Designer & Artist (MFA) • Based in Copenhagen • Freelance since 1996 • Part time Associate Professor at The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design & Conservation • I design and deliver animation & motion graphics for online use & video projections for opera-, dance- and theatre performances • I do spatial design for scenography and exhibitions, as well as concept design for games • Also, I did some research and published some articles
Recent projects
Mother of Mermaids
Underwater Animated Light Installation for Kyndelmisse Køge Lysfest og Kulturnat 2023
An animated light installation located below the water surface in the inner harbor with mythical maritime references to the historic naval battle that took place in Køge Bugt in 1710. The work is a tale of life and death that recreates the story of the fantastic, the beautiful, the life-threatening and the impossible love. See more here…

Mother tail and mermaids underwater


Midt om Natten
Animation & video graphics for large LED screen filling the background space behind the set-pieces.
For the musical based on Kim Larsens words and music – shows in Sweden, 2022 https://mittomnatten.se, after big succes and many shows in Denmark. See more here …




City Museum Exhibition Concept and Design
For Møntergården, the cultural history museum in Odense, Denmark
Concept art for a new exhibition for the cultural history museum in Odense, Denmark. Fantasy and mythology are explored through stories on past, present and future related to the power, technology and culture that is connected to the city of Odense.
In collaboration with Have Kommunication & PR and Jakob Ion Wille



The Trick of the Tail
Copenhagen Light Festival 2021
An underwater light work that visualises the animated movement of a mermaid like tail, swimming away from the earthly life, back to the natural underwater habitat where the other mermaids reside. See more here …



Solur (Sundail)
In between sunlight and time
A unique sundial designed for just your place. Created for a geographical position, with exact longitude and latitude. These handmade and customized sundials are soon available for online sale in Denmark at www.solur.dk and in Holland at www.zonnewijzer-design.nl



FLASH-FORWARD: Storyworld, Interaction and Speculative Design
Artistic research project at the Royal Danish Academy
A 3-week workshop in storyword building, interaction and speculative design that resulted in interactive prototypes at an exhibition in November 2020.
For the project FLASH-FORWARD Graphical Communication Design (MA) students created spatial images of possible future worlds. What will the future look like in the light of present problems such as climate change, democratic crisis, sustainability, data control etc?
You can see more here, on the Royal Danish Academy’s website.
Idea and execution: Arthur Maria Steijn & Jakob Ion Wille
Guest speakers: Kirsten Astrup, Michael Valeur, Jakob Thorbek, Natalie Koerner, Martin Sønderlev Christensen, Mikael Fock, Oscar Stockholm
Methods and results of FLASH-FORWARD: Storyworld, Interaction and Speculative Design
are presented by Jakob Ion Wille & Arthur Steijn at:
IMAGINING THE IMPOSSIBLE
UTOPIA & DYSTOPIA CONFERENCE
Conference on the Fantastic in Media Entertainment, May 27-29, 2021 (Extended date)