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

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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

Feel free to contact me for your next project or workshop

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