Design in Danish

While in Denmark I was met with a rather different kind of challenge. ISU wanted me to design an A4 4 Page invite for one of their up and coming projects. In itself, it's the kind of job I'm used to. However, I was in Denmark and therefore had to use their computers. The operating system was in Danish and so was the design software. I surprised myself, I designed the whole thing without being able to read the software menus. I guess I proved to myself how well I know the software by using the shortcuts and simply remembering where things were in the menus. Danish isn't like French or German, it is quite different to English, so this was definately a challenge.

The end result was ISU being extremely pleased with the design makeover I gave their invite, aswering our question of "can we work together despite the language barrier?" and also me feeling rather proud of myself.

ISU have showed alot of interest in using me for other work. Fantastic, and they are also a great pleasure to work for.

Virksomhed Vollsmose

Virksomhed Vollsmose is a Danish project set up by ISU (Insitut Serviceudvikling a/s) and part funded by the EU. The projects' aim is to help asylum seeking women - who have come from various parts of the world and terrible situations - resettle and start a new life. Starting again with nothing must be an almost impossible task. What Virksomhed Vollsmose does is work with the skillsets that these women have, and then put them into a business perspective. For instance, alot of these women have children, and therefor have various family skills. Using this idea, ISU started the organisation Virksomhed Vollsmose. Two parts of the project are a catering company, and a sewing company. These women are now working in a friendly and safe environment, with likeminded women - using skills they are familiar with - All helping them earn money to get their lifes back together.

I was lucky enough to be commissioned to travel out there to take some promotion photographs. The images would be used in various things like posters, adverts and an exhibition. I was out there for a week in the company of these women, many of whom spoke no english. They treated me so kindly and even fed me free arabic and vietnamese food! I had a great time!

Rewkachu enters Europe

Over the new year break I visited a friend in Denmark. It was my first time over there, and it has to be said that it is quite an amazing little country. Not only did I have a great time while there experiencing how they celebrate New Year, but I was also asked to revisit them this month on a professional level.

I was asked to do several photography jobs by an organisation called ISU, Institut for Serviceudvikling.

The photography jobs included: working situations, employee portraits, various building shots and product photos.