Storytelling lies deeply embedded in human nature. “Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories” (Harari, 2014). In my teenage years I found graphic design to be my language to tell stories, ever since I came to understand my world deeper through a visual context. Through my development in the graphic design discourse, I’ve been finding myself wanting develop further and deeper in the varius contexts of visual communication.

I’m defined in the things I create, it’s been a constant mirror of my world and myself as long as I can remember, therefore my creations often feel like an extension of how I relate to my surrounding. I find deep fascination and joy in creating graphic representations of concepts, ideas and stories. Preferably though printed matter with gravity on typography and content expressed with layers of meaning. 

During my bachelor’s at The Danish Academy of Arts and Craft, we were encouraged to design for a better future. While before having graphic design as a method for dealing with my own narratives, I then learned new tools to understand the interconnections of society and the contributing factors of designing for others. A philosopher who started to influence my work more and more during the bachelor study period was Oscar Wilde:

“What is found in life and nature is not what is there, but is that which artists have taught people to find there, through art” (Wilde, 1881). 

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This point of view resonated with me and together with the tools from the Academy of how to make the world better I felt a responsibility to visually communicate in a way that makes people explore the world with meaning. I believed that my responsibility to create meaningful design started with investigating my own role as a graphic designer.