Another cover for the New Scientist. This appeared in March of this year. Art direction (and in this case most of the workload) done by Craig Mackie. A cover I did for the New Scientist in January of this year. Art direction by Craig Mackie. And here, as promised the solution to yesterday’s “opera by numbers”. The idea was to have a scene from “La Traviata” up there and mash it up with some “Siegfried” as a twist. For Engelsloge, a German opera magazine. Terms of the opera explained this time “Nummernoper” (number opera / opera by numbers?). Opera by numbers is what I drew, at least. Art direction by Maria Gaul. Solution will be posted tomorrow. Illustration for Psykologi magazine, illustrating the quote “Kuinka moni näkee kaikki sävyt harmauden?” (rough translation: “Who can claim to see all shades of grey?”) from an Ismo Alanko song. Art direction by Johannes Rantapuska. High res version right here. And here a photo of the book I mentioned earlier. Odd to see my own hand writing on a book jacket. Thanks again to art director Stephanie Finks at Harvard Business Review Press. This is a full spread illustration (plus detail) I made for Finnish Arvopaperi magazine. Art direction by Sasu Haanpää.
1st of May


It is the first of May so I may as well get a little more political here. 
I am living in Finland and the next bigger city to where I live is Tampere.

The Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) has decided to cancel their degree programme in fine art, due to budget cuts. The universities administration stated, that they have to decide which degree programmes are important, and the fine art programme is not among those.

The school’s art programme is well established and considered as one of the top schools for art education in Finland. The art department and its students and graduates are a very active cultural force, not only in the city of Tampere. The school’s final exhibitions attract many visitors each year. Artists who graduated from TAMK are among the most known Finnish contemporary artists. All of this will lose its foundation and left will be a vacuum.

Maybe art education cannot be directly translated into financial benefits for a community - which form of education can? - but its absence is a sure loss of cultural identity.

I would be very happy if you follow this link, and sign the petition against the cancellation of the fine art degree programme at TAMK. The text is in English and it does not matter where you are from. If you are Finnish-speaking you may follow this link to read about the issue in Finnish. You may also sign anonymously. At this moment more than 1500 people have signed the petition.

Thank you.



I have made my first book cover! Complete with my handwriting etc. The twist is, that I made this already three years ago, but publishing got postponed, and somehow I lost sight of the whole thing. But here it is finally.You can have a look at the book here. Illustration for Pacific Standard magazine. For an article titled “body language”, about the mixed messages BMI, cholesterol levels etc. send. The article can be found here. Art direction by Craig Edwards. Merimies uljaan kaarnalaivan työnsi vesille aivan. Varoiteltiin laivasta, mies: ”Ei se uppoa jos en aivasta.” A portrait of me and a poem about me.  Made by Mirka Kinnula and Anne Mölsä for Muotokuvatiski. Kiitos! Illustration for Hemispheres magazine, about apps and mobile services, that help you get your taxes in line. Higher resolution right here. Art direction by Jeff Quinn. 6 of 6 for “Wirtschaftswoche Green”. Art direction by Svenja Kruse. This one about a new concept for shoe manufacturing and distribution. 5 of 6 for “Wirtschaftswoche Green”. Art direction by Svenja Kruse. This one about robotics and its role in the near future.