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09 Sep My new book about Swedish monarchs is out!

After almost two years of work, countless hours of researching historical sources, and just shy of 100 illustrations, mine and Linda Linnskog Rudh’s book about Swedish monarchs is finally complete and available in bookstores! ...

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03 Sep Map and illustrations for Ale’s Stones information panels

Back in mid-2018 Statens Fastighetsverk contacted me to create a map of Ale’s Stones and the town of Kåseberga, together with a handful of illustrations to be used in brand new information panels on location. After a long ...

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07 Feb New books in the mailbox!

I recently got artist copies of a few books I had worked on in 2018. That is one of the best start of 2019 one could possibly have! It is always a very exciting moment, especially when the project is long concluded and you had ...

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22 Nov How I create: Cape Horn map

In mid 2016 I was commissioned by Cape Horn, an outdoor clothing brand from Italy, to create a celebratory map for the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Cape Horn. In this post I’ll briefly go over all the steps, from research to final illustration.

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