Right after building the red rocket I had the urge to rebuild that shape a second time. Of course I wanted to alter it a bit. I saw no need for the diamondtail anymore, I wanted the rail to be a bit rounder and add some more noserocker. And I always dreamed of a yellow board, so this would be yellow!

A nice sideffect was, that I needed some space in my workshop, so the task was to build a board only with leftovers. Because I’ve used the thicker planks on the red board, I had rather thin ones for this board. That made it even lighter.

The build worked fine and in february the whole family took off for a whole month to our canary winter hideout.
I also brought my big 8.4 longboard with me, but never used it. I was having so much fun with the yellow banana in all kinds of conditions. By the way: the fins I’ve built a bit to sharp. They’ve cut right through the leash. So next ones will get a rounder edge…

Note for the next build: I definitely need a rockertable!

It’s winter Season. So I provided some seasonal Illus for Ferrero Chocofresh’s Websites.

What did Iva do in 2015?

I regularly provide Illustration for La Viva, a lifestyle Magazine. Here are some of 2015’s Issues.
Sometimes I really like rejected drafts. SoI included some for you as well.

Client: La Viva Magazine
Agency: Gruner & Jahr

and how they keep their cool.

I was assigned to create a couple of animated clips for Nivea Men Stress Protect Deodorant and a bunch of illustration to run as a poster campaign alongside.
The topic was men in strange and awkward situation and how thay, thanks to this deodorant, stay cool.

Client: Nivea Men Stress Protect
Agency: La Red Hamburg

I regularly provide Illustration for Ferrero Chocofresh’s Websites. Mostly they feature seasonal topics, mixed with quizzes, mazes and polls. Targeting young women they are quite successfull on Facebook.

Here’s a selection of the Summer illustration.

Client: Ferrero Chocofresh
Agency: La Red Hamburg/Berlin

Or wedding rings became weak, especially mine suffered a lot from taking it off for for sanding and filing. 
So it was time build new ones.

I tried out different woods, bending them with heat around a ring mandrel and glued them together with ca glue. This way I produced blanks, much wider than needed and cut them into smaller blanks to put on the mini lathe. I experimented with differen thicknesses and types of wood, even managed to put some inlays of white cedar into dark wenge. With a couple of layers of CA-glue and polishing they came out very shiny and glossy, just linseed oil and waxing also produced a beautiful surface and slightly different look.

I was asked to do an editorial illustration for Connected Rogers about roaming costs in the US.

Client: Roam Like Home
Agency: Connected Rogers

Spring in Ferreroland!

The girls skip work, go on a roadtrip, get lost in mazes, have to count birds, solve some quizzes, do a bikeride and finally relax on the balcony. What a life!

Client: Ferrero Chocofresh
Agency: La Red Hamburg/Berlin

It’s wintertime in fictional Ferreroworld!

The girls play in the snow, dream of tropical islands, hunt treasures like Diana Jones, buy shoes, perform as magicians and celebrate carnival.

Client: Ferrero Chocofresh
Agency: La Red Hamburg/Berlin

“Will you marry me?” – women proposing.

The Baltimore Sun assigned me to do a full page illustration about women proposing for marriage. I thought this might be the right way.
The editors liked it so much that it was adapted and used for a second, tab sized weekly magzine of Baltimore Sun.

Read the article here.