My name is Siggi Eggertsson. I was born in Akureyri, Iceland, in 1984. In my childhood, drawing and computers were my biggest hobbies. I found out that I could combine those two into a profession called graphic design. When I was 18 I moved to Reykjavik and started studying graphic design at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. During my studies I spent a summer in New York, doing an internship with Karlsson Wilker. I also took a semester off in 2005 to study at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee. While studying, Print Magazine selected me for their New Visual Artists, as one of 20 brightest design stars under the age of 30. My focus kind of shifted while I was in school, I realized that my interest in general graphic design was fading, and I was getting more and more into illustration and typography. I graduated from school in 2006.
After my studies I decided to try my luck in London, where I joined my agency, Big Active. During my stay in London i started focusing more and more on my illustrations and custom typography. After a little more than a year over there, I realized that London wasn't really my city, so in 2008 I moved back to Iceland, to a small fishing village on the west coast, the complete opposite of London. There I relaxed, worked and thought about my next steps. That same year I was nominated for both, the Icelandic Visual Arts Awards and the DV Cultural Awards. I won neither of them.
After spending the summer in Iceland, I realized that of all the cities I had lived in for the past few years, I missed Berlin the most, so later that year I moved back to Berlin, where I live and work now. In 2009 I was selected as the highest ranking winner of The Art Directors Club's YG7.
Today I like a lot of different things, I try to split my time between working on personal and commercial projects. I'm still doing a lot of illustrations, but I've also started writing, giving lectures and workshops, doing some tests with animation, trying to take my typography to the next level and so on. Working is still my biggest hobby.
Some time ago I read that to reach your goals, it can be helpful to write them down. So here are few things I'd like to do in the future (in no specific order): Make furniture, design a computer game, work with LeBron James, design the Chelsea FC kit, do a cover for Björk, design money, make more quilts, make sculptures, create stained glass windows, illustrate a book for kids, do more solo exhibitions, make a proper text typeface, work with a fashion designer on something and make prints for umbrellas.
Magazines that I've been featured / interviewed in
Blaðið (IS)
Clark (FR)
Computer Arts (UK)
Dazed & Confused (UK)
DV (IS)
Étapes (FR)
Fréttablaðið (IS)
German GQ (DE)
Grafik (UK)
Hús og Hýbýli (IS)
IdN (HK)
Morgunblaðið (IS)
Nylon (US)
Page (DE)
Plastique (UK)
Print Magazine (US)
Sjónlist 2008 (IS)
Svensk Form (SW)
Swindle Magazine (US)
XLR8R (US)
Some books that have showcased my work
Neogeo, 2007
Onehundred at 360°, 2008
Die Gestalten Verlag
Laurence King
Zoom In Zoom Out, 2007
Victionary
Exhibitions that I've had or taken part in
Crests of Pólýfónía
Art of Conversation
Art of Conversation
Pick Me Up
ADC Young Guns 7
Some Type of Wonderful
Illustrative 2009
If You Could
Now Showing
Sjonlist 2008
Bittar Ekki Mali
Show Off
Pieces of Havana
Facelift
London Open City
Athletes
Pretending
LHI Graduation
Forest Lava Ice
DesignMarch
Program Gallery
Idea Generation Gallery
Somerset House
ADC Gallery
No Vacancy Gallery
Villa Elisabeth
Kemistry
Vallery
Akureyri Art Museum
Gallery Box
Art Vinyl Gallery
Dray Walk Gallery
The Coningsby Gallery
Somerset House
Vallery
Belleville
Reykjavik Art Museum
Rovaniemi Art Museum
Reykjavik, Is
London, UK
London, UK
London, UK
New York City, US
Melbourne / Sydney, AU
Berlin, DE
London, UK
Barcelona, SP
Akureyri, IS
Akureyri, IS
London, UK
London, UK
London, UK
London, UK
Barcelona, SP
Reykjavik, IS
Reykjavik, IS
Rovaniemi, FI
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Awards, recognitions, nominations & things
Icelandic Music Awards
2011, best album cover for Pólýfónía.
ADC Young Guns 7
2009, the top-ranked ADC Young Guns 7 winner.
D&AD
2010, 2 submissions selected for the annual.
New Visual Artists
2006, one of 20 designers under the age of 30.
DV Cultural Prize
2008 & 2009, nominated in the Design category.
Sjónlist 2008
2008, nominated in the Design category.
Online interviews
Lectures and workshops and stuff like that
PIctoplasma Berlin
2011
Berlin, DE
Toffie Popular Culture
2010
Cape Town, ZA
Aktionklasse
2009
Berlin, DE
DesignMarch
2011
Reykjavik, IS
Visuelt
2010
Oslo, NO
33pt Eskapade
2009
Dortmund, DE
Toffie Buenos Aires
2010
Buenos Aires, AR
Integrated 2009
2009
Antwerp, BE
Pictoplasma Tour
2010
Hamburg, DE
Nachschlag
2009
Berlin, DE
Some people and companies that I've worked for
12 Tónar
Apparat Organ Quartet
Arctic Paper
Atlantic — Gnarls Barkley
Blender Magazine
Brummell Magazine
Coca Cola
Computer Arts
Creativity Magazine
Design for London
Dorling Kindersley
Dose Magazine
Dwell
ESPN Magazine
Fiction — Delays
H&M Divided
HönnunarMars
Iceland Airwaves
Icon Magazine
Institutional Investor
It's Nice That
John Brown Group
Little White Lies
The Living Art Museum
Microsoft Zune
Ministry of Defense
Mulberry
The New York Times
Nike
Nokia
Olympikus
Print Magazine
Red Bulletin
The Reykjavik Grapevine
Sequences
Stoðir Invest
Stüssy
T-Post
Urban Outfitters
Viewpoint Magazine
Wallpaper*
Walrus Magazine
Wired Magazine