Hi. My name is Siggi Eggertsson. I'm an illustrator from Iceland that lives in London. I like to draw portraits, animals and landscapes. But I also draw other things. I like to make typefaces and I do a bit of graphic design as well.
I was born in Akureyri, a small town on the north coast of Iceland, in 1984. My mother, who is an artist, raised me. My life was pretty normal; I played with Lego cubes, drew Turtles characters, played basketball and went to school. I was quite young when I got interested in Graphic Design, must have been around 14 or 15 years old. I started to fool around in design programs, making posters for jazz concerts and art exhibitions.
When I was 18 years old I was getting bored living in the small town, so I applied for the Graphic Design department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, and got in, so I moved to the capital city. After the first year of school I started to work for my typography teacher, Atli Hilmarsson.
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But it didn’t take me long to get bored living in Reykjavík, I had to escape Iceland, so in the summer of 2005 I moved to New York to do an internship with the design studio Karlssonwilker.
Later that year I moved to Berlin as an exchange student in the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee. After 4 months I had to move back to Reykjavík to finish the school over there. I graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in spring 2006. My graduation project was a big patchwork quilt, based on my childhood memories.
In 2006 Print magazine selected me as one of 20 brightest design stars under 30 years old. My works have been featured in many nice books and magazines, most recently in Dazed & Confused in the UK, Clark in France, Neogeo by Die Gestalten Verlag and Zoom In Zoom Out by Victionary. |
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