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Hi. My name is Siggi Eggertsson. I'm an illustrator. I like to draw portraits, animals and landscapes, but I also make other things. I like to create 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 (R.I.P.), 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. 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.

Early 2007 I moved to London to focus on my illustration career and signed with the wonderful Big Active agency. I stayed in London for 1.5 year, or until I realized that London wasn't really the city I wanted to live in. From there I moved to Tálknafjordur, a small (population: 200) town in the Westfjords of Iceland, where I spent the summer, working and thinking about my next steps.

Now I have moved back to Berlin, and I'm quite sure that this is the city where my heart lies.


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)
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


If You Could (group)
Now Showing (group)
Sjonlist 2008 (group)
Körfuboltamyndir (solo)
Show Off (group)
100 Pieces of Havana (group)
Facelift (group)
London Open City (group)
Athletes (solo)
Pretending (solo)
LHI Graduation Show (group)
Forest Lava Ice (group)



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

London, England
Barcelona, Spain
Akureyri, Iceland
Akureyri, Iceland
London, England
London, England
London, England
London, England
Barcelona, Spain
Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik, Iceland
Rovaniemi, Finland

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2006
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2003

Awards, recognitions, nominations & things

Sjónlist 2008
2008, nominated in the
Design category.

Print's New Visual Artists
2006, one of 20 designers under 30 years old.

DV Cultural Prize
2008, nominated in the
Design category.

IMARK
2005, nominated for my Zoot Woman poster.

Some people that I've
worked for


12 Tónar
Arctic Paper
Atlantic — Gnarls Barkley
Blender Magazine
British Ministry of Defense
Brummell Magazine
Coca Cola
Design for London


Dorling Kindersley
Dose Magazine
Dwell
ESPN Magazine
Fiction — Delays
H&M Divided
Iceland Airwaves
Institutional Investor


John Brown Group
The Living Art Museum
Microsoft Zune
Mulberry
The New York Times
Nike
Print Magazine
Red Bulletin

The Reykjavik Grapevine
Sequences
Stoðir Invest
Stüssy
Urban Outfitters
Wallpaper*
Walrus Magazine
Wired Magazine