Janne Harju

It’s been a while since I posted anything here. Now it’s time to catch up.

Here’s some illustrations I have done for Anna magazine during last months.

First one is about worst midsummer memories. Midsummer is a big party time here in Finland and many people spend it with family and relatives, usually in the countryside. This woman had to go to sauna with the whole family of his new boyfriend, naked of course.

Second one is about the woman who speaks nice even though she has just divorced her unfaithful husbend.

Third one is about borrowing money from friends and possibly losing them because not paying back on time.

Fourth one is about importance of daydreaming.

Illustration about tooth whitening techniques. Client, Hyvä Terveys -magazine (~Good Healt), asked something with bunny or beaver. I used John William Waterhouse’s painting Echo and Narcissus as a starting point for this picture of narcissistic beaver.

I just found these typeface designs from my archives of unfinished projects. I don’t think they are anything super-special, but not too bad either. I would like to see them as a real font, I’m just too busy to go on with them.

Would you like to make them real? If yes, please contact me by email: janne at thissitesdomain, or use contact form . They need some letter design (mostly caps and numbers) and fontifying work, maybe even more.
I’m not too picky, but since these things need some design work I would like to see things you have already done (typefaces, illustrations or something else).
I can’t pay you. But if we deside to sell the fonts somewhere I’m happy to go with 50/50. My Name and Your Name as designers.

About fonts:

Gummi: Soft, candy-like typeface. In the picture there’s also a cornered version (those are the only letters I have drawn of it).
Spaze58: Could be used in some technical context, like sci-fi movie’s computer screen.
Zitadel: Basicly a version of Szpaze58, but has some elements in it that could make a different font. I think this needs more design work than other two.

All the letters are combined (with some modification) from some kind of modules.
Modules, and some different versions are in the file.
Most of the lower case letters are ready, but can be modified and or redrawn.
All caps have to be designed. And numbers in Gummi and Zitadel.
Freehand-files. I can copy-paste them to illustrator i you want.
I’m not sure if I have time to help, but I want to have a last word in the design.

I hope somebody gets interested.

You’ll sleep better if you’re prepared for bad financial situation.

People have different roles and strategies in Social networks.

Seller shows these new shoes to a consumer and tells about modifying possibilities. People start to talk about the shoes, and planning their own creations. Sales go sky-high!

Illustration about old friend who now don’t have many things in common. Other friend has stayed about same, other has changed.

This is an illustration for an invitation to the Summer Party of the Finnish Illustrators Association (Kuvittajat ry). Little birds are queuing to jump off from the branch, which is curved to form a word “juhla” (Party).

Times are not good and it seems to reflect on subjects of my assignments too. These two illustrations are for Anna magazine, two diffrent issues but same series. Both are quite sad stories. In death of a friend -picture (above) I tried to catch the feeling of fading memories. In brother’s illness -picture (below) I used tied hands to represent feeling of not being able to do anything to help.

I just did these two recession themed illustrations for two different magazines. Both stories are about avoiding personal recession. I decided to use similar colors and technique to make a little series on the theme. I used a little blurring to create feeling of movement.

First one is for ladies’ magazine Anna and second is for Asukas, magazine for customers of a housing company.