Welcome to Oranse

Oranse.net is my personal weblog containing articles of my own art, in illustrations or photographs, or other design-related. I am Chris Helenius, a media student and part-time graphic designer and photomanipulator from Finland.

31 Jan


Alternate symbols

Inspired by the article Realism in interface design [via], I started to contemplate on our symbols we are very familiar with, but rarely are aware of their origins. Of course, they…

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20 Dec


Emergent movies

In a very odd and strange dream I saw last night, I came upon a thought inside the dream of a movie, that would have a “dynamic” plot. In other…

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19 Nov


This is not a wallpaper meme

Participating to a Livejournal wallpaper meme with my previous wallpapers, as far back as I can remember, chronologically backwards. (free for taking, I’m feeling generous)

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31 Oct


Necrochemistry

My new lamp <3

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19 Oct


Shaken and disturbed

This time I’ll repost some old photos I’ve been meaning to show for years.

These were shot in my hometown, Sotunki, in the woods of eastern Vantaa. I was walking home…

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28 Sep


The China Effect: Part 2

Continuing on the second part of my creative journal from my trip beyond The Great Firewall of China,
I came to notice on several occasions on our cartrips that the locals…

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20 Sep


The China Effect: Part 1

This time I’ll post some pictures I came up with on my trip to China last month. In the abstinence …

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18 Jun


Caffeine

Worshiping my favourite drug.

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31 May


Adsads 2

I think I’ll continue with this series. There are so many logos to analyze, so many ads to insult.
This time I want to admire OP’s (Osuuspankki) new ads’ simplicity and play on words. [...]

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23 May


Zapper

A new t-shirt design. I hope I’m actually able to print these someday..
All thanks to Reintji who shot the original.

Source: [1]

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11 May


Adsads

I’m taking the liberty to write a more ranty post, so this doesn’t include any works of my own. I’m just so frustrated at three images used in advertising/promotion that…

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03 May


Salmisaarenranta

Went on a small trip with Anssi and Maffe, a Dyxumer, who came on a visit to Finland. We made a short trip from Kamppi to Ruoholahti and Salmisaari’s new…

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04 Apr


Rikki

A concept for a t-shirt print.

Rikki is both broken (slang for depressed, stressed) and sulfur in Finnish. A practice in self-irony.

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31 Mar


Thorns

On one of the first sunny days of winter, at the beginning of February, I decided to poke my head and lens out of my apartment and worship the then-weird…

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