Think.
Think
again.
Design.
An ongoing visual notebook
What do you see when you stop…
– long enough to look twice?
Journeyman is a visual notebook. Most of it is photographs made in the hours when the light is about to change: fog settling over a harbour, a red house in the snow, the sea going quiet at the end of the day.
Lately the notebook has grown new pages. With AI I make images of places no camera can reach: astronauts lost in mushroom forests, airships over ruined cities, faces that never existed. They begin where the photographs stop, with the same eye for mood and light. And with a 3D printer, some of the ideas become things you can hold.
The name comes from the old craft tradition of the journeyman, who travels from place to place and learns by doing. There is no grand expedition here. Just the habit of paying attention, of trying new tools, and of coming back to look again.
Photographs
123 pictures
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Sea and Light
15 photographs
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Fog and Night
18 photographs
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Snow and Silence
23 photographs
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Field and Feather
14 photographs
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Seed and Spiral
15 photographs
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Faces and Friends
18 portraits
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Form and Space
20 photographs
AI and 3D
Fog and Night
The world goes soft
Streetlights blur, harbours disappear, and red signals are all that is left of the street.
See Fog and Night
Selected works
01 / 06
Look. Look again.
About
Thorbjørn Haarup Laursen
Graphic designer and UX specialist, based in Aarhus. For more than 35 years I have worked with brands, identities, websites and apps. I began with an apprenticeship at Time Graphic, went on as art director at Kanitech, and have since worked in my own studios: Ersgard & Laursen, Creative Geist and Aarhus Reklamebureau. The motto has stayed the same the whole way: think, think again, design.
Along the way I have worked for clients such as Heineken, Dynaudio, DALI, Trek, the National Museum of Denmark, SPOT Festival and The Animation Workshop.
Photography has run alongside the design work since 1999, for years on Instagram, now here. Lately it has been joined by images made with AI and objects from a 3D printer. Journeyman is where it all settles down: fewer pictures, shown larger, with room to breathe.
- Based in
- Aarhus, Denmark
- Practice
- Brand, web and UX design
- Designing since
- 1989
- Photographing since
- 1999
Latest
From the camera roll
Contact
Write to me
Questions, commissions, or just a hello. And if a picture or a figure stays with you, you can have it on your wall or your shelf.
- Fine art prints
- Photographs and AI images from the site, printed on art paper, up to A2 where the picture allows.
- 3D prints
- Figures and objects up to 25 × 25 × 25 cm.