M A R I G R A P H Y
Biographer: Mari Grafsrønningen
Graphic design: Mari Grafsrønningen
Typography: Mari Grafsrønningen
Photography: Mari Grafsrønningen
Graph direction: Mari Grafsrønningen
Once upon a time there was this girl called Mari Grafsrønningen. Mari, in the
business most known as Marigrafen, was graduating as a graphic designer
and now she is looking for a job. Let’s get to know her a little better!
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Mari was born early in the morning a beautiful day in March together
with a twin sister.
her sister
their mum
mari
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Mari was also born with poor eyesight.Even with her glasses on, she could only see 60 %
of what people with normal eyesight could.
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But she flew around anyway and visited cities that she liked on a scale from 1 to 5.
Because of her poor eyesight poor Mari could never become a pilot.
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BACHELOR IN MEDIA DESIGN
APPRENTICE/CRAFT SERTIFI-CATE AS A TYPOGRAPHER
GRAPHIC DESIGN,WESTERDALS
With a broken pilot dream, Mari started to school herself as a graphic designer.
With seven years of education, Mari built herself a rather unique and varied résumé.
theory
practice
creativity
Bachelor in media
design
apprentice/craft certificate as a
typographer
graphic design, Westerdals
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For the first 19 years of her life Mari lived in the same house. But after starting her education she moved ... A lot.
Basement
ground floor
first floor
seccond floor
third floor
fourth floor
fift floor
looking for- Ward to move
moving is so much fun!
moving is fun But exhausting
moving is only exhausting.
so damn sick of moving
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promising her- self she Will never move again
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amount of floors in Building floor lived onmoving moodBoard
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During these years Mari got a lot of work experience. Some more relevant than other.
lottery ticket seller
1 year
length of service
2 years
3 years
4 years
café Waitress
photo shop employee
gas station staff
typographer
graphic designer
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Mari also took time for her hobbies. One of her biggest interests was,
without a doubt, interior design ...
amount of literature purchased over a period of 4 years
interior magazines books
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injustice people stealing her reserved laundry time
egoismNicolai Cleve Broch
Lottogetting a good idea
But she was also passionate about other things.
handball biathlon scratch cards home & awaymusic
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The biggest passion of them all, though, was probably
her love for chocolate.
On a scale from little to much, Mari liked chocolate
a little too much.
chocolate with air
chocolate with cookiebits
chocolate with milk
chocolate with crisp
mari ’s favourite chockolate bars
75 % favourite
100 % favourite
50 % favourite
25 % favourite
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If you now think that Mari was all about chocolate, you’re wrong.
She did like ice cream too.
favourite ice cream flavours
chocolatestraWBerry
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• table
You see, this is how much she liked salt. And this is how much she liked sugar.
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hoW much mari concidered herself
a songBird an early Bird Wise as an oWl
a loveBird a chicken
So Mari was a sugar person. But was she a bird person, too?
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Mari may not have been a typical songbird, but she sang her guilty pleasures in the shower.
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i can’t help myself – kelly family
tusen Bitar – Björn afzelius
think tWice – celine dion
Without you – mariah carey
please forgive me – Bryan adams
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The most known sound around Mari, was nevertheless the sound of laughter.
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loudness of laughter
Who laughed most of mari ’s jokes
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Besides laughter, the first thing that came to mind
when people thought about Mari, was dots. But she did like other round things too.
As you can see, Mari loved playing Lotto and other kind of games. She never
won much, though.
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Except from that time she won a car, of course. How-ever, she only won it for a
year, so it didn’t really count. Besides, it was a Smart car and not a Beetle. In Mari’s heart Beetles were the only
cars that counted.
very very much
a beetle bit
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How mucH mari l iked beetles
Speaking of counting, Mari was such a type nerd, that she had to count to ten each time
she discovered a small typographical mistake.
She could, for example, get pretty upset when she discovered a hyphen glyph where
it should have been a dash.
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dash
hyphen
upsetness
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Dashes are often used to mark a pause or break in a sentence. Well ... Mari was so afraid of pauses in con-
versations that when she met new people she could say about anything to avoid an awkward silence.
mari stranger Bullshit
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All though, of all job interviews Mari was called into, she had actually ended up getting hired in all of the cases.
Because of this, Mari was always a bit nervous before going to interviews.
mari employer
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a flexiBle graphic designer and typo-
grapher With skills also in art direction
and copyWriting
what you will get if you hire mari
chocolate after lunch
lots of laughter in
the office
So, wether you want to challenge these statistics or give Mari a
chance, give her a call.
And hopefully you will work together happily ever after.
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Mari Grafsrønningen G R A P H I C D E S I G N & A D phone: +47 971 35 741 mail: [email protected] web: www.marigraf.com