Siggi Eggertsson

Site overview by Siggi Eggertsson:

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.

Share your thoughts about Siggi Eggertsson (RSS)