THEO OLESEN

Theo Olesen is a designer in San Francisco. Contact him via email or follow him on Instagram.

RECENT WORK
Beautiful Swear Words
A Tumblr showcasing an ongoing series of hand-drawn typographic profanities – combining truth, beauty, art, and lulz.
Beautiful Swear Words Beautiful Swear Words
I draw each Beautiful Swear Word by hand with black ink, blue pencil, and white-out on paper. Then I scan them in to Photoshop for color.
Bollocks Process Bollocks Finished
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim aired a commercial about Beautiful Swear Words last year. The site was also featured by Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Swiss Miss, The Bay Citizen, etc. etc. etc. (etc.)
Beautiful Swear Words T-Shirts
Perfect christmas gifts for open-minded pottymouths.
Shiiiiirt
Model: Nayan Ghosh.
Shiiiiirt
All the shirts are sold out right now. I'm gonna make more soon.
Crap T-Shirt
Models: Dorothy Ajayi & Paulie Lowther.
Crap T-Shirt
Skateboard decks, too.
Skateboard Skateboard
PilgrimSurfSupply.com
Website for Brooklyn's Pilgrim Surf + Supply.
Pilgrim Surf + Supply Website Pilgrim Surf + Supply Website
HunterGatherer.net
Updated website design for NYC’s finest design & production studio, HunterGatherer. Based on an earlier HunterGatherer site. Hand-coded with Wordpress, mobile-friendly, safe for work. Designed with Todd St. John/HunterGatherer.
HunterGatherer.net HunterGatherer.net
ToddStJohn.com
Updated website design for Todd St. John. Designed with Todd St. John / HunterGatherer.
ToddStJohn.com ToddStJohn.com
McSweeney's – The Hens
Design, typography, and illustration for the cover of a Roddy Doyle short story for the McSweeney’s iOS App. The story was about neighbors comically and violently stealing one another’s hens, so I drew the cover to look like hens had just been snatched off the screen. Art Director: Walter Green.
The Hens by Roddy Doyle The Hens by Roddy Doyle
INSPIRATIONS
Tibor Kalman
Earl Sweatshirt
Frank Dunphy
Jonathan Ive
Herb Lubalin
Kanye West
René Magritte
Yves Klein
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
OBSESSIONS
Serifs
Swimming
Color-coding
RAW Magazine
This Video
This Meme
This Song
Pop
Culture