Dream Weavers
Author of this post: Johanna Lenander | About Blog Authors »
Image from Trollbäck designer Paul Schlacter’s short film.
When I was in second grade, my teacher once asked the class what our favorite activities were. Most of us came up with typical 8-year-old answers like playing, drawing or eating ice cream, but my best friend Ulle replied “sleeping”. I remember being completely befuddled by this. Sleeping was a state of nothing. How could that be her favorite thing to do? Now I realize that Ulle was just ahead of her time. With every passing year, I treasure sleep more and more. Now it is without question my favorite thing to do. And, to my great dismay, it also seems to be something I do less and less.
It appears I’m not alone in this. During this past year, I have discovered that many of my friends have the same anxious yearning for more sleep that I do. We may have different reasons for staying awake -some of us have small children, some of us have stressful jobs and some of us have no jobs- but we all seem to wake up sometime between 3-5 am and worry about everything from global warming to what color to paint the bathroom.
However, the design team at NY-based ad agency Trollbäck + Co. http://www.trollback.com/#/work/ has inspired us all by taking their sleepless thoughts and turning them into something beautiful. In a series of seven short movies http://www.trollback.com/Sleep.mov, each designer has created a visually stunning, slightly surreal and very personal illustration of their thoughts before going to sleep. The styles are as different as the thoughts that are being depicted. The movies may not help you go back to sleep on a restless night, but they will at least inspire you to do something creative with your wakeful hours.
