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An illustration of a person wearing a collared shirt. Their face is obscured by distorted, dripping lines that blur their features.

Stine Belden Røed is flying the flag for lo-fi illustration

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Date
24 May 2012

It doesn’t happen often, but in the candid words of Kylie Minogue, it was love at first sight. As soon as I saw the terrifyingly vacant, buck-toothed stare of the woman in the image below, my heart melted. Then, after the initial and compulsory click and drag, I looked into the rest of Stine Belden Røed’s work and found the rest of it a little less weird, but definitely amazing. It’s always good to see someone clinging on to the pencil for dear life and flying the flag for those of us who still believe that a gig poster needs to be no more than a sweet drawing and some slapdash collage.

A charcoal drawing of a person’s head and neck against a plain white background. They have wide, blank eyes and dark, defined lips.
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Stine Belden Røed: Sketches

A poster for a Mount Eerie performance featuring a charcoal drawing of abstract, dark shapes and scribbled lines over a grainy landscape. The top reads “Mount Eerie” in a handwritten script, while the bottom adds “+ No kids”. Event details on the right list the venue as “landmark” on “16. april” at “kl. 21.00”.
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Stine Belden Røed: Mount Eerie + No Kids

A movie poster for the film “Kano” shows a person lying down with their eyes open. A detailed drawing of a face is laid over their chest and arm.
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Stine Belden Røed: Poster for the indiefilm Kano by Paul Tunge

An illustration for a poster reads “THE HIDDEN CAMERAS (CAN)”. A pair of legs in green trousers and trainers extends from the right edge of the frame. Red and black abstract shapes and scribbles are scattered across the white background.
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Stine Belden Røed: The Hidden Cameras

A colourful collage poster on a purple background features the name “Shugo Tokumaru” in large, multi-coloured letters. A central vertical stack consists of a brown cone, a grey stone and a green textured shape. Handwritten text reads “9. juli landmark” and “jp”, alongside a support act listed as “Soda Fountain Rag”.
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Stine Belden Røed: Shugo Tokumaru

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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