Welcome to the portfolio and design blog of freelance graphic designer Martin Widholm.
Welcome! I have just finished my new look website using WordPress. I have customized it using css and included my own flash banner (click on the words in the banner… addictive).
The aim of this website is to showcase the best of the best graphic design websites and resources that the world wide web has to offer as well as showcasing my own work. If you’re a designer and you’re interested in getting some design inspiration from some of the best graphic design and web development websites out there then check out my graphic design links…
I also aim to offer the largest free resource of downloadable packaging die-lines on the web. This will obviously take a long time so please be patient and check back regularly for updates. I plan to have some packaging die-lines to download on this site soon.
Cheers,
Marty.
1965
Martin Widholm is born on the longest day of the year in Stockholm, Sweden.
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. Cigarette advertising is banned on British television. Bob Dylan elicits controversy among folk purists by “going electric” at the Newport Folk Festival.
1967
Martin discovers his love of art by finger painting the entire living room using his dads oil paints.
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas. The first colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2 in UK on certain programmes. H-Day in Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
1969
Martin moves to Sydney Australia with his parents. It takes 3 days flying on a Qantas DC10.
Project Apollo: The Eagle lands on the lunar surface. The world watches in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the Moon. The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. The pilot episode of The Brady Bunch airs on United States TV.
1971
Martin takes a year off art studies to cultivate his love of food by sticking anything he can get his hands on into his mouth.
The White Album is released by The Beatles. Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol as he enters his studio, wounding him. The movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is released in theaters. The four billionth baby is born.
1973
Martin gets his first surfboard… a Kentucky Fried Chicken Foam surfboard given away with any Bucket of Chicken purchase. A life changing episode in the young soon to be surfers life.
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock’s landmark albums, is released. The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work.
1975
Martin goes surfing and that’s about it. In his spare time he draws silly cartoons and surfing pictures.
Color television transmissions begin in Australia. The “Summer Blockbuster” film Jaws is released. The rock group Queen releases the album A Night at the Opera. Victoria (Australia) abolishes capital punishment.
1977
Martin gets in trouble at school for drawing pictures all over his school books.
Fleetwood Mac’s Grammy-winning album Rumours is released. Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time. The first Apple II computers go on sale. Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack excaberated by drug problems.
1979
Martin spends all his time down at the beach eating Chico Rolls, drinking Chocolate Milk and surfing. He doesn’t wear shoes for several years.
Michael Jackson releases his first breakthrough album Off The Wall. China becomes the first nation in the world to register 1 billion people in its population.
1981
Martin enrols in the School of Visual Arts in Sydney where he discovers girls and spends most of his teen years awkwardly chasing them.
The Wheel of Fortune TV show premiers in Australia on the Seven Network. Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales. Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Worcestershire, UK, begins an uncontrollable series of sneezes that end Sept 16, 1983 - after 978 days.
1983
Martin gets his first car, a Holden Station Wagon and spends the next 2 years surfing up and down the coast while picking bananas and designing and printing T-shirts for a living.
Bob Hawke is elected Prime Minister of Australia. Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system. Six men walk underwater across the Sydney Harbor - 82.9 km in 48 hours.
1985
Martin gets his first graphic design job at Scribbles Art and Design Studio in North Sydney where he designs his first Album Cover “Smash Hits of the Seventies”.
Hey Hey It’s Saturday moves to 6:30pm Saturdays. New South Wales win their first Rugby League State of Origin series. Michael Jackson purchases the publishing rights for most of the Beatles’ music for US$47 million.
1987 - Present
After 2 years traveling the world including a 7 day trip from Asia to Europe on the Trans Siberian railway and visiting no less than 20 countries Martin comes back to Australia to settle down and works in several advertising agencies in Sydney cultivating his skills in traditional media including Airbrushing, Finished Art, Illustration and Art Direction. Martin worked as Studio Manager and Art Director at Graphic Associates before starting his own business in 1997. He is still passionate about everything design and has never looked back since the purchase of his first Apple Mac…
Martin has a wife and 2 kids and lives on the northern beaches of Sydney Australia.
…and is always struggling to pay the mortgage.
