Management · Design · Research · Communication
Finding the space between ideas and reality.
Hello, and welcome to my playground. I'm passionate about developing partnerships and doing market research at Bilendi. Previously I worked in partnership development for Communico and was a research assistant at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), working on STEM education and science communication.
My portfolio spans scientific papers, workshops, logos, posters, pamphlets, and web work - some of it showcased below.
A free web tool that turns addresses and place names into GPS coordinates. Search one location or upload a CSV/TSV list for bulk geocoding, then export the results as TSV. Built on OpenStreetMap data.
Try GPSed - address to GPS coordinates
A free label maker for coin albums. Set the grid and square sizes in millimetres, fill each cell with text or an image, and download a printable PDF or JPG. Available in English and Danish.
Try Mint & Moolah - coin album labels
Poster for the LabSTEM conference at the University of Southern Denmark. LabSTEM (2020-2022, funded by Novo Nordisk Fonden and Region Syddanmark) worked on better maths and science teaching. The 2020 conference was cancelled, but the poster lived on in a digital version for the 2021 online event.
About LabSTEM at SDU
Website, layouts, and poster for the 2020 Math Filmfestival, where pupils in grades 8-10 from Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein made maths films. Part of the Danish-German Interreg project MatKult.
Visit MatOnline
Website, layouts, and poster for the first Math Filmfestival in 2019 - a cross-border film competition for pupils, run by the Interreg MatKult project.
Visit MatOnline
Layout design and editorial work for this Danish children's book about H.C. Ørsted by Claus Michelsen and Eline-Rebecca Michelsen Steffensen - 22 illustrated episodes from Ørsted's life, published by SDU in 2019 and followed by a companion volume for adults in 2020.
H.C. Ørsted i børnehøjde at SDU
A peer-reviewed article (2019) on fandom through the lens of LEGO fans and the LEGO Ideas platform - how co-creation, nostalgia and multiple fandoms meet when fans pitch products to a brand. Co-written with Gry Høngsmark Knudsen and Lukas Johannes Blaser.
Read Playing with Fandom in MedieKultur
Editor, writer, and layout designer for MatOnline - an online maths magazine in Danish and German, first published in 2019 as part of the Interreg Deutschland-Danmark project MatKult.
Read MatOnline
Logo and design system for the children's science book series - used across the H.C. Ørsted publications.
Logo and identity for the Academy of Consumer Culture, Equitability and Sustainability Studies. A key as a metaphor for access to knowledge, with green for sustainability. ACCESS never materialized into a project.
A fun speculative packaging concept for Warfair, inspired by a James Hoffmann video about the rare Coffea Stenophylla bean.
View the Warfair Coffee folder (PDF)
Official website for the former European Commissioner for Climate Action - now on its 3rd revision, built as a pure HTML/CSS/JS grid-based site.
Visit ConnieHedegaard.com
A bilingual (Danish/German) web page for the 2021/22 Mathfilm festival, part of the Interreg MatKult project.
Visit the Mathfilm Festival siteI'm Michael Fabrin Hjort, and I work at the intersection of design, research, and communication. Currently at Bilendi, where I focus on partnership development and market research.
Before that: partnership development for Communico, an educational role-play game developer, and research assistant in the LSUL group at the University of Southern Denmark's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. There I worked on STEM education research in LabSTEM, the Danish-German Interreg project MatKult, and the children's book series Science i børnehøjde.
Outside of work I'm involved in side projects - including the development of ConnieHedegaard.com and small free web tools like GPSed, a bulk address-to-coordinates converter, and Mint & Moolah, a coin album label maker. Coffee deep dives, football, and the occasional bike ride also tend to sneak in.
Have a project in mind, a question, or just want to connect? Find me on any of the platforms below.