Iceland through a designer’s eye

Inspiration from a solo trip abroad

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) changed my life. Or more like changed what I wanted my life to be because I was fourteen years old when I watched it.

I was twenty-four years old when I took this solo trip. Some highlights included:

• Learning to pronounce Þ and ð and Eyjafjallajökull

• Meeting a new friend for the day and sharing a plate of artisan cheese at a geothermal tomato farm

• A surprise tour of the Snaefellsnes Peninsula that I booked the day before because my other plans got cancelled, which ended up being the gem of the trip

• Climbing basalt columns at a black sand beach and then walking around in awe at the geology-inspired architecture of the Harpa in Reykjavik

Here are a few of the many things around Iceland that caught my eye.

Just surreal

These carvings at Djúpalónssandur

Rainbow earth at Kerið Crater

I bought this jacket for this trip just because of the color

Hand-painted signage that made me walk across a parking lot

Basalt doing it’s thing

Genius

Tomato gradient

If you know, you know

Moments that tell a story

I’ll be going back some day.

-Anna