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Originally from Bergen, Norway, Thomas moved to Luxembourg when he was 10. There he attended the American International School until his graduation in 1996. He then spent a brief stint at the University of Virginia where he took a 2 hour course in HTML 3. This spawned his interest for webdesign, and when he returned to Luxembourg, he started up his own design studio.

In March of 2000 he approached Yohan Gingras and German Olaya to start an online design magazine. Surfstation.lu was born. Since its inception in May 2000, the magazine has steadily grown in popularity and is today an established part of the online design community.

Thomas then left Luxembourg for London and spent two years working as a freelance designer/illustrator. In 2002, Thomas started Stolenshirts, an independent tshirt label based on his illustrations. Having tired of London, Thomas moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to start Stolen Inc. with his long-time collaborator Jessey Cinis.

He spends most of his time in front of the computer trying to make pretty things for clients. When he gets a chance to get away, he can normally be found playing basketball somewhere on the westside.

He is currently working on a new line of Stolenshirts, as well as the new Surfstation which will hopefully launch sometime before 2009.