Hi!

I'm a graphic design student in Berlin with a passion for travel and design. My dream is to find a way to combine freedom, creativity, and travel. Looking for a job that combines these elements, I decided to try something completely different. After a few failed job interviews, I asked myself why can I not be my own employer. So I sat down with a pen in my hand and tried to draw a "business model".

This is the story of how I found out that it is quite difficult to draw a business model when you have no idea what a business model even is :) But I heard this term so many times that I knew I could not be serious if I did not have something like this. After an hour of YouTube on "What is a business model and how to create one" I gave up. It was too complicated. But a few weeks later I took a class on design processes and creativity, and our teacher gave us the assignment to create a map. The assignment was pretty open-ended, we could have come up with all sorts of ideas, but I wanted to design a map on the theme of travel. I enjoyed the process so much that I worked on this map for a fortnight straight and when my product was finished I fell in love with the whole process. I knew immediately that making maps and finding hidden travel gems is my thing.

In the summer of 2022, I received a scholarship to study in southeastern Norway. There I lived in a small village, in a student dormitory near the mountains. The spectacular view of the fjords with the ever-flowing rivers cutting through the mountains showed me that there was something special about slowing down and realizing the complexity of simple things. Slowly, I began to meet people like me who were ready to discover more. It was not long before I met small communities of international people in search of the beauty of the unknown. Soon the following days became a mixture of university courses and days by the sea, surfing, hiking, and evening stories around the campfire. We did not have much, an old car, a tent, sharing only one pan, an outdoor shower, or borrowing hiking boots (hoping they would fit), but our hearts were full and each day was filled with friendship and laughter. That was the moment I understood that more people should find and experience these little moments.

So I started photographing and documenting the places where you can find beautiful and welcoming communities, friends, fun, and people like us. I did not need a business plan anymore, I knew exactly what to do. So this is how the idea of Remote-Camps was born because you can be far away and remote, but still more at home than ever before.

I started with a database of surf spots, especially those that are really remote but worth seeing. The idea for the logo came to me shortly afterward when I drew this sign in the sand with a stick one night and I had the feeling that it was exactly what I was looking for.

When I looked at the small database I had for Norway, I decided to make a map that could be used in a practical way - a towel (coming soon). I hope that with this map people can find places more easily and discover the joy and complexity of simple things.