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Friday 25th was the 15th edition of the Visuelt Awards. It is considered the most important award for graphic design and illustration in Norway. I am happy to say that I got two nominations and a silver. Also Scandinavian Design Group got several nominations and a couple of golds. All in all a great night. I would also like to congratulate all the others who got awards for their great work. Next stop Stockholm.
Update: slideshow of the winners on the Visuelt pages and Dagbladet
Day two was also great with Fred Deakin and Nat Hunter from Airside, Erik Kessels from KesselsKramer, Kjell Ekhorn from Non-Format and Adam Burke from Pixar. The animated movie Peter and the Wolf was shown in Roberto Bagatti’s slot, and while I would have preferred Roberto, the movie was a great piece of animation. All in all a great couple of days. I was asked to name a favourite from the lectures by someone, but I must say that it’s really hard as it was a really good program.
First day of Visuelt 08 is over. The lectures were great, as was the Visuelt Screening curated by Rune Spaans and Franck Aubry. The first lecture was by Jonathan Harris, giving some insight into his various projects. Next up was Arnt from Øyafestivalen. He talked about the festival’s focus on environment and how they’d always focused on design. I actually managed to come in late and miss the part where he talked about me and the era when I did the design for them, but I’ve been told he said nice things. Maira Kalman, who I’d already seen at the AIGA Next conference in Denver last October, was great once again. She has an incredible humour and wit, and such great work. Check out one of her speeches at Ted. Finally Rick Poynor offered some words of wisdom. I wish they’d put him on a little earlier when the energy level was higher though. Tomorrow looks great too, even though my friend and ex-colleague from MTV Roberto Bagatti had to cancel.
Ringnes’ summer beer is back in the stores again. When I designed it last year, I thought it’d be a one off for that season, but I’m happy to see it back on the Norwegian shelves again this year. Skjærgårdspils is also back as usual.
Being a reader and fan of Shift since the 90s, I couln’t resist submitting when they announced a competition to make the new logo. A total of 485 works were submitted from 40 different countries. While mine didn’t make it to the top, I’m honored to be among the nominees.
See the winner and the full list of selected entries here.