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Powered By Nature, exhibition at DOGA

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The Powered By Nature exhibition, held last year in Berlin is now being shown in Oslo at DOGA. The exhibition aims to show Norwegian design inspired by nature. In addition to some (old school) stuff by me and Scandinavian Design Group, the exhibition features the following designers and companies:

Yokoland, Bleed, Neue, Martin Kvamme, Toxic, Marius Watz, The Culture Front, Bruno Oldani Design, Grandpeople, Kolonien,Sukker Design, Fasett, Craft by Lene, Blæst Design, Miksmaster, Commando Group, Enzo Finger Design, Mission.

More info on DOGA’s pages.

Opening tomorrow, June 3 at 19:00 at DOGA, Hausmanns gate 16, Oslo

Talk at Palografen, Bergen

I’m giving a talk organized by Grafill Bergen at Palografen in Bergen tomorrow, thursday 16th og October. It starts at 17:00 and the address is Strandgaten 9.

Listing on Facebook and Underskog.

Off to Bergen

Lots of stuff happening at the same time. I’m off to Bergen again to give a two week course in logotype design at KHiB – Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Last year was great fun and very useful learning. I’m hoping this year will be equally good.

 

Pelifics on more blogs

After the Valerie posting, Untz Untz, Smuglesning,  and Trashbags Kids have features Pelifics as well. Here are the links:

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Eurobest jury

I am proud to announce that I was selected to be a part of the first Design jury in the prestigeous Eurobest competition. More info will follow in the press and on the Eurobest homepage. The deadline to submit to the competition is 26th of September 2008.

Kampanje has posted a story on the three Norwegians juding in the various categories (in Norwegian).

New album from Xploding Plastix

Xploding Plastix just released Treated Timber Resists Rot on Beatservice. Run out and buy it, and not because I made the cover, but because it’s a great album.

I know Platekompaniet has physical copies.

ED-Conference, Sthlm

Diogo and I are in Stockholm for the ED-conference. The program looks promising and I’m really looking forward to it.

Silver and two nominations at the Visuelt 08 Awards

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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

Visuelt 08, day 2

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.

Visuelt 08, day 1

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.

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