Well, time sure has a tendency to pass when you’re busy, and this blog has suffered from it. I keep promising myself that I’m goig to update my website and blog regularly, and instead I just spend the nights making tracks and remixes as Pelifics.

Friday April 23, I’ll be playing live at Blå in Oslo, as a part of Klubb Jolly. Earl McNorth from King Midaswill be accompanying me on keys, while Halvor Bodin will be vj-ing. Also on the same night, the great Telephones will play his first live set. Checkout the Facebook event, and be sure to make it if you are in Oslo that night.

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

A little report from the talk I gave in Zürich at the ED-Conference. The ED-Conference, part of the European Design Festival 2009 which also includes the ED-Awards. The festival started with lectures on Friday, May 15 and ended with the award ceremony on Sunday, May 17. My talk was the first on Sunday, at 10:30 AM, and I talked about two projects, Oslo Triennale 2007 and the brand new line of Ringnes beers that will be out very shortly. As far as I can tell, the talk was well received, and although I was preoccupied beforehand, it was actually great fun. After the talk I was interviewed on stage for 15 minutes by host Sandra Planeta. Overall a very nice experience.

As I was mostly concerned with preparing my own presentation, I didn’t get a chance to see all the other speakers, but I was told that most were very good. The ones I did see, confirmed this. I managed to see Alex Trochut, BVD, Koeweiden Postma, Niklaus Troxler, Synopsis and The Designers Republic, and they were all very inspirational.

At the award show, my friends Are Kleivan, Bleed and Halvor Bodin all collected awards, and I also met several interesting people. They filmed all the talks, so perhaps they will be put online eventually. Here’s my introduction page on the ED-Conference website.

Photos (mostly meaningless stuff) from the week end in Zürich can be found on my flickr page

I’m proud to be one of the people judging the ‘55dsl Logo Remix‘ organized by 55dsl and Cut & Paste. The rest of the jury consists of the very talented people Jayson Atienza, Justin Fox, Charles “Emit” Krausz, Carlos “Mare139” Rodriguez, Carlos Segura, Vasava and 55dsl’s creative director Andrea Rosso.

More info about the competition and how to enter can be found here.

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.

Thursday October 9th I’m giving a talk at the Design+Music event initiated by Tank. Design+Music is a part of the Insomnia festival in Tromsø. Yokoland who, made the poster for the event, are also speaking.

Previous speakers are  Martin Kvamme, Halvor Bodin, Marius Watz, Grandpeople, Kjell Ekhorn (Non Format) and Håkon Kornstad. More info here

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

Pelifics on Untz Untz Records (Bergen)

Pelifics on Smuglesning #1

Pelifics on Smuglesning #2

Pelifics on Oh heavenly Dog

Pelifics on Trashbags Kids

and of course you can find info on myspace and facebook too.

Wolda (previously Eulda) is the Worldwide Logo Design Annual, and I’m happy to have two logos selected for the annual.

This is what they write.

From almost 1,100 excellent entries from all over the world, our unique three-tier jury has selected192 logos (174 professionals + 18 designed by students) to be published in the ‘08 annual. Here are the overall winners for both Wolda professional and Wolda Talent: link

Pelifics, my musical project, is featured on the Valerie blog. I’m a huge fan of all the artists in the Valerie collective, so it’s an honour to be featured on their blog. In the post, there’s a track that can be downloaded for free, as well as mix I did for the occasion. Go there, download and put it on you iPod. And make sure you also check out the other artists while you’re there.

Check it out: Pelifics on Valerie