Ny bok fra en av gründerne innen grafisk design i Norge, Leif Frimann Anisdahl. Han har svennebrev som typograf og etter studier ved Den grafiske Højskole i København arbeidet han som grafisk formgiver i Gutenberghus i København, Penguin Books i London og Gyldendal i Oslo. Anisdahl har arbeidet innen alle aspekter av fagområdet: Kommunikasjonsdesign, logotyper, alfabeter, kalligrafi, navnetrekk, bøker, frimerker, pengesedler, emballasjer og helhetlige visuelle profileringer. Anisdahl har skrevet boken Refleks som handler om design og samfunnet, i tillegg en nyttig liten håndbok til potensielle oppdragsgivere om hva design og en designprosess er. Begge er utsolgte. I 2008 kom boken Logotype som viser et utvalg av logotyper, alfabeter, frimerker og emballasjer han har stått bak. Nå i disse dager er han igjen aktuell med boken Om form og budskap. Med denne boken har han skrevet en ny glimrende bok med troverdig innhold om design. Som han sier selv: Denne boken er ingen lærebok og henvender seg derfor ikke til noen spesielle målgrupper. Den er mer beregnet på alle som er interessert i design i en eller annen sammenheng, som er glad i typografi og bokstaver, opptatt av former og farger, har sans for materaler, godt håndverk og som er mer enn vanlig opptatt av formgivning og kunstneriske uttrykk.

Boken Om form og budskap sammen med hans forrige bok Logotype kan bestilles hos 07.
Pris 500,- ved kjøp av begge bøkene. Ved enkeltbestilling koster Om form og budskap kr 350,- og Logotype kr 230,-

Foruten Anisdahl sine tekster og egen design presenterer boken arbeider av blant andre Bruno Oldani, Kai Gjelseth, Norway Says, Snøhetta,  Egil Haraldsen, Scandinavian Design Group, Strømme Throndsen Design,  Haltenbanken, Blæst og Halvor Bodin (ボーNATの折り紙ポスター).

VJ reconstructions for various tracks by Sprutbass, Rustie and Dorian Concept performed at DO IT! gigs at The Villa/Øyanatt (Oslo) 13 August 2010 and Revolver (Oslo) 16 December 2010.

Selected frames from live animations can be found on Flickr. (More to come). This is an exploration of the use of sound response and live motion generation to make still images.

20th Oslo International Film Festival 18–28 November 2010.

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100×70 oiffsetposter. Edition 1000. Verso/Recto CMYK. Recto/Verso Pantone 803 (Fluorescent pigment) in edition of 500 and Pantone 806 (Fluorescent pigment) in edition of 500. Design by Halvor Bodin, 4d by Svein Kvamme.

The CMYK side consists of fragments of ALL the posters from 1991–2010 (designed by Aina Griffin, Halvor Bodin, Geir Henriksen, Kjell Ekhorn, Torbjørn Ljunggren and Sigurd Kristiansen.)

View the whole project in my Portfolio.

There is also a series of OIFF2010 posters for digital printing. Edition 480. Every item is unique and represents 20 years as 480 frames in a possible animation.

Documentation photos from the NAT exhibition at 3331 Arts Chiyoda. A part of Tokyo Graphic Passport 2010.
Exhibitors from Norway: Bleed, Halvor Bodin, Node Oslo, Your Friends, Sletten & Østvold, Bendik Kaltenborn and Kristian Hammerstad.
The NAT exhibition consist of 7 different two-side A1 posters, one by each participant, available for free for the visitors.

23–29 September 2010, 12 pm–07 pm

Photos from Ami Semba/Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo

From Sweden: Stockholm Design Lab.

View my poster ボーNATの折り紙ポスター in my portfolio.

Supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo and Norsk Form/The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

This A1 appendix-poster to the ボーNATの折り紙ポスター is made to be an explanation to all the text on the K side of the poster. All the information on the printed poster is represented here (ボーNATのポスターQRコード®バージョン) in QR Code. You can use a QR Code reader on your iPhone and read the text both in English and Japanese right off the screen. If you need a printable and scalable vector A1 file as pdf you will find hidden somewhere in this image both the url and the password needed to download and open the pdf. This can be printed as a poster or used for reading the smallest codes. Stop the slideshow by clicking on the image (QR Codes are readable in all directions). I recommend the excellent mobile barcode reader for iPhone called QuickMark. Be sure to buy the correct version for iOS 4 or IOS 3. This app reads a lot of other barcodes as well which can be useful for scanning books and other objects. Other devices and readers can also be used of course. The free QRReader also works fine.

A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with camera, and smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.

Common in Japan, where it was created by Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994, the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. QR is the initialism of Quick Response, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. Although initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, QR Codes are now used in a much broader context, including both commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications aimed at mobile phone users (known as mobile tagging).

Since I am a happy Toyota owner myself this is my homage to the King of Japanese Inventors Sakichi Toyoda (豊田 佐吉).

Data Matrix is a similar US system. In 1989 they left out of its specs Kanji symbols and that makes the system useless in Japan. The US Department of Defense has selected Data Matrix for the mandatory unique identification of certain assets it procures for all of the services. Items from individual weapons to critical components of major systems must be permanently marked with a unique data matrix code in accordance with standards in Military Standard 130. With a mobile device that scans Data Matrix code you can find out what missile that hits you… Chances are that the missiles and ammunition that kills you most effectively are made in Norway. Norway is The World’s seventh largest exporter of arms and ammunitions. Compared to the population Norway is the World’s largest exporter of arms and ammunition. A large and fast growing part of the exported Norwegian arms are bought by NATO and NATO partner United States.

In the Kingdom of Norway the one-eyed are blind…

Japan currently bans almost all weapons exports, except for special cases such as those relating to the joint development of a missile defence system with the United States.

“Japan should consider relaxing its ban on arms exports so defense companies can participate in international projects”, a special advisory panel to Prime Minister Naoto Kan said August 2010. The report says there is no need “for the time being” to amend the three nonnuclear principles of not possessing, producing or introducing nuclear weapons into Japan.

Japan, along with the United States, is one of only two Group of Eight rich countries that retain capital punishment. It currently has 107 inmates on death row. Executions are carried out by hanging. Although death sentences for minors (defined in Japan as those under age 20) are rare, those who commit capital crimes at age 18 or 19 may be legally sentenced to death. The death penalty is broadly supported by the Japanese public – a 1999 government survey found that 79.3 percent of the public supported it. In 34 polls taken between 1953 and 1999, support for the death penalty has never dropped below 50 percent. At a 2003 trial, a Tokyo prosecutor presented the court a petition with 76.000 signatures as part of his case for a death sentence.

l’existence précède l’essence

Larger image formats available in my portfolio.

A1 two-sided poster for the exhibition NAT during Tokyo Graphic Passport 23–29 September 2010. Participating in the exhibition are Bleed, Halvor Bodin, Node Oslo, Your Friends, Sletten & Østvold, Bendik Kaltenborn and Kristian Hammerstad. The exhibition consist of 7 different two-side A1 posters, one by each participant, available for free for the visitors.

My poster: ボーNATの折り紙ポスター is printed in K (ブラック) on one side and CMY (シアン、マゼンタ、イエロー) on the other. The poster contains my own functional (but kind of non-figurative) origami designs made in the software Treemaker 5 by Robert J. Lang. The text on the black side is in Japanese only and represents fragmented thought-sketches for my cancelled lecture performed in a poster format. Thanks to Google Translate/Analytics. I just have to say ごめん、東京に旅行をキャンセルしてしまった。

9月23日から一週間にわたり開催されるイベント「Tokyo Graphic Passport 2010」 で、ノルウェーのグラフィック・デザイナーとイラストレーターがプレゼンテーションと展示を行ないます。Bleed, NODE, Your Friendsなど、日本でもお馴染みのデザイナー/クリエイターが来日します。

Bleed and Node Oslo will speak at the event. I was supposed to give a talk but had to cancel the trip because of 他のプロジェクト. Node Oslo stepped in for me. Bleed will hold workshops and the rest of the Norwegians will present in the portfolio program.

Supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo and Norsk Form/The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Showbox 2010. 30 November–3 December on Black Box and other venues in Oslo

The National Touring Network for the Performing Arts (NTNPA) is a national promotion system for the performing arts. The system facilitates tours of stage productions, thereby offering them to a wider public, with emphasis on children and young people.

The Showbox 2010 logo designed by Halvor Bodin is ready. Posters, banners, booklets, flyers and new website will appear later. The colour scheme changes every year, the logo is based on a slowly changing isometric stage box and the same typography. This year’s logo and colour scheme is a homage to the Steve Jobs’ NeXT Computer and  NeXTcube and the fantastic NeXT logo designed by Paul Rand.

With a new look and editorial approach, Los Logos: Compass remains the authoritative reference on contemporary logo design. Like its predecessors, Los Logos: Compass offers a definitive overview of current developments and advancements in logo design — the creative discipline that shapes the identities of brands, companies, and individuals.

Comprised of 404 pages, and in a larger format than used in the past, Los Logos: Compass offers a rich, high-quality selection of up-to-the-minute logos that readers have come to expect. But the focus of the publication has been further sharpened from a comprehensive documentation to a competent classification of prevailing tendencies in design. In addition to illustrating the various co-existing design approaches and trends that are shaping logo design today, and will continue to influence it in the coming years, the book showcases outstanding work by noted designers in short text features.

Los Logos: Compass aims to be not only an archive of current design, but to educate designers and clients about which approaches make the best fit for a given project independent of the latest trends. This issue is especially important in a challenging economy in which innovation and identity are essential.

This fifth edition in the Los Logos series is not only a source of inspiration and an authoritative reference manual, but also a valuable compass that shows that every design problem is a variety of creative opportunities in disguise.

Publisher: Gestalten
Editors: R. Klanten, A. Mollard
Language: English
Price: € 39,90 / $ 60,00 / £ 37,50
Format: 21 x 26 cm
Features: 404 pages, full color, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-320-8

Release: Continental Europe: early September
UK, Asia and Australia/NZ: mid September
North America: late September
Latin America: late September

Halvor Bodin is one of the many designers presenting logos in this book. As well as in Dos Logos, Tres Logos and Los Logos 4.

De nominerte til Norsk Forms pris til unge formgivere 2010 er interaksjonsdesigner Erik Bolstad, industridesigner Daniel Rybakken og arkitektene Erlend Blakstad Haffner og Håkon Matre Aasarød fra Fantastic Norway. Prisen deles ut på DogA 2. september.

Hvert år deler Norsk Form ut pris til unge formgivere. Prisen gis til utøvere som viser særlig talent innenfor sitt fag. En bærekraftig tilnærming til materialbruk, bruksområder og gjenvinning blir vektlagt når kandidatene vurderes.

I år er det interaksjonsdesigner Erik Bolstad, industridesigner Daniel Rybakken eller gründerne bak Fantastic Norway Arkitekter, Erlend Blakstad Haffner og Håkon Matre Aasarød, som kan stikke av med den gjeveste prisen. Prisen deles ut av Norsk Forms jury. Vinneren får 100 000 kroner, mens to nominerte får 20 000 kroner.

Prisfest
Vinneren avsløres under Norsk Forms prisfest 2. september kl. 19.00 på DogA. Der deles også Jacob-prisen og Hedersprisen ut.

Halvor Bodin er som i de foregående to år ett av medlemmene i juryen.