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.

My new project portfolio is at halvorbodin.com running on the Cargo platform and network. This is now my main site and deconstructure.com will continue to be my personal blog and evolve into something more over time. My archive of graphic design and art projects will be presented at halvorbodin.com and updated frequently.

Cargo is a web publishing (CMS) and community-building platform currently in development. It powers communities in creative fields including Education, Design, Research, and Conceptual Art. For examples, visit the Featured Websites page. Cargo evolved out of the system that runs the SpaceCollective community. The devlopers found it remarkably successful and efficient in creating visual content on the web, placing a strong emphasis on design, layout, image quality and typography. Their goal is to dramatically increase the accessibility and exposure of creative individuals on the Internet, while aspiring to build a networked context that will contribute to the culture as a whole.

TASCHEN, OLIVER PAYNE & NICK RELPH
The book called Taschen was made for Oliver Payne & Nick Relph exhibitions at The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo (opened 24 January 2004) and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (opened 18 January 2004). Texts by Andrea Kroksnes, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Sune Nordgren and Susanne Pagé. Hardcover, 126 pages, color, format: 21 x 26 cm, ISBN 3-936646-50-3. Designed by Halvor Bodin & the artists during a week in Oslo, 2004. Buy the book online at Kerber Verlag. View a complete presentation of the book here.

15 min. film for the 10 year anniversary-party for Tinagent in 2005. Tinagent is Norway’s first agency for still photographers. Ten Diadems is directed, animated, edited by Halvor Bodin. Additional animation by Svein Kvamme. Music by Thorns Ltd. Originally screened with Dolby Surround 5.1. The imagery is based on still images from the Tinagent photographers, also used in the anniversary book called Arena 2005, by Guri Dahl, with text by Kjell Askildsen, book design by Halvor Bodin & Guri Dahl. The photographers were at the time Lisa Westgaard, Pål Rødahl, Marcel Leliënhof, Pål Laukli, Guri Dahl, Knut Bry, Sigve Aspelund and Evy Andersen.