280208: We (Claudia + Hal) have been curating a part of a book called Sideways. A Smart Art Project which will be published by DGV and Smart. The book will be released on March 19th, 2008 in New York . The 248 page book features work by 100 international artists in an attempt to evaluate the way we think about the environment and mobility. More info and previews at Benzinsider, Autobloggreen and LaRepubblica. Her you can find pictures of my Smart-piece exhibited at my HBODIN Retroskeptic-exhibition November 2007. Check back for more documentation later…

The following ten international magazines curated this book: Dazed & Confused(UK), Tokion (USA), Drome (Italy), Style 100 (Germany), +81 (Japan), Blend (The Netherlands), Baby Baby Baby Magazine (Mexico), Neo2 (Spain), WAD (France) and no Magazine (Norway). Artists presented in the no-section: Blunderbuss/Ida Gullhav, Justin Bartlett, Are Mokkelbost, Ane Graff, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Marcel Leliënhof, Siri Hermansen/Claudia C. Sandor, Siren Lauvdal, mmv architects of norway and Halvor Bodin.

280208: A new issue of NO Magazine (no18) is printed. We are currently working on no19 + a new issue of Sesong Magazine (for Steen&Strøm department store in Oslo).

220108: A new issue of NO Magazine (no2 International) is being printed. We are currently working on no18.

Exhibition catalogue for Puberty at Haugar designed by Bodin.

Gunvor Nervold Antonsen exhibition opening January 24 at Galleri Åkern in Kongsberg. One of the texts in the catalogue is written by Bodin.

I am in the design jury at Sabla Bra in Kriastiansand next week and will give a lecture Friday February 2 about no Magazine & Sideways.I am also a part of the jury for Årets vakreste bøker 2008 (The National Book Design Awards, Norway).

Bjarne Melgaard exhibtion at Greene Naftali in NYC February 15 – March 15. Melgaard unleashes a “monumental”
installation of sculpture, painting, furniture, Norwegian farming antiques, and video. Adorning the surfaces of these disparate mediums is an unlikely mélange of recirculating tropes: drug references, patriarchal displacement, bestiality, dismemberment, monsters, Chihuahuas, male odalisques, and repeated phrases such as "Ben Gazzara," "snuff cubes," gay mafia." Installation video by Melgaard/Bodin.

I am working on several books, magazines, catalogues, identities and a public art project at the moment… More info later + maybe a design portolio update for 2007:-) I leave some traces of what I do on my Flickr pages, especially art projects.

091107: A new issue of NO Magazine (NO17)and Sesong Christmas (for Steen & Strøm apartment store) are printed. Design by Bodin/Sandor/Gressli.

The program for Oslo International Film Festival is released.. The dates are Nov. 15–25. Design by Bodin + Web by Håvard Gjelseth, motion graphics by Svein Kvamme, Printed program by Jonni.

Teatertreff 2007 Nov. 15–18 (design by Bodin, illustration by Hanne Martinsen)

Showbox 2007 Nov. 12–15. (design by Bodin/Sandor).

Exhibition opening for Herdis Maria Siegert: Hommage (photo exhibition) at Haugar Vestfold kunstmuseum Nov. 10. Exhibition catalogue designed by Bodin/Siegert.

An exclusive book called Bestebakken – en sanselig opplevelse is printed and is a cook book and presentation of the fantastic place called Bestebakken i Hafslo, Sognefjorden. The book is written by Anne-Karine Strøm, photographed by Esten Borgos, designed by Bodin and printed by the brilliant printers Fälth & Hessler in Sweden.

Oslo Museum opened the exhibition called Our Sacred Space
Six religions on the move. This is an exhibition about religious diversity in Norway today. The subject of the exhibition is to illustrate six religious minority communities; Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Sikhism. Exhibition catalogue (produced by Kontur Media) and some of the graphics within the exhibition designed by Bodin. The exhibition will last throughout 2009.

Some huge wall-decorations for Burton/Swag were exhibited on Alarm Awards at Sentrum Scene Oct. 28. Photography by Marcel Leliënhof, design/illustration by Bodin assisted by Anders Gressli.

Recommend reading: the book called Kva tåler så lite at det knuser når du seier namnet på det by Bjørn Sortland. Book cover by Bodin.

GRAFILL GALLERY – 08.11–30.11
HALVOR BODIN
A RETROSKEPTIC DESIGN EXHIBITION
NOVEMBER 8– 5PM – VERNISSAGE
More information (In Norwegian) here. Flickr documentation here. A notice at Newstoday yesterday… The Finnisage-party is at the last day of the exhibition: November 30. DJ/VJ Superlow, DJ Tommy Lørdahl and DJ Teipu + maybe some surpise DJ/VJ-acts…

250907 The Vortex video from 2002 with music/lyrics by Thorns is now available on You Tube. Direction, editing by Halvor Bodin. Scope graphics by Snorre Ruch.

190907: no Magazine (no15) is out (N), no16 (N) is being printed, no17 in the making and the new Sesong Magazine (Høst) (for Steen&Strøm department store in Oslo) is being printed.

I am working on several books, this year’s identity for Oslo International Film Festival (Nov. 15 to Nov. 25) and preparing a retro-sceptical graphic design solo-exhibition at Gallery Grafill in Oslo (Nov. 8. to Nov. 30.). More info later…

Martin is giving a lecture at Grafill Stavanger Sept. 20.

090807: A new book called Supersonic from DGV was released this summer. Includes my work for White Lord Jesus, Apoptygma Berzerk and Red Harvest. Plenty of nice work by other Norwegians like Martin Kvamme, Kim Hiorthøy, Grandpeople, Made, Rune Mortensen, Skin/Are Kleivan, Yokoland as well as other friends like Seldon Hunt, Form and Dirk Rudolph.

190607: Article on no International at the norway.org website, the official site in the United States. The no International web version will be published June 20. Article at KF News.

070607: no International is printed and will be released and launced in New York June 20. The launch party is at the Water Street Restaurant’s Underwater Lounge at 8 pm. DJ Problema. The NIL Yearbook is printed and will be released June 13.

230507: A new issue of no Magazine is released today. Including a new graphic design column where I review the soon to be released book Love Song by Non-Format. For those who reads Norwegian my interview with Non-Format from 2002 is still available as a free pdf in my Dezine back catalogue. We are currently working hard on the first issue of NO International that will be available in over 30 countries in late June.

110507: Several awards to Oslo Collective received in Oslo and Athens tonight.

European Design Awards, Athens: Merit in the category for Motion Graphics for Oslo International Film Festival 2006 animated ident (Svein Kvamme, Halvor Bodin),Finalist in the category for Editorial Design, Magazine Layout: No Magazine (Claudia C. Sandor and Halvor Bodin), Finalist in the category for Editorial Design, Artistic/Exhibition Catalogue: Europan 8, the Norwegian and Cypriotic Catalogue (Halvor Bodin).

Awards in Visuelt, Oslo: Silver in the catecory for Editorial Design: No Magazine (Claudia C. Sandor and Halvor Bodin), Silver in the category for Cultural Packaging: The artist book Monster Baby for Bjarne Melgaard/Marie-Louise Ekman/Malmö Konstmuseum, Silver in the category for Motion Graphics: Oslo International Film Festival 2006 animated ident (Svein Kvamme, Halvor Bodin), Diploma for the website for Oslo International Film Festival 2006 (Håvard Gjelseth/Torgeir Holm/Halvor Bodin).

Svein Kvamme received another two diplomas in the Motion Graphics category, one together with Adam Cable, Martin Kvamme received a Gold in the Open Category Design for his Burton Snowboards, a Silver in the category for Signage Systems for The Ibsen Museum and a Silver for the Robot Shop Identity. Blunderbuss received a diploma in the Poster category and our intern Emma Olsen and former intern Hanne Martinsen received one Gold, one Silver in the Illustrations Student category and one collective diploma in the Design Student category for the brilliant magazine Anno.

030507: A limited edition t-shirt series will be sold in Oslo during Visueltdagene. The project is initiated by Martin Kvamme and the Robot shop. Ten different prints made by ten different artist and limited to twenty copies (ten male, ten female). The t-shirts are made by: Are Kleivan, Blank Blank, Grandpeople, Kim Hiorthøy, Martin Kvamme, Non-Format, Rui Tenreiro, Halvor Bodin, Teipu and Yokoland. A new issue of Snitt Magazine will be released May 9th including my column Diatribe. The text will also be posted at my blog Words & Destruktion in a longer version than in print.

300407: Presentations of the speakers and their case studies that will be presented at The European Design Conference are now online. My case will be:Black Low – The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair. A banned art exhibition and other transgressions in art spaces. Presentation of collaboration on various projects with artist Bjarne Melgaard 2002–2007. One of the most recent projects to be presented will be an Extreme Metal kash® Visa credit card.

240407: The kash Visa Hove credit cardis released. The Extreme Metal Festival Edition is designed by Halvor Bodin with the official Hove drawings by Ian Stevenson, mixed with drawings by Bjarne Melgaard and some drawings by Bodin. The kash-logo is phosporescent and glows in the dark, kash/Hove collaborates with the international environmental NGO Bellona.

190407: The European Design Conference will gather speakers and participants from all over Europe and focus on communication design case studies. The 3-day conference will end in a grand finale, the awards ceremony of the ED-Awards.
Time & Place: May 9-11, 2007 Athens, Greece. Venue: Athens Art Center. Halvor Bodin (Norway) will be one of the speakers along with Mutabor (Germany), E-types (Denmark), Enric Jardi (Spain), Interbrand (UK), Darek Komorek (Poland), Ichetcar (France), Studio Fm Milano (Italy), Stockholm Design Lab (Sweden), Studio Dumbar (Netherlands), Andrey Logvin (Russia), Why not associates (UK), Beetroot (Greece), Futro (Slovenia) and Norm (Switzerland).

180407: The Rampelys theatre festival for kids/youth opens in Oslo April 19th. This year’s visual identity is done by Hanne Martinsen & Halvor Bodin at Oslo Collective. Drawings by Hanne Martinsen.

120407: #13 of no.magazine is released and #14 is in the design process. A new no-site is published and the first issue of .no international with distribution in more than 30 countries is in the making. I am Working on a project with Dachcom in Switzerland, a new NIL Yearbook, several magazines, books and publications and some music packaging. Major portfolio update is in the making, massive update on my Flickr pages: Documentation on my art projects (more to come) and plenty of snapshots of street art, sticker art and graffiti shot while travelling the last six years.

010407: Five of the fifteen films by Norwegian director duo Svend Wam & Petter Vennerød from the seventies and eighties are released in remastered versions on DVD. I worked with production on Drømmeslottet (1986), Bryllupsfesten (1989) and I was an extra in Adjø Solidaritet (1985). Avanti popolo, bandiera rossa!

240307: I am starting up a blog today called Words & Destruktion. It will include my back log of texts published in print and will be continously be updated when new texts arrive in the design magazine Snitt and other places. The blog will also contain everything else that falls into my head worth publishing. The language will be English and Norwegian.

240307: Årets vakreste bøker 2007 (The National Book Design Awards, Norway) hosted by The National Library of Norway and Grafill was held 23/3. Crispin Gurholt’s book Live Photo received a Silver award in the category for art/photography books. Design by H. Bodin and Claudia C. Sandor. Claudia also got a diploma for the book Gi oss idag in the category for facts/reference books. Martin Kvamme received a diploma for Det er bare å lukke øya in the category for children/youth books. The main award Book of the Year (Årets vakreste bok) went to Yokoland – As We Go Up We Go Down by Yokoland. Yokoland received Gold in the category for art/photography books as well. Congratulations to Yokoland!

220307: A HIV awareness campaign in form of a video competition called You Lube is launced today at Gaysir.no. Campaign identity, poster, flyers and video teaser by Halvor Bodin and Emma Olsen at Oslo Collective. Illustrations by Emma Olsen. The campaign is launced by Gay and Lesbian Health Norway and Gaysir. The song used in the teaser-video is The Faxmachine by One-Touch-Rec.

090307: ¡Hola! to the spanish design community site Promsite. Thanx and all my respect to Ritxi!

At last I have a Flickr account running. Stay tuned for plenty of previously unpublished photographs and documentation of art projects. A total rebuilding of my design portfolio is also in the process.

060307: Marius Watz is doing amazing work as always. Follow his tracks at his Flickr pages or his Unlekker site. He dropped by for a coffee at my studio and suddenly my drawings are published on Flickr:-)

060307: #12 of no.magazine is just released and #13 is in the design process. A new no-site is published and the first issue of .no international with distribution in 30 countries is in the making. Congratulations to Oslo Collectivist Martin Kvamme who recieved two prizes in Gullblyanten last Friday. Gold for the Burton Twin snowboards and diploma for the Peeping Tomartwork.

250207: The kash® VISA cards were among the nominated for The 2007 Design Award of The Federal Republic of Germany. The Design Award is the official recognition of excellence in design offered by the Federal Republic of Germany. The kash® VISA cards were unfortunately not among the winners. Only three graphic design-projects won; Volkswagen Corporate Design Essentials by MetaDesign, DB Type (exclusive system of corporate typefaces for Deutsche Bahn by SpiekermannPartners and a poster campaign Hebbel Am Ufer – HAU123 by Double Standards.

240207: New website with an extensive portfolio from Yokoland. Their UK exhibition closes today and their book was listed by Grafik Magazine as one of the best 25 graphic design works in 2006. Congratulations!

230207: Red Harvest releases their new album called A Greater Darkness tonight at Club Maiden in Oslo. Cover artwork by Halvor Bodin and photography by Marcel Leliënhof. Review: New Album from Norway's premiere Cyber/Metal masters Red Harvest: This act has taken on many shapes over the past decade, but none have emerged into the painstaking profile of Pure Industrial Metal that they now inhabit ! Battering down the walls between Alternative Art Rock and Metal mayhem, this is pure Apocalyptic Industrial Paranoia Metal – “A Greater Darkness” is a volatile sonic assault that defies all labelling... musicnonstop.co.uk.
Interview Aftenposten [N].
TV2 Nettavisen [N].
Dagbladet [N].

170207: Terrorizer Magazine issue 154, Feb. 2007 presents an Art Special with 30 favourite extreme music album sleeves. Satyricon Rebel Extravaganza, 1999, designed by Halvor Bodin with photography by Marcel leliënhof, is among the chosen few. Other selected albums are Bathory Bathory, 1984, Black Sabbath Black Sabbath, 1970, Big Black Songs About Fucking, 1987, Darkthrone Transylvanian Hunger, 1994, Kiss Destroyer, 1976, Minor Threat Minor Threat, 1981, Swans Filth, 1983, Whitehouse Mummy And Daddy, 1998. In the same issue there is an interview with Red Harvest included information on the artwork for the new album A Greater Darkness with artwork by Bodin/Leliënhof.

200107: Red Harvest will release their new album called A Greater Darkness February 23rd at Club Maiden in Oslo. Cover artwork by Halvor Bodin and photography by Marcel Leliënhof. New music related work in progress with Autofact Recordings, Lasse Marhaug, Matmos and Thorns. Editorial design in progress: New issue of no.magazine, PrinfoNytt, book covers for Unni Lindell, a photo book and some art catalogues.

061206: Snitt magazine #5/06 release on Saturday 0912, 01.30 pm at Sound of Mu in Oslo. Music by Dj Superlow. Download pdf flyer.

031206: An exhibition with Marie Louise Ekman/Bjarne Melgaard opens December 3rd at Malmö Konstmuseum. A new 144 page book is available: Monster Baby, The 11 min. video: Life Is Not This Text features Bjarne Melgaard, Gösta Ekman and Marie-Louise Ekman. Texts by Melgaard/Ekman. Footage by Hinden/Länna-Ateljarna 2003. Photography by Tomas Boman, sound by Magnus Lunell. Editing, animation, sound design and music by Halvor Bodin 2006. The exhibition closes 04/02/07.

No Magazine #11 is soon in distribution. Art Directed and designed by Claudia C. Sandor & Halvor Bodin.

281106: Showbox 28.11 – 01.12, an arena for performing arts in Norway. Arranged by Scenekunstbruket (The National Touring Network for Perfoming Arts ) and Black Box. Identity, posters, program and banners by Bodin.

211106: Opening of A weekend of Painting; a Novel by Les Super, new works by Bjarne Melgaard at Leo Koenig Inc. , New York. November 21, 2006 - January 7, 2007.

A new book fromHong Kong’s Viction:ary, Zoom In Zoom Out, includes works by Bodin as well as fellow Norwegians like Grandpeople, Made, Bleed and Toxic.

Tres Logos from DGV is also released.

Portfolio update from Martin Kvamme!

151106: The shop Pur Norsk opens Nov. 16th. Logo/visual identity in progress by Bodin. Article at Femina.no [N]. The new website for Oslo International Film Festival is online and the festival opens Nov. 16th.

081106: Oslo International Film Festival releases this year’s program. The printed program and poster are in distribution and a new website is launched any moment now. The Festival is from November 16th to 26th. Web frontend designed by Håvard Gjelseth, backend/xml by Torgeir Holm at Simian, The animated ident is by Svein Kvamme and graphic design by Bodin.

A new issue of no.magazine is being designed at the moment. The new shop Pur Norsk will be opened November 16th. The next album entitled A Greater Darkness by Red Harvest is being designed by Bodin.

A T-shirt for the Riv Muren!/Stop The Wall campaign is designed by Bodin and Svein Kvamme. Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: Tear down the wall! End the occupation! Free Palestine!

311006: EDAwards launced their website today. A new Paneuropean institution consisting of an awards scheme, a conference and an annual catalogue for the European communication design industry is born. The three events are organized by European Awards Ltd. in collaboration with twelve leading European communication design magazines.

241006: Bjarne Melgaard – Les Super exhibition opening October 28. at Galerie Guido W. Baudauch (31.10–16.12) in Berlin. Exhibition preview at the gallery website. The new limited edition novel by Bjarne Melgaard entitled My Catalan Whore will be released at the opening. Book, poster, ads designed by Bodin.

Jørgen Holen – 50 malerier exhibition at Galleri Steen opens October 28. (28.10–19.11) A new book with Jørgen Holen’s work, written by Lars Elton/Vidar Myklebust will be released at the opening. Released on Skald. Design by Bodin.

171006: New studio address: Rosenborggaten 16A, NO-0356 Oslo, Norway.

041006: A redesigned identity for Prinfo Scandinavia is in the making, a new issue of Snitt Magazine with my column Diatribe is out soon. This year’s identity for Oslo International Film Festival (16–26 November) is soon visible.

021006: no.magazine 10 is about to be printed. no10 is the second issue designed by Sandor & Bodin. The new issue of PrinfoNytt for Prinfo Scandinavia is designed by Bodin. The cover is printed with silver and CMYK overprint on the amazing woolen asphalt-colored paper by Map called Bakri. Order this issue from Prinfo in Norwegian or Swedish.

280906: 100 Norwegian Posters. Exhibition opening at Grafill Gallery Oslo, 5 PM today. The posters were exhibited at The 20th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw earlier this year. Six posters by Bodin, six by Martin Kvamme, and one we designed together are among the 100 selected Norwegian posters. My posters are: Black Low – The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair, M, 2002. Black Low – The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair, The Son of a Son, 2002. Interface to God Thorns, 2002. Interface to God The Crisco Kid, 2002. Klubb Attac Meme 2002, 2002. Anja Garbarek, Balloon Mood, 1996 (with Alexei Tylevich). Insomnia, Design vs. Music, 2005 (with Martin Kvamme). View some photographs from the opening at Teipu.net.

080906: no.magazine 09 is available today. Redesigned by Claudia C. Sandor and Halvor Bodin. no.magazine covers a diversity of articles from culture to fashion, design, entertainment, sports, travel, health & beauty.

040906: Grafik 143 reviews the typography book ‘S’ Book 3. Quote: “And guys, we have to say this – that cover is truly horrible.” :-) Grafik is more positive when it comes to the textual content than the design… This is a 168 pages book with interviews on typography. The editors and art directors are Nick/Susie Long and the project is produced by the Graphic Design Department at Southampton Solent University and published by Art Books International. The book contains 24 interviews with: Phil Baines, Ken Barber, Chris Bigg, Halvor Bodin, Catherine Dixon, Alan Dye, Erik Johan Worsøe Eriksen, Alan Fletcher, April Greiman, Richard Kindersley, Max Kisman, Alan Kitching, Rene Knip, Henrik Kubel, Robbie Mahoney, Katherine McCoy, Julian Morey, Bruno Oldani, Angela Pelzl, David Quay, Ewald Spieker, Erik Spiekermann, and Wolfgang Weingart. ‘S’ Book 3 can be ordered at Nijhof &Lee and there you can view the “truly horrible” cover…

310806: The kash® VISA cards are nominated for The 2007 Design Award of The Federal Republic of Germany. The Design Award is the official recognition of excellence in design offered by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is the central thrust in the campaign of the Federal German Ministry of Economics and Technology to promote good design.Last year 25 out of 850 projects were awarded prizes by the jury. Among the prize winners last year were BMW 6 Series Cabriolet, Porsche 911 Carrera C2/C2S, Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 Sheet fed printing press!, Bogner bamboo skies and the magazine DU. Companies cannot enter for the Design Award; instead, they are nominated by the Ministries and Senators for Trade & Industry of the German States or by the Federal Ministry of Ecomics and Technology. It is a precondition for this, however, that a product has already been awarded a national or international prize. No other Design Award sets its entrants such a strict criterion. Because of this the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany is called the "prize of prizes" by many opinion leaders in the world of design.

310806: I am happy to be a part of this excellent book project:Influences. A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design is released by DGV tomorrow, September 1st. Influences looks at who and what is influencing, provoking, inspiring and informing graphic designers’ working methods and research processes today. Two hundred of the best established and up-and-coming graphic designers around the world were asked about their influences. Their responses reveal the hidden catalysts that motivate and propel designers. The entries show the range of preparatory work and intensive research that forms the backbone of any creative project.

From Charles and Ray Eames to John Cage, teaching to yawning, money to plumbing, Braun Amplifier to the Brannock Devise, Frank Zappa to Ghandi, Gridnik to kidney stones, Charlie Chaplin to Kraftwerk – the designers’ collected answers show the influences driving contemporary graphic design practice.

Taking the form of a lexicon, this dictionary of graphic design influences and references is structured in two parts – the main part lists the responses from each designer shown alphabetically while an appendix at the end of the book includes the designers with references to their answers and biographies. The book gives detailed insight into the daily working processes of designers with short entertaining texts getting to the root of their passion and creative conviction.

Influences is created by Anja Lutz, a Berlin-based graphic designer, founder of the shift-platform and co-initiator of The Green Box and Anna Gerber, a London-based graphic designer and journalist currently teaching at Martins College of Art & Design and the London College and writing for magazines including Eye, Print and Idea.

INFLUENCES SHIFT! SPECIAL EDITION
This limited edition of 150 features original artwork by designers who participated in Influences workshops and a silkscreened bag designed by Marguerite Courtieu.


210806: The (re)design of our first issue of NO Magazine is now finished and expect No09 in the shops within two weeks. Sneak-preview of divider pages here on this page>>. No10 will be out October 10th. Some of the fashion series from 2005/2006 with Marcel Leliënhof will be featured in the book Zoom In Zoom Out from Victionary this autumn. Along with the Hallo Maybe/Cobra Killer poster and the Oslo International Film Festival-poster from 2005.

By the way: Varoom Magazine is worth a subscription. Adrian Shaugnessy is the editor and Non-Format are doing the design. I am looking forward to see the coming illustrations for Varoom done by Grandpeople.

110806: Working on redesign of NO Magazine with Claudia C. Sandor, design of Prinfo Magazine, some new projects with Bjarne Melgaard (including books), a fanzine for Soyfriends and more… A new Diatribe for Snitt Magazine is written. The book Influences to be released at DGV August 31st. Some other books soon at DGV & Victionary with contributions by Bodin…
My new public art piece on several walls at Gol High School was mounted in June. Documentation later…

220606: AFTER MUNCH
VITO ACCONCI, VANESSA BAIRD, HALVOR BODIN, LOTTE KONOW LUND, ROBERT HAWKINS, BJARNE MELGAARD, SØLVE SUNDSBØ, SNORRE YTTERSTAD, ANDY WARHOL, OUTTARA WATTS

JUNE 30TH–JULY 27, 2006
Pollock Fine Art
58a King Henry’s Rd.
Primrose Hill
London NW3 3RP
United Kingdom

“I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”
Edward Munch

Traditionally, Norwegian artists have not had the courage to establish a close relation to Edward Munch. Instead of cultivating an expressionist tradition, founded by Edward Munch, and important to artists in other countries, Norwegian artists until lately let themselves be inspired and influenced…
Per Hovdenakk

read more at www.pollockfineart.com and the Norwegian Royal Embassy website. Download the invitation as PDF here. At the exhibition I present two new drawings, format 50 x 50 cm, ink and pencil on paper. Preview my drawings here.

My new public art piece on several walls at Gol High School is now finished and will be mounted in June.

The NIL yearbook 2006 is available in selected bookstores in Oslo. The Europan 8 catalogue with The Norwegian and Cypriot E8 results is also available. Both designed by Bodin.

190506: Soyfriends is an independent publisher dedicated
to printing and distributing works of selected scandinavian and
international artists. The books which are produced by the artists and distributed by Soyfriends are not mass-distributed to chain bookshops. The fanzines produced by Soyfriends are printed in small editions of 20 to 100 copies, hand-made and numbered. Artists so far: Magnus Voll Mathiassen/ Grandpeople, Frankie Martin, Maja Sten, Rui Tenreiro. Upcoming Artists: Kristoffer Busch, Halvor Bodin, Kim Hiorthøy , Ron Regé Jr., Espen Friberg/Yokoland, Aslak Rønsen/Yokoland. Editor: Rui Tenreiro

130506: Exhibition opening Saturday 13 May 2pm at Grafill Gallery including the winners from Visuelt and Årets vakreste bøker 2006 (The National Book Design Awards, Norway). The book Hallo Maybe – Bjarne Melgaard, Halvor Bodin Deconstructions received a Gold award in the Open category and the main award Book of the Year (Årets vakreste bok). The same book received a diploma in Visuelt yesterday in the cultural cover design category. The Hallo Maybe poster recieved a gold, The signage system with RRA for the exhibition Design and Craft 1905-2005 recieved a gold, the Insomnia poster with Martin Kvamme received a diploma, Vreng #3 2005 and article-designs for NO Magazine recieved diplomas in the editorial catagory, the W139-invitations from 2005 recieved a diploma and the identity for Norwegian Gay Health Commitee recieved a diploma. The identity for the Norwegian Centennial Anniversary Norge 1905-2005 recieved a gold. This was a collaboration with Union Design. Martin Kvamme received a gold for Fantômas Suspended Animation, diplomas for the Cloroform toilet paper and for Ocean Aeolian with Svein Kvamme.

120506: Kreativt Forum is released Friday 12 May. Without my Dezine column in Kreativt Forum which is now terminated. More than 100 pages [in Norwegian] with interviews of graphic designers and comments 1999-2006 are now available as PDF or HTML at www.bodin.no. I will continue writing interviews and articles for KF from the issue after this.

Grafill’s reborn magazine Snitt is released Thursday 11 May. Includes my cover story and interview with Experimental Jetset, my column Diatribe and an Obituary on Union Design.

The book W139 – Amsterdam, Report of an Ongoing Journey is released and is available from W139. Includes all the invitation designs from 2005 by Bodin. The book is designed by Roma Publications and is published on occasion of the end of the directorship of Ann Demeester at W139.

070506: Release party for Crown Magazin at Barongsai, Oslo Thursday 11 May 9PM. The magazine is a project by Adam Billyeald and Lars Erik Oterhals. Contributions by Bodin among others…

030506: Visit Eirik Seu Stokkmo’s updated website! Brilliant design work since the 20th century…

270406: Minipigs in Space. New exhibition by Bjarne Melgaard at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna. 5 May–4 June.

270406: The 20th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw 03.06-25.09. Six posters by Bodin, six by Kvamme, and one we designed together are among the 80 selected Norwegian posters. My selcted posters are: Black Low – The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair, M, 2002. Black Low – The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair, The Son of a Son, 2002. Interface to God Thorns, 2002. Interface to God The Crisco Kid, 2002. Klubb Attac Meme 2002, 2002. Anja Garbarek, Balloon Mood, 1996. Insomnia, Design vs. Music, 2005.

210406: The book Art And Its Institutions, Edited by Nina Möntmann, for NIFCA/Black Dog Publishing is now in distribution. Design by Bodin. Art and its Institutions offers a powerful insight into the diversity of art institutions today, illuminating and analysing their relationship to artistic practice. The book includes discussions of: The advanced corporatisation of art institutions worldwide. The decline of the welfare state and its impact on art institutions across Europe. Forming and sustaining democratic art institutions that resist current political shifts. The role of the visitor or consumer in the contemporary art world.

210406: Several Ways Out 22. April – 21. May 2006. Opening 21rst of April at 7 p.m. at UKS. Artists: Ibon Aranberri (Bilbao), Julie Becker (Los Angeles), Marius Engh (Oslo), Terence Gower (New York), Gareth James (New York), Adriana Kuiper (Halifax) og Sean Snyder (Berlin) Curator: Craig Buckley (New York). Invitiation card and poster designed by Bodin.

Whether incorporated as a kind of Potemkin architecture, pictorialized as a backdrop for images, or as a quote pointing to the generalized boogeyman of modernism, one of the working hypotheses of this exhibition is that architectural tropes in contemporary artistic practice are over-freighted, to the point of exhaustion and cliché on the one hand, while being simultaneously under-scrutinized on the other. This exhibition brings together the work of several artists whose procedures address the field through deliberately indirect means. Taking on the materials, procedures, or documents related to architectural culture, their work transforms such points of departure often to the point of effacement. The process of effacement is less about masking than about drawing attention to cognitive work implied by translation. The exhibition will leave the relative opacity of these works standing, as a question particular to these artists’ processes and their own wagers. Within these layers of effacement, the exhibition looks to produce a space in order to put in question the cognitive affinities and dissonances relating these fields of work. Craig Buckley has recently curated the exhibition Adaptions at Apex Art, New York and Fredericianum Museum, Kassel. He has attended the curators-programme at Whitney School of Art, New York, and is presently a PhD candidate in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Princeton University

180406: Satyricon’s new album Now, Diabolical is released. Design by Kvamme. The video for K.I.N.G is available at the Satyricon site.

120406: My Dezine column in Kreativt Forum is now terminated. More than 100 pages [in Norwegian] with interviews of graphic designers and comments 1999-2006 are now available as PDF or HTML at www.bodin.no. A couple is still missing. I will continue writing for Kreativt Forum in another form. Dezine includes interviews with and reviews of SSR, Grand People, Soyfriends, Yokoland, Mike Mills, Neubau, Viktig, Kristin Tiller, Kari Stai, Vasava, Kristoffer Busch, Seldon Hunt, Kristin Lindberg, Bjarne Melgaard, Elisabeth Pedersen, Juan Barquero, Kåre Martens, Pdal, Lorenzo Mariani, Non-Format, Robin Snasen Rengård, Are Mokkelbost, Håkon Kornstad, Playpuppy, Martin Kvamme, Marta Magnus, Melkeveien, Anders Eiebakke, Code Rock, Gunvor Nervold Antonsen, Suyama Yuuka and more.

310306: The book Hallo Maybe – Bjarne Melgaard, Halvor Bodin Deconstructions recieved two awards at Årets vakreste bøker 2006 (The National Book Design Awards, Norway). The awards are hosted by The National Library of Norway and Grafill. Hallo Maybe received a Gold award in the Open category and the main award Selected Book of the Year (Årets utvalgte bok). My huge thanks to Bjarne, Jan Åke Petterson at Haugar Art Museum, Jørgen Molvik at Molvik grafisk and the jury! And a special thanx to a direct influence on this book: The spirit of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi and all the fantastic books in his mausoleum in Konya, Turkey. Download all the results and the Jury’s statements [N] as pdf here. 36 of 225 books were awarded and Akin Düzakin received Bokkunstprisen. You can buy Hallo Maybe in the museum store at Haugar in Tønsberg. The book will be exhibited at Galleri Grafill from May 13.

220306: My Catalan Whore – A Novel by Bjarne Melgaard is about to be printed. More info later at Galerie Guido W. Baudach Berlin. A new catalogue for Håkon Bleken is beeing printed. His exhibition opens at Haugar Art Museum April 1. The catalogue for Erling Neby’s Collection is also available from Haugar. Live Photo by Crispin Gurholt is available at Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Torpedo and other good bookstores in Oslo. All four books designed by Bodin.

Interviews with Experimental Jetset for Visuelt Magazine and with Subtle-animators SSSR for Kreativt Forum are on their way.

WLJ gig at John Dee, Oslo Friday 24 March. The new Satyricon album entitled Now, Diabolical is scheduled for european release 24 April. Design by Martin Kvamme with a little help from Bodin.

080306: The Earth and Sunn 0))) gigs in Oslo yesterday were brilliant! Sunn 0))) delivered the darkest and most uplifting gig one can imagine. Go see them if you have the chance. Check out the Southern Lord Records website and Aurora Borealis website if you want to buy good records and shirts. The Earth Amps T-shirt designed by Bodin in 2003 is still available at Aurora Borealis. Seldon Hunt is making two documentaries for the bands from the European tour February to March. Check out the preview of his ISIS documentary on his website.

070306: No Magazine #1 2006 is out, with a a Arne & Carlos fashion series photographed by Marcel Leliënhof and designed by Bodin. Skin released a new excellent website yesterday. Crispin Gurholt exhibition opening and Live Photo installation Thursday 09.03.06 at Henie-Onstad Art Centre. 152 pages Live Photo bound book designed by Bodin/Sandor available at Henie-Onstad. Earth and Sunn 0))) plays at Blå tonight. Check out my portfolio for record covers designed for Earth by Bodin in 2003.

010306: Release of Visuelt Magazine #1 06 Monday 6 March 5pm to 9pm at Sound of Mu, Markveien 58, Oslo. Music by Dj Superlow. Invitation here.

200206: The Norwegian Adbusters Magazine Vreng (issue 1-3) is exhibited at Norsk Form/DOGA in Oslo [Form of the Month] 21 February to 20 March. The three first issues, the fanzine and issue 4 willl be available for reading and can be bought in the DOGA store in the same room as the exhibition. Vreng 1-2 received Gold in editorial design in last year’s Visuelt Awards. Art critic Tommy Olsson writes a critique of the first Vreng issues in the soon to be released Visuelt Magazine #1 2006.

140206: A book called The Fundamentals of Digital Design will include works by Bodin and will be published by AVA Publishing Summer 2006. Author is Colin Davies, co-founding editor of limitedlanguage.org. Davies is now Head of the Visual Culture and Theory programme at the University of the Arts London. My Dezine column in KF Magazine is out this week and includes short reviews of Rui Tenreiro’s Soyfriends fanzines, the new Yokoland book and other DGV books…

010206: A couple of forthcoming books will include work and texts by Halvor Bodin. Influences: A lexicon of contemporary graphic design practice is a SHIFT!-collaboration by Anja Lutz and Anna Gerber and will be published by Die Gestalten Verlag in spring 2006. A book called SML will be published by Victionary in Hong Kong. Visuelt Magazine is out soon including my interview with Mike Mills and an enquete with Yokoland. Yokoland releases their new book at DGV in February. My Visuelt column Diatribe includes reviews of the publications Specialten and Zoetrope All-Story.

090106: the kash® VISA cards are released on the Danish market today. Still with the design by Halvor Bodin. The cards have the new VISA-logo. New security enhancements includes: The dove hologram is moved to the back of the card and is integrated into the magnetic stripe, enhancing Visa's multiple layers of security. The three-digit security code, known as the CVV2 code, is printed on a separate panel next to the signature panel, making it easier for consumers and merchants to read. In addition to enhanced security, the evolution of the Visa brand architecture provides more design options with more space on the front of the card to customize. Read an article online [N] at Kreativt Forum.

050106: Major 2005-design portfolio update. Ongoing projects: More books with Bjarne Melgaard for galleries in Berlin and Vienna, Books/catalogues/web for Haugar Art Musum, revitalizing the kash®-identity, The book Art And Its Institutions for NIFCA/Black Dog Publishing is almost finished, The 2006-catalogue for Europan 08, and more…

141205: The last issue of Kreativt Forum with my column Dezine is out by the end of this week including my interview with Mike Mills who visited Oslo International Film Festival in November with his feature film Thumbsucker.

051205: The credit card collection kash® VISA received the Award For Design Excellence awarded by the Norwegian Design Council. The jury’s statement is: kash® Visa is a brand of credit cards that has made trend a strategy. Graphic design is an integral part of the product, rather than being mere decoration, and the graphic expression of the cards are constantly under development. The symbols are distinctive, at the same time as the logo is strong enough to bear the identity through countless changes in appearance. variation is achieved through decoration, colors and materials, while the use of fluorescent and transparent plastic feels innovative. The cards are exhibited at Norwegian Centre for Design and Architechture December 5 to January 15 2006. And at Innovation Norway from December 12 and a large part of 2006.

111105: New books/catalogues/projects with Bjarne Melgaard this year. The exhibition HALLO MAYBE opens at Haugar in Tønsberg [N] Nov. 12. 2pm. The book Hallo Maybe (208 pages) will be released the same day. Press release here.

061105: Oslo International Film Festival November 17 to 27 has just released their program. Get the physical program magazine in Oslo, download the PDF or search all film info online.

251005: The White Lord Jesus website is released. The album is out November 14th.

171005: The new logo/identity for Norway’s largest bookstore chain Libris is released today. Design by Bodin in collaboration with Republica and Kjersti Svang Olsen.

131005: Opening of Natalie Holland’s exhibition Images From Unlived Lives at Grev Wedels plass kunsthandel today.

111005: NO Magazine #6 is out. Two illustrated photo series with Marcel Leliënhof. The exhibition Fountains Of New York with Daragh Reeves (UK/NL) opens October 21st at W139 in Amsterdam. Invitation by Bodin.

051005: New issue of Kreativt Forum/Dezine is out. Exclusive Interview with Stefan Gandl and Mikkel Due Pedersen about the new book Neubau Welt out October 19th at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Published by Die Gestalten Verlag.

041005: Capital (It Fails Us Now). UKS, Oslo, Oct 8 – Nov 6, 2005. Opening October 7 at 7 pm. With Michael Blum, Andrea Creutz, Copenhagen Free University, Maria Eichhorn, Stephan Geene, Olafur Gislason, Ashley Hunt, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Katya Sander, Fia Stina Sandlund, Jason Simon, Elin Wikström, Knut Åsdam Curated by Simon Sheikh. Produced by NIFCA in collaboration with UKS.

031005: The eminent design group from Bergen Grandpeople is featured in the October issue of Grafik Magazine with a 10 page profile and front cover design… Go buy!

280905: I am giving lectures/doing a workshop for Prinfo in Strömstad, Sweden tomorrow. The cases are kash® VISA, the new Libris identity (to be released Oct. 16th) and magazine design in general. Includes a paper inspiration session with Map.

270905: The 15th Oslo International Film Festival is 17-27 November 2005. This year’s identity is designed by Bodin. Expect news updates at the website and new visual elements soon. Svein Kvamme will join in on the animated ident etc.

190905: Generator.x is a conference and exhibition examining the current role of software and generative strategies in art and design. 23-24 Sept. at Atelier Nord, Oslo. Artistic director is Marius Watz. Be there if you can…

160905: New books/catalogues/projects with Bjarne Melgaard this year. One of the exhibitions will be at Haugar in Tønsberg, Norway Nov. 12 to Dec. 30th. Another one at Galerie Guido W. Baudach in Berlin in December. Check out his exhibition at Galleri Faurschou in Copenhagen; Fin de Copehague and the group show at Willy Wonka Inc. in Oslo: With us against reality, or against us.

060905: The new Apoptygma Berzerk album entitled You and Me Against The World is designed by Dirk Rudolph with typography by Halvor Bodin. Release date September 12th. Check some images in my design portfolio.

010905: 10th of September - 9th of October 2005.
…MIXING WITH THE SOUND OF A FOUNTAIN
a solo presentation by ORLA BARRY (IR/BE) at W139 in Amsterdam. Invitation by Bodin.
The short film Thou Shalt Not! by Natalie M. King is being screened at Los Angeles Short Film Festival and Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films in September. A new film poster, postcards and the opening titles/end titles are designed by Bodin.

290805: New work coming up: Several new books/catalogues/projects with Bjarne Melgaard, Oslo International Film Festival 05 identity, two illustrated photo series with Marcel Leliënhof for NO Magazine, Sept. issue of Dezine/KF Mag.

250805: Kvamme & Bodin are giving lectures on music vs. graphic design at the Insomnia Festival in Tromsø Friday August 26th. DJ/VJ sets by DJ Superlow. More info and sign up here! Artists like Datarock, Jaga , Mental Overdrive, Nils Petter Molvær, and Wibutee plays at the festival.

190805: Tinagent celebrating 10th anniversary today. A new video based on the Tinagent photographers photos, music by Thorns Ltd., animated by Halvor Bodin & Svein Kvamme is screened today. The music is presented in Dolby Surround 5:1 on a 7 x 5 m. screen. The Arena book is also ready…

“– I Reread The Odyssey Last Night” by Unn Fahlstrøm and Øivind Torvund opens at the UKS Gallery tonight. Exhibition catalogue designed by Bodin. Video installation with music…

120805: Satyricon are playing at Øyafestivalen. The new album is in progress and expect a new era in Satyricon visuals along with it…

130705: The premier issue of magazine Nytt Rom, New Scandinavian Rooms is out now. About the “New”, New attitudes… includes statements from Norway Says, Reiulf Ramstad, Kari Stai, Tore Borgersen, Halvor Bodin etc. Another Norwegian magazine worth reading is Utflukt. #1 2005 is the anti design issue. They made me want to dig into Canadian feminist design theory by Michelle Lepir…

010705: Working with Guri Dahl on a photographer’s book for Tinagent, a video-production for Autosock and a book cover for Aschehoug. Coming up: A music-related project initiated by Alexei Tylevich of Logan including work by Laurent Fetis, Elizabeth Arkhipoff, Halvor Bodin and others. A new public art piece for Gol High School will be mounted in August.

250605: At a latitude of 70 degrees North in Tromsø a New Bachelor of Arts programme in Graphic Design is beeing planned. Some news (N) in the local newspaper Bladet Tromsø.

210605: Martin Kvamme hits the tabloids…

200605: New issue of Dezine/KF Mag out now. New issue of Diatribe/Visuelt is about to be printed. Major design portfolio update. Just finished an architecht competition with RRA for a new Hotel. Check out updates at Products of Play and the Generator.x exhibition and conference curated by Marius Watz.

040605: New invitation for the upcoming exhibitions at W139 in Amsterdam is printed. YDV, Young Dictators’ Village, a project by Paolo Chiasera (it) and ADIEU, a project by David Maroto (nl/es). Opening 25th of June.

040605: Lecture in Bergen for Grafill/KhIB June 10th. Limited edition T-shirts and picnic/party from 7 pm to 4 am with film screening, music by dj. Steve André Skog & dj. Superlow. Download flyer here. The new website for painter Natalie Holland is online. Web-development by Manual Design and Graphic design by Bodin.

270505: Opening of Banks Violette/Thorns Ltd. exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art today. In Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Gallery, Floor 1, NYC.
The Kyss Frosken exhibition at The National Museum of Art, Architechture and Design in Oslo opens today. Tone Hansen’s work entitled Museum X includes design by Claudia C. Sandor and Halvor Bodin.
The European Design Show at Design Museum in London opens May 28th and includes work by Martin Kvamme.

240505: The NIL yearbook 05 is being printed. A video for Team Academy is finished. New KF Mag with Dezine out now. Just finished 9 photographic illustrations for UGG Australia/Radicals. Photography by Johan Wildhagen, illustration by Claudia C. Sandor & Halvor Bodin.

080505: The new 30 min. video for Helly Hansen Summer 06 collection was screened for the first time yesterday. Photography/direction by Johan Wildhagen, direction/editing/motion graphics by Halvor Bodin and music by Markus Klyve. The film includes new footage from Knut Frostad’s amazing trimaran ACADEMY.

070505: Superlow.com QBN Certified on Newstoday.com. Newstoday.com says: Born in Lillehammer, Norway 1964, Halvor Bodin lives and works in Oslo, operating from his studio Superlow. He has remained an influential force in the Norwegian design scene, active the fields of art, typography, graphic- and editorial design.

070505: In Creative Review's May 2005 issue a 'Stærk' DVD is included that showcases work from 28 Norwegian visual artists. The DVD project is covered on two pages in CR. The DVD is released by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London, curated by LIFF and is distributed to subscribers of Creative Review May 05 issue. Includes work by 28 Norwegian visual artists and designers including Halvor Bodin. The DVD's packaging was created by Non-Format while its interface was designed by Hege Aaby at Sennep.

010505: Adbusters Magazine Norway/Vreng received a gold award in Grafill’s annual competition Visuelt, in the category for editorial design. (The award was for the first two issues in 04. The third issue, out April 05, is the last issue with Art Direction by Halvor Bodin.) The Kash® credit cards won a diploma in the packaging category. Fellow Oslo Collectivist Martin Kvamme received two golds, one silver and two diplomas for his work for Fantômas, Magnet, Bertine Zetlitz and Ween.

290405: Libris and Interbok merges to form Norway’s largest book retail chain. New logo and identity is beeing designed by Halvor Bodin in collaboration with Republica. Read the article in Aftenposten.

270405: Design portfolio updated. Vreng 3 and No#5 are available. W139 presents two separate exhibitions from April 29., which by a strange coincidence are related to one another. Invisible Script (A Letter to Morel). The French guest curator François Piron (1972) has organized a group exhibition for W139, with works by the artists Boris Achour, Saädane Afif, François Curlet, Ryan Gander, Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Dora Garcia, Laurent Grasso, Marine Hugonnier and Philippe Parreno. If love was a red dress. The Dutch artist Cora Roorda van Eijsinga (1967) will be realizing a new total installation in the W139 space entitled If love was a red dress.

180405: Working on new projects for Helly Hansen and Ugg Australia. RRA Architechts won the third prize in the open European competition for the new church at Bøler, Oslo. Graphic design by Bodin.

140405: Opacity at UKS opening Friday 15th 8 PM. Pre-opening with release of the Opacity Fanzine is Thursday 14th. 8PM. Adbusters/Vreng #3 will be released the 16th 8PM at Spasibar. Flyer with info here.

040405: New Dezine/KF out soon with VIKTIG-interview. Hard at work with the NIL Yearbook 2005. NO magazine #5 out soon. Two photography series with Marcel Leliënhof (24 pages). Coming: Interview in the new magazine Nytt rom, a typography book called Sbook3. Go buy A Book Designed To Help.

120305: Design & kunsthåndverk 1905-2005.
Exhibition at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and design. Information signage/typography by Halvor Bodin. Exhibition architecture by RRA. Catalogue designed by Melkeveien.

020305:Dj Superlow plays in Oslo both March 4th and March 19th (with vj Leon from C6.org). In addition 31st March at Preus Museum in Horten.

280205: Thanks to Folkert Gorter [Superfamous] at Newstoday for listing. Design portfolio updated…

240205: Out now: 8 page-snowboard/Black Metal photo/illustration series in the current issue of NO-Magazine. Photography by Marcel Leliënhof, composition and illustration by Bodin.

150205: Interviews in Kampanje #2 05 . Coming up: Work by Superlow is included in Print Magazine European Design Annual 2005. New book project for NIFCA [Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art].

090205: A promotional coffee table DVD-box named Stærk is curated by LIFF in London and will be screened at Norwegian embassies abroad and distributed to subscribers of Creative Review etc. The aim is to raise awareness outside Norway of the high quality of contemporary Norwegian visual art and design. Stærk includes work by Sølve Sundsbø, Camilla Isene, Peter Beste, Thomas Hilland, Stian Smestad, Kim Hiorthøy, Non-Format, Thomas Brodahl, Hege Aaby, Halvor Bodin and others… Stærk is designed by Sennep and Non-Format.

310105: The kash® credit cards are released. Articles in KF, Aftenposten and Hegnar Online. The kash® website has more info. The identity for the Norwegian Centennial Anniversary Norge 1905-2005 is designed by Union Design. The logo that sticks on to everything these days is designed by Halvor Bodin and fonts by Play. The moving version of the logo is animated by Torgeir Holm.

260105: A Book Designed To Help. A team from iLoveDust in the UK dreamt up the idea of producing a book of graphic design/art/illustration to raise money to help charities deal with the tsunami crisis in Asia. DGV is producing and distributing. Go buy as soon it’s ready! Watz, Mortensen, Superlow. sent some artwork from Norway. Out in March.

260105: kash® Credit cards that make you look good… 2005 collection: Tribal Steel Series, Cashmere Series and Fresh Spirit Series. Tribal Steel comes with a logo that glows in the dark and has deeper sparkling metallics than a new Jag! Cashmere suits those with a flower budget. Fresh Spirit is refreshingly transparent like Hemingway’s favorite drink, the Mojito. More info over at IKANO, TBWA\OSLO. And in my design portfolio.

060105: The opening film at Tromsø International Film Festival January 18th. is An Enemy Of The People [En folkefiende] by Erik Skjoldbjærg [Insomnia, Prozac Nation]. The film is based on Henrik Ibsen’s play of the same name from 1882. The story has been transferred to our time – keeping the original story’s drama intact – but yet modernised on the film’s terms. Screenplay by Nicolaj Frobenius and Erik Skjoldbjærg. Graphic design for props used in the film [corporate identites, bottled water, milk cartons, TV-identities, car decorations, boards and banners] are done by Halvor Bodin. Disclaimer: I did not design the film poster and titles… Skjoldbjærg’s previous features Prozac Nation and Insomnia are screened at a special screenings the same day. By the way… I did the animated titles [2000/2001] and designed the poster [2003] for Prozac Nation. Work can be viewed in my portfolio.

060105: The short film You Shalt Not! [Du skal ikke] by Natalie King is screened before the feature The Grudge [Forbannelsen] at Colloseum 2 in Oslo from January 7th. Graphic design and animated titles for You Shalt Not! by Halvor Bodin.

020105: I have just started the work with 2005-invitations and printed material for W139. W139 is a combined work/exhibition space for contemporary art in the centre of Amsterdam. It was founded in 1979 by a group of young artists who wanted to present an alternative to what was shown by the city’s museums and commercial galleries at the time, which they felt to be too uniform. In the course of 25 years, W139 has developed from an anti-establishment laboratorium into a professional non-institutional platform for art. Today W139 operates parallel to, rather than in opposition with the more established venues. W139 provides ‘room for risk’, fulfilling a unique role in the Dutch art world.

020105: The SEA-EAT blog (South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami) provides news and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts.

151204: I will participate in an exhibition called Salong 100, a Scandinavian hugescale-salon for two-dimensional fine art. The project is a one-time happening and will take place in a 600 square meters large hall in Heimdalsgt. 4 in Oslo. The Salong exhibition runs from Dec. 17th to 19th 2004. Flyer with more info and names on all the participants here.

031204: John Balance of COIL [and Psychic TV, 23 Skidoo, Current 93] was in an accident (which occured at home) on Nov 13th 2004. Despite the best efforts of the emergency services he did not regain consciousness, and died later that day. More info at Threshold House and at David Tibet’s website. I did not know it then, but I will never forget last Friday, playing my dj-set on the top-floor of a building in Oslo when the snow was falling down heavy, I included the songs Amethyst Deceivers, The Snow and Hellraiser Theme. I am glad my other musical hero Marc Almond is recovering after his motorcycle accident.

291104: A new Spanish book called Around Europe Logos is published by Index Book. Includes work by Bård Hole Standal, Kvad, Modest. Bebe, Commando Group, Sandor and Bodin. Around Europe Logos is distributed in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Do not forget the book Dos Logos from Die Gestalten Verlag. Includes plenty of logos designed by Marta Magnus, Martin Kvamme, Eirik Seu Stokkmo and Halvor Bodin. If you don‘t know what to wish for christmas go buy the bible of Camouflage, DPM [Disruptive Pattern Material] by Maharishi/Hardy Blechmann. It is the most insane coffee table book in the world…

271104: My altar piece in Ullerål kirke in the town of Hønefoss is mounted. The Church will open November 28th. 2004. The materials I use are laser etched stainless steel and the newest state-of-the-art bright blue light emitting diodes [LED]. Articles in newspapers today: Ringerikes Blad and Vårt Land.

201104: Oslo Kunsthall resides in the space with the greatest views of Oslo on Friday 26. November at 7 PM! On the 19th floor of Økern Center Oslo Kunsthall wishes to mark the beginning
of its infiltration in Groruddalen. Knut Åsdam will show his work Scenes 1. Statements by the artists Ane Hjort Guttu and Marianne Heier and the director of Oslo City Council’s Development Committee Ola Elvestun. Halvor Bodin alias DJ Superlow will play «records». Beer. How to get there: Subway to Tøyen Station, change for bus 5 for subway. Stops outside Økern Center.

151104: Major designportfolio update. Documentation from a video installation summer 2004 for Helly Hansen is now online. It was originally produced for a 3-channel screening with 9 projectors. Photography by Johan Wildhagen, music by Marcus Klyve and motion/editing by Halvor Bodin. If you want to see what the Oslo Film Festival poster looked like ten years ago have a peak :-) A lot of old record covers are digged out of my archives…

131104: Bjarne Melgaard exhibition at Galleri Lars Bohmann in Stockholm opens today (Nov. 13th to Dec. 19th). Don’t miss it if you are in Stockholm! More information at the Bohmann website and interviews in Aftenposten and Dagens Nyheter. My gratulations to Bjarne and… cyan and magenta never looked this good…

121104: Gardar Eide Einarsson’s exhibition Come And Take It at UKS Gallery in Oslo opens November 20th. Seminar with Peio Aguirre, Leira Vergara, Craig Buckley and Tone Hansen December 3rd. More info at the UKS site.

111104: Go buy the November issue of Grafik. Includes front cover and a ten page profile on Kim Hiorthøy. Oslo International Film Festival opens Nov. 18th. with Margreth Olin’s new Dogumentar Ungdommens råskap including music, design and cinematography by Kim.

031104: I presented a proposal for a puplic art project at the Glomdal Museum today. It is a closed competition for the new Romany people exhibition pavillion. Go visit the two Norwegian Romany people websites: RFL & LOR. My altar piece for Ullerål Church in Hønefoss is now in the production stage and will be ready for the opening November 28th. I am also working on a new project for Gol High School. Kreativt Forum November is printed and includes my regular column Dezine with information on Vasava Artwork’s project Place. The last two issues (October & November) of Dezine are now online in PDF format.

011104: Thanks to DesignTaxi for listing my as the site of today Nov. 1st. Actually… I used to be a cabdriver… My thanks also to Latierrasemueve™. My design portfolio is updated. Thanks to Surfstation and Thomas Brodahl for linking me…

271004: Visuelt Magazine issue 05.04 is out. Includes my regular column Diatribe. A new issue of Fjords Magazine is released. Includes new articles from the contemporary Norwegian art scene by Fjords Art Editor and fellow Oslo Collectivist Claudia C. Sandor. She presents new work by Simen Johan, Marte Aas, Hans Hamin Rasmussen and Ane Hjort Guttu.

261004: Maria Arredondo’s new album Not Going Under will be released by Universal Music Nov. 8th. Cover designed by Claudia C. Sandor and H. Bodin.

261004: Issue 2 of Adbusters Norway’s magazine Vreng is sent to the printers today. Release party together with Kontur Nov. 3rd. at Verkstedet, Hausmannsgate 29, Oslo. Bands: Lover’s Lane and Magnus Moriarty. The doors open at 6PM. Vreng 2 includes work by Jonathan Barnbrook, Seldon Hunt, Yokoland, Sebastian Ludvigsen, Kristoffer Busch, Thomas Shostok, Swoon, John Erik Riley, Lotion, Superflex, Jacob Kermit, Bar Moskva, Adam Leonard Cable and others. Designed by H. Bodin.

131004: Check out Logan’s new website. Impressive new work by Alexei Tylevich and Ben Conrad. The new iPod/U2-movie Vertigo among other goodies.

061004: KF magazine Oct. 04 is printed. This issue of Dezine presents Kristoffer Busch. The November issue will be a presentation/interview with Spanish design studio Vasava. I had a short visit to their studio in Barcelona recently and they move to new offices soon, have a brand new website up now and will release their excellent book project called Place in November.

061004: Photographer Marcel Leliënhof and Florence Nicaise releases the book Volume 1. Design by Bodin. Volume 1 is a visual document of some women that Florence encountered through work and play, or simply passing through the streets of London.

061004: Aschehoug releases the book Saynab. Cover designed by Bodin and photography by Jan Alsaker/Observatoriet. Interview with Saynab Mohamud here.

030904: Dezine [N] September presents the Australian designer/illustrator/writer Seldon Hunt.

020904: Newly commisioned to do another piece at Gol High School. My last work there was finished in 2002.

020904: RRA won the closed competition for the new Science Building in Kautokeino. I worked as a design consultant for the competition project. My thanks to Guri Dahl!

310804: Selected for the Office for Contemporary Art (OCA) study archive. My new updated art portfolio is available in the archive now.

310804: Work by Bodin will be included in the book Dos Logos. Out in October 2004 on Die Gestalten Verlag.

240804: Natalie M. King interviewed in Aftenposten (N)

200804: Natalie M. King is awarded the DVD compilation Unfolding by NFI/Film & Kino as the talent of the year for 2004. Design by Bodin.

120804: The book SONIC, Visuals for Music includes my work for Earth, Satyricon, Thorns/Thorns Ltd. and Melgaard. Articles (N) in Ballade, KF and Propaganda.

110804: Pollock Fine Art, gallery representing Halvor Bodin in the UK.

160604: Premiere on a video installation (9 projectors) for a Helly Hansen fashion show with Johan Wildhagen. Opening video by Graham Wood/Tomato.

090604: The identity for the Norwegian Centennial Anniversary Norge 1905-2005 is designed by Union Design. Logo by Halvor Bodin and fonts by Play.

090604: Interview with Johnny Hardstaff is published in the June issue of Visuelt Magazine. [N]. In addition: My regular column Diatribe.

160404: New Satyricon website up now!

010404: Vortex is one of the most voted music videos [#18 of 78] on Norwegian National TV station, NRK's metal show, SVISJ.

070104: Oslo Collective established. Four designers, one studio space. Adam Leonard Cable, Claudia C. Sandor, Martin Kvamme and Halvor Bodin.

021203: Article in IDEA Magazine [Jp] December issue on Scandinavian graphic design history. Incl. Halvor Bodin.