For those of you living in Trondheim, we’ve been assigned to design small poster prints with the date 25/09/2010. You will have to wait to know what it is about, but sign up on the website to be the first to know.
Played with chalk with my daughter and her friends yesterday. They wrote their names. I wrote:
One of the Cmykkel girls and her boyfriend, art dude and musician Tore Reisch, made an alphabet of pine a while back. Tore made a piece of art with it. Nice. I´ve been a Reisch fan since I first saw a painting by him, on a wall in Stallmesterveien in Trondheim back in ‘99. Cool to se local people play with type!
helloVARSKO! is history. The event was so smooth. People enjoyed the day from A to Z. VARSKO!, Kreativt Forum Trondheim and Grafill Trøndelag, helped us to unfold an amazing happening. Two great and inspiring talks from one of our favorite sweeds Robert Lindström from North Kingdom and Spanish designers Alex Trochut & Marta Cerdà.
Aasmund and Alex preparing the equipment. Soon the magic begins.
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The helloVARSKO! posters have landed. Ah, beautiful. What a line up! It´s designed by the magical CMNCTN. The backside is designed by the spanish wonder Alex Trochut for helloVARSKO! The poster is printed at Fagtrykk and the very cool people at Arctic Paper is responseble for the lovely paper.
Holy Cow! Interactive Art Director and Co-founder of North Kingdom, Robert Lindstöm, aka Designchapel, is coming to helloVARSKO!.
A few days ago we booked the last band for our event. We were suppose to revile the name of the band next monday, but we can´t wait. We´re to eager to tell you about our beautiful booking. The Trondheim located, Binary pop playing band, The Last Ninja is the pixel-topping on the cake.
The Last Ninja is a band who makes their music with, among other things, old Nintendo machines. They are fast. They are visual. The rumor on the street tells us that they will bring some really sweet graphics to raise their show to a higher level. An unlocked level. We hope you have a secret extra life, because this is going to be a toll for your dancing shoes.
While you wait, see this music video ten times in a row.
Become a fan of The Last Ninja on FaceBook.
helloVARSKO! gets better for each day. Yay!
We already look forward to July 3rd, no doubt about that, but now we are so pleased with our plans for the day that we want to fast forward and have fun now! Not only are we screening Typeface, and getting a visit from one of the very best designers in Europe. No, no. That is not enough for us. We want you people to dance. So we have booked three marvelous artists whom will finish up our fantastic day.
CAPTAIN CREDIBLE is pleasing our ears/eyes with his computer generated crazy music show. While you wait take a look on his site and enjoy this video of him from Pstereo 08
MARGARET BERGER is also coming to sprinkle sweetness over us at Byscenen on July 3rd. We so are looking forward to seeing Margaret do her thing and taking helloVARSKO! to the next level. (Bonus info: helloVARSKO! is all about typography and designer Joakim Jansson custom typography for each page in the booklet of Margaret Bergers album, Pretty Scary Silver Fairy. This we like.) Check out this and rehearse on your super groovy dance floor moves.
last but not least mr NILS BECH is joining the party and brings his friend BENDIK GISKE. So helloVARSKO! is going contemporary up in this. NILS says it best on his MySpace: “Nils Bech is a classically trained singer with a focus on performative aspects. An integral part of the Norwegian art, fashion, and music scene, he has taken part in exhibitions of contemporary art in New York, Miami, Milan, Zürich, Basel, Berlin,Cologne, London, Vienna and Oslo, as well as performances at the Norwegian Opera House and the National Theater.” And now he is making us look good. Our guess is that your dancing shoes will be worn out, and that you´ll learn a few new dancing moves while your at it. Enjoy Nils live at Øya 09:
helloVARSKO! -> it´s getting better and better and better.
A graphic design student at NKF named Gunn Helene, is eagerly looking forward to hearing Alex Trochut talk about his work on July 3rd. So much that the teaser design he made for helloVARSKO! is now pimping her desktop. She sent it to us. Smart. You, Gunn Helene, will get a helloVARSKO! prize.
This we like.
(If you got any helloVARSKO! material (in any way), send it to us (staale@varsko.org). Perhaps we have a prize for you.)
Oh, yes. You better believe it. It is true. HelloTypo™ and friends delivers again. We have been so lucky that the Spanish wonder, mr Alex Trochut, have decided to pay us a visit. 3rd of july he and his talented girlfriend (and coworker) Marta Cerdà Alimbau are taking the podium and going to do a show&tell. We are so pleased that Alex and Marta is taking the trip up to the capitol of mustaches, Trondheim, to do a talk and drink Dahls with us. So in addition to the Typeface screening we now give you two sweet lecture holders. Lucky you!
Alex even made a teaser design for us.
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As we´ve stated earlier, we are collaborating with the design festival VARSKO! to make the sweetest typographical event known to mankind come to life in Trondheim. The city of our heart. Now we can release the first name on our beautiful list. We´re proud to announce that we, on the 3rd of july, are screening the award winning documentary Typeface. We have blogged about the movie before, but now we give you the Norwegian premiere. Typeface, by Justine Nagan, is a a documentary on American typography and graphic design. Read more here.
Enjoy the trailer:
On the 3rd of July VARSKO! will be hosting an event at Byscenen, Trondheim that will blow your mind. VARSKO! and HelloTypo™ merges to create a mix of graphic design and typography. We will collaborate with Grafill Trøndelag and Kreativt Forum Trondheim to make it extra awesome. Book the date in your calendar, tell your friends and stay tuned for news coming your way!
A graffiti writer in Trondheim apparently hates typography for some reason.
We did a thing with KF-Trondheim last weekend. Now they´ve posted a bunch of photos from the event. Check it out por favor.
I stole a few pics:
Ståle (me) talking about us (HelloTypo™).
People doing some lettering with markers (part of the HelloTypo™ show)
Detail.
Aasmund (one of the HelloTypo™ founders) doing his VJ show with no hands.
After yesterdays talk, I found my self bold enough to post an old type sketch of mine. This was made for a project we had couple of years ago. Think it was early 2007. The sketch was suppose to be, if it worked out (witch it did not), the heading for the famous UREDD calendar. Anyhow, here is my sketch:
Stuff I used: clay, pencil & photoshop.
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TTC (Trondheim Type Club) started out in 2008 by Aasmund Hegglid and Trond Aslak Øvrum. The idea was made in 2007 as something we missed in our town. A breeding place for type-fanatics.
We are now a group of people with relations to the design/advertising industry in Trondheim, Norway.
We all have passion and love for typography, and want to share our ideas, inspirations and knowledge with everyone. Kern or die!
Some of our favourites for your pleasure
