by 2x4, New York.  it is what it is by 2x4 Inc.

I must get this book since 2x4 has been one of my favorite studios since university and i feel that they had quite influence on the kind of designer i am today.

Tenfinger. is a Brussels-based studio for graphic and spatial design. 
At the intersection of graphic conception, architecture and visual technology, we conceive and create highly communicative environments.

Addressing ourselves to businesses, arts institutions and cultural organisations, we as Tenfinger stand for balanced and layered realisations that match the precise and multi-faceted demands of each client.

"There are many women designers who deserve to be recognised for their immense contributions to the field of graphic design, but few so deserving as Jacqueline Casey (1927-91). "

this link was ripped from the new eye´s blog ;)

Objectified is a documentary about industrial design; it’s about the manufactured objects we surround ourselves with, and the people who make them. On an average day, each of us uses hundreds of objects. (Don’t believe it? Start counting: alarm clock, light switch, faucet, shampoo bottle, toothbrush, razor…) Who makes all these things, and why do they look and feel the way they do? All of these objects are “designed,” but how can good design make them, and our lives, better?

Back in 2001 Craig Giffen created a website called humanclock.com. Since the Human Clock website represented time with pictures, he figured he could predictably milk the idea with slower-moving units of time — calendar dates. Sadly however, the calendar remained neglected until now

Words fail!

NORWEGIAN COLLECTION OF POTENTIAL ARCHITECTURE is an online collection of the half-baked, the promising, the raw and the invisible architecture; Projects that miscarried, went over the top, were turned down by clients or for other reasons never became realised.

The idea was to create a database of this collective knowledge, designed as a user-generated web platform with continuously added projects. A statistical representation and survey of the collection will provide insight into this undisclosed realm.

LICHTWERK is a public art project, transforming the recently redesigned IBM building in the heart of Vienna during the evening hours into a computer controlled light sculpture.

Here it goes...

Here's the 5 reasons,"Why would a typeface designer want to give a font away?

1. To make a selfless gift to humanity.
2. To raise global awareness of typographic excellence.
3. To create a visual resource that will be used by students, citizens, amateurs, and professionals all over the world.
4. To contribute to a global design vocabulary.
5. To seed the world with a visual idea that could be built on and enriched by other designers serving smaller linguistic communities."

The annual Graphic Design seminar and competition by Grafill, a norwegian Association of Graphic Design and Illustration member of Icograda, just happen last week with a great program including talks from Adrian Shaughnessy, Rinzen Steve & Rilla Alexander, Sami Kortemäki (Underware), Rick Webb (Barbarian Group), Geneviève Gauckler, Mateus de Pula Santos (Lobo), among others.

At the Awards ceremony i was given a Special Mention for the Design and Art direction (at Bleed Design Studio) of the Diesel New Art 2006 Catalogue. As the night went on, surprises yet to come when i was called to the stage again, this time with my friend and colleague Svein Haakon Lia, to receive the Gold Award (and a bottle of champagne :) for the PSP Candy website in the open class category also made at Bleed.

For all you norwegian readers *here's* the list of the awarded works in all categories...

At last but not the least, this year profile for Visuelt.07 was design by Skin and you can check more great work at their website ;)

Cette publication ambitionne d’être un espace d’échange, de partage, de confrontation et offrir ainsi une approche plurielle du design graphique, à la fois visuelle et théorique.

Elle veut parler du design graphique comme d’un champ de création et de recherche. Elle veut faire parler les acteurs du design graphique – professionnel, étudiants, théoriciens, journalistes, etc. – de leurs pratiques et de leurs réflexions ; créer.

NODE is a Berlin and Oslo based graphic design studio, founded in 2003 by Anders Hofgaard (NO) and Serge Rompza (DE). Vladimir Llovet Casademont (DE/ES) joined the collaboration 2006. All three studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. The studio works for international clients and on self initiated projects across various media: books, magazines, posters, typefaces, identities, exhibition design, signage and websites.

So, here is my current desktop (luckily it wasn't a mess like it use to be : )

http://blog.quietnotsafe.org/?p=19 Since my portfolio is an eternal work in progress i will post some work as it happens along the way. Right now i'm doing a small profile for a architecture models company "Super Modell". I just finish the business cardswhich i am happy with and i have some really nice footage from last night experiments that i might post later.