EstherOrkester combines the playful and the sweet in a kind of singer/songwriter-pop that dresses up to cabaret and down to folk. Her debut album was released April 2009 and shows us her love for stories, curious melodies and crafted lyrics.
www.myspace.com/estherorkester
Kim Baumann Larsen is the creative director of Placebo Effects and has worked on some of Norway’s largest architectural projects including the Oslo Gardermoen Airport, Telenor Fornebu and the new borough Bjorvika in Oslo. At Placebo Effects he provides digital design and visual effects services, and is actively involved in creating and speaking at conferences around the world. His work has been published in numerous architecture books, featured in exhibits, and he did visual effects for an Emmy-nominated TV documentary on Apollo 13. Kim is a founding advisory board member of the CGSociety.org and member of the 5D Founding Committee.
www.pfx.no
Sukker believes in holistic design
- this is why Sukker has graphic designers, product designers, animators, interior architects copy writers and category, space-management specialists working together.
The communication and synergy between these talents create unique brands and the opportunity to bring these brand experiences into any channel. This way, the brand essence will be communicated so clear and so strong it will be impossible to copy or match by others.
www.sukker.com
Torgeir Hjetland is an Oslo-based designer. After finishing his BA in England, he has worked at Enzo Finger Design, Making Waves and Uniform. He works in various fields of visual communication, developing solutions for 2-D and 3-D environments.
Together with photographer Marcel Leliënhof, Torgeir has published a book about the last cowboy – a book about a way of life and a culture that is slowly disintegrating. The book deals with the subject of adapting and adjusting to the modern way of living and at the same time preserving a culture and an identity.
www.gridnik.no // www.tinagent.com
Lars Magnus and Ola will present their new web-based art-gallery. The gallery represents a wide range of photographers, illustrators and graphic designers, and it aims to sell a diverse mix of decorative prints. Their presentation will include the birth of the idea, the process and some of the creatives who are already contributing to the gallery.
www.dirtyduckling.no
Architect Nina Berre has a PhD from the Institute of Architectural history at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. She is the Director of Norsk Form, a foundation dedicated to raising general awareness of Architecture and Design and how these fields affect our lives.
www.norskform.no
Roberto Di Trani was born in a small village by the sea in the deep south of Italy. He discovered photography very early because he was too lazy to draw.
After high school he moved to Milano to attend Istituto Europeo di Design for 3 years. After living in Milano for 15 years, working as photographer (mostly architecture, portraits and reportage) he moved to Oslo 3 years ago, for love of course...
www.ditrani.no
Reinhard Kropf (b.1967), together with Siv Helene Stangeland started the architect firm Helen & Hard in 1996. The firm has since achieved international renown and has received a series of awards for their work in challenging the perception of both private and public spaces. H&H have represented Europe at the Tokyo “New Trends of Architecture” show, and taken part in both Manifesta and The Venice Biennial of Architecture in 2008. They are presently engaged with the Norwegian pavilion at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai.
www.hha.no
Alexander Eskeland has an inclination towards water. He is now CEO of Swims producing rain wear and rain gear, like their ingenious galoshes. Before this position he was Sales Manager for Voss Water on the US East Coast. We are guessing that his education from Boulder, Colorado also has something to do with precipitation (meteorology).
www.swims.no
Kristoffer Rønneberg works as a foreign news reporter for Aftenposten in Oslo. He spent two years in Beijing working as a stringer for the same newspaper. That situation left little room in his budget with which to hire a photographer. He´s happy about that today.
www.kristofferronneberg.com
Musician, director, writer based in i Göteborg. Runs the resturant and night club Röda Sten.
This summer he’s stranded in a deserted backyard at Swedens museum for design; Röhsska.
www.henrikwallgren.com
For*Your*Eyes*Truly consists of Tone Emblemsvåg & Ernst Føyn, and sometimes Franck Aubry. What we do is often described as VJing. With backgrounds from sceneography, graphic design, illustration and animation we always produce our own content and try to keep away from standard projection screens. We have worked for clients like Nobel Peace Center, Grafill and X-box and done visuals for a great number of artists: Nightmares on Wax, Stereo Total, Kim Hiortøy among many.
www.foryoureyestruly.com
