PANG and Elvelangs

Last Thursday we had an event at school that we call PANG! The first, second and third year split into groups and we were given a small task, and a cage full of scrap! We were to create a light installation inside the cage and display it at the Aker river in connection with the Elvelangs festival. This is the cage we got!

The raw material and us working on it.

Other works! The top two photos won the respective third and second place.

Finished! Picture inside to the left and outside to the right.

Details!

Rolling it outside and other pictures from the Elvelangs festival.

We won the prize for prettiest lamp! Jens Magnus is missing from the picture.

In front of the school, seen from the river.

 

Shapetank Vernissage

This is how our vernissage looked! We served wine along with cheese and crackers.

We served cheese and crackers, along with red wine.

Our poster!

All the hard work lined up!

Shapetank

Hello again! Wow, it has already gone over 20 days since my last blog entry. I'm a bad blogger! But I promise improvement!

Now I'll show you what we have been doing at school during the last two weeks. We have had a course called Shapetank, which lets us experiment in form and color, two-dimensional. Our class and the step below us were divided into groups of 4-5 persons.

We were given a theme, the SEVEN DEADLY SINS! We were to graphically express our understanding of one of the sins and submit a 70x100 poster at the end of each day. In addition we had one or more graphic tools we were to use on each submission. It was mostly focused on process, not so much on the finished product. This is what my group got to!

I was sick the first day, but the theme was PRIDE, with typography as a tool. My talented group made this:

The letter "I" dominates the other letters and overrun them visually.

 The second day the theme was GREED, and the graphic tools were lines, surfaces and points!

The large agressive red takes more of the yellow and the space than the passive calm blue one.

 The third day was all about LUST, rhythm and repetition!

 

I (yes, thats me on the bench, right there,) am objectified and passive while the creepy guy in the background (Daniel, not usually a creepy fellow,) stalks me from the shadows, and eventually moves closer.

GLUTTONY made us all lose our appetites on the fourth day. The tools were transparancy and layers! We used that quite litterally.

This last one is a close-up. We poured greasy oil on transparent pictures of food to make them stick to the reflective background. The more pictures, food and oil, the less you could see the reflection of yourself.

SLOTH actually affected us on our work that day. We felt kinda lazy and unmotivated all day! Foreground and background was the way to go on this one.

The lazy column wont do his part of the job.

And the last day of sins we took on ENVY, armed with scaling. This one got threedimentional, but is looks good in 2D as well!

Small and without affiliation he tries to hide his anger and envy from the larges three.

At the end of the two weeks we held a little vernissage! I'll tell you all about it soon!

Later!

Gullkalven 2010 - Norwegian student mastery in creative communication

In February and March this year we had a project on product design, of which my group (Magnus, Christina, John and myself) made a disposable cutlery / tapas utensils, and we named it Undulat. Magnus thought our project was so successful that he proposed that we should submit it to Gullkalven (the Golden Calf), a Norwegian championship in creative communication for students. And due to lack of communication Christina and myself didn't find out until today that we won second place in the product design category! We certainly got a little boost of confidence in our own abilities! That made my day!

 This is the article from their website.

  http://www.gullkalven.no/vinnere-2010/trd_produktdesign.php