– a blog about my work, research, ideas, typography and passion for books.

Capturing Nature’s Mood in Blåtone: My Latest Book design

15.10.2024

WORK | I’m excited to share my latest book design project, Blåtone, created in close collaboration with two amazing photographers, Wenche Dahle and Lars Andreas Dybvik. It’s been an inspiring journey, and the result is a beautiful book that reflects their exhibition, centered around diptych photography.

Blåtone comes with three different cover colors, and the typography captures the essence of the musical term blue note, often tied to a mood of melancholy and contemplation. Like the subtle dissonance in blues and jazz, the book invites readers to go beyond what they see at first glance and explore the deeper emotional connection between the images and nature. Some of the pages are creatively cut to give a glimpse of the exhibition’s images—turn the page, and you reveal the full picture hidden behind, inviting a deeper exploration.

I hope the book inspires others to reflect on their own relationship with the natural world. See more from the book here.

«Hode, hjerte, hånd. Steinerskolen i trondheim 50 år» is printed and launched

06.10.2022

WORK | At the same time I was finalising my thesis, I designed a book for Steinerskolen in Trondheim, which celebrated its 50th anniversary. It has been a great and exciting project and a pleasure working with author Anne Lise Aakervik. The book was launched after an excellent performance in Olavshallen on 5 October 2022, including all the pupils from the school. See more from the book.

Pure happiness

11.02.2012

INSPIRATION | Good design is a tough job. New lovely book received today, directly from Germany and the publisher Hermann Schmidt Mainz. 40 projects. 40 theses. 1 manifesto by Kirsten Dietz & Jochen Rädeker. People mostly judge design on whether they like it or not. Although that is important, it is but one criterion. This book not only showcases their work, but also sets out in twenty theses the basic principles of what constitutes good design. Theses for an informed discussion, which is necessary if design is to be more than just pretty to look at. When designers understand their career as not just a job, but an attitude. This is what the book is about, what concerns the writers, what they believe in.

Magnificent book made about reindeer, people and nature in Luru, Nord-Trøndelag

02.01.2012

WORK | It´s about the love of nature and pride of an ancient and traditional profession that may be unfamiliar to many. By sharing experience and knowlegde the authors hope to help build bridges between reindeer herding and other parts of the population. See more from Landet går i arv 

Beautiful books make me happy

30.11.2010

INSPIRATION | And this book is one of them. Pachanga – magical moth patterns from the cloud forest. BelénmMena’s book is the celebration of a passion, creative trance, perfection and inspiration rolled into one and captured in a stunning publication by the publisher Hermann Schmidt Mainz. The cover design, typography, patterns and the book production is just great.