The Design+Music Event started in 2005 by Tank and has since been a part of the sideprogramme for the techno culture-festival, Insomnia, located in Tromsø, in Northern Norway. The first year saw Norwegian design-gurus Martin Kvamme and Halvor Bodin holding lectures on the topic of music-related design. In 2006, both Norwegian graphic designer and video artist Marius Watz, and Bergen’s finest – Grandpeople – lectured. In 2007 the event featured Kjell Ekhorn (Non Format) and norwegian musician/designer Håkon Kornstad.
This year we present Yokoland and Teipu.
Yokoland
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Yokoland is a graphic design and illustration studio that was started by Espen Friberg and Aslak Gurholt Rønsen sometime between their graduation from High School (2000) and their graduation from The National Academy of the Arts, Oslo (2004/2005). In the beginning there was no intention that Yokoland would be a graphic design studio (it sort of happened along the way). Yokoland was just the place to experiment with various small projects. Today designer Thomas Tengesdal Nordby also work as part of Yokoland on various projects.
Yokoland mainly focuses on print-based projects like books, magazines, posters, record covers, cd- and dvd-covers. The studio also works across various media, creating anything from signage, set design, wall paintings and exhibition design to short films, music videos, title sequences and websites. Yokoland also works with more commercial work like company identities and advertising. From time to time Yokoland has their own exhibitions and participates in group exhibitions.
At the same time as Yokoland was started Espen and Aslak also started the independent music label Metronomicon Audio together with the musicians on this label. In the beginning the work for Metronomicon Audio was basically the only part of Yokoland’s practise. Even though designing for the label is no longer the only work Yokoland does, it’s still a central part of the studio’s practice.
Yokoland is based in Oslo (Norway). A monograph about the studio, “Yokoland – As we go up we go down”, was published by Die Gestalten Verlag in 2006.
www.yokoland.com
Eirik Seu Stokkmo / Teipu
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Teipu, aka Eirik Seu Stokkmo, is a graphic designer from Oslo who has played his part in norwegian music industry during the last decade. He has his education from NABA (Italy) and has worked in several of the best studios including Bleed, Scandinavian Design Group, Union and Virtual Garden. Today he works as a senior graphic designer in SDG. In music he´s worked with MTV, Øyafestivalen and NRK P3 in addition to artists as Xploding Plastix, The Kovenant, Future Prophecies and Apoptygma Berzerk. He appears in design jurys, a number of books and has had his own exhibitions. Stokkmo is also a musician himself, under the name Pelifics.
www.teipu.net
www.sdg.no
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