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Ultimate Full Screen Images Without Flash, iPhone and iPad Friendly

Boom! There’s a new version in (gotochina)town, again.

• Fully compatible with all browsers, including webkit on iPhone and iPad (without scroll-bugs)
• Does not need to fully load images before calculating scaling (shorter loading time)
• Letterboxes vertically oriented images
• Standalone — no library needed and no conflicts needed
• VERY light weight (under 3KB for uncompressed css and javascript)
• Easy to integrate into different gallery types (what additional examples would you like? Post your comment)
• Seamless fallback to pure css solution in latest version of all major browsers

So here you go, see the comments in the source code for intructions:


Download source View demo View transition demo

New Books

Our portfolio has been updated with two new projects that we’ve been working on for a while.

The first one is a book accounting for the activities of the art incubator Foreningen Marienborg Atlierfelleskap from 2005 to 2010. The book features some nifty details in metallic ink throughout, and the text is set in both Norwegian and English. Along with the book we created an artist’s notebook for future ideas.

The second one is the Retrospective Catalogue 2009 for Hordaland Kunstsenter. Over approximately 150 yellow pages we are presented for an account of the art centres activities as well as articles in Norwegian or English about art in theoretical and historical perspective.

The Trondheim Junior Soloists

We made these typographic posters for The Trondheim Junior Soloists, a training orchestra for The Trondheim Soloists who are performing in Oslo, London and Oxford this February.

New Logos

We have just finished the logos for these budding local cultural enterprises. Behind the first logo: “Eit fett liv”, is Vidar Dahl. He is a local scriptwriter/director, and he is currently working alongside our own movie buff Jøran with the completion of the short film Visdom.

The other logo is created on commission for the committee behind the plans for a house of litterature in Trondheim. This is a group of people from the city library, writers and so on. Check out their facebook page here.

Old School

In 2010 NTNU is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of NTH, the Norwegian Institute of Technology, one of NTNU’s predecessors, along with 100 years of the Student Union and NTNUI, Norway’s largest athletic association. It so happens that 2010 also marks the 250th anniversary of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

Klipp og Lim was commissioned to develop visual profile elements for this occasion. We made a series of illustrations and decorative elements that would give the promotional material relating to the anniversary recognizable features. The common denominator for this output was the emphasis on lines connecting entities suggesting historical continuity and relations between institutions, exemplified in the illustration above.

Read more on the NTNU site

Medusa the Jellyfish

Maneten Medusa (Medusa the Jellyfish) is the first book in a series, authored by Margrethe Geelmuyden and published by Aschehoug, due to hit the bookshelves in April 2010. In this first book Medusa sets out to find a mirror so she can check up on her looks before going to a ball. Things don’t go as planned and she finds herself stuck to a sea urchin. In a distance an old crab is approaching. The books will be illustrated by us in brilliant, flat colors!

Read article in akersposten.no

Trondheim Dokumentarfestival

We are proud to be a part of the very first Trondheim Documentary Festival. The festival is held at Dokkhuset here in the centre of town between the 27th and 29th of November. This festival is a collective achievement between several different organizations like Cintemateket Trondheim, Trondheim Journalistlag and many others.

Our contribution to this festival is the logo and profile design. This is distributed through a poster, a big screen slide at Dokkhuset, a website, t-shirts and other printed items.

Deloitte Artbook

We recently produced this little art book for Deloitte containing three different contemporary art projects based on exhibitions from their offices. It’s about 90 pages and feature color images of the art both in exhibition-context and integrated into the offices.

All the headlines through out the book are set in the font “Einride” made by Ole Kristian here at Klipp og Lim. Also viewable at our Flickr-page.

The Line King

I stumbled across this clip some time ago. In it, one of the greatest american caricaturists and cartoonists, Al Hirschfeld, is seen in his studio working on a drawing. At the time he was 96 (he lived to be a 100), and just watching this old man so totally into his work to the point where his wife has to ask him to stop, after 8 hours straight by the drawing board, is saying something about his enthusiasm and joy about his work. Al Hirschfeld documented american popular culture for over 70 years in his very recognisable, poignant and sparse style. He is often referred to as “The Line King”, and it’s something about the way he boils everything down to an absolute minimum in his drawings that has some kind of zen quality to it.

MOT Intro

We’ve been working with MOT for some time now; here’s the intro to the latest video we’ve produced.