Klipp og Lim – Blog

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

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.