Graphic design and illustration
at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Both our current and former students excelled at this year's Visuelt Awards (Norway's most important competition for graphic design and illustration). If we also include staff and research fellows we can count altogether four gold and eight diplomas. Congratulations!

• Malin Kleiva graduated last year. She won gold in the moving image student work category for her MA project. The video installation «Braut – en elegi over en okse og en gård» really moved the jury.

• Martin Asbjørnsen is graduating this year. He was awarded for work he has done together with Aslak Gurholt and Alejandro V. Rojas from Yokoland. They won two gold in the graphic design category for the exhibition catalog and the poster they did for Høstutstillingen. Moreover, they also received a diploma for the ad campaign.

• Kristian Santos Utrimark received a diploma in the illustration student work category for «Ande-prosjektet» («The Duck Project») – a series of riso prints.

• Øistein Bergli also received a diploma in the illustration student work category for his comic «Tennis-trøbbel» («Tennis Troubles»).

• Renate Thor graduated last year. She received a diploma in the illustration student work category for the pattern collection she did as her MA project. She also received a diploma for the illustrations she did for a web campaign by the labour union LO.

• Former student Rikke Runde received a diploma for the editorial illustrations she did for the newspaper VG Helg.

• Research fellow Bendik Kaltenborn won gold for the packaging illustrations he did for the Hellström Sommer aquavit.

• Stefan Ellmer is teaching at KHiO. He received two diplomas for the typefaces «Gustav Display» and «DS+R | typographic system».