VARSKO! will be attending the fantastic new festival Bøgrend Autofest on an old gas station in Vinje, Telemark, the 6.-8. of August.
Here we will set up the VARSKO! by numbers stunt we did at ByLarm in 2009, with lots of drawings where you can fill in the colors yourself, and then take the whole drawing home with you. Have a look at VARSKO!by numbers for more information and read more about the festival on their Facebook-page.
And one more thing: Come and play with us at Bøgrend Autofest!
The helloVARSKO! posters have landed. Ah, beautiful. What a line up! It´s designed by the magical CMNCTN. The backside is designed by the spanish wonder Alex Trochut for helloVARSKO! The poster is printed at Fagtrykk and the very cool people at Arctic Paper is responseble for the lovely paper.
A few days ago we booked the last band for our event. We were suppose to revile the name of the band next monday, but we can´t wait. We´re to eager to tell you about our beautiful booking. The Trondheim located, Binary pop playing band, The Last Ninja is the pixel-topping on the cake.
The Last Ninja is a band who makes their music with, among other things, old Nintendo machines. They are fast. They are visual. The rumor on the street tells us that they will bring some really sweet graphics to raise their show to a higher level. An unlocked level. We hope you have a secret extra life, because this is going to be a toll for your dancing shoes.
While you wait, see this music video ten times in a row.
Today it is 16 days to our marvelous event. And we´re starting to get attention here and there. Natt&Dag did a piece on your favourite event in the june/july edition. The blog HG80.no wrote about helloVARSKO! the other day. And yesterday the event venue, Byscenen, posted a post about helloVARSKO! Much appreciated. If anyone out there stumbles upon a blog post on our event, please let us know.
Oh, one more thing. Our super sweet poster is soon out of the press. One side is custom made for VARSKO! by Alex Trochut….
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We already look forward to July 3rd, no doubt about that, but now we are so pleased with our plans for the day that we want to fast forward and have fun now! Not only are we screening Typeface, and getting a visit from one of the very best designers in Europe. No, no. That is not enough for us. We want you people to dance. So we have booked three marvelous artists whom will finish up our fantastic day.
CAPTAIN CREDIBLE is pleasing our ears/eyes with his computer generated crazy music show. While you wait take a look on his site and enjoy this video of him from Pstereo 08
MARGARET BERGER is also coming to sprinkle sweetness over us at Byscenen on July 3rd. We so are looking forward to seeing Margaret do her thing and taking helloVARSKO! to the next level. (Bonus info: helloVARSKO! is all about typography and designer Joakim Jansson custom typography for each page in the booklet of Margaret Bergers album, Pretty Scary Silver Fairy. This we like.) Check out this and rehearse on your super groovy dance floor moves.
last but not least mr NILS BECH is joining the party and brings his friend BENDIK GISKE. So helloVARSKO! is going contemporary up in this. NILS says it best on his MySpace: “Nils Bech is a classically trained singer with a focus on performative aspects. An integral part of the Norwegian art, fashion, and music scene, he has taken part in exhibitions of contemporary art in New York, Miami, Milan, Zürich, Basel, Berlin,Cologne, London, Vienna and Oslo, as well as performances at the Norwegian Opera House and the National Theater.” And now he is making us look good. Our guess is that your dancing shoes will be worn out, and that you´ll learn a few new dancing moves while your at it. Enjoy Nils live at Øya 09:
helloVARSKO! -> it´s getting better and better and better.
A graphic design student at NKF named Gunn Helene, is eagerly looking forward to hearing Alex Trochut talk about his work on July 3rd. So much that the teaser design he made for helloVARSKO! is now pimping her desktop. She sent it to us. Smart. You, Gunn Helene, will get a helloVARSKO! prize.
This we like.
(If you got any helloVARSKO! material (in any way), send it to us (staale@varsko.org). Perhaps we have a prize for you.)
Oh, yes. You better believe it. It is true. VARSKO! and friends delivers again. We have been so lucky that the Spanish wonder, mr Alex Trochut, have decided to pay us a visit. 3rd of july he and his talented girlfriend (and coworker) Marta Cerdà Alimbau are taking the podium and going to do a show&tell. We are so pleased that Alex and Marta is taking the trip up to the capitol of mustaches, Trondheim, to do a talk and drink Dahls with us. So in addition to the Typeface screening we now give you two sweet lecture holders. Lucky you!
Alex even made a teaser design for us.
Want to see more of the magic work of Alex and Marta click “read more”. [Read more]
a society that supports creative visual communication and has its focus on the artists that dare challenge and break rules. Through exhibitions and happenings the organisation wants to show the world what is going on in the design underground in Norway, especially in our region Trondheim.
