Kristiansen Ltd. - London, U.K. Director, graphic designer, art director (web, print, broadcast)
A broad range of work for Norwegian and U.K. clients including:
Sony AXN, Warner Brothers, STV Finland, RJDJ, WeAreFeral, Beerenberg, Dance House Norway - the national stage for dance in Oslo, Addiction London and others.
2005-09
Simian Design Studio Ltd. - Oslo, Norway Chairman of the board, graphic designer, art director (web, print, broadcast)
Notable roles and achievements:
Founded the company together with Torgeir Holm in February 2005.
Responsible for creative/art direction in most projects.
Art direction, design and animation on channel idents and programme identities for the largest commercial television channels in Norway.
Designed visual identities and managed design projects running for extended periods of time, the largest project being the design of the identity, web site and all signage/marketing material for Dance House Norway, the national Norwegian stage for dance.
Designed DVD packaging/menus/CD covers for several releases.
2000-05
Superstar.no - Oslo, Norway Director, graphic designer, art director (web, print, broadcast)
Notable roles and achievements:
Founded the company in january 2000 to do freelance work.
Responsible for creative/art direction in almost all projects I was involved in.
Designed the visual identity for Oslo International Film Festival in 2001 and did all graphic design, illustration and art direction for the festival for four years.
Responsible for user interface planning and design in several large web projects.
1997-00
Razorfish - Oslo, Norway Graphic designer (web, print and motion)
Notable roles and achievements:
Responsible for interface design planning and graphic design in several large budget web projects.
Responsible for design of self promotional material, printed advertisements and decorative animations for events.
1995-97
Freelance, web startups - Oslo, Norway Graphic designer (web and print), 3D illustrator
Notable roles and achievements:
Co-founded one of Norway’s first online magazines, which for two years was one of the three most popular.
Co-founded one of the first web agencies in Norway.
Co-founded the game developer DiMaga Studios, later merged with Innerloop Studios.
Designed several feature film video covers.
Responsible for creative direction and art direction in most print and web projects.
1994-95
Funcom - Oslo, Norway 2D and 3D game artist
Notable roles and achievements:
Created backgrounds/environments for the PC game Dragon Heart (Universal Studios) and the Sega Genesis/Super Nintendo game Pocahontas (Disney Feature Animation).
1992-93
Interactivision - Silkeborg, Denmark 2D and 3D game artist
Notable roles and achievements:
Created mission screen illustrations for the PC game Search and Rescue (Electronic Arts), 2D pixeled graphics for the Amiga game Prime Mover (Psygnosis) and 2D pixeled graphics for the Amiga game Living Ball (Infogrammes). Introduced 3Dstudio2 to the workflow.
Profile
Senior art director and graphic designer with 17 years of experience from web, design and post production agencies and the game industry.
Contact information:
Phone: +44 7 595 694 758
Centrally located in East London
Skills
Graphic design and art direction for print, web and broadcast.
3D modelling/animation/rendering, motion graphics and post production.
Studio and documentary photography.
Software
Very long experience with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Indesign, Dreamweaver and Flash, Autodesk 3dStudio Max, Vray. Some experience with Cinema 4d.
Published in these books:
55° North - Contemporary Scandinavian Graphic Design (Laurence King Publishing)
North by North: Scandinavian Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag)
Scandinavia (Zeixs/Feierabend Unique Books)
Metalheart 2: Metal Heart is Movement (Gingkopress)
Awards
Silver in Visuelt 2006, cover illustration.
Winner in Coupe International Design and Image Awards 2003, graphic design.
Gold in Visuelt 2002, graphic design.
Teaching
Introduction to interactivity in Flash, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
1-week course in Advanced NURBS modelling in 3DStudio Max, for master degree students at Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Introduction to physics simulations with Reactor in 3DStudio Max, for master degree students at Oslo School of Architecture and Design.