About Us

YMT is an experimental publication about Visual Communication Design, as a field of knowledge. It's available in a limited edition, print, and it’s an open-source online. The topic of this year's edition is nation-state.

YMT is designed and produced by second-year bachelor students at UiB. They are in their third semester of the study. The student-designers are encouraged to explore all avenues of investigation into how the content may best be served through editorial design and publication means. YMT is about what has recently been questioned in our field in this academy. KMD and the region with contributions of original content by second-year BA students in the course of Editorial design and visual identity.

YMT introduces and invites students to design journalism, editorship, authorship, and how to use the visual languages of text and images. The making of YMT creates situations for students where autonomy is stimulated, and ideas and thoughts are voiced in the visual language and through design writing. The students are invited into a creative conversation, a professional dialogue and a discourse within a flat democratic structure of hierarchy. The students can contribute written content to YMT in addition to design and visual material.

The Editorial Design course, where YMT is produced, was led by Ingrid Marie Rundberg and with help from Magnus Nyquist, with additional teaching contributions from Åse Huus, Thanee Rene Andino Mejia, Aslak Helgesen, and Ole Lund. Per Søfteland of Aksell AS in Bergen has served as printing and paper consultant for the course.

About the publication series

YMT is an experimental, English-language publication exploring Visual Communication as a field of knowledge.

• YMT 1, in the printed version, was published in an edition of 450.
• YMT 2, in the printed version, was published in an edition of 200.
• YMT 3, in the printed version, was published in an edition of 300.
• YMT 4, in the printed version, was published in an edition of 500.
• YMT 5, in the printed version, was published in an edition of 200.
• YMT 6, in the printed version, was published in an edition of 300.
• YMT 7, in the printed version, was published in an edition of 250.
• YMT 8, in the printed version, was published in an edition of 350.

ISSN

2535-6399 (print)︱2535-6402 (online)

YMT, print and online, is archived and available through the Norwegian National Library and the KMD library.

Publisher’s disclaimer and authors’ ownership

Each contributing author has sole responsibility for the content of their article, including all text, images, and references. Each author is sole owner of their contribution as submitted. The designed and published contribution is owned by KMD YMT’s publisher. Any errors that result from the editorial design of the magazine are due to it being designed as BA coursework assignment and KMD, including all staff, does not accept responsibility for any errors or consequences thereof.

Contributors, authors, are aware of this risk when submitting to the magazine, and submission is a declaration of understanding and agreement. Each author has consented to their contribution being published in print and online, and is the copyright holder for their own contribution and licence.