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Welcome!

Ymt aims to create contestation and discourse in the field of Visual and Graphic Communication Design in Norway. Read more about the project here.

The PhD Programme in Artistic Research

“Today’s designers and visual communicators’ have incredibly powerful tools at their disposal —tools that must be utilised with humility, caution, and respect.”

The Power of Influence

As designers, we have a lot of power when it comes to consumerism. We create packaging, commercials, apps, web-sites, furniture, and products such as toys, cellphones, tapestry and clothing.

The Pictorial Human

Questioning the conditions of our being in the informatized everyday through design.

Aren’t We Human?

Some may argue that life is an archive of conflicts that shape our being and identity. More obvious conflicts are perhaps ones that are external, comprehensible and sometimes even physical.

You’re in My Head

Some may argue that life is an archive of conflicts that shape our being and identity.

The Future of Data Visualization

The world has become ever more complex. Our economy is no longer local but global, and increasingly characterised by complex interdependencies. Nationstates are often involved in various types of supranational cooperation that reduce the possibility of democratic influence.

I am the State

How can design be used as a tool to research the relationship between the Norwegian state and the citizen?

Tomorrow’s Packaging

If your kitchen is flooded with water because you forgot to turn off the sink, what will you do first? Will you start to wipe water off the floor or will you turn off the sink to keep it from flooding even more?

Provoking Change Through Advertisement

The production of animal sourced consumer goods has the biggest impact on the environment today.

Food Sees the Future

Food Sees the Future is a Master thesis project using virtual reality as a tool to raise awareness about food consumption and environmental issues.

The Lazy Designer’s Guide to Saving the World

Okay, look. I’m not here to tell you what to do. Apparently people don’t like that. I’m simply here to inform you about small things you can do in your everyday life, to help the environment. See the difference? Whether you do it or not is up to you.

What Do I Think About When I Try to Think About Global Warming?

Today, we are aware of climate change—and we have been aware of it for some time. There is an overwhelming consensus amongst the world’s leading scientists, and yet our society has been unable to take decisive action.

A Plastic Whale: The Symbol of a Crisis

Early February 2017 a Cuvier’s beaked whale swims into the bay of Sotra in Hordaland.

Design and Ethics

As designers we’re often faced with ethical dilemmas. I’ve talked to four former students at KMD about how they deal with this in their line of work.

Ask Five

We decided to take a walk down the streets of Bergen to ask the question: Have you made any changes the last few years that you feel helps the environment?

Inclusive for Whom

The LGBTQIA+ movement is perceived as one of the most inclusive environments to this day, with its message of love and acceptance.

People and Patterns

A presentation of patterns from different cultures around the world.

Breaking Away from Mass Production with a Sewing Machine

In a society with new trends around every corner, the garment industry manipulates us to contribute to unsustainable development.

Culture and Design

In an evermore globalised world, the role of the designer seems quite straightforward: “Of course the work I do in Norway will be applicable in South Africa or Japan!”

Idioms and Languages

A presentation of expressions from different cultures around the world.

Creating Reflected and Compassionate Images of “The Other” in a Hyper-Visual Time

Remembrance of the children from Litzmannstadt ghetto through drawings.

Pictograms Are My Friends

A big question for the future of pictograms is if their opportunity for self-expressiveness is their future strength or, are pictograms forgetting their roots and global responsibilities as in Neurath’s Isotype project, Isotype the International System of Typographic Picture Education, to develop an international picture language?

A Pictographic Theatre. When Words Exclude, Pictograms Include

When words fall short, how can pictograms bridge the gap between people with different cultural and social backgrounds?

To Read Without Words

In 2016 the Norwegian publisher Gyldendal launched a new children’s book genre: the wordless picture book.

Witness and Documented Memory

About documentary, memory, and witnessing.

Quiet Observations

What if much of what we perceive as ordinary, is ordinary only because we do not question it?

My Voice Has Never Been This Strong

Naeem Searle (aka NIMI) discusses the silent, but lively, street communication scene, and why it should be heard.

From Stem to Feast

Our studio is called the Office of Life + Art because we see a need to create beautiful and startling visions of how humans can live with other organisms, and each other, on planet Earth.