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Streetart of Oslo

benteh — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 22:15:11 +0000

It is really hard to walk slowly in your own city. I happily snail around any other city, taking days going 6 blocks. But in my own town it is really hard to slow down. But you have to, if you’re going to catch the textures. Streetart in Oslo. There are great variety, artistic skills, […]

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Textures of London

benteh — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:54:08 +0000

Last year, i actually got my arse in gear, and went to London. Good thing, that, considering the pandemic of 2020.

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Inside my brain: lasers and gold

benteh — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:33:48 +0000

This was going to be a triumphant article about a stellar idea, a struggle of problem solving, learning curves, dangerous lasers, and the final, exuberant splendid result in all its plasticky-golden glory. Yeah, well… The idea! …so the idea: to laser engrave a bunch of slices of my brain in transparent acrylic, stack them… it […]

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Beautiful plywood

benteh — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:38:35 +0000

I have mentioned elsewhere, I love laser cutters. I got to try one at uni, and to do some pretty cool things. And wanted to make more. I could have made files and ordered the pieces from professional companies, but the laser is a tool and unlike any other, and to get good results requires […]

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Beautiful chemicals

benteh — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:35:52 +0000

I am scanning my father’s positive slides and negatives, a Himalayan task. He took a good deal of photographs, starting in the 50ties. I am guessing about 3-4000 35mm negatives, colour and black and white. 12 boxes of slides, and an unknown amount of 9×6 I have not even dug out yet. It is of […]

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Hexagon Project: doodling for two hundred frames

bakabakadesign — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:36:48 +0000

In the chaos that is self-employed life, it’s hard to find the time to do personal projects. Personal work is a great way to explore styles and hone your skills. Especially as a graphic designer, I think personal work is muy importante. But when do I do it? After about a year of not doing […]

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The continuum of science, art and design

benteh — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:47:19 +0000

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else. – Donald E. Knuth [two_third last=”no”] The definition of categories of design, science and art are not clear-cut. Neither one have a universally-agreed on definition, and professor Martin Kemp at University of Oxford argues that though these categories are […]

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Kjell Aukrust: rural Norway in a nutshell

benteh — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:46:08 +0000

Kjell Aukrust was a legendary artist, humourist and illustrator. He is most famous for his wacky stories from a particular part of rural Norway, full of bizarre and hilarious people, inventions and creatures. They make little sense to people from other countries, the Danes certainly do not get it at all. I grew up with […]

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The art, design and architecture of birds

benteh — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:37:06 +0000

What is architecture? What is design? What is art? Conscious choices. Some kind of cognitive processes that says “naaah. that doesn’t work” or “fabfunfantastic!” That is what bowerbirds do. I came across them for the first time as a child. A newspaper we subscribed to used to run a small “interesting-facts from the natural-world” section in a […]

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Stealing posters

benteh — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:06:45 +0000

They say in art the greatest compliment is to be copied, and the greatest compliment for poster design is when your poster gets stolen. It seems that print posters are dying. Now we have digital screens that cycle – for the most part – commercials. Should we care? Are posters merely something arty people and graphic […]

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