The two illustrations Rinspeed & Safe Lock Division for Kaba Group, Switzerland received a Merit at European Design Awards in Stockholm May 18. The illustrations were made for the Kaba annual report and an exhibition at the corporate headquarters.
Illustration/Art Direction: Halvor Bodin, Norway
Design director for the project: Martin Meier/Dachcom, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Chosen artists/illustrators were asked to design pictures of Kaba Group technical products in an innovative way. The Kaba Group is a technology leader in the worldwide security industry. The principal topic was the highlights of the company of the last year. The illustrations were used in the annual report and as large format prints in the corporte headquarters. I selected the topics Rinspeed (Body Key) and New Safelock Division. The illustrations are strictly based on product imagery + pencil drawing. The recognizable forms are broken down and rebuilt in new forms in a coloristic explosive manner. The technique used is pencil drawing and Scriptographer vector rasterization using Adobe Illustrator Live Color tools. The finished output is digital print.
The Kaba illustrations received a Nominee (Diploma) at the Visuelt Awards 08 as well.
In the European Design Awards 2007 in Athens, Greece the Oslo International Film Festival 2006 animated ident received a Merit in the category for Motion Graphics (Svein Kvamme, Halvor Bodin). NO Magazine (Claudia C. Sandor and Halvor Bodin) was a Finalist in the category for Editorial Design, Magazine Layout. Europan 8, the Norwegian and Cypriotic Catalogue (Halvor Bodin) was a Finalist in the category for Editorial Design, Artistic/Exhibition Catalogue.
Congratulations goes to all the other winners in 2008 and especially my friends from SDG, Eirik Seu Stokkmo who won an Award in the Brand Application category and Diogo Valério who won a Merit in the CD/DVD-cover category. Lesley Moore from Amsterdam won an Award in the Magazine category for MARK. Lesley Moore is Karin van den Brandt (Dutch) and Alex Clay (Norwegian).
The 264 pages Catalogue with the Winners and Finalists can be ordered form the ED-Awards website.
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