The illustration Untitled (X-Ray Vector Smart Object) for smart fortwo, received a Silver award at the European Design Awards 2009 in Zürich May 17. The category is Corporate Illustration. (No Gold in this category). The illustration was made for the book Sideways – A Smart Art Project and the 2009 Smart Calendar representing the month of May.
NO Magazine was invited as one of eleven international magazines to curate a part of the anthology Sideways – A Smart Art Project, published by Die Gestalten Verlag and smart. no’s contribution was curated by myself and Claudia C. Sandor. The 248-page book features work by one hundred international artists in an attempt to evaluate the way we think about the environment and mobility.
The following eleven international magazines curated this book: Dazed & Confused (UK), Tokion (USA), Drome (Italy), INDIE (Austria), Style 100 (Germany), +81 (Japan), Blend (The Netherlands), Baby Baby Baby Magazine (Mexico), Neo2 (Spain), WAD (France) and NO Magazine (Norway). Artists presented in the NO-section: Blunderbuss/Ida Gullhav, Justin Bartlett, Are Mokkelbost, Ane Graff, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Marcel Leliënhof, Siri Hermansen/Claudia C. Sandor, Siren Lauvdal, mmv architects of norway and Halvor Bodin.
The release of the book Sideways – A Smart Art Project was at 7 World Trade Center. 52nd floor, overlooking Ground Zero in March 2008. The illustration was exhibited in a light box with the other 10 Smart pieces. The piece is used as advertisement in magazines and is published in the Smart Calendar for 2009 (for the month of May).
The two illustrations Rinspeed & Safe Lock Division for Kaba Group, Switzerland received a Silver at European Design Awards 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden (in the category for Corporate Illustration). In the European Design Awards 2007 in Athens, Greece the Oslo International Film Festival 2006 animated ident received a Silver in the category for Motion Graphics (Svein Kvamme, Halvor Bodin). NO Magazine (Claudia C. Sandor and Halvor Bodin) received a Bromze in the category for Editorial Design, Magazine Layout. Europan 8, the Norwegian and Cypriotic Catalogue (Halvor Bodin) received a Bronze in the category for Editorial Design, Artistic/Exhibition Catalogue.
Congratulations goes to all the other winners in 2009 including fellow Norwegians including Claudia C. Sandor, Are Kleivan and Bleed!
The Catalogue with the Winners and Finalists can be ordered form the ED-Awards website.
ED-Awards is endorsed by Icograda IDA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations). The jury is composed of representatives from prestigious communication design magazines from across Europe. Those are also media partners for the events and together form the European Design Media Network (EDMN). These magazines are: