8 artists customize Papp
27|05|10 Filed in: PAPP
Papp, our first robot designer toy, is ready to launch this weekend at Porsgrunn Art Society. For the exhibition we invited 8 internationally renowned artists and artgroups to customize Papp and we are very proud to present the original works of:
Akinori Oishi, Japan
The Little Friends of Printmaking, USA
Motomichi Nakamura, Japan
Christine Wong aka Wonting, USA
Luke Ramsey, Canada
Michel Diniz, Brazil
eBoy, Germany
Ian Stevenson, UK
The exhibition will open Saturday at one o´clock, May 29´th and stand until June 27´th, so if you are in Norway at all and are going to see one show this summer - this is it. As a special treat, kids in all ages (thats you) are welcome to customize their own Papp, and their art will be exhibited along with the pros! Welcome all!
Multipla
10|05|10 Filed in: News
from the woods
Our ”new” Fiat Multipla 100, 16v 1.6l ELX (the juicy version with all the options), with 97k on the clock arrived on thursday! One of the few cars out there which actually has an original and distinct design. Weekend was spent taking unnecessary long drives to buy bread etc; stereo loaded with italian spaghetti-western-music and both sunroofs open...
Return from Berlin
27|04|10 Filed in: News
from the woods
Back again from Berlin and working in our studio. Not to much time to update the blog these days but we’ll post some random pictures from the trip. The Pictoplasma conference gave as usual a visual overload of character design, we met some great people and signed up a new talented artist for the Papp exhibition. Read More...
Pictoplasma Berlin 2010
24|03|10 Filed in: News
from the woods
The tickets are bought, and we’re looking forward to a fantastic weekend at the Pictoplasma character design conference in Berlin! Papp will be traveling with us in a little suitcase, and if you manage to find us, we’ll give you a sneek peek!
Papp cardboard dummy arrives!
24|03|10 Filed in: PAPP
The first proper cardboard-box dummy arrived last week from Glomma Papp and it was a perfect fit! A few small revisions on the design and then the first 3000 boxes will go into production! We’ll post a small movie on the folding action soon: the box is designed to snap together without glue or (god forbid) staples....
Thor Heyerdahl Monuments Thwarted
24|03|10 Filed in: Art
Projects
Our proposal for the two Thor Heyerdahl monuments in Larvik was weighed and found to light (or maybe to heavy in the case of paperboat intended for the pier).
Three 6-8 metre high Moai statues made of gold metallic Alucobond facets on an aluminium skeleton were to be placed at the new higway off-ramp at Bommestad, and a huge paper boat of silvermetallic Alucobond was proposed for the pier.
The three Moai were intended to give instant recognition to the drivers passing at 100km/hr (+) on the E18 highway - and point directly to Thor Heyerdahl and his voyage to Rapa Nui. The paper boat represented his childhood in Larvik and the dramatic voyage with Tigris, a boat made of the same reed used to make papyrus. Read More...
Artist Talk At TKS
09|03|10 Filed in: Art
Projects
Tomorrow 10th of march at 18:00 we will hold our artist talk at Telemark Art Center. We have dusted off and scanned the old slides (and even some paper copies) and will show work from the mid 90’s and up to the present. Welcome!
Napp Design Logo
05|03|10 Filed in: Graphic
Design
A new logo design for a new customer! This time the logo is for Napp Design, a product design company with a focus on packaging and the norwegian seafood business. The logo is a closed font with lots of space for texture. It is designed to be an interactive logo so that the designers at Napp can play with textures and colours.
Papp on tour
05|03|10 Filed in: Art
Projects |
Designertoys
Papp has been selected as one of the few projects to go on tour on the highschools of Telemark as a part of Kulturskatten, a govermentfunded cultural education program for school children. Some 6500 students will meet Papp and see our lecture on designer toys through the next autumn, winter and spring semesters!
We’re therefore filling up this monster bulletproof(ish) Pelicase with three Papp 1.0 robots, a bundle of beautiful Papp skins, a Macbbok with a funky Keynote presentation and loads of batteries!
by:Larm
05|03|10 Filed in: Art
Projects
Here are some pictures from our art-toilet-installation-thing at by:Larm music festival. And visit the webpage of the photojournalist Joakim S. Enger for some proper photos and the article featured in Varden! Read More...