Holmenkollen ski jump is located in Oslo. The jump recently got rebuilt, and they needed a new website.Helge was responsible for the copywriting, and has written most of the text on the site.
The website is only available in Norwegian.
Just recently we learned that single bananas don´t sell quite as good as clustered bananas. This gave us the opportunity to advertise the dating site Match.com.
Red Bull`s slogan is “Gives you wiiings”.
In this ambient solution we have taken the claim literally.
This is a DM we made for Ustekveikja Energy Company.
In Norway the electricity prices hit the all time high the winter of 2009/2010.
The DM is meant to be sent to the places in Norway where the temperatures are lowest. In this case Elverum.
This is an ambient campaign we made for Tusenfryd amusement park. We wanted to remind people that Tusenfryd was opening April 24th, and to do that, we decided to take the rides and the attractions out in the public.
Elevator ambient (fullscreen is recommended)
Escalator ambient (fullscreen is recommended)
And an ambient (translation: Kick your big brothers ass [...]
The Norwegian Humanist Association is an organization for people who base their ethics on human values, not religion.
We wanted to create something thought-provoking outdoors, and we used the warning signs for falling ice taps. The advert says “Look up?”.
This is a school project where we were tasked with creating an advertising campaign for a Norwegian product in Germany/Berlin. We chose Norrøna, and they asked us to increase interest for their new clothing line /29 in Germany. /29 are clothes for everyday use, but with the same technical properties and quality that the rest of Norrøna´s outdoor clothes possess.
In November 2008 we had a mini-internship at Anorak, a small Norwegian communication agency (www.anorak.no). During a two-week period, we were given the task to promote The Sims 3 (a new “life simulator” computer game from The Sims series). Anorak asked us to increase awareness about The Sims 3 release to new and old gamers.
This is a work done in collaboration with copywriter Kristian Bartnes. Kim Adam did the art direction.
Very few kids like the taste of tran, but it’s one of the healthiest things you can eat. We created a print that encouraged parents to keep giving their kids tran, even though it tastes bad.
In 2009, MTV and Nordea had a competition where they asked people to send in their most creative savingtips. Helge sent in a suggestion on how to save money on clothes, and his suggestion made it all the way to the top. He got to travel to MTV in Stockholm and create a commercial based [...]
Kokkelimonke is a board game. The purpose of the game is to give crazy explanations to words that are difficult and/or out of date.
Translation in all: “At least the explanation isn´t going to be a problem”.
Idea by Kristian Bartnes (copywriter) and Odd Martin Karlsen (copywriter), completed by Kim.
“If Insurance” is one of the leading insurance companies in Norway. This was an idea that Kristine Neergaard (Ad) came up with, and we helped with the staging.
This was a school project Kim did for Vans Shoes. The concept derived from the idea that the Vans Classic model comes in every conceivable color, and therefore fits everything. At the same time vans.com launched a new online tool for customizing and making your own unique Classic shoe.
For our 2009 end project we created the story about Walter, an albino whale. We follow him on his adventures.
Slow Food is all about making real and healthy food. In other words the opposite of fast food. The purpose of the commercials is to show what happens if you live your life like you eat.
You are what you eat.
This is something Kim made with Ole Martin Buene, Tom Arne Heldal Bakkemoen and Lars Ove Løe for the agency Kommunikasjonskollektivet 2008scandinavia. Lego had their 50th anniversary that year.
This was a project we did during our second year at Westerdals.
Assignment: Make a photo reportage consisting of at least three photographs. Follow the classic guidelines of Times Magazine.
“Rumling” is a book that Helge is currently working on. It´s a story about a young man searching for his sister in a post-apocalyptic Oslo. Here is an excerpt from the book itself.
(Only in Norwegian)
Stemmen slo gjennom røykskyen, og Alex kunne se konturene av en liten, spinkel mann. Da han kom nærmere, kunne Alex se [...]
”Kult å kunne – Norge” was a school assignment Helge´s text class and the graphic design class at Westerdals got from Schibsted, a Norwegian publishing company. They were tasked with creating a fact book about Norway, intended for kids and youth.
Every year AD2 at Westerdals makes an exhibition in collaboration with Beefeater Gin.
Last years assignment: Bring London to Oslo.
Our solution:
Three Dias slide projectors in a box, each of them projecting different body parts. Head, torso and legs.
All the pictures where of Londoners.
Finn Skårderud wrote an article about revelling and obesity. Kim illustrated it.
Every year AD2 at Westerdals School of Communication publish a magazine called Anno.
The theme for 2009 was “Everything is better now”, contrived from the thought that old people always say the opposite.