Högni Valur Högnason Personal RSS Feed http://www.behance.net/hognivalur Árstíðir self titled debut album from the band Árstíðir. The band name Árstíðir means seasons (winter, summer, spring winter) when translated to English. I thought how could I make artwork for the album that represents the season in Iceland and the rise in their music. In the summer time there is sunshine 24 hours a day and in winter you only see the sun for 3-4 hours when it is the darkest. I decided to use textures from birds, contrast the dark and the white and birds are signes for the seasons. They sing in the spring and leave in the fall. Exept the hardest ones. It also contrast the rise in their harmonies. It took the photos in the Natural History Museum of Kópavogur, where they have exaples of stuffed birds from Icelandic nature. You can read more about the band on their website: www.arstidir.com/ http://www.behance.net/Gallery/ArstAAir/272190 Árstíðir self titled debut album from the band Árstíðir. The band name Árstíðir means seasons (winter, summer, spring winter) when translated to English. I thought how could I make artwork for the album that represents the season in Iceland and the rise in their music. In the summer time there is sunshine 24 hours a day and in winter you only see the sun for 3-4 hours when it is the darkest. I decided to use textures from birds, contrast the dark and the white and birds are signes for the seasons. They sing in the spring and leave in the fall. Exept the hardest ones. It also contrast the rise in their harmonies. It took the photos in the Natural History Museum of Kópavogur, where they have exaples of stuffed birds from Icelandic nature. You can read more about the band on their website: www.arstidir.com/ http://www.behance.net/Gallery/ArstAAir/272190 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:01:45 -0500 To die will be an awfully big adventure is the overwriting of my final project from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. This project is about deaths in our life. It consist of three pieces. The first one is about childish innocence, second one is about love and third one about death it self. The idea is that we are supposed to remember the adventures we went through and keep these things close to us while going forward to the next adventure. I wanted to paint the objects black to and have paint dripping of them to make them look beautiful but unusable. The black color represents death and the paint drippings that they have been slain. The sentences “To die will be an awfully big adventure” was said by Peter Pan after he had saved Vanda and she was trying to stop him from going back and kill Captain Hook. I made each subject personal. It was shown at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts B.A. final show in one of the biggest gallery in Iceland Kjarvalsstaðir. The project is for sale, as a whole and individual pictures, if interested contact me at hognivalur@gmail.com. Also feel free to send me comments. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/To-die-will-be-an-awfully-big-adventure_/220106 To die will be an awfully big adventure is the overwriting of my final project from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. This project is about deaths in our life. It consist of three pieces. The first one is about childish innocence, second one is about love and third one about death it self. The idea is that we are supposed to remember the adventures we went through and keep these things close to us while going forward to the next adventure. I wanted to paint the objects black to and have paint dripping of them to make them look beautiful but unusable. The black color represents death and the paint drippings that they have been slain. The sentences “To die will be an awfully big adventure” was said by Peter Pan after he had saved Vanda and she was trying to stop him from going back and kill Captain Hook. I made each subject personal. It was shown at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts B.A. final show in one of the biggest gallery in Iceland Kjarvalsstaðir. The project is for sale, as a whole and individual pictures, if interested contact me at hognivalur@gmail.com. Also feel free to send me comments. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/To-die-will-be-an-awfully-big-adventure_/220106 Sat, 02 May 2009 17:29:30 -0500 LHÍ or Listaháskóli Íslands, (e. Icelandic Academy of the Arts). This was apart of a rebranding course I did at the start of my third year in school. I was supposed to rebrand the school. First of was the logo. My logo is inspired by the schools new building. It has many layers of blocks to fit all the departments in. It is also like three steps, both representing a step upwards and each step representing one of three years you need to take to get a B.A. degree. The font used in the logo is Reykjavík One, designed by Stefán Kjartansson. I choose Reykjavík because I think that the Icelandic Academy of the Arts should support Icelandic design. I decided to use color-coding to represent different departments. Straight black for the offices, green for the design department, pink for the art department, orange for the music department, green-blue for the theatre department and blue for the teaching department. Here you can see the logos in Icelandic and English and some print stuff with the logo on. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/LHA-logo--/220103 LHÍ or Listaháskóli Íslands, (e. Icelandic Academy of the Arts). This was apart of a rebranding course I did at the start of my third year in school. I was supposed to rebrand the school. First of was the logo. My logo is inspired by the schools new building. It has many layers of blocks to fit all the departments in. It is also like three steps, both representing a step upwards and each step representing one of three years you need to take to get a B.A. degree. The font used in the logo is Reykjavík One, designed by Stefán Kjartansson. I choose Reykjavík because I think that the Icelandic Academy of the Arts should support Icelandic design. I decided to use color-coding to represent different departments. Straight black for the offices, green for the design department, pink for the art department, orange for the music department, green-blue for the theatre department and blue for the teaching department. Here you can see the logos in Icelandic and English and some print stuff with the logo on. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/LHA-logo--/220103 Sat, 02 May 2009 17:22:08 -0500 LHÍ or Listaháskóli Íslands, (e. Icelandic Academy of the Arts). Following the logo I was supposed to make a branding for the school. I decided I wanted an edgy, kind of dangerous look that says that there’s something exiting going on in the school. I wanted the logo to be a bit concretive, but the over all look to be hard and rough but excessible. Displaying a fun and exiting school with a dangerous attitude towards design. The students are to come to the school learn how to use there skills right and explode into good designers, artist, musicians, dancers, actors, writers, teachers or what they put there mind to. For headlines I used Kvíabryggja the display font I designed. The font I used for the main text and smaller headlines is Reykjavík One. Images are of dangerous things that frighten. Here you can see four brochures for teachers and students, for the school year 2008-2009 Then there are two posters for the schools gallery. Next there are two newspaper ads, one is for art department advertising a free position in the teaching staff, the other is for the design department advertising when the last day for handing in applications is. After that is an invitation to the fashion design 3 year final show, the idea is that the fashion designers take the invitations and sew into them before sending them out. At last there are some t-shirts for students that say: armed, meaning armed with skills. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/LHA-branding/220091 LHÍ or Listaháskóli Íslands, (e. Icelandic Academy of the Arts). Following the logo I was supposed to make a branding for the school. I decided I wanted an edgy, kind of dangerous look that says that there’s something exiting going on in the school. I wanted the logo to be a bit concretive, but the over all look to be hard and rough but excessible. Displaying a fun and exiting school with a dangerous attitude towards design. The students are to come to the school learn how to use there skills right and explode into good designers, artist, musicians, dancers, actors, writers, teachers or what they put there mind to. For headlines I used Kvíabryggja the display font I designed. The font I used for the main text and smaller headlines is Reykjavík One. Images are of dangerous things that frighten. Here you can see four brochures for teachers and students, for the school year 2008-2009 Then there are two posters for the schools gallery. Next there are two newspaper ads, one is for art department advertising a free position in the teaching staff, the other is for the design department advertising when the last day for handing in applications is. After that is an invitation to the fashion design 3 year final show, the idea is that the fashion designers take the invitations and sew into them before sending them out. At last there are some t-shirts for students that say: armed, meaning armed with skills. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/LHA-branding/220091 Sat, 02 May 2009 17:17:17 -0500 This is my suggestion for a promotional poster for a handcraft conference in Reykjavík. I where supposed to use ancient Icelandic sewing patterns and use them in a new way. The idea was worked with Erna Þorbjörg and Einar Inga who are my classmates in school. Einar also modeled and sacrificed his hair for the picture. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Handverks-rAAstefna/219986 This is my suggestion for a promotional poster for a handcraft conference in Reykjavík. I where supposed to use ancient Icelandic sewing patterns and use them in a new way. The idea was worked with Erna Þorbjörg and Einar Inga who are my classmates in school. Einar also modeled and sacrificed his hair for the picture. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Handverks-rAAstefna/219986 Sat, 02 May 2009 12:58:45 -0500 This is a poster I did in a course in school. It mesures the loss of my childish innocence. The poster is about things that happen in our life and how we develop from a child to an adult. But is also supposed to point out that we should try hold on to the child insise of our self. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Innocence/219993 This is a poster I did in a course in school. It mesures the loss of my childish innocence. The poster is about things that happen in our life and how we develop from a child to an adult. But is also supposed to point out that we should try hold on to the child insise of our self. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Innocence/219993 Sat, 02 May 2009 13:00:42 -0500 Goddur is my Professor in Graphic design in the Icelandic Academy of Arts. This was a school project where I was supposed to design 12 books series from diffreent articles he has written in newspappers in Iceland. I decided to use a picture I got off him to make the cover art for the books. So each one would be a piece of his mind but together it would reveal the man behind the writing and his thoughts. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Goddur-Series/220005 Goddur is my Professor in Graphic design in the Icelandic Academy of Arts. This was a school project where I was supposed to design 12 books series from diffreent articles he has written in newspappers in Iceland. I decided to use a picture I got off him to make the cover art for the books. So each one would be a piece of his mind but together it would reveal the man behind the writing and his thoughts. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Goddur-Series/220005 Sat, 02 May 2009 13:33:17 -0500