Ingjerd Sandven is an experienced and broad-based illustrator, graphic designer, product developer and content creator based in Oslo. She has extensive experience in storytelling, working as a communication designer and content creator for both small and large businesses within the fields of culture, art and architecture . She is also exploring different materials within the field of graphic design and illustration currently creating textile patterns and motifs on silk, linen, wool and cotton products.

Education:
Master in Graphic Design
(Institute for Visual Communication) at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) 2001

Member:
NBK / Tegnerforbundet
Grafill
AFAG
Gramart
Tono

Contact:
ingjerd (at) ingjerdsandven.no

Highlighted projects (last 5 years)

Videos for Oslo Art District / Kunst i Kvadraturen - 2024
There will be produced ten videos for different galleries part of the network Kunst i Kvadraturen / Oslo Art District.

Video on Lydia SooJin Park - 2024
Lydia SooJin Park is a young South Korean artist with a master’s degree from KHiO in 2023. The film showcases her ceramics, accompanied by the artist's own voiceover. (Filming, editing, and direction).

Video on Marit Tingleff - 2024
Film (filming/editing/direction) for the artist's participation at the Market Art Fair in Stockholm. Tingleff had her international breakthrough in the "Scandinavian Craft Today" exhibition in Japan and the USA in 1987–1988. Her work is inspired by traditional Norwegian pottery, reinterpreted into a highly personal, modern form language (SNL).

Wool blanket - 2024
Wool blanket inspired by the history of textile industry along the Akerselva.

Holmenkollen Scarf - Pattern Design - 2023
Pattern design for cotton and silk scarves for Holmenkollen / Ski Museum. The Holmenkollen Scarf was first launched in 1946 in connection with the first Holmenkollen Ski Festival after World War II. In 2023, the Ski Museum celebrated its 100th anniversary, and the new scarves will be part of an exhibition in 2024.

Illustrations on misc. products - 2023
for Bakkekroen restaurant.

Bar design - wood panel engraving - 2023
GRAS venue (restaurant , bar and exhibition space)

Oslo Art District Brand Identity - 2023
Oslo Art District / Kunst i Kvadraturen is a network collaboration among 12 galleries in Oslo's Kvadraturen district, also known as the Oslo Art District.

Can Architecture Fix This...? Season 2 - 2022
Season 2 explored the theme of transformation in a broad sense, covering topics from building transformations (interview with Dipl. Ing. Florian Kosche) to changes in architectural education (Michael Speaks, Syracuse University, USA).

Can Architecture Fix This...? Season 1 - 2021
Co-editor and producer of the podcast Can Architecture Fix This...? (White Arkitekter, 2021-2022). The podcast highlights projects where design has contributed to sustainable solutions for future challenges. Season 1 expanded on the work of Out of the Blue, with water as the theme.

Roca Gallery London - 2020
Participated in the exhibition Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century at Roca Gallery London. The book Out of the Blue was launched in conjunction with the exhibition opening in April 2020.

BOHO - Children's Open House - 2019
Creative workshop (with wood installation) for children: BOHO - Children's Open House: Water in Cities (White Arkitekter, 2019).

Out of the Blue - Anthology - 2019
Co-editor for an anthology on architecture and sustainability: Out of the Blue - a blue perspective on the new reality of climate change (White Arkitekter, 2019). Also wrote an article for the book, Blue City - reconnecting the fjord to the city.

Out of the Blue - Seminar and Book Launch - 2019
Event at SALT Arena featuring lectures, debate, and the book launch.

Blue City - 2019
Article on the role of nature in wellbeing and health, re-published on Roca Gallery London’s digital platform (Blue City - Reconnecting the Fjord to the City, 2020). The article was also selected for the gallery’s annual publication Roca Highlights

Selected Projects / Exhibitions / Awards / Publications

2024
• Part of exhibition on Skimuseet: Holmenkollen Ski Fest Scarves
• Received a grant from Grafill for the project Blaa Aare
• Video presentations for "Oslo Art District" – ongoing
• Project video for DIFK Engineers – ongoing
• Video featuring artist Marit Tingleff for Market Art Fair, Stockholm
• Wool blanket pattern design inspired by the history of textile industry along the Akerselva.
• Tea towels in linen and cotton with pattern ÆLVA
• Video featuring ceramic artist Lydia SooJin Park for Format exhibition

2023
• Scarf illustration/design for Skimuseet (Holmenkollen) 100-year
• Development of product series for Blaa Aare
• New logo and visual identity for "Oslo Art District"
• Communication strategy for DIFK Engineers
• Pattern design and wood panel engraving for GRAS venue

2022
• Can Architecture Fix This...? Season 2: Transformation
Producer for podcast (White Arkitekter)

2021
• Can Architecture Fix This...? Season 1: Water
Producer for podcast (White Arkitekter)

• Bergen City water front project won Gold in “Future Projects – Leisure” at WAN Awards (WhiteArkitekter)

2020
• Published article ‘Blue City’ in Highlights 2020, Roca Gallery, London (WhiteArkitekter)

• Participated in Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century exhibition, Roca Gallery, London (WhiteArkitekter)

2019
• BOHO Children's Open House, workshop for children at Sentralen Oslo (WhiteArkitekter)

• Seminar and book launch at SALT Arena (Out of the Blue) (WhiteArkitekter)

• Co-editor and writer for anthology Out of the Blue (WhiteArkitekter)

• White Water 1 - Workshop on creative thinking (WhiteArkitekter)

2018
• Pattern design for facade of Nuuk Psychiatric Hospital (WhiteArkitekter)

• Communication strategy for Nuuk Psychiatric Hospital project (WAN Awards winner 2020) (WhiteArkitekter)

2017
• Creative workshop Saving Miami for urban planners at White Architects (Urban Day) (WhiteArkitekter)

• Group exhibition at Gallery R21, Visuelt competition

• Diploma in Visuelt competition, Open Category for illustrations for Hurtigruten

2016
• Communication strategy lead at Tegnerforbundets 100 year anniversary celebration and exhibition

2015
• Group exhibition at Gallery R21, Desillustrert

2014
• Communication for the Norwegian Pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture (Spacegroup Architects)
• Workshop series A Space Odyssey (Spacegroup Architects)

2012
• Diploma in Norway's Most Beautiful Books for book cover design for An Hour With... series

2007
• Group exhibition Norwegian Posters at Gallery R21, Oslo

2005
• Henie Onstad Art Center, screening of short film The Banana (editing/directing)

2004
• First broadcast of short film The Banana on NRK (acquired for 5 showings)

2003
• Screening of short film The Banana at Grimstad Short Film Festival (editing/directing)

2003
• Short film The Banana, co-directed with Anna M. Nilsen

2002
• Silver, Visual Students 2002, for practical thesis project "The Hollow Nickel Case"

2001
• 1. price Film fra Sør for the short film ‘ Melkeveien 22’