The Statoil art award 2009 catalogue is designed by Steffen Kørner Ludvigsen.
Design consultants: Claudia C. Sandor, Halvor Bodin and Visual Design, Statoil.

This catalogue was one of the first major printed projects with the new Statoil graphic identity by Scandinavian Design Group. The typefaces Statoil Sans and Statoil Display are designed by Melkeveien.

The Statoil art award is intended to encourage and recognise young and emerging artists and to give them opportunities to continue their work. A jury comprising five experts on contemporary art convene every other year to identify the next talented person who deserves to win the Statoil art award. They consider a number of young and talented visual artists and draw up a list of 25 candidates. A short list of four nominees is then selected and invited to show their work in our Nomination exhibition. The winner is announced during the exhibition. Worth NOK 500,000 (about USD 80,000/EUR 60,000) the prize ranks as the biggest of its kind in Norway and is awarded in recognition of a special talent.

Nominees for 2009 are Ida Ekblad, Marius Engh, Anawana Haloba and Lars Laumann.
The winner is Lars Laumann. Read about the art award, the nominees, the jury, the exhibitions at the Statoil art award website and about all the Statoil art programme elements.

Kørner Ludvigsen is a young, talented graphic designer based in Oslo, Norway. He began as an intern at the design studio of Halvor Bodin and Claudia C Sandor (Oslo Collective 2) directly after graduating from upper secondary school in 2009. Kørner Ludvigsen runs his own design company. His typefaces have appeared in NO Magazine and on the American TV channel Nickelodeon.

More documentation on the Statoil Art Award catalogue at Steffen’s website and his Flickr set.

My Flickr set from the exhibition at Kunstnerforbundet’s Gallery for Contemporary Art in Oslo.

A photograph I took of Anawana Haloba’s installation The Greater G8 Advertising Market Stand at The Venice Biennale 2009 is printed in the catalogue.

Documentation photography of the catalogue by Steffen Kørner Ludvigsen.

Awards: Diploma in Visuelt 2010 in the category for Catalogues and Brochures.