Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian)
and Jon Forss (British) have
worked together as the
creative direction & design
team Non-Format since 2000.
They work on a range of
projects including art direction,
design, illustration and custom
typography for arts & culture,
music industry, fashion and
advertising clients. They have
art directed the independent
music monthly The Wire and
also Varoom: the journal of
illustration and made images.
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A bestselling hardback
monograph entitled
Non-Format Love Song was
published by Die Gestalten
Verlag in 2007. A second edition
was published in Spring 2008.
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A Non-Format edition of
Pyramyd’s Design And Designers
series was published in 2006.
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Non-Format is based in Oslo,
Norway and Minneapolis, USA
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Clients include:
Aimaq Rapp Stolle, Berlin
AMV BBDO
Accidental Records
AOI
BBDO NY
BBH
Beams
BMG
Channel 4
Cent
Coca-Cola
CoiGirlMagic
Colle+McVoy
Computer Arts
Coty Inc
Domino Recording Company
The Economist
EMI
The Fader
Fiat
Future Publishing
Gap
Graniph
Grey Worldwide
Hachette Filipacchi Associés
IBM
Iida
Important Records
!K7 Records
KKV
Krow
K-Swiss
Lancôme
Laurence King Publishing
The Leaf Label
Lemon Scented Tea
LG
Lo Recordings
M&CSaatchi
McCann Erickson
Mother
Mute Records
New York Magazine
The New York Times
Nexus Productions
Nike
Nokia
Ogilvy & Mather
Orange
Orion Publishing Group
Penguin UK
Penguin US
Pol Oxygen
Polydor
Print
Rizzoli
The Royal Norwegian Embassy
S Magazine
Sensodyne
Tank
Tate Modern
The Venice Biennale
Tokyo Type Directors Club
UNIQLO
Universal Production Music
Wieden+Kennedy
The Wire Magazine
Yale University Art Gallery
Yellow Productions
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Awards:
AIGA
Annual Design Competition
Certificates of Excellence
2009
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AIGA
50 Books/50 Covers
2005
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Communication Arts
Design Annual
Awards of Excellence
2004, 2005 & 2008
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Communication Arts
Photography Annual
Awards of Excellence
2004 & 2009
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Creative Review Annual
Best In Book
2006 & 2007
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D&AD
Yellow Pencil
2007
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The Design Museum, London
Nomination for Designs
Of The Year
2008
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New York Art Directors Club
Gold Award
2008
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New York Type Directors Club
Certificates of Typographic
Excellence
2006 & 2009
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Print Regional Design Awards
2009
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Tokyo Type Directors Club
TDC Prizes
2006 & 2008
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Tokyo Type Directors Club
Prize nominations
2007 & 2009
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Visuelt, Norway
Silver Award
2008
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Exhibitions:
Solo Shows:
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Make A Fuss
Vallery, Barcelona
2006
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Group Shows:
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Browsing Copy
Useless Gallery, Suntec
International Convention &
Exhibitions Centre,
Singapore
2009
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Lubalin Now
Herb Lubalin Study Center of
Design and Typography,
New York
2009
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Gap’s (Product) RED Artist
Edition T-shirt Collection
Pop-Up Art Gallery, New York
2009
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In An Expression of the
Inexpressible
Dean Johnson Gallery,
Indianapolis
2009
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Best Art Vinyl 2008
Rough Trade East, London
Snap Galleries, Birmingham
The Perfect Pad, Norwich
The Fishmarket, Northampton
2009
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TDC2008 New Graphic Design Japan
Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice
2008
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Tokyo TDC in Seoul
Samwon Paper Gallery, Seoul
2008
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TDC BCCKS Exhibition in
Hong Kong
Minimini Gallery, Hong Kong
2008
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Designs Of The Year
The Design Museum, London
2008
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Tokyo TDC BCCKS
Various venues, Tokyo
2007
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Music Graffiti
Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
2007
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Tokyo TDC in Hong Kong
Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
2006
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CADS04 - I See Music
ICA, London
2004
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Invisible London
Domino, Brussels
2002
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Invisible London
Sonar, Barcelona
2001
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Profiled in:
+81, Japan
All Access, USA
Art and Design, China
Atlas of Graphic Designers, USA
Cap & Design, Sweden
Computer Arts, UK
Concept, Indonesia
Cover, Denmark
Creative Review, UK
Dazed & Confused, Japan
Design 360, Hong Kong
Fudge, Japan
Grafik, UK
Groove, Germany
IdN, Hong Kong
Kreativt Forum, Norway
Lab, UK
MdN, Japan
Monthly Design, Korea
Neo2, Spain
No, Norway
Nylon, USA
Pep!, Hungary
S Book Two, UK
Shift, Japan
Slanted, Germany
Snitt, Norway
Studio Culture, UK
Trax, France
XFUNS, Taiwan
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Work published in:
Adobe Magazine
AIGA Year in Design 27
The Anatomy of Design
Area 2
Archive
Best of Disc Art 1
Brain
Campaign
CD-Art
Communication Arts
Computer Arts
Creative Review
D&AD Annual 2009
D&AD Annual 2007
D&AD Annual 2005
The Creator Studio
Design Week
Dos Logos
DVD-Art
Etapes
Eye Magazine
55 Degrees North
Font Family
Fully Booked
Good Design
Grafik
Graphic
Graphic Design: A User’s Manual
Idea
IdN
It’s A Matter Of Packaging
The Layout Look Book
Limited Edition
Look At This
Mag-Art
Maximalism
Music Week
NeoGeo
New Typographic Design
North by North
1000 Type Treatments
Print
Printed Matter
Printwork
Retrodesign Stylelab
Romantik
Sampler 2 & 3
Serialize
Simply Packaging
Sonic
Stereographics
Studio Voice
Tokyo TDC Vol 17, 18, 19 & 20
Type Addicted
Type-One
Type Specific
Typographics 4 & 5
Typography 27 & 30
Typography Workbook
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