The Creative Industry Brief

Kan et par øredobber være med på å sette plastproblematikken på dagsordenen?

Politiske aktører bruker kommunikasjon for å nå et mål. Å ha mål betyr å vite hva en vil, hvordan en vil opp...

Amerikalinjens hovedkvarter har gjenoppstått som et levende boutiquehotell.

Du trenger ikke lengre å kunne spille et instrument eller synge rent for å få låten din på P3, for i dag kan alle b...

I to år har Snøhetta forsket på plast. Resultatet er en stol av 100 prosent resirkulert plast og stål.

Vi liker at store merkevarer tar politiske standpunkt og representerer noe mer enn bare produktene sine. Men progressive...

Hvis alle hadde vært som Jamaica, ville OL vært mye mer spennende.

Hvordan påvirket influencere merkenavn i tiden før smarttelefoner, Instagram og blogger? Helly Hansen var streetsmart ...

Er det å bredde seg ut, og lansere nye produkter, den nye markedsføringsstrategien for store merkevarer? Vi har unders...

Enkel forskning viser at hvilken font du bruker sier mer om deg som person enn en personlighetstest.

“Det er en ny falsk i skolegården”. Og noen av de gidder ikke å late som de ekte engang. Smart markedsføring elle...

Fonten alle elsker å hate lever i beste velgående i Oslos mest besøkte gater. Fortjener den mer respekt?

Maureen Selina Laverty just made technology fashionable through high tech knitting

A new extension to the Holocaust Center in Oslo shows how architecture can change the perception of an historical buildi...

Talented graphic design graduates on how they create - and what they expect from the real world.

How did micro-influencers impact brands before smartphones, Instagram and blogs? Helly Hansen went hip hop on the street...

Playwright Nora Bryde Gjertsen on how to write a love story with both the thrill and the sting.

Sneaker heads, your dream may come true!

Why has legendary Jimmy Moffat, mentor and guru of famous photographers, put on a photo exhibit in a disused gas station...

It took Frode Konstantin Helland seven years to design Mu, his new font. He recently put the writing on the wall, asking...

The superstar Norwegian lensman on how to make it as a photographer when everyone’s a photographer.

Pop-up stores and happenings have mushroomed from something scrappy entrepreneurs did because they could afford it, to s...

You say you want a revolution? A legendary The Beatles song certainly and brilliantly created one for Nike.

How can we harness game play to complement learning in classrooms?

AI-enabled face swapping in videos - or deepfakes - are incredibly realistic. Is it just the next step in the post-truth...

How screwing up and 'failing better' became the new badge of honor.

Should e-sport athletes be able to go for Olympic metal? Or are they just too non-athletic? Too violent?

Gaming is changing the way we discover music. And music is changing gaming.

You like to watch your smart TV. But do you want it to watch you back?

3D printed houses - that you are actually supposed to live in - are here.

All it took to remind us how much we love our local library was for someone to - preposterously! - predict their imminen...

Fortnite mania has kids and grown-ups shrieking, parents fretting, investors scrambling.

She hasn't even released her first album yet. So why is everyone so excited about singer-songwriter Nora Konstanse?

It's time for Comic-Con, the annual gathering of 130,000 fans, artists, collectors and culture geeks that defines the wi...

As the high season of music festivals commences, we allow ourselves this one blunt recommendation: Courtney Barnett - wh...

Is the logo becoming a victim of its own success?

The Munch Museum in Oslo has made more than 7,600 of the famed artist's drawings free to access online - even for mercha...

What influences what series and movies we feel like watching? Artificial intelligence, that's what. Join us for an insid...

If the Internet had been a country, it would rank 6th in electricity usage. Are we surfing a cyber wave of emissions? Is...

After five nail-biting regional qualifying rounds, expectations are sky high before next week’s finals of Creative Bus...

Meghan Markle's massive princess power. Smear campaigns against Russian models. The powerhouse controlling your spectacl...

Snøhetta's otherwordly new planetarium outside Oslo is turning architecture afficionados' heads everywhere. We caught u...

"There's a new fake in town". And some of them hardly even pretend to be real. Part clever marketing, part fraud - the a...

Where do you even begin to to look for money for your new creative company? Or rent a stage for your fabulous Tsjekhov-i...

Did music streaming app Tidal inflate audience figures for Beyoncé and Kanye West? The Norwegian media say yes, Tidal�...

New reports confirm that students who know their technology will never ever go out of style. On the job market, anyway.

With or without a colon? High-brow or low-brow? A title can make or break an exhibition. We gathered up some tips from t...

The American version of Skam, the breakout Norwegian, low-budget web series about realistically flawed young people deal...

A new report declares a lack of social mobility and and huge dominance of upper middle class people in creative industri...

Admit it, everything's been done before, writes Ferdinand Vogler, who figured out where some popular logos might have co...

Facebook dominates the Nordic social media landscape. But looking at younger people, some intriguing user behaviour acro...

We did the reading. What is this Design Thinking everyone is talking about, and why is it so wildly popular? And why is ...

Finally. The world is waking up to the passion for gender-independent knitting in the northern countries.

Spotify finally went public on the New York Stock Exchange. What does it mean for the music industry and for listeners? ...

We did the reading for you. Here are some great stories from fashion innovation last week, including the robotic future ...

Trondheim's tech community may be small, but punches well above its weight in tech-led creative industries. Nowhere can ...

In this interview, The Local’s founder James Savage talks to us about their successful introduction of a paywall, and ...

One solo graphic designer explains why she worked so hard to bring Creative Mornings - a global lecture series for the c...

Copenhagen loves its water. Until it threatens to flood and destroy it. City planners and architects are getting creativ...

How to brand a small nation to grab attention on a global stage? Flaunt your peculiarities, says Finland and Norway. Eve...

While investments flow into educational technology around the globe, the profile of Oslo's emerging educational technolo...

Did you hear the news? Several industry bibles are reporting that companies are actually listening to their designers. S...