FORM - Department of design
Strategic area: FORM
Man and form
Form is fundamental in all design work.
As designers, we use our abilities to give shape to surroundings, objects and systems - where practical-functional as well as aesthetic qualities and craftsmanship are taken care of, and both innovation and tradition have a place.
The form group consists of practitioners and researchers with experience from the private and public sector.
Our activities encompass teaching, research, practice based activities and outward-facing initiatives like exhibitions, visibility, dialogues, talks etc.
We work within these areas
- Aesthetics and composition
- Construction and material knowledge
- Product design
- Sustainable design
- Digital and physical tools
- Typography and information visualization
- Wayfinding systems
- Packaging design
- Wood and tectonics
- Textiles and tectonics
- Cross-disciplinary orientation
Practice based activities
Gunnar Eidsvik: Designer and partner in Brave New Lines, furniture and product design company.
Martin Høgh Olsen: Designer and owner of Høgh, furniture and product design company, since 2016. Freelance designer since 2005. Also a practicing exhibition designer.
Nils H. Stensrud: Designing, building and exhibiting bespoke furniture and smaller series.
Ole P. Wullum: Professional industrial designer since 1994, with a focus on architecture and furniture. Has extensive experience with planning for the finished goods industry nationally and internationally.
Head of strategic area
Members
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Mari Hermansen Study programme leader for bachelor in interaction design
+47-73412271 mari.hermansen@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Eivind Arnstein Johansen Study programme leader for Bachelor in graphic design
+47-61135415 eivind.johansen@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Maureen Selina Laverty
+4741375289 maureen.s.laverty@ntnu.no -
Ole Lund Associate Professor, PhD
+4795031453 olelun@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Thomas Tengesdal Nordby Assistant Professor
thomas.nordby@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Martin Gudem Ringdalen Associate Professor
+4793694695 martin.gudem@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Jon Herman Rismoen Associate professor
+47-73590125 +4748136581 jon.rismoen@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Nils Henrik Stensrud Assistant Professor
+47-73590105 nils.h.stensrud@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Gunnar Eidsvik Tvedt Assistant Professor
+4791868534 gunnar.tvedt@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Ole Edward Wattne Assistant professor
+4793445885 ole.wattne@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Ole Petter Wullum Associate Professor
+47-73590106 ole.petter.wullum@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Trond Are Øritsland Associate Professor
+4790783975 trond.are.oritsland@ntnu.no Department of Design
Courses we teach
IDG1000 – Graphic Tools, Principles and Methods
IDG1004 – Color in Interface Design
IDG1009 – Multichannel Publishing
IDG1051 – Information Graphics
IDG2200 – Design and Prototyping for Digital Products. (Will be replaced with IDG2201 – Design Systems and Universal Design for Digital Interfaces).
IDG2312 – History of Typography
IDG3009 – Information Architecture
IDG3014 – Superstructure Project, Portfolio and Exhibition
IDG3910 – Bachelor's thesis BIXD
IDG3920 – Bachelor's thesis BWU
TPD4100 – Design 1 - Introduction
TPD4102 – Design 2 - Composition
TPD4105 – Information Technology for Design and Communication
TPD4111 – Aesthetics 1 - Composition and Space
TPD4112 – Aesthetics 1 - Composition and Rhythm
TPD4113 – Aesthetics 3 - Complex Composition
TPD4123 – Mechatronics for Designers
TPD4127 – Design 4 - Production og Materials
TPD4134 – User Interface Design
TPD4153 – Structural Packaging Design
TPD4169 – Design for Industrialization
TPD4500 – Design 9 - Specialization Project
PhD projects
Maureen Laverty: Sensory Nourishment.
Thomas Nordby: The rise and professionalization of the graphic designprofession in Norway between 1950 and 1990.
Ole Watne: Knowledge sources for wayfinding design: with an emphasis on the role of knowledge embedded in the artefact.
Exhibitions
Designer’s Saturday / DS Academy 2019
Designer’s Saturday / DS Academy 2021
Designer’s Saturday / DS Academy 2023
Christmas exhibition 2020 at Arkitektenes Hus
Trondheim Arkitekturfilm Festival 2020
Trondheim Arkitekturfilm Festival 2022
Trondheim Arkitekturfilm Festival 2023