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Yokoland
Espen Friberg, Aslak Gurholt Rønsen, Martin Lundell and Thomas
Nordby
www.yokoland.com
info@yokoland.com
Birthplace: Lillestrøm, Norway (EF and AGR)/Oslo, Norway (ML and TN)
Residence: Oslo, Norway
Connecting cities: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA; Lillestrøm, Norway; Oslo,
Norway (EF)/Lillestrøm, Norway; London, UK; Oslo, Norway
(AGR)/Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden (ML)/Lillestrøm,
Norway; Oslo, Norway (TN)
This creative group participates frequently
in collective and solo exhibitions. For the
last seven years they have also been the in-
house design studio for the Metronomicon
Audio record label, a musical project
initiated by Friberg and Gurholt Rønsen.
In 2006, they launched their monographic
book Yokoland: As we go up we go down
published by Die Gestalten Verlag.
THEY SPECIALIZE IN editorial design,
but they have also developed various
applications ranging from the design of
signage systems, murals, set design, and
exhibition design to short fi lms, music
videos, title sequences, and websites.
Yokoland also works for the commercial
sector on advertising and visual identity
projects.
They endeavor to keep an open mind
and not to worry unnecessarily about
defi ning limits between the different
disciplines in which they partake. They
do not believe in just one philosophy and
their work can be as conceptual as it can
purely aesthetic. They do, however, admit
to having a tendency to make things
more complicated – “instead of solving
problems, we create them!”
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Lillestrøm (EF/AGR/TN), Norway
Baton Rouge, La., USA (EF)
Lillestrøm (EF/AGR), Norway
Oslo (EF/AGR/TN), Norway
London (AGR), UK
Oslo, Norway
Oslo (ML/TN), Norway
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Fra det ene til det andre/Exhibition poster/Design: Espen and Aslak/2005
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Anachronisma: Center of the Universe/CD cover/Design: Aslak/2006
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