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Utawards show

2011-01-29T21:05:06+01:00

Utawards is an award show celebrating the finest of Trondheim. Divensis teamed up with Helmet and Nerdo to create the opening sequence and the graphics during the show.

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Kulturbyrået Mesen

2010-11-05T16:01:15+01:00

Kulturbyrået Mesén does sweet shit within art production & web development, and has been cooperating with Divensis for years. Their company website is now designed and frontend-developed by yours truly. Check it!

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Utvalgt - Norwegian Army

2010-08-08T23:28:14+02:00

Divensis teamed up with the army to design Utvalgt – a social website for called-in conscripts.

Hexagon symbol by Simen Justdal at Tank

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Pollen to the people

2010-08-07T18:36:31+02:00

Pollenvarsel is an iPhone app giving you the local pollen forecast around Norway. Totally free - grab yours today!

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Rebooting divensis.no

2010-02-26T11:33:21+01:00

Like most designers, there's always a gap between my current portfolio and my vision of what it can be. A while back, when this gap grew too big, I gathered the crew and set out for a redesign. This is what happened.

Posted February 26 in Case Study

New blog

How can the front page offer returning visitors the latest shiz, while still presenting the most important projects & headlines to first-timers? This was the main question that needed to be answered in order for this redesign to succeed.

A blog seemed smart, but not on behalf of the featured projects.

After some heavy wireframing and serious head-scratching, I came up with this: A two-panel blog that includes both articles and projects, with a featured, double-sized item on top. The featured item may be an article, a news story or a project, and is not dependent on time in any way. I believe this solution makes a good combination between the latest and the greatest.

Several new designs

One of the things that bothered me on the previous version was how the design of the site itself had a tendency to compete with the projects. On this version, every project and blog post is allowed to have its own tailored look. So while the overall navigation and layout stays the same, the visual flavor on each page may change completely – like snowy mountains on Oppdag Troms or rough camo on Kampklar.

To make this happen, the backend allows for custom css on every page. I'm aware that we're not making it easy for ourselves with this feature, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna pay off in the long run.

New backend

While the visual treats came along nicely, big things were happening under the hood. Håvard & Torkil got their hands dirty with Django, and developed a solid backend that allows us to tailor every detail of the site in a simple fashion. Although this isn't visible to the public eye, it might just be the biggest upgrade on the site.

The days of hacking around Wordpress is definitely over.

The evolution of backgrounds used on Divensis.no from the first version in 2007 until today

Among other things that were changed was the textures, the typography and the colour scheme, which is now a bit brighter overall. Thanks for the patience while we slipped into something a bit more comfortable. Now let's see how long we can stick with this one :)

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Kampklar - Norwegian Army

2010-02-07T23:49:07+01:00

The Norwegian Army joined forces with Divensis to embark on their most ambitous web project yet. Kampklar (English: fit for fight) is an online training planner that inspires & motivates soldiers to improve their physical shape. Kampklar offers a custom training program, exercise history, stats and highscores - all with a military twist.

Divensis has had the full visual responsibility, including logo and interface design, as well as art direction for the instruction photography.

The project is still under development. This first version is integrated in the army's own social site Utvalgt, but will appear in a stand-alone version to the public later on.

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Rebranding the midwives

2010-02-07T23:45:51+01:00

After having worked on their anniversary logo, the midwives returned for a more permanent overhaul. A new identity was established as a new year begun, following in the footsteps of the anniversary identity and its flavour.

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Plan Norway's Girl Campaign

2010-02-07T23:14:53+01:00

Plan is one of the oldest and largest international developmental agencies in the world. When Plan Norway began working on their biggest online campaign to date, Divensis was brought in early in the process.

The campaigns goal was to put focus on girls and their current situation in poor parts of the world. Our solution was a site that allowed people to upload their face to the campaign site, and thereby giving the cause a face. Your picture would be coloured pink, and appear in the site's sliding wall of faces, as well as in other social sites of your choice.

The campaign turned out a huge success upon launch. This sliding wall counted 10,000 an hour after launch! As the campaign ended, 124,000 had donated their face to the cause.

The campaign was awarded two silver awards at The Golden Tag 2010, in the categories "Best web campaign, community information" and "Best internet strategy".

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The wool crisis

2010-02-07T22:54:28+01:00

Den store ullkrisen(The wool crisis) is a flash game for small children, promoting wool garment by clothing brand Pierre Robert.

The game's goal is simple: lure sheep into a barn using a piece of grass. Inside they receive a "haircut" which provides important wool during the country's wool crisis. As you gather wool you increase your score, receive promotional offers, sign up in competition entries etc.

Agency Soulpolice is behind the concept & development, and got in touch to have the graphics made. Despite a tight budget, the game turned out a success with nearly 300 000 unique sheep being gathered. Yay!

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Official website of Håkon Bleken

2010-02-07T22:45:42+01:00

81 year old Håkon Bleken is one of Norway's most renowned contemporary artists. When approaching Divensis, his brief was clear: "make my art appear on the web".

After a hectic period of work and the coolest client meetings ever, we were both happy with the result. The finished website is a dark, Bleken-esque showcase that puts emphasis on his astounding line of work, and features several hundred pieces from his 60 year long career.

Go check it out!

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