Tord Torpe and Magnus Nyquist create an animated ode to libraries

Date
12 November 2014

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Contrary to popular belief, libraries can be wildly fun and psychedelic places if you’ve got the right tools to work with. Here and willing to help me prove my point are Tord Torpe and Magnus Nyquist, who created an animation to this end. Entitled KHIB Biblioteket after the library at their school, Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway, the animation sees a bandy-legged gent wandering absent-mindedly up to his library door, only to be thrown head first into a world of Memphis-inspired jumping shapes, swirling perspectives, fast-paced bright flashing colours and lights and morphing letterforms. It’s an incredibly ambitious project for a pair of students and happily it succeeds magnificently in its task, even being awarded a prize by Norwegian design blog Grafill.

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Tord Torpe & Magnus Nyquist: KHIB Biblioteket (still)

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Tord Torpe & Magnus Nyquist: KHIB Biblioteket (still)

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Tord Torpe & Magnus Nyquist: KHIB Biblioteket (still)

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Tord Torpe & Magnus Nyquist: KHIB Biblioteket (still)

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Tord Torpe & Magnus Nyquist: KHIB Biblioteket (still)

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Tord Torpe & Magnus Nyquist: KHIB Biblioteket (still)

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Tord Torpe & Magnus Nyquist: KHIB Biblioteket (still)

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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