# Studio Blunt

> A brand studio in Stavanger, Norway. Est. 2023. Forming ideas, design and technology into brands that last: strategy and identity, and the tools that keep a brand intact after launch. Vision: 1% less bullshit in the world.

This file is a plain summary of the site for people and AI agents. The site itself is a visual archive of the work, shown as 9:16 story cards.

## The studio

- Small on purpose. Clients talk to the people doing the work, from the first meeting to the final file. No juniors taking over after kickoff, no extra layers.
- Every project gets the people it needs: developers, type designers, animators, photographers, printers, other studios.
- Graphic design, motion and code are done in-house. Identity, digital, print, packaging, type.
- Many brands come with tools the client's team can keep using: generators, templates, coded brand guides and motion systems.
- Works with agencies too: an extra pair of hands on identity, motion and code, credited however suits the project.
- Working language: English. Also Norwegian and Danish.

## ABCD

ABCD started as an internal filing system, four drawers for projects and clients. It stuck because it describes the studio.

- **A, Art:** strictly speaking research and development. Unpaid work with no brief: code experiments, moving type, risograph prints, an exhibition. Play becomes a design tool.
- **B, Branding:** the core. Brand strategy and visual identity: what a brand stands for, how it looks and sounds, and how it holds together over time.
- **C, Collaboration:** do what the studio does best, collaborate on the rest. Clients are collaborators too.
- **D, Design:** where the craft is. Graphic design, motion and code, with the same care for a five-metre banner as a favicon.

## How a project runs

1. **Talk:** a meeting or a call about what you need. No pitch deck.
2. **Agree:** a clear scope, timeline and price, in writing, before anything starts.
3. **Make:** strategy, design and production, with you in the room at the points that matter.
4. **Hand over:** files, guidelines and tools your team can actually use.

Rates: day rate and workshop rate, or a package price for longer projects. Ask at hello@studioblunt.com.

## Selected work

- [Glød](/case/glod): visual identity for Stavanger's light festival (Stavanger Glød), 2024. Case study.
- [Ry](/case/ry): visual identity for Tou, 2024. Case study.
- [What's Brewing](/case/whats-brewing): visual identity, 2024. Case study.
- [Forregion](/story/forregion): logo and branding for Rogaland fylkeskommune, 2023.
- [Salikatt](/story/salikatt): branding and packaging, 2025–26.
- [Pause](/story/pause): branding and packaging, with a custom typeface by Monkey Type, 2026.
- [Haidar Ansari](/story/haidar-ansari): visual identity, 2025.
- [Bjørvika](/story/bjorvika): branding, 2025.
- [Evert](/story/evert): branding and naming for Insol AS, 2024.
- [LP Concierge](/story/lp-concierge): branding, 2024.
- [Melvær&Co](/story/melvaer-co): website, 2024.
- [Take Take Take](/story/take-take-take): motion and 3D, 2024. [Titled Tuesday](/story/titled-tuesday): identity and motion, 2025. [Take Take Take AI bot](/story/take-take-take-2026): motion and design, 2026.
- [ICORN](/story/icorn): concert motion, 2025.
- [Søren Solkær](/story/soren-solkaer): motion, 2026.
- Album design: [Camilla Rosenlund](/story/camilla-rosenlund) (2025), [Terje Winterstø](/story/terje-wintersto) (2025), [Kira Skov](/story/kira-skov) (2025).
- Art: [Contextualise](/story/contextualise), an exhibition with ICORN poets, 2026 ([prints](https://contextualise.studioblunt.com/prints)). [Out of Office](/story/out-of-office-2023), motion for outdoor screens in Oslo, 2023 and 2025.
- Experiments in code: [ABCD](https://abcd.studioblunt.com/ABCD/index.html), [Murmuration](https://abcd.studioblunt.com/murmuration_2/index.html), [ASCII](https://abcd.studioblunt.com/ASCI/index3.html), [Line Type](https://abcd.studioblunt.com/lines_type_square_UI/index.html), [Grid](https://abcd.studioblunt.com/Grid/index.html).
- Ten playlists, each with visuals made for it, linked to Spotify from the site.

## Clients

Rogaland fylkeskommune, Insol AS, ICORN, Bjørvikaforeningen, Take Take Take, Bielke&Yang, Melvær&Co, Tou, Stavanger Glød, What's Brewing, Salikatt, Pause, LP Concierge, Haidar Ansari, Søren Solkær, Camilla Rosenlund, Terje Winterstø, Kira Skov.

## Collaborators

- Freelancers: Sara Westergaard Karlsen, Birgithe Solstrand, Lasse Korsgaard, Albert Kozikowski, Ugly Logo.
- Studios and agencies: Not A Number (studio), Melvær&Co (agency), Bielke&Yang (agency), Det Risografiske (risograph studio), Monkey Type (type foundry), Tine Reingaard (videographer).

## Recognition

Work by the studio's people has been recognised by the European Design Awards, D&AD, Red Dot, Creative Circle Awards, Visuelt, C3 Awards and Sterk Reklame.

## Contact

- Studio Blunt AS, org. 830940812
- Ryfylkegata 9, 4014 Stavanger, Norway
- hello@studioblunt.com, +47 92 49 04 07
- Bernt Henrik Kommedal, founder and designer: bernt@studioblunt.com
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/studio_blunt/), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/studio-blunt/)
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