#79 IXDA SVG Meetup: A Monster Quest & Usable branding

Remi Evjenth Løvik: Designing Your Life: A Monster Quest
What happens when a designer starts designing their own life? It started with a book, curiosity, and a willingness to treat life like a prototype. The book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett sparked a series of experiments some unexpected, some uncomfortable. Along the way, one experiment turned into something completely unplanned: a co-created game where monsters, missions, and household chores collide.

Remi is a designer with over 15 years of experience across product design, interaction design and AI. He has worked at companies like boost.ai, Entur and NDLA, and is currently at Munu.

Veslemøy Holt and Tord F Paulsen: Usable branding
When Tord ate at K2 for the first time, he said: "I love the food, but I hate the logo!" That became the start of a collaboration between Restaurant K2 and the design agency Holt & Paulsen.

In this talk they will show how a new logo, plantable business cards, a sustainability newspaper, and a very special gift card have become part of the customer journey at K2. And how the branding helps both staff and guests tell the story of a restaurant built on local ingredients, zero waste, and uncompromising sustainability.

Veslemøy and Tord run Holt & Paulsen, a Stavanger-based design studio recognised as one of Europe's 100 best. They specialise in sustainable brand development, creating identities that align organisations internally and engage customers externally.

Agenda
17:00 Doors open + mingling + pizza
18:00 Introduction and welcome
18:05: Speaker 1
18:50 Q&A
18:55 Break
19:05 Speaker 2
19:50 Q&A
19:55 Thank you for coming
20:00 The meetup is over
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PS: Both talks at this event will be in English.