Trond Klevgaard
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- Associate Professor
- Westerdals institutt for kreativitet, fortelling og design
- School of Arts, Design and Media
Background
Trond Klevgaard is associate professor of design history at Kristiania University College. He holds a PhD in the history of design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum in London. His design historical research focuses on Scandinavian design and graphic design. In particular, he has worked on the history of the interwar-period's ‘new typography’ movement in Scandinavia with reference to concepts like domestication, networks, and centre-periphery relations. He currently leads the transdisciplinary D-FoU: Working Group for Design Research.
Klevgaard has a background as a graphic designer with a BA (Hons) in Graphic and Media Design and an MA in Graphic Design from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He has worked on graphic design projects in fields like wayfinding, corporate identity, editorial design and book design for a number of agencies in London and Berlin, and as an independent designer. As a designer, he is particularly interested in the relationship between graphic design and art, generative visual systems, and in experimental approaches to information design and typography.
Between 2019 and 2021 Klevgaard served as head of the BA Graphic Design programme at Kristiania. He has developed, managed and taught several courses on aspects of graphic design practice as well as on methods and design history.