Eclectic, conceptual, playful and straight-forward designers and design studio.
Yokoland is a design studio based in Oslo (Norway) founded by Aslak Gurholt Rønsen and Espen Friberg between their graduation from High School (2000) and their graduation from The National Academy of the Arts, Oslo (2005). The studio today consist of designers Thomas Tengesdal Nordby, Martin Lundell and Yorel Cayla, as well as founding member Aslak Gurholt Rønsen. Yokoland also collaborates with other graphic designers,photographers, illustrators,art directors, editors, writers, musicians, architects, industrial designers, programmers and animators.
Yokoland's main focus is design for cultural clients such as publishers, record labels, architectural companies,museums and art galleries. In recent years the studio has done a wide range of projects – from print-based projects like design of books, magazines, posters and record covers to various types of illustration, signage, set design, wall paintings, exhibition design, title sequences, websites, company identities and stationary. From time to time the studio takes part in other design and art related projects, which have resulted in anything from a fake forest installation to the building of a miniature factory.
Yokoland has gained a reputation both nationally and internationally for the studio's eclectic, conceptual, research based, playful and straight forward approach. A monograph about the studio "Yokoland – As we go up we go down", was published by Die Gestalten Verlag in 2006. The studio's work has also been published by publishers such as Phaidon Press, Princeton Architectural Press and Laurence King.
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