Finn Nygaard (born 1955) is a

graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...

from

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. He has worked professionally in many fields of graphical design, including

corporate identity A corporate identity or corporate image is the manner in which a corporation, firm or business enterprise presents itself to the public (such as customers and investors as well as employees). The corporate identity is typically visualized by ...

, colour setting,

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graphic art A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface.

layout Layout may refer to: * Page layout, the arrangement of visual elements on a page ** Comprehensive layout (comp), a proposed page layout presented by a designer to their client * Layout (computing), the process of calculating the position of obje ...

, and

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. He has exhibited in major galleries and museums around the world and his productions has won him many awards and professional recognition internationally. Nygaard is member of

Alliance Graphique Internationale Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) is a club of the world's leading graphic artists and designers. There are 527 members from 43 countries. Its members have been collectively responsible for the identity design of most of the world's top co ...

(AGI) since 1997 and a Graphis Master of Design from 2011. Finn Nygaard lives and works on the island of Mors in the

Limfjord The Limfjord (Danish language, common Danish: ''Limfjorden'' , in north Jutlandish dialect: ''Æ Limfjord'') is a shallow part of the sea, located in Denmark where it has been regarded as a fjord ever since Viking Age, Viking times. However, i ...

area of

Northern Jutland Northern Jutland ( da, Nørrejylland) is a historical region in Denmark, defined as Jutland north of the Kongeå (with the region south of the Kongeå called Southern Jutland (''Sønderjylland'')). As with other historical regions of Denmark, Nort ...

Background

Nygaard was born in

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...

and began serious studies of drawing at the

Aarhus Art Academy Aarhus Art Academy ( da, Århus Kunstakademi) is an art school in Aarhus, Denmark. The school resides in a listed building on Vestergade 29 in the old medieval inner city, comprised by the neighborhood of Indre By. The building was listed on th ...

, at the unusually young age of 14, and later

Design School Kolding Design School Kolding (Danish: Designskolen Kolding) is a design school located in Kolding, Denmark. It delivers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the areas of fashion, textiles, communication design, industrial design, accessory design, an ...

. His talent and enthusiasm secured him an apprenticeship at Borges Grafiske Tegnestue, a design office in Aarhus, from which he graduated in 1977. He established his own studio in 1979 and has worked professionally with graphic design ever since. In the early 1990s he was part of the design group Eleven Danes and the European Designers Network (EDEN). He is a prolific designer, especially with poster art, and has won many acclaimed awards both in Denmark and internationally. In 1997, he became a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Nygaard has a personal interest in

jazz music Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major f ...

and he has designed posters for the

Aarhus International Jazz Festival Aarhus Jazz Festival (formerly Aarhus International Jazz Festival) is an eight-day jazz festival in Aarhus, Denmark. It is held every year in July, August or September. The festival performs at the Aarhus Concert Hall, as well as many different v ...

specifically for many years, but also several other major jazz events in Denmark. Many of these jazz posters have won him international awards. Among his travels he has studied

calligraphy Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "t ...

in Japan, China and Korea and has used the technique artistically for numerous ink art productions. Nygaard gives lectures and conducts workshops around the world on a regular basis and has exhibited in many prestigious galleries, often solo exhibitions. This includes the IdcN in Nagoya, the Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum,

Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

in Amsterdam,

State Russian Museum The State Russian Museum (russian: Государственный Русский музей), formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (russian: Русский Музей Императора Александра III), on ...

in St. Petersburg, National Museum Poznan in Poland, Pálffy Palace of the

Bratislava City Gallery The Bratislava City Gallery ( sk, Galéria mesta Bratislava, abbr. GMB) is a gallery located in Bratislava, Slovakia, in the Old Town. It is the second largest Slovak gallery of its kind. The gallery is housed at the Mirbach Palace Mirbach Palac ...

in Slovakia, Museum of Printing History in Houston Texas, and Galleria Maristara in Mexico. Nygaard is on permanent exhibit at the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen, Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and The Merrill C. Berman Collection in New York among others. He follows and participates in several prestigious poster

biennale Biennale (), Italian for "biennial" or "every other year", is any event that happens every two years. It is most commonly used within the art world to describe large-scale international contemporary art exhibitions. As such the term was popularis ...

Awards and recognitions

Some of Nygaards awards and recognitions includes: * 7 Silver awards in the Graphis Poster Annual 2018 competitions. * Featured in the International Poster Collection at Colorado State University from 2011. * Several working grants from The Danish Arts Foundation * ILMC Worldwide Award for Outside Posters 2001 and 2002 for his jazz posters *

Danish Design Award The Danish Design Award is an annual international design prize awarded by the member organization Design denmark and Danish Design Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1965, the first Danish design award, the ID Prize, was launched. This was follo ...

, 2000As part of Eleven Danes, he designed colour setting and graphic expressions for the

Øresundståg Øresundståg (, ) is a passenger train network operated by Skånetrafiken and Transdev in the transnational Øresund Region of Denmark and Sweden. The name is a hybrid of the Danish ''Øresundstog'' and the Swedish ''Öresundståg'', both meanin ...

train launched in 1999. See p.84 in the
Danish Design Award 2012
publication or Nygaards own website.

Notes and references

External links

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Nygaard
at the Danish Poster Museum {{DEFAULTSORT:Nygaard, Finn People from Aarhus Danish graphic designers Danish poster artists 20th-century Danish illustrators 21st-century Danish illustrators Danish painters 1955 births Living people