About us

We are a digital design studio based in Oslo, Norway founded and run by Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen. Both hold PhDs in interaction design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Voy works with design of digital and physical products, including websites, apps, interactive exhibitions, networked products.

Our clients include institutions and companies such as Lego, Ericsson, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, The Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture, OMA, Rødt, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Bengler, Oslo Natural History Museum.

Our services

Interaction and product design

Through a carefully constructed creative process, we develop insights into refined and exciting products, both tangible and digital, and hybrids thereof. We work on various forms of products covering websites, Internet of Things, exhibitions, and digital services - from prototyping to implementation.

  • Design direction
  • Concept development
  • User experience design (UI/UX)
  • Digital product exploration and development
  • Electronic and digital prototypes
  • Web front- and back-end development
Technology and user explorations

We address questions of technology from a human perspective. We investigate how technologies are understood in and through culture. For us the diversity of human cultures is a resource in technology and product development.

  • Technology exploration projects
  • Product invention workshops
  • Cultural probes
  • Strategic insights through user and cultural research
Visualisation and communication

We have developed a rich array of methods and techniques for novel visualisations of concepts and ideas. We use illustration, photography, and filmmaking actively in our work in order to generate new perspectives and uncover potential.

  • Technology visualisations
  • Photography and filmmaking
  • Exhibition design
  • Data visualisation

Interested in working with us? Email us at hello@voyoslo.com.

Collaborators

By virtue of sharing offices, we frequently collaborate with our crafty friends at Skrekkøgle and Bengler. Beyond the bounds of our office we draw on a vast network of expert practitioners in industrial design, 3D, film making, electronic and mechanical engineering.

Dissemination

Our work and research has been featured in a range of media outlets, a selection of which you can see here. Every now and then we also hold lectures and talks.

Media

Wired (2015), Wired (2011), BLDG BLOG, O’Reilly Radar, Gizmodo, CBC Spark, New Scientist, NRK Nasjonalgalleriet, O’Reilly Radar, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, Hack a Day, Wired Italy, Arduino, Geekbeat.TV, Singularity Hub, PC Mag, Reddit, Postscapes, Utopianist, Adafruit, Slashdot, Slashgear, Fotopia, Dvice, Bit Rebel, Techno Buffalo, CBC Spark (radio interview), New Scientist, Discovery, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Warren Ellis, VJ.TV, PSFK, Magical Urbanism, Cluster Mag, Gezduna, Europaconcorsi, Owni, Flavorwire, Make Interesting, The Blaze, likecool.com, Designtagbuch.de, designerblog.it, clickblog.it, Pixel Y Dixel, fstoppers.com, Walyou, NRK, Huffington Post, CNET, Spiegel, Minnesota Public Radio, Deutche Welle, Wall Street Journal, Courrier International, The Atlantic, NRC.nl, El Pais, Il Post, La Figaro.

Books

Designing Connected Products (O'Reilly), Visual Storytelling (Gestalten), Invisible Fields (ACTAR), Design Innovation for the Built Environment (Routledge)

Exhibitions

Big Bang Data @ Dox, Prague, Oslo Architecture Triennale, MoMa - Talk to me (New York), Dread - Fear in the age of technological acceleration (Amsterdam), Grafill R21 (Oslo), Lighthouse (Brighton), Amper&and, Enter5 Biennale (Prague), Night of Art and Science (Groningen).

Talks and lectures

Change By Design, IXDA (Oslo), Cognitive Cities (Berlin), IxDA Oslo (Oslo), SVA Interaction Design (New York), Wellington Lux (Wellington), Goldsmiths Design Department, (London), Oslo LUX (Oslo), Playful (London).

Research publications

You can find an overview of our academic research output here and here.

Please get in touch if we can be of assistance: hello@voyoslo.com.