Studio Mads Andersen

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Upcoming:

Twelve Column Dreams (2026)
Recieved funds from Grafill in 2025.

Discovery II (2026)
A continuation of the Discovery project from 2017, following the same rules and same method of experimentation with the risograph. Planned to be released at Taipei Art Book Fair in March 2026. 


Plakater fra arkivet 1969–2005 (2022)
Elusive Habitat (2020)
Advanced Computer Parts (2019)
Discovery (2017)
Plakater fra Arkivet 1969-2005 (2022)
Collaboration with Ingrid Rundberg 
Published by Madrid Publications & Hordaland Kunstsenter

Awarded diploma in Visuelt 2022 by Grafill


Plakater fra arkivet 1969-2005 is a catalogue and response to the exhibition of the same name, shown at Hordaland Kunstsenter (HKS) in Bergen, 2020. The publication shows the 21 exhibition posters presented in the exhibition, which have been reprinted in risography and scaled down to A3 format or smaller in the publication. On its back pages, the research carried out in the project to find the path to the original posters' authors is visualized, in diary form. Plakater fra arkivet 1969-2005 is a contribution to Bergen's local design history, as well as an investigation of the designer's role and its imprint in history.

Idea, implementation, risography and text by Mads Andersen and Ingrid Rundberg, who together run the publishing house Madrid Publications. Plakater fra arkivet 1969-2005 is a commissioned work from Hordaland Kunstsenter.

The original posters are designed by: Jorunn Småland, Bjørn Rybakken, Helge Crnic, Lasse Berntzen, Erik Worsøe Eriksen, Elsebet Rahlff, Mette Satusland/Maurice Ducret, Camilla Wærenskjold, Dag Skedsmo/Terje Roalkvam, Olav Christopher Jensen, Michael O’Donnell and Olav Herman Hansen.

Foreword by Mathijs van Geest
Essay by Ingrid Rundberg and Mads Andersen

The publication consists of 21 loose sheets of varying sizes and a sleeve, all presented in a C3 envelope.














Elusive Habitat (2020)

Printed with Risograph SE9380e at Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) using blue, aqua, teal, fluorescent pink, bright red, yellow, purple, flat gold, black and white. 

Published by Madrid Publications
978-82-691839-1-7 

Supported by Grafill

Awarded diploma in Norway’s 
most beautiful books (2021)





Elusive Habitat (Exhibition)
Joy Forum 31.01.2020–10.02.2020
Today, our vast and complex machine is slowly letting us know how much we are—and have been—disrupting its fragile and concealed mechanisms. Our news feeds are continuously showing us signs of a system in distress, and it’s getting harder and harder for all living things to hide from the ramifications. We see a mass extinction of animal and plant species, water and food shortages, increasing natural disasters and extreme weather, habitat loss and collapsing ecosystems. We have developed a never ending stream of content and information, fake clouds that lets us continuously experience, archive and forget, while hunted by invisible spiders that is indexing our every footstep in the shadows of the endless network. For everything that is visible, something is camouflaged. 

«Elusive Habitat» shows a series of works that explore the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature, the digital and the physical, and the chaos in between. Through the use of visual imagery linked to science and technology, the work alludes to the changing nature of our environment and existence. The material is obtained from a variety of both digital and physical sources (e.g. old magazines and journals, picture books, textbooks, digital archives, YouTube, Wikipedia, disassembled computers and TVs and other physical objects) in an extensive collection process. By experimenting with the most basic of digital and analogue tools and techniques, the material have been manipulated, fragmented, abstracted and connected to form new images. Central to the exhibition is a series of silkscreen prints on the material Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal, retrieved from the inside of obsolete TV, computer and tablet screens. A material that is a hidden but essential part of the components that makes our screens come to life. 

As a part of the exhibition a book under the same title is released. The book consists of original collages that build on largely the same source material as the exhibition, but assembled into a fragmented and abstract narrative of clues and associations connected to the theme. By experimenting with three and four colour separations and at times unusual colour combinations on the risograph machine, the printing process has become an essential part of both the development and execution of the visual imagery. 



Photo: Jane Sverdrupsen / KMD
Photo: Jane Sverdrupsen / KMD

Photo: Jane Sverdrupsen / KMD
Photo: Jane Sverdrupsen / KMD


Photo: Jane Sverdrupsen / KMD
Photo: Jane Sverdrupsen / KMD

Photo: Jane Sverdrupsen / KMD
Photo: Jane Sverdrupsen / KMD
Advanced Computer Parts (2019)
Published by Madrid Publications

Advanced computer parts presents a selection of advertisements for computer parts collected from the 1984 editions of BYTE – the small system journal. This monthly magazine was influential in the 1980sm because of its wide-ranging and in-depth editorial coverage of developments in the field of small computers and software. Today, similar parts and the actions they perform, are hidden in a sealed environment behind polished containers.

Printed on Rainbow Black 120gsm with White on Risograph SE9380E at KMD. 

978-82-691839-0-0








Discovery (2017)

Discovery is a publication made without the use of a computer during my MA studies. Using the scanner-function on the risograph to create original collages from found photos and drawings. 

First and only edition of 24. Printed in Bergen, Norway with a Risograph SE9380-E machine and typeset using a FACIT TP1 portable typewriter.  









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