Nicolay Wesseltoft

Experiments

Chaos Typography

Grid Spring

Bleed Experiments

Thinking Dots

Static

Fantasia

A 6 In The Morning

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Sometimes I feel

keyframe
n. a moment that seemed innocuous at the time but ended up marking a diversion into a strange new era of your life — set in motion not by a series of jolting epiphanies but by tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next, until entire years of your memory can be compressed into a handful of indelible images — which prevents you from rewinding the past, but allows you to move forward without endless buffering.

sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

xeno
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers — a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.

trumspringa
n. the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin, just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.

hiybbprqag
n. the feeling that everything original has already been done, that the experiment of human culture long ago filled its petri dish and now just feeds on itself, endlessly crossbreeding old clichés into a radioactive ooze of sadness.

swish fulfillment
n. the feeling of delicate luck after casually tossing something across the room and hitting your target so crisply and perfectly that you feel no desire to even attempt another shot, which is a more compelling argument for the concept of monogamous love than anything sung to a guitar.

lalalalia
n. the realization while talking to yourself that someone else is within earshot, which leads you to crossfade into mumbled singing, an auditory sleight of hand that distracts the audience from the exposed platform under your persona while you prepare to saw your confidence in half.

rollover reaction
n. when your dream about someone you know skews how you feel about them all the next day, an emotion you are unable — and unwilling — to shake.

nementia
n. the post-distraction effort to recall the reason why you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, in which you retrace your sequence of thoughts like a kid wandering across the neighborhood gathering the string of a downed kite

moledro
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.

kairosclerosis
n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy — consciously trying to savor the feeling

jouska
n. a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head—a crisp analysis, a cathartic dialogue, a devastating comeback—which serves as a kind of psychological batting cage where you can connect more deeply with people than in the small ball of everyday life, which is a frustratingly cautious game of change-up pitches, sacrifice bunts, and intentional walks.

semaphorism
n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on the subject but don’t go any further — an emphatic nod, a half-told anecdote, an enigmatic ‘I know the feeling' — which you place into conversations like those little flags that warn diggers of something buried underground

occhiolism
n. the awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn’t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.

lachesism
n. the desire to be struck by disaster — to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall — which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other.

I got all of these from the incredible The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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This "list" is a work in progress :/

Ultra Short Curriculum Vitae

Fall 2017Internship at Void
Fall 2016Co-founder of Kollektivgrafikk
Fall 2016Contributor → Social Oriented Design
Fall 2015 — Spring 2018BA in Graphic Design at Westerdals Oslo ACT
Fall 2014 — Fall 2015Graphic Designer at Forsvarets mediesenter