Subject file — NC·001

Steffen Wold

Web & graphic designer. Twenty years of practice. Currently stable, but a relapse into some new hyperfixation is always pending.

Steffen Wold

I''m Steffen Wold, a web and graphic designer working out of Lillehammer, Norway. Twenty years in, my process hasn''t changed much: something catches my attention, I fall into it for a few weeks longer than is reasonable, and somewhere in there a design concept falls out. This site is the record of those episodes — partly a portfolio, partly a lab notebook.

Most of my paid work is branding, interface design, and print, but the case files in the journal are almost always self-initiated — the stuff I design because I can''t stop thinking about it, not because a client asked. If any of it resonates with a real brief you''re holding, that''s what the contact details below are for.

BASE OF OPERATIONSLillehammer, Norway
YEARS IN PRACTICE20 years
SPECIALTYWeb & graphic design
PRESENTING SYMPTOMRecurring hyperfixations ("hang-ups")
CONTACThello@nullca.no
STATUSActively designing
HANG-UP LOG — 6 DOCUMENTED EPISODES
Case history

Documented hang-ups

A short, incomplete history of things I couldn''t stop thinking about long enough to design something.

14 MAY 2026

Blister Pack Semiotics

A three-week hang-up on why pill packaging looks the way it does — and what happens when you design a blister pack for information instead of medicine.

02 APR 2026

Vending Machine UX Archaeology

A field study of the button-and-coin interfaces that predate the touchscreen — and a concept for a machine that still uses them on purpose.

27 FEB 2026

Cassette Futurism: A Synth That Never Shipped

Two months deep in analog synthesizer panels, ending in a UI concept for a synth that only exists as a set of screens.

18 JAN 2026

Waiting Room Branding Study

What a brand looks like when its entire job is to keep someone calm for twenty unplanned minutes.

09 DEC 2025

A Typeface for Machines That Don't Read

Designing letterforms for OCR and barcode systems, where the reader has no taste and no patience for elegance.

22 NOV 2025

Arcade Livery for a Cabinet That Doesn't Exist

A full identity and decal system for a fictional arcade cabinet, because the marquee art is the best part of any arcade and nobody tells you that.