CREATIVES OF TRONDHEIM #001: Frank Trana

We love our community and we love highlighting individuals doing awesome things! CREATIVES OF TRONDHEIM is our brand new series of questions that dig a little deeper into the minds of people working in the creative industry in Trondheim.

Every month, we find unique creatives and bombard them with random* questions. You might be next!

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First up is Frank Trana - a highly skilled and renowned professional that runs his own designstudio, Natiwe, here in Trondheim. Frank has been working in the creative industry for nearly 20 years, and has clients like Iwmac, Trønderenergi, Onkel Henrys, Blåfrost on his list. Frank has won several awards, recently a silver in European Design Awards. You can learn more about Frank and his work on his website and follow him on Facebook.

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What is your favorite virtue?
Dedication

What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
The movie Pearl Harbour in all its massive glorifying clichés

What phrase do you find yourself repeating all too often?
“It has to be real, genuine, different"

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Trust your guts - take a stand. Never give up.

Who or what inspires you?

Weird surroundings. Devil is in the details. In 2015, after almost 5 years of preperation and development i convinced photographer Ole A. Ekker, to travel with me to the scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident to form the basis for the art exebition: pixelthis <This is then and that was now > The artwork presents a visual proximity to the time of the accident and the lost moments. The idea is to mirror the photographs through a graphic technological view from that moment “when time stopped.” The graphics, with its theoretical retrospect, forms a parallel between documentary and technology.

How do you stay grounded?
Making a PowerPoint presentation

Who are your favorite writers?
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jens Bjørneboe, Carl Frode Tiller, Charles Bukowski, Yuval Noah Harari etc.

Biggest pet peeve?
Smalltalk

What has been your biggest challenge building your business?
Accounting. Even though I pay someone to do it for me, it’s a big, fat yawn.

What do you find magical?
I’m a straight up realist, so nothing really.

How would you define *Commitment*?
Work hard to reach your goals. As mentioned above, keep going and never give up. Ever.

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Interview by Cathrine Vik, Host & Founder of CreativeMornings Trondheim
Photos by Torleif Kvinnesland, Official Photographer, CreativeMornings Trondheim

*Our random questions are inspired by the so called Proust Questionnaire – a questionnaire about one’s personality. It has its origins in a parlor game popularized the French essayist and novelist Marcel Proust, who believed that in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. 

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