My name is Ragne, I am a designer and illustrator with a master’s degree from AHO and KHiO, driven by a deep love for storytelling, visual exploration, and the playful, poetic potential of design.

Hurpehuset

Illustration, Master project

For my graduation project at KHiO, I created a comic where a house, Hurpehuset, tells fragmented stories about ‘kjerringer’ from Norwegian folktales – who have left their established narratives and movied into a collective home that is both feared and admired. The project was exhibitied at the graduation show at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo) as seen to the right.

Graphic Editor at KOTE No. 18: 𝐵𝐸𝒱𝐸𝒢𝐸𝐿𝒮𝐸

Art Direction / Editorial Design / Layout / Illustration / Concept Development

Graphic editor for KOTE magazine, a student-driven publication on landscape architecture, architecture, and design.
Publications

From Taboos to Talk

Master Thesis at AHO

Speculative Design / Strategic Design / Service Design / UX

Awarded Best Use of Strategic Design and nominated for the Sustainability Award.

From Taboos to Talk explores new approaches to sexual health, promoting open conversations. Through future scenarios, it speculates on forces shaping sexuality education in Norway, aiming to broaden discussions and reimagine how sexuality might be learned and understood.

Toolkit Learn about the future(s)

Krakk!!!

“Krakk!!!” exhibited 24 stools at Galleri Pellerin.
Furniture design / interior design

"Krakk!!!" aimed to celebrate the overlooked stool, giving ordinary objects personality and human emotions. We also wanted to nudge the exhibition visitors to touch the artworks and actually sit on the pieces.

Take a seat!

#RuterSesong

Service design / UX design / Animation

RuterSeason (RuterSesong) demonstrates how Ruter, Oslos public transport system, can further develop its service based on the seasons. It lowers the threshold for being active in Oslo by making it easier to plan leisure trips digitally and with temporary bus routes to destinations that are relevant during the different seasons. Made in collaboration with Julia Eggum

Explore #RuterSesong

Strategic Design for Society

Strategic Design / Urban Innovation

Winner of The Prize for strategic use of design from Forte Digital, AHO works

The 'Design for Gender Equality' project, a collaboration between Karmøy municipality and AHO researchers and students, aims to address gender equality through strategic design in urban and societal planning. This initiative is part of a broader research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

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Bruk Hue

UX - design

Header and footer design for Telenor and their Bruk Hue Campaign, fighting online bullying.

Event posters

Graphic Design and illustration for events

Vilje

Layout / Packaging /Development of print-ready files for production

Responsible for packaging design for seven upcoming product launches at Vilje within hygiene, food, and beverage categories. Several projects are unreleased as of January 2026 and therefore cannot be shown due to confidentiality.

^{*Portfolio images include existing products for reference.}

Practicing code

Creative coding

I am currently working on learning how to code. This is a website I made practicing css, html and javascipt. I would love to become more confident in this field, and make more playful interactive websites. Please check the link to try it
out yourself down below.
https://heliotropisme.netlify.app/

Icons for Spitfire Audio

ragnemathiesen@hotmail.no