11/2009 Yale University, Classics Department
The Classics department site recently underwent a major overhaul, and was launched in November.

07/2009 Poster in Indie Publishing
A poster from Bjorn's thesis work at Yale was recently reproduced in Ellen Lupton's book Indie Publishing: How to Design and Publish Your Own Book.

05/2009 Independent Book Publisher's Awards
BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches won gold in the 2009 Independent Book Publisher's Awards for best coffee table book. Icehouse Design received this dinstinction with bronze prize for best coffee table book in 2006 for Flick Ford's FISH; and silver for best children's lllustrated book in 2008 with Scott Gustafson's Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose.

03/2009 Fullbright faculty grant in Norway completed
After nearly a year in Norway, Pattie Belle completed her research iin Oslo this Spring. Icehouse and family is back in New Haven, CT.

07/2008 Bjorn featured on Conncreatives.com
The site explores what motivates designers to go back to school for a master's in design in the article Moving Beyond Your BFA.

Summer 2008 BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches
Flick Ford's latest book for Greenwich Workshop in Connecticut is coming off the presses. The book chronicles the largest game fish in the world using Flick’s gorgeous paintings along with interesting facts and stories.

Summer 2008 Yale University, Graduate School of Art & Sciences site redesign
Icehouse helped redesign the graduate school’s site. The approach involved simplification and “pruning” of massive amounts of information. Uncovering layers of files created in an earlier era of web design showed us how the thinking around information has evolved.

Fall 2007 Marsha McLuhan in Oslo and Leeds, UK
Pattie Belle’s newest digital live art persona, Marsha McLuhan appeared in Leeds, UK in September 2007 and in Oslo, Norway in March 2008. In both homage and send-up, Marsha twists and mutilates Marshall’s original text and ideas. The Marsha McLuhan project is a long-term distributed performance and narrative that will take place across media and technologies and time.

Fall 2006 Outside In
Bjorn has recently been involved with Outside In, “a traveling group exhibit addressing the impact of cultural difference on contemporary graphic design practice.” The show has been installed at several US as well as international venues, most recently Beirut, Lebanon.