Armed with a silly name unfit for international exposure and creative powers bought from a Russian mail order catalogue, Bard Hole Standal is a Norwegian designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in numerous design books, exhibitions, festivals and other creative projects around the world. Before all that though, he fought polar bears professionally in Norway for 20 years, and decided to move to London to extend his knowledge of this field. After three years in that (apparently) bear-less city, he now holds a fancy Bachelor of Honors degree in design and illustration from the London College of Communication. Bard currently lives in Oslo where he works as an art director by day and an illustration maniac by night.