Mr. Runar Thorvaldsen

Runar Thorvaldsen started out as a graphics designer in the mid 1980s. After a couple of years of hand-lettering comic books, illustrating crossword magazines and in general being a darkroom drone, he went into the advertising industry, became an Art Director, and spent most of the nineties doing creative work for clients like Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, Sandrew Metronome, Egmont, Bonnier...

Runar started messing with HTML early on, and designed his first web page - for a radio station - in 1994. He jumped enthusiastically into the Dot-Com Wave and became a full-time web developer just in time for the Y2k bug. Over the years, he has been involved with designing interfaces for the IST Group´s Learning Platforms, and has built web portals and sites for clients ranging from The Ministry of Justice and the Norwegian Mail Service to towns, schools, universities and many, many smaller clients from the private sector in Scandinavia and North America.

Runar is the main developer behind FirstMagic - the FirstClass CMS - and always tries to make it do new and interesting things. He is also very happy that the world has moved on from typesetting with lead (which was the first thing he learned at school), to web publishing.