Trondheim.com: Destination Brand Platform

Trondheim.com, the shared website for the Trondheim region, needed to bring Visit Trondheim, Work in Trondheim and Study Trondheim together in one clear point of entry. Nonspace delivered a new structure built around Visit, Study, Work and Live, copy in Norwegian and English, a design system and a website built on Sanity and Next.js.

Highlights

Laptop displaying the Trondheim.com website designed and developed by Nonspace, showing an interactive map of the Greater Trondheim Region with highlighted municipalities.

Close-up of the ornate rose window and Gothic stone carvings on the façade of Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim.

Sunset view of Trondheim’s historic riverside warehouses reflected in the Nidelva River, shown with graphic branding elements from the Trondheim visual identity.

Aerial view of Nidaros Cathedral surrounded by trees and the city of Trondheim at sunset.

Photo of Trondheim’s iconic red Studentersamfundet building, combined with Trondheim.com’s graphic identity featuring vertical arch-shaped cut-outs on the right.

Screenshot of the Visit Trondheim website showing pastel green layout with welcome text and a hero image of Trondheim’s colorful riverside buildings at sunset, combined with the city’s distinctive arch-shaped graphic motif.

Website section highlight showing Trondheim.com’s event listings, including images of a live concert, Kosmorama Film Festival poster, PoMo Gallery exterior, and a cultural attraction with a rainbow arch.

Rainbow ‘MAGIC’ sign on a Trondheim building, used in a Trondheim.com culture article.

Overview of Trondheim.com student resources page showing articles on study programs, mental health services, housing options, and job opportunities for students in Trondheim.

About the project

Trondheim Kommune is the municipality and local government for Trondheim, Norway's third-largest city with around 212,660 residents. It delivers essential public services, including education, healthcare, technical services, and cultural programs, while also steering strategic goals such as education quality, innovation, and sustainable urban development. As a recognised "climate-neutral and smart city" under the EU Cities Mission, Trondheim kommune is committed to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and full climate neutrality by 2050.

Visit the website

The main objectives were clear:

Attract talent by informing and inspiring potential jobseekers to choose Trondheim.
Drive tourism by routing traffic toward existing channels that promote the region as a destination for events and travel.
Engage the academic world (researchers, students and faculty) and position Trondheim as a leading knowledge hub.
Provide a central resource in English that municipalities, event organisers (such as the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and Bocuse d’Or), employers and institutions can confidently link to.
Be the digital home of the city brand, a resource base that strengthens Trondheim’s identity and message, both nationally and internationally.

At its core, Trondheim.com needed to tie together a set of existing but separate regional assets, Visit Trondheim, Work in Trondheim and Study Trondheim, and present them within a coherent, high-quality digital experience.

The goal was to increase visibility, drive engagement and help more people discover why Trondheim is a place worth visiting, studying, working and living in.

Technology

Web Development

Web design

Trondheim had a compelling offer, but no clear way to communicate it online.

The previous web presence was fragmented, outdated and difficult to manage. For users, especially international ones, this meant a confusing journey across mismatched platforms. For local stakeholders, it meant more work and less impact.

The content lacked consistency. The structure wasn’t built around real user needs. And the site wasn’t optimised for SEO, mobile access or modern performance standards.

The challenge was to build something unified, sustainable and flexible, without losing the unique voices and purposes of its various contributors.

We restructured Trondheim.com around the four main reasons people seek out the region:

Visit: Highlighting culture, nature, food, events and experiences
Study: Presenting a clear, friendly guide to academic life in Trondheim
Work: Linking to career opportunities via WorkinTrondheim.no
Live: Giving future residents a sense of what life in the region feels like

Each section was written and designed with accessibility, clarity and international relevance in mind, and is available in both Norwegian and English.

From a technical standpoint, we built the site using Sanity CMS for scalable, flexible content editing, and React + Next.js for performance and responsiveness. The design system is clean and grounded, built to reflect the city's brand without distraction.

Importantly, the site was developed as a tool for ongoing collaboration. Local actors can manage and contribute to content, ensuring the site remains current and relevant over time.

Trondheim.com now acts as a single, clear point of entry for the entire region. It reflects the city’s identity, unifies previously fragmented initiatives and provides a trustworthy resource for anyone looking to engage with Trondheim, whether they are visiting, applying for a job, moving with a family or starting their studies.

“Now we finally have a clear, well-structured site that presents Trondheim to the world, in both Norwegian and English. It’s become a valuable resource for thousands of people who study, work or visit the region each year,” says Tormod Igelø Ellingsen, former Senior Communications Manager at Trondheimregionen.