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Absolut Disco
2007-09-01 11:31:00 Absolut Disc o is a brand new packaging for the Absolut bottles and is a follow-up to the Bling-Bling and Second Skin. Absolut Disco is just pre-released at Selfridges at Oxford street in London this week and will soon be available all over the world, inclusive the US. The price will not exceed the price of ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Absolut
Diane von Furstenberg designing business cards
2007-08-31 09:01:00 A week ago New York-based fashion icon Diane von Furst enberg together with internet based design company JohnLook.com launched a collection of limited edition of personal business cards and correspondence cards, exclusively for Sweden. The design is based on Diane von Furstenberg?s classic vintage print from the 70?s called ?Diamond Cubes?. The cards can be seen ... More About: Business , Design , Designing , Cards
Galerie Nordenhake by Erik Andersson
2007-08-30 08:26:00 Art space specialist Erik Andersson has just designed another premium gallery in Stockholm. The new Galerie Nordenhake provides a suite of three large rooms, surpassing the gallery?s previous capacity and enabling exhibitions of the scale and ambition for which Nordenhake?s Berlin and Stockholm galleries are well known. The ground floor of 300 square metres is ... More About: Design , Erie
Tactile and sensorial design
2007-08-28 22:42:00 I think that tactile and sensorial experiences are important parts of good design. It adds an universal understanding to products and objects. One designer that recently made some experiments in this vein is Timo Wong. His cellular phone Cells is a good example. The key pad is inspired by regular fruit trays used for stacking. ... More About: Design , Innovation , Creativity
House Alta by Johannes Norlander
2007-08-27 09:27:00 Johannes Norlander is according to me one of the most interesting architects/designers in Sweden at the moment. One of his latest house projects is called House Alta . The house is 160 square meters and built in a town called Älta just outside of Stockholm. Johannes Norlander has not only designed the house but also ... More About: Design , Lander , Johannes
Clean cuts from Les Couleurs Nationales
2007-08-25 10:56:00 Les Couleurs Nationales womens wear recently presented its SS08 collection under the tagline ?if it’s not risky, it’s boring?. Les Couleurs Nationales is based in the charming fishing village of Simrishamn in southern Sweden. The designer Maxjenny Forslund explains that the idea behind the new collection of Les Couleurs Nationales is to put things ... More About: Fashion , Clean , Creativity , Cuts
The greenwashing trend
2007-08-24 09:31:00 The greenwashing trend is unfortunately flourishing. Greenwashing is when companies (or governments) spend more money or time advertising being green, than on investing in environmentally sound practices. Marketers and business executives suddenly understand that green is selling. But sustainability is not about marketing. Sustainability is about design. It means that designers around the world have ... More About: Design , Trends , Social responsibility , Trend
Stajl by Malmö
2007-08-23 16:51:00 Stajl by Malm ö is a design bazaar that takes place on August 26 and offers the best of local fashion design from the town of Malmö (in the southernmost part of Sweden). With Stajl by Malmö the organizers would like to stimulate creativity and fulfil the dreams of creators with various background. The event works ... More About: Fashion
Harry Allen retail design for UNION
2007-08-21 22:39:00 The second store by New York designer Harry Allen for prestigious streetwear retailer, UNION, is one part archeological dig and two parts humble masterpiece. Located two doors down from the site of the original UNION store on Spring Street in Manhattan, the new space incorporates some of the elements we developed for its counterpart ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Fashion , Union , Retail
Smart products from Muuto
2007-08-20 23:40:00 Muuto, a new Danish design company, strives to add fresh perspectives to Scandinavian design and thereby put the region back in the lead on the international design scene. That is why they chose the name Muuto - inspired by the Finnish word ?Muutos?, meaning change or fresh perspective. Muuto is firmly rooted in Scandinavian ... More About: Design , Products , Smart , Creativity
Richard Avedon retrospective
2007-08-19 13:09:00 The first retrospective exhibition of the work of photographer Richard Avedon since his death three years ago will open at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark next Friday on August 24. Richard Avedon was one of the iconic star photographers and his rough and unveiling style stands out as brilliant. The exhibition at ... More About: Events , Retrospective , Char
The skyscrapers of Wulingyuan
2007-08-18 08:55:00 Simon Winchester at the New York Times recently reported from the magic skyscrapers of Wulingyuan in China. A remote part of the country until 50 years ago barely even settled. Read the full story here. The images from Wulingyuan speak for themselves. I would like to go there! Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : wulingyuan china travel skyscrapers ... More About: Lifestyle , Skyscrapers , Scrapers
Moss in Los Angeles - Moss Angeles
2007-08-17 11:12:00 The New York supreme design store Moss has just opened a second store in Los Angeles . 3500 square feet of cool optic white space bifurcated by a ten ton steel beam running straight from the door to the sales station. The “Moss Angeles” store is situated at Melrose Avenue near the mouth of Melrose Place ... More About: Design
New collection from Acne Jeans
2007-08-16 18:17:00 The new collection for autumn/winter 2007 from Acne Jeans , one of my favourite Swedish fashion brands, is now available at selected retailers. Below is a description of the collection: Imagine the defiant and fearless gaze of Patti Smith coupled with the energetic bedlam of Emir Kusturica’s portrayal of the Eastern European gyspy, and you have the ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Fashion
Likemind coffee morning August 17
2007-08-16 11:33:00 The summer vacations are more or less over in Sweden and it?s time for a new Likemind coffee morning tomorrow Friday August 17. As earlier Likemind coffee mornings I?m hosting the Malmö branch together with Björn from Good Old and we will meet at 9 am at Solde Kaffebar, Regementsgatan 2. Coffee kindly paid for ... More About: Lifestyle , Morning
New life into beaten down bikes
2007-08-15 10:23:00 In the latest edition of my conversation with Satyendra Pakhale here at the David Report blog we were discussing sustainable design. Then I came across British company Specialbike which is refurbishing old bikes with precision craftsmanship and high-end parts. They take a bike that has seen better days, strip it down to the frame, blast ... More About: Life , Trends , Bikes , Sustainability , New Life
O2 Cocoon mobile phone
2007-08-14 13:15:00 The O2 Cocoon mobile phone designed by Swedish agency Syntes Studio is a stylish black and white clam shell with smooth lines that is full of functionality. The front of this handset has a hidden LED display that will not only tell you who is calling but will also tell you the time and turn ... More About: Marketing , Design , Mobile , Products , Phone
New iMac from Apple
2007-08-12 09:43:00 The new iMac from Apple was release a few days ago. The major change from the previous iMac is the beautiful new thin design with an anodised aluminum frame and the glossy widescreen display. Because it?s made from a single sheet of aluminum, you won?t see any seams or screws except for a single compartment ... More About: Design , Products , Innovation
Future Forum in Barcelona
2007-08-11 09:41:00 Future Forum in Barcelona is an annual symposium about architecture and design. It’s presented by design hotels for the fourth time, together with the London-based Future Laboratory, Berlin-based Die Gestalten Verlag and some of the world’s most innovative designers, creatives, architects and progressive thinkers. Under the motto “New Shelter” this year’s Future Forum will be ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Events , Trends
Luna vase by Eero Sairanen
2007-08-10 11:54:00 LUNA by Eero Sairanen is a sculpture/vase that revolutionises the traditional concept of the vase. From the front it is round, while its cross-section is concave and ends in a long, narrow slit in which flowers are geometrically arranged. Luna sways on the tabletop to create an optical iilusion of motion. Just the opposite of ... More About: Design , Products
Smart new product from Droog design
2007-08-09 13:59:00 Droog design has just launched a smart snap-on shade in translucent polypropylene called Hang on Easy by Ransmeier & Floyd. It is the kind of simple everyday design that I personally like a lot. Probably a lot of people somewhere in their house has a ugly bare bulb hanging from the ceiling. With Hang on ... More About: Design , Products , Product , Smart , Creativity
Goodmorning technology packaging design
2007-08-09 10:47:00 Danish strategic designhouse Goodmorning Technology recently made an exclusive packaging design for Widex hearing aids which will be released worldwide this fall. Using an old school two layer raster effect, the Widex soundwave comes to life. Maybe some of you remember the the movie I posted the other day concerning the book Magic moving images? ... More About: Marketing , Design , Creativity , Packaging
Copenhagen Fashion Week
2007-08-08 13:22:00 Copenhagen Fashion Week is Northern Europe’s largest fashion event and takes place in Copenhagen, the capitol of Scandinavia, between August 8?12. On the catwalks are a growing number of new and known Danish talent with a preview of their upcoming collections. Danish fashion is known for its unique angle on design, innovation and ... More About: Events , Copenhagen , Fashion Week
Absolut Grcic
2007-08-06 20:53:00 Here follows some further images of the Absolut Grcic glassware project by Konstantin Grcic for Absolut which I wrote about yesterday. I especially like the image of Konstantin Grcic on the table with one of the new glasses by his side! As I mentioned in the post yesterday I have design directed the project together ... More About: Marketing , Design , Products
ABSOLUT glassware by Konstantin Grcic
2007-08-04 21:34:00 Konstantin Grcic has designed a new series glassware for Swedish liquor brand ABSOLUT. Together with my friend Mårten Knutsson from Family Business I got an assignment from ABSOLUT a year ago to supervise the development of new glassware for restaurants and bars around the world. After some initial research we found that Konstantin Grcic would ... More About: Design , Products , Absolut , Glassware
The cool Greece hotel Bellonias Villas
2007-08-03 10:13:00 I few weeks ago me and my wife were generously invited by a good friend to an anniversary which he celebrated at the Island Santorini in the Greece archipelago. We stayed at a cool and friendly hotel called Bellonias Villas in the small beach town of Kamari. Bellonias Villas beautifully ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Hotel , Cool
The Simpsons at colette
2007-08-02 18:55:00 To mark the release of The Simpsons Movie, colette has invited several artists to customise the Bart figurine (Toy2R). From the sold pieces, 3400 euros will go to the Red Cross. Marc Jacobs and Karl Lagerfeld, among others, have been to the colette to pay homage to the yellow Simpsons family from Springfield visiting Paris ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Products , Fashion
Laurence Brabant poetic glassware
2007-08-01 09:34:00 Laurence Brabant is an interesting French designer and producer of glassware. Like an illusionist she designs poetic products that in a clever way are inspired by translucency and the difference between visible and invisible. You can see some of the designs of Laurence Brabant below: Verre Rouge is a revisited wine glass with hollow stem to ... More About: Design , Products , Creativity , Lauren , Glassware
Magic moving images
2007-07-30 17:22:00 The new book Magic moving images from Tarquin Publications is a nice example of an old way to show apparent motion - through sequences of still images in rapid succession. This was actually the only way to see moving pictures in the early years. Even if we live in a more or less digital world ... More About: Images , Moving , Creativity , Ving
Summer house in Stockholm archipelago
More articles from this author:2007-07-27 17:20:00 Stockholm architects Tham & Videgård Hansson has developed a nice light-weight building in wood and glass as a summer house in the Stockholm archipelago. The layout of the plan is generated by the specifics of the site, the house being placed on the flat surface between two mountain rocks and turning simultaneously towards the sun ... More About: House , Design , Summer , Stockholm , Ouse 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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