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The Level vodka tunnel
2008-06-08 22:06:00 Level Vodka invited star fashion designer and artist Hussein Chalayan to create a pioneering work of art with a focus on taste. He was given completely free rein. The result is The Level Tunnel ? a 15 meters long and 5 meters high travelling installation that captures the essence of Level Vodka. But the road ... More About: Marketing , Design , Events , Branding , Architecture
Aesop by Studioilse
2008-06-06 23:47:00 Studioilse’s design of the Aesop shop translates the company values through a loving restoration of the historic fabric, paired with modern and clean interventions. As in all her work Ilse Crawford with her Studioilse has added a lot of emotions to the interior. Simple and modern design. A central ceramic sink to emphasise the ritual of ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Branding , Architecture
Jurlique rebrands
2008-06-04 20:43:00 Jurlique rebrands to focus on its biodynamic farming principles. This is post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : jurlique biodynamic branding sustainability Andra bloggar om: ekologisk, ekologiskt, mat, livsmedel, design, varumärken, varumärke, förpackningar More About: Marketing , Design , Products , Branding
Whitecapri bags
2008-06-02 09:42:00 Whitecapri is a new label for bags and accessories from Berlin. The first collection Matchpoint is an homage to the great movie “Match Point”. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : whitecapri berlin bags accessories Andra bloggar om: väskor, accessoarer, mode More About: Design , Lifestyle , Products , Fashion , Bags
The Ace Hotel Portland
2008-06-01 14:31:00 The Ace hotel Portland: what a boutique hotel should look and feel like. This is post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : portland oregon ace hotel boutique hotel Andra bloggar om: hotell, resa, foto, design, inredning, portland More About: Design , Lifestyle , Architecture , Hotel , Trends
Falafel soap
2008-05-27 22:26:00 APOCALYPSE is a new company founded by industrial designers Petra Lilja and Jenny Nordberg. Based in Malmö, Sweden, they are designing sustainable products and services. The first product, The Soap is made from recycled cooking oil from the numerous Falafel stands around Malmö. ?We look at waste as materials with a history and with a potential ... More About: Design , Products , Innovation , Sustainability
Inspiration, people, products
2008-05-20 00:01:00 OPENnetwork is a tool for the creative industry by Danish Lynfbrikken. It’s all about inspiration, people and products. It’s a Panel-based rendering engine allowing mixing and comparison of multi-section content side-by-side as the basic information architecture - keeping the “let me quickly see what’s here” functionality from the old site, but greatly enhancing it’s potential. ... More About: Media , Design , Products , People , Architecture
To consume or not
2008-05-14 15:44:00 I just read some comments to the latest David Report bulletin called “I shop therefore I am” in “The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption”. It’s a year-long book-as-a-blog experiment in why we choose to consume, or not, written by India based Gaurav Mishra. In a very clear and comprehensible way he is putting together a couple of important trends that in one way or another describes how our consumption pattern are about to change: - From conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption. - From brand-consciousness to background-consciousness. - From synthetic to organic. - From mass-produced to hand-crafted. - From global to local. - From short-term to sustainable. - From fashionable to durable. - From valuing things to valuing insights. - From fitting in/ standing out to being. - From buying more to buying less. - From doing more to doing less. - From multi-tasking to down-shifting. - From buying to sharing/ exchanging. - From owning to experiencing. - F...
Shots on Brave New Worlds
2008-05-13 16:08:00 Shots on Brave New Worlds is the first collaboration by Designfilmpool, created by Mats Theselius and Oliver Vogt. 144 creative persons have been invited to interpret one side each of the book “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxleys in a 30 seconds film. If you happen to be in Stockholm on May 15, the film is played non-stop 6pm to 9pm at Research and Development, Kvarngatan 14. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : Aldous Huxley brave new world mats theselius film Andra bloggar om: aldous huxley, mats theselius, film, konst, litteratur More About: Shots
Relax with Thomas Bernstrand
2008-05-09 15:43:00 Swedish designer Thomas Bernstrand got an assignment from the city of Stockholm to design an outdoor area in the Rosenlund park. His proposal is called “stranden” which means “the beach” and is designed with sunny days by the sea in mind. And most important, to offer Stockholm people that relaxed summer feeling also during dark ... More About: Design , Relax
Textile design by Sari Syväluoma
2008-05-06 22:26:00 Since Finnish designer Sari Syväluoma moved to Norway in 1994, the Norwegian textile scene has changed forever. Despite its long history of colourful embroideries and elaborate folk costumes, Norway had never had a tradition of printed textiles that reflected contemporary sensibilities. When she accepted the role of textile designer at Sellgrens Veveri (known as Gundbrandsdalens ... More About: Design , Products , Textile , Textile Design
Milan Design Week part four
2008-05-01 22:40:00 My last report from the Milan Design Week 2008 concentrates on the Konstantin Grcic Myto chair exhibition at the Triannale. As always Konstantin presented a really serious show where the visitors could follow the design process behind the chair. Quite a different and interesting exhibition compared to a lot of “just the ordinary stuff” shows ... More About: Part
New book about sustainable design
2008-04-28 08:39:00 I’m proud to announce that my knowledge company Design boost has released its first annual book named “Designboost 07″. It’s the first in a series of books that in words, pictures and moving media describes the work of Designboost. Designboost is a knowledge company that helps companies and organisations to learn more about design in general ... More About: Marketing , Branding , Book , Sustainable
Designboost in L?uomo Vogue
2008-04-27 22:05:00 I just have to tell you that my knowledge company Design boost is featured in the April issue of Italian supreme magazine L’uomo Vogue . As you can see on the picture below it is a full page with the title “The sustainable creativity knowledge”. In the same issue L’uomo Vogue is listing the hundred most influential ...
Milan Design Week part three
2008-04-22 20:11:00 Here follows some further images from the Milan Design Week 2008. This time from some of the exhibitions around the Zona Tortona. The biggest impression was that Superstudio Piu was quite boring this year. Superstudio used to put together an interesting mix of companies all the way back from the time when Giulio Cappellini once ... More About: Part
From Virtual Future to Real Life
2008-04-22 07:33:00 At the same time as Milan is opening the doors to the crowded Design Week, Gothenburg is opening the annual International Science Festival. This year the theme is play in all its forms and well-attended game events are taken place all over the city. But in an almost empty conference hall, far away from the ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Events , Trends , Future
E&Y party at Milan Furniture Fair
2008-04-21 17:03:00 The David Report friend Tomoki Kusakabe visited the E&Y party in Milan the other day during the Milan Furniture Fair and sent me a couple of images which I’m posting below. Among the prominent guests were Jasper Morrison, Harri Koskinen and Ilkka Suppanen. Here’s a quote from Tomoki: The exhibition is very nice space, clean and ... More About: Design , Events , Party
Nureyev bookcase
2008-04-20 21:32:00 Why should a bookcase be fixed to the wall? Linteloo, the Dutch furniture brand, presents Roderick Vos? design that makes books move through the room. During the Milan Design Week visitors of the Linteloo stand can experience this new and refreshing interpretation of the classic book carousel. The bookcase is called Nureyev and is 190 cm ...
Milan Design Week 2008 - part two
2008-04-20 12:51:00 Here’s some further pictures from this years Milan Design Week . Natural simplicity by Vincent van Duysen and John Pawson at the “When Objects Work” exhibition. The Milkbar by Finnish producers Marimekko and Artek. Yours truly at the Egg chair exhibition at Corso Como 10. Which by the way still is one of the worlds best concept stores? Japanese baths. ... More About: Part , 2008
Milan Design Week 2008 - part one
2008-04-18 19:34:00 The Milan Design Week 2008 was offering kind of sweet-sour experiences. I started to go to Milan already back in 1988 but I think I’m as curious (and critical) as I was twenty years ago. I do understand that it is maybe an utopia to expect the Milan Design Week to be better and better ... More About: Products , Events , Trends
Vulgarism at Milan Design Week?
2008-04-15 21:24:00 I’m off to the Milan Design Week tomorrow morning. As always it will be nice to come to Milan and meet the spring (I’m from Sweden you know?). What interests me most is to see if the DesignArt, or Vulgarism trend as I prefer to call it, from lasts years Milan Design Week is as ... More About: Events , Competitions
Swedish prefab house
2008-04-15 15:31:00 Plus House is a pre-fab two-storey house by Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune. It has generic proportions of a traditional Swedish barn house. Instead of windows positioned like regular “holes” along the walls, entire sides are glazed. On the entrance floor both long walls are glazed. On the upper floor the gable ends are glazed. ... More About: Products , Architecture , Innovation
Is it a skirt? or is it a pair of trousers
2008-04-14 19:01:00 A graduate of Goldsmiths College in London, fashion designer Anna Antoniades? work focuses on the relationship between body, garment and space. She distresses the form to accentuate the silhouette through excessive folds, bold pleats and voluptuous draping. Antoniades? work has been seen in London - four shows in London Fashion Week - Bilbao and Tokyo, where ... More About: Design , Trousers , Skirt , Pair
The Milkbar at Milan Design Week
2008-04-12 12:53:00 Finnish supreme companies Artek and Marimekko will break boundaries when they are presenting the Milkbar, a new concept at this years Milan Design Week . You will find the Milkbar at Viale Francesco Crispi 3. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : milan design week milan furniture fair artek marimekko Andra bloggar om: milano, ... More About: Marketing , Branding
Inga Sempe at Milan Design Week
2008-04-11 16:20:00 Here follows a couple of images of new products presented at the Milan Design Week by French designer Inga Sempe. They are: Endormis plates by Domestic, Double stray paper lampshade by Artecnica and Low back Moel seat range by Ligne Roset. I especially like the plates. In the typically shrewd design style that has become ... More About: Products , Events , Competitions
Bouroullec at Milan Design Week
2008-04-11 15:35:00 Here follows a couple of image of different projects presented by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec at the Milan Design Week. The products are Alcove love seat highback for Vitra, Rocs for the Vitra Edition, Steelwood collection for Magis, Pebble for Tectona and Papyrus chair for Kartell. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : milan design week milan furniture fair ... More About: Interviews , Trends , Innovation
Worlds first passive museum
2008-04-10 19:07:00 When the tourist office and the city museum in Ulricehamn, Sweden grew to large for their facilities the municipality asked Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects to design a new building combining the two programs. The building will be a passive house, making it the first museum in the world built with this technique. SITUATION The site for the new ... More About: Architecture , Worlds , Sustainability , Museum , Passive
Konstfack at Milan design week
2008-04-09 10:57:00 For the third year Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm will be present at the Milan Design Week with the exhibition Functional Design for a Dysfunctional World. The exhibition focuses on a group of young designers, students or recent graduates of Konstfack, who operate both as producers and social engineers. In ...
New bulletin - I shop therefore I am
2008-04-07 09:51:00 I?m proud to announce the new David Report bulletin called “I shop therefore I am”. In this issue we are looking into the world of consumer culture from different point of views; ethical, social, political, economical and humanistic. Shop ping has turned into a lifestyle. We consume as leisure and a way to pass time. But at ... More About: Lifestyle , Trends , Future , Sustainability
Comme des Garçons in collaboration with H&M
More articles from this author:2008-04-03 13:45:00 Comme des Garçons? founder and head designer Rei Kawakubo will create this autumn?s guest designer collection at H&M. Rei Kawakubo, famous and admired for her creativity and artistry, will design a women?s and a men?s collection, with some pieces for children too. Accessories and an exclusive unisex fragrance will also be included in the collection. “I ... More About: Marketing , Lifestyle , Branding , Fashion , Collaboration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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