Soundpanel Flo by Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid launched the soundpanel Flo earlier this year at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Flo is produced by Swedish design company Offecct. The interesting MOD newsletter highlighted the product in their latest issue: Creating Flo Karim Rashid was inspired by sound waves and digital data. Karim Rashid believes that people today live in a very...
A lack of design knowledge
There is a lot of talk going around concerning a possible backlash against design and innovation. And that is very true. I see it all the time in Sweden as well, there is a huge lack of knowledge among Swedish companies (mostly small and mid-size). And it is not because of the lack of clever...
New issue of Acne Paper
The spring issue of the Acne Paper is out. It is a collaboration between Acne Jeans, Acne Film, Acne Digital and Acne Creative. Each issue is created around one key idea – a timeless theme (this time it is playfulness) that in various ways touches all those working in the creative fields regardless of age,...
A Scandinavian design resource
Swedish online project Scandinavian Design has been one of the best resources of design from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland (yes, when it is concerning design Finland normally counts like a part of Scandinavia…) for many years. Scandinavian design is seen internationally as a designation for simple and solid elegance and that’s what the site...
Wine that loves the food you eat everyday
How many times have you been standing in front of the wine shelves and been wondering which wine to choose for a certain dish? Pairing really does matter. People just don’t do it because it’s been so hard to do…until now. Wine that loves has come up with a nice solution to this everyday problem…...
New highrise building in Malmo
I wrote the other day about the new shopping center by Gert Wingardh in Malmo. In the same area called Hyllie the Danish architects CF Moller has designed a building that goes under the name Malmo Tower. It has a strong Scandinavian identity and an architecture that expresses our times. I like the facing of...
Retired Weapons in Milan
When I was in Tokyo during the design week 2005 I saw a nice exhibition called Retired Weapons. I just got the information that this design project for peace will propose its first appearance outside of Japan through an event during the Milan furniture fair next month. Retired Weapons is launched by art director Yuji...
Flora Chest of Drawers Carl von Linnaeus
This year we celebrate the Carl von Linnaeus year in Sweden. Due to this Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm is re-launching the Flora chest of drawers by Josef Frank. The updated version called Flora Chest of Drawers Carl von Linnaeus is decorated with reproductions of painting that actually hanged on the walls in the Carl Linnaeus...
Limited Edition lamp for Moss
Designers Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job has made a nice limited-edition lamp for Moss in New York. It has a wooden and cardboard frame with printed graphics on papier-mache surface; coated with polyurethane. Each piece in the ‘Graphic Paper’ collection is produced in a limited and signed edition of 12 pieces (exclusive...
Disco dancing school from the 70s
This is a cool video from a disco dancing school in Finland during the late 70s. I remember seeing it some years ago and when I came across it today I thought it could be nice to share it with you. Take a look at the cool Finnish Karhu sneakers the male teacher is wearing....
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