Falafel soap
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...
Inspiration, people, products
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....
Shots on Brave New Worlds
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...
Relax with Thomas Bernstrand
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...
Textile design by Sari Syväluoma
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...
Milan Design Week part four
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...
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