Monica Zetterlund jazz singer
Here’s the great late jazz singer Monica Zetterlund (who I proposed for a statue yesterday) in a TV recording from 1968 performing the song Trubbel (Difficulty) by Olle Adolphson. It’s a beautiful song and I think it is a great example of Swedish melancholy. What do my fellow readers from other parts of the world...
More female statues
The Swedish magazine Amelia is just running a marketing campaign where they would like to see more female statues in Sweden. Today only one out of ten statues shows a woman with name and clothes on! They call it the Statue Appeal. At the dedicated web page you can choose from twenty different historic female...
Konstfack for kids
Konstfack for Kids is a new cooperation between Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Craft and Design and Gallerian, shopping mall in Stockholm where the both would like to inspire young people to experiment with visual communication and digital media.There are five different courses with different themes; digital storytelling, animation, robotic, commercial movie and pimp...
Superdome at Palais de Tokyo
I visited the Superdome exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in Paris earlier this summer during a trend trip I made for the brand teams of Level vodka, Plymouth gin and Cruzan rum. The exhibition is running until August 24th and if you have the possibility I think that you defenitely should try to see it....
Asian eating device
Lincoln Kayiwa, a designer who graduated as a Master of Arts from the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH in 2007 is running her own brand product design company KAYIWA – an epitome of novelty, aesthetics, functionality and environmental friendliness. Her newest product, the sterling silver TUKAANI is a hand made eating device for...
More Nick Veasey
Short clips of the greatest hits of Nick Veasey’s moving image works. Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art. In a world obsessed with superficial appearance it is a refreshing change to be able to look beyond the surface. Beauty, after all, comes from within. Andra bloggar om: video, konst, foto,...
Nick Veasey x-ray
A new series of fine art photography is up at 20Ltd. This time by English artist Nick Veasey. In a world obsessed with superficial image it is a refreshing contrast to look beyond the surface and appreciate the stuff that surrounds us for what it is made of, not just what it looks like on...
Good in more than one way…
Designer Alain Gilles has made a limited edition version of his Translation Armchair for Qui est Paul?. The limited edition version is a good example that with some fine tuning, normally wasted materials can be transformed into fully functional furniture that does not have to hide its origins. Recycled plastic bottle caps that have first...
Can petrol ever be ‘green’?
The ‘helios house’ is a gas station (BP) in downtown LA – design wise, it has an ‘interesting’ form, is a sculptural piece and has achieved LEED certification status. The question is, can a service station, which sells petrol, really become ‘green’? Is it a step in the right direction, or is it an example...
Loading...