Pipeline to play
Internationally acclaimed Danish designer Rikke Hagen won the prestigious iF Award in 2007 for the lamp Steam for Holmegaard. But her new line of products titled ‘Pipeline’ take her much further than just being one of Denmark’s leading glass designers. Hagen is now merging materials like steel, leather and porcelain into her new products saying,...
Senses from Sweden
Reijmyre Glassworks new launch Senses is a concept where each glass is named by the character of the wine and designed to best enhance the experience of it. The diamond shape of the glass facilitates the “swirl” that oxygenates the wine and releases its bouquet. Together with wine expert Sverker Magnusson the designer Lina Öhlund...
New Maxjenny webshop
The fashion designer (and Designboost booster) Maxjenny Forslund is opening a new webshop. If you are into personal and innovative clothing design you should definitely give it a look. Andra bloggar om: mode, kläder, design, webbshop
Mumm explorer experience
Following their first trip to Greenland in July 2008, with a dinner cooked by the two-star chef Sylvestre Wahid on an iceberg floating on Sermilik fjord, the House of G.H. MUMM and adventurer Mike Horn will be dining in Antarctica courtesy of Gérard Boyer, holder of three Michelin stars. These first two dinners are part...
Fred Perry in Moscow
Iconic British brand Fred Perry announces the opening of its first Laurel store in Moscow, on 19/1 Petrovka street. “Each Fred Perry Laurel store is marked with individual design, based on the spirit of the city, where it’s been opened, its culture and history. In Moscow we open on one of the oldest streets, surrounded...
Paint-free shirt design from Viidrio
The idea behind Viidrio shirt designs is to practice other options aside from screen-printing. Initially when they knew they wanted to use an aluminum tin, they were thinking about having the containers printed by packaging manufacturer. But that option would have contradicted the concept behind Viidrio. The shirt designs have embroidery-art, and Viidrio wanted the...
Design a cover for Dazed
For the January issue of Dazed & Confused, the magazine asked everyone under 18 and living in the UK to get in touch with an idea for an article about what it means to be young and British today. With the idea landing on homepages from Myspace to Channel 4, the inboxes at Dazed &...
Designboost 2008 magazine
Below is the magazine from the 2008 Boost by the knowledge company Designboost which I’m involved in. You can read it in a convenient flip through version. The theme for Designboost 2008 was Long Live the City and concerned our lives in future sustainable cities. Designboost will make a Mini-Boost tour during spring 2009 in...
Freewheelin way to go
The Freewheelin story. Bike sharing was a hit when launched in Paris in 2007. It was cheap, convenient and eco-friendly. End of story? Not so fast. A U.S. health insurer changed the game and wrote a new story. Humana promotes its business agenda – lower health care costs – through a state-of-the-art bike sharing program...
Animation of Slussen by BIG and NOD
Here is an animation of the proposal for Slussen in Stockholm by BIG Architects of Copenhagen, Denmark, and NOD Landscape Architects of Stockholm, Sweden. By moving the public program towards the most attractive place, and integrating the heavy traffic under the cover of a public square, it is possible to regain the waterfront, and at...
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