Objectified: A Documentary by Gary Hustwit
Gary Hustwit, the director of indie smash hit documentary Helvetica, just released the trailer for his new movie, Objectified. It’s something as unusual as a documentary about our favourite thing: industrial design. It claims to have a critical view on the process, on designers, our relationships with the designers through the design and consumerism. Just...
Standard hotel now in NYC
The Standard Hotel in NYC is now open. They’re doing a bunch of stuff around the opening. The current one is Standard’s new calendar featuring staff from the various Standard hotels…it was just launched this Monday. The calendar has a “high school” theme – and was shot by Michael Elins who was behind the cover of Rolling...
Lonely at the top no more
Towards the end of his life the American psychologist Abraham Maslow revisited the theory that had made him so very famous. In the ‘Hierarchy of Needs’ (1943) Maslow taught us, that we – as individuals and as civilisation – would climb various stages until we finally reach what he called ‘self-actualization’. On this elevated and...
Chocolate Wars: Simplicity versus irony.
Chokladfabriken is a must for many – and a personal favorite – in Stockholm. So, to get some goodies in the form of a thin pure chocolate slice, from Chocolat Factory – straight from the heart of Barcelona, was a funny thing that ended up with some comparative research. A look to these parallel stories...
Iittala at Designboost
Get your own – Open publication The 2008 Designboost event in Malmö consisted of three different parts; Boost Chats (workshops), Boost Talks (lectures) and a Boost Show (exhibition). The overall theme concerned the sustainable city and was expressed through the phrase “Long live the city”. The Boost Show part was built around our tool The Sustainable...
Alfred Malmros new contributor
We are proud to line up a couple of new contributors to the David Report blog! Next to be presented is Alfred Malmros who is a Swedish advertising strategy student in London freelancing as a strategist, trend analyst and journalist. Currently working on projects for Lunar BBDO and YCN among others he tries to...
Specialty music boutique for the digital high street
The Japanese electronic musician and DJ Captain Funk / Tatsuya Oe recently launched Club Model Electronic to bring his creative world view more directly to his fan base. The online shop delivers sounds and exclusive content so people all over the world can enjoy Oe’s music, as well as being the first bilingual MP3 shop...
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