Don’t fad, stick to your craft
Neither Barcelona’s cool, nor Madrid’s castizo, Zaragoza lies just in the middle, both geographic and socially. Things are charming, not so advanced, in the 5th biggest city in Spain. Here, my half-foreign eyes sadly contemplate a market ruled by the new rich, who spend on unsustainable consumerist fashion – only comparable to the BRIC....
London Milan summer courses
Students and new designers from around the world are again being invited to enrol on to the London Milan Summer Sessions for four weeks of design tuition and experimentation in world-renowned institutions. Now in its fourth successful year, this unique collaboration between Central Saint Martins in London and Domus Academy and NABA, Nuova Accademia di...
A break-through device by V12
V12 is an interesting and innovative Milan design company that I have written about before. They have teamed up with the young and dynamic firm Estari and the two are now working on bringing the ground-breaking Canova laptop into the real world. When finally launched Canova will probably revolutionize the world of personal computers. The dual touch...
Tokyo Takushii by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Designgalleriet in Stockholm is showing an exhibition called Tokyo Takushii by Swedish designers and architects Claesson Koivisto Rune. The exhibition started with a fascination for taxi cars in Tokyo and all three have a lot of photos from a lot of trips to the city. Out of hundreds of photos ten was chosen as sources...
Making the invisible visible
The new book ‘The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands’ chronicles the marketing and brand building experiences of America’s leading green companies. Author Richard Seireeni explains how 23 successful ‘green’ companies like Southwest Windpower, Michelle Kaufman Designs and Tesla Motors built their brands, and how they used an invisible marketing...
Designboost introducing Boost Cast with a Miniboost in Stockholm
The vision of Designboost is ‘sharing design knowledge’. To make this vision come true we have created a platform of integrated formats were people can meet and interact. Now we are proudly introducing a new format to the platform which we call Boost Cast; a film format that from now on will allow us...
Stockholm Design Week snapshots
Here follows a couple of snapshots I took at the recent Stockholm Furniture Fair / Stockholm Design Week. Picture from Ineke Hans installation as guest of honour. New pendent wall lamp by Ilse Crawford for Wästberg. My former company David Design presented new mirrors by Wis design. Table by Monica Förster and sofa by Claesson...
Designer’s Nest winner
The winner of Designer’s Nest of CPH Vision fashion fair has been announced earlier today. As I mentioned yesterday I was part of the international jury and we picked Sofia Järnefelt of University of Art & Design Helsinki as number one. Except for the fame and glory she got a check of 50.000 Danish crowns....
CPH Vision jury work
I was invited to be representing Sweden in the jury at CPH Vision fashion fair which provides an intimate and exclusive platform for both established and up-and-coming fashion designers. CPH Vision is situated in the beautiful and historical Øksnehallen and has been extended this year with a second arena called Terminal 2. Designers’ Nest is as...
Copenhagen Fashion Week
Copenhagen Fashion Week kicks off today Wednesday, February 4 and the show schedule looks more enticing than ever before. Young talented designers are making their way to the runways of the fashion capital of Scandinavia, adding new creativity to an established fashion week. Designers such as Wackerhaus, Bibi Ghost, Stine Goya, Soulland and Vilsbøl de...
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