Monthly archive February, 2010
DesignBoost Stockholm streamed online!

DesignBoost Stockholm streamed online!

The BoostTalk on Friday 12 February during DesignBoost Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm was sold out in thirty minutes. Designboost is now happy to announce that they will stream all lectures, panels and seminar online on Friday 12th between 9.45am and 5.15pm. You can listen to personalities like Karim Rashid, Ross Lovegrove, Ilse Crawford, Stephen Burks, Ineke...
Freedom = New Proportions: The Decadence Project

Freedom = New Proportions: The Decadence Project

Each designer of DCI (Design Club International) teamed up with two young Shonan modelers to create a 1/4 scale model for an educational project sponsored by the Japanese government to educate DCI’s new modelers. As Alexandre Cornaert, a car designer with DCI explains, ”For the modelers to practice and refine their skills, they needed a design to...
Going Gray at Svenskt Tenn

Going Gray at Svenskt Tenn

Today Svenskt Tenn opens its new exhibition, where illustrator Mats Gustafson and designer Ted Muehling have staged a home environment inspired by Estrid Ericson and Josef Frank. This is the first occasion where the designer couple has worked together. They have named the exhibition ”Going Gray”, where the moderate gray colour scale reflects the need for...

48sqm by Beckmans College of Design

48m² / Beckmans at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2010 from Beckmans College of Design on Vimeo.
Artek dresses the chair

Artek dresses the chair

Artek celebrates its 75th anniversary substantially all year long in 2010. The first jubilee event will take place in Stockholm in February, where Artek will open a new showroom. The opening of the Stockholm location also marks the launch of DRESS THE CHAIR!, a worldwide campaign to celebrate the skills and knowledge of Artek’s know-how....
Rowdy furniture

Rowdy furniture

Rowdy is a new seating system from David design (a company which I founded back in 1988, and ran until I left it in the mid 00s). Rowdy is designed by Peter Andersson and Matti Klenell. The idea behind the product is simple; with inspiration from various examples of how the fashion world succeds in...
POC protects The Swedes

POC protects The Swedes

It’s with great honor that POC supplies the Swedish Alpine Ski Team with helmets, goggles and body armor. An ongoing collaboration since the birth of POC 5 years ago. From this season POC has initiated a specific program where POC gives a little extra support to a number of the Swedish athletes in their quest for...
iLike the Stockholm Design Week

iLike the Stockholm Design Week

Studio Bernstrand & Co asked 100 architects, designers, politicians, journalists, etc to take a cell phone picture of their favorite product/phenomenon during the Stockholm Design Week. The pictures will then be sent to studio Bernstrand & Co by MMS, where they will be printed and shown in the exhibition iLike. The address is Bondegatan 11...
No Early Birds

No Early Birds

Don´t get confused, NoEarlyBirds is not a newly discovered species. It is the name of a new Swedish furniture manufacturer and the result of a 10 year old dream of architect Per Söderberg and creative director Peter Simonsson to create a brand that reflects their personal believes regarding design and lifestyle. With over 20 years...
Unhappy Hipsters

Unhappy Hipsters

“You can come out when you can properly explain the differences between Modernist architecture and postmodern ornamentation”. Just a short temptation from Unhappy Hipsters. Visit them for a lot more. (Photo: Craig Cutler; Dwell, February/March 2006).