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The Atelier Collection from David Design

The Atelier Collection from David Design

I just got the good news that my former company David Design, which I founded back in 1988, has got a new management, new designers and new products. I left the company 6 years ago and I’m happy to see that there is some new power behind the brand! I have heard that the work...
Superior quality fabrics from HOSOO

Superior quality fabrics from HOSOO

The Danish design bureau OeO has teamed up with Japanese textile brand HOSOO for their new fabrics collection that was just presented at Maison & Objet in Paris from 20-24 January 2012. Building on its celebrated legacy, HOSOO develops superior quality fabrics for high-end interior. The new fabrics collection from HOSOO reflects the company’s strong commitment...
The room in-between by Nude

The room in-between by Nude

Nude is Stockholm based creative atelier that creates energy-filled rooms for well being. During Stockholm Design Week they will launch The Room In-Between, accompanied by a limited edition of specially designed furniture. The founder of NUDE, Eva-Lotta Axelsson, describes their philosophy: In the city, everything is represented by a facade. The facade and its location becomes...
New Solutions for work and storage by Per Söderberg

New Solutions for work and storage by Per Söderberg

Per Söderberg continues to futher develop the No Early Birds collection. This year at the Stockholm Design Week he presents new solutions for work and storage. What appears to be plain but subtle boxes with elegant brass fronts – placed on a cross-leg structure base – turns out, after a closer look, to be units with...
Work In Progress - ideas, prototypes and processes

Work In Progress – ideas, prototypes and processes

Work in Progress is an exhibition focused on ideas and creative processes behind and not only the final product. It’s an opportunity to see the sketches, models and prototypes of both new talents and some of Scandinavia’s most renowned designers. The exhibit tells the stories behind 15 designers’ work – some designs are brand new...
Art and Tech Combine to Create New Social Marketing Trends

Art and Tech Combine to Create New Social Marketing Trends

The trend towards less invasive advertising and marketing strategies in the public sphere is certainly one of the more interesting design concepts to contemplate right now. These trends overlaps with technological innovation and  commercialism in surprising ways. Starting with holosonic sound beams that were used to market the A&E show Paranormal Activity, people began to...
Gastrologik - a restaurant in Stockholm with high ambitions

Gastrologik – a restaurant in Stockholm with high ambitions

The founders of Gastrologik have a mission – to create  a good restaurant that is an interaction between the kitchen and service, the food and guests, the premises and the interior, between consciousness and unconsciousness and between logic and gastronomy. This is the philosophy of Jacob Holmström and Anton Bjuhr, two young but highly qualified chefs who stand...
EAT ME - Appetite for Design

EAT ME – Appetite for Design

EAT ME is is the latest publication from Vict:onary - a creative publishing house founded by Victor Cheung in 2001 in Hong Kong. It is a young creative multi-dimensional workshop born to create vibrant visual experience to inspire and ignite the sense of people, inside and outside of the industry. Vict:onary is know for their...
Muuse - The independent fashion talent community

Muuse – The independent fashion talent community

With Copenhagen Fashion Week happening just this week I feel it is relevant to write about a recent fashion online initiative called MUUSE. It is a co-created, new and forward thinking business model within high level, couture fashion. MUUSE – describe themselves as “The independent fashion talent community”. Launched in 2011 ready for fashion week...
The Sezz Collection by Christophe Pillet for Emeco

The Sezz Collection by Christophe Pillet for Emeco

Emeco present a collection of designed aluminum chairs, stools and swivel chairs entitled Sezz by French designer Christophe Pillet, first installed at the The Sezz Hotel St. Tropez. Known for works that meditate on notions of time as well as the esthetic and illustrative memory, Pillet brings these themes together in five pieces: A series of timeless,...
Barcelona Design Thinking Week 2012

Barcelona Design Thinking Week 2012

Our editor-in-cheif David Carlson is invited to present and run a workshop at the Barcelona Design Thinking Week 2012 which takes place February 6-10. David will do this together with Brent Richards, who are a co-writer and collaborator here at David Report. The theme for the presentations/workshop will be Design au Naturel. Brent Richards will relate...