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Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design has come a long way in just a few years. What started out as a rather small, loosely organized event featuring mainly established furniture producers and interior design firms, is today a broader and more inclusive event.
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Ung Svensk Form aka Young Swedish Design is a very broad exhibition covering emerging ideas within the fields of industrial design, craft and fashion. The exhibition constitute a collection or a cross section of current best practices by some of the most relevant young creative talents on the Swedish design scene.
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FRAGMENT is the title of Maria Bruun and Anne Dorthe Vester’s solo show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, an installation that expand on the duo’s earlier work but on a larger scale.
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With projects such as Collective Unconscious and The Sea Cult in their portfolio, Polish studio Kosmos Project (Ewa Bochen & Maciej Jelski) has established an almost anthropological design practice. The duo’s works often explore and incorporate elements of the arcane and profound, sourcing myths, folklore and history for material and inspiration. Their current exhibition – Irrational Times – a collaboration with Swedish designer Petra Lilja and curator Magdalena Poplawska, explores recurring themes in Norse and Slavic mythology and tradition.
Continue reading “Irrational Times, exhibition”Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is undoubtedly one of the absolute highlights of the design year, a kaleidoscopic vision for the future of design. One of the most popular events of the week is the graduation show at the Design Academy Eindhoven aka DAE with people lining up outside well before the doors open to de Witte Dame.
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The theme for Dutch Design Week 2015 is “What if…“, two words that perfectly capture the essence of the contemporary Dutch design scene. These are a few highlights from the DDW 2015…
The Re-Framing Danish Design exhibition contains two very different takes on Danish design, one is cool and analytical, the other intuitive and irreverent, some might even say profane.
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The Objects of Use collection is an architect – designers collaboration between Copenhagen based Anne Dorthe Vester and Maria Bruun that was recently awarded with the National Solo Award at Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition. The Objects of Use contains objects that are seemingly familiar but not quite recognizable.
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If you don’t know B°Fex, aka, Rasmus Bækkel Fex, and were only told that he is a Danish designer working mainly with traditional furniture types, you will most definitely get the wrong idea.
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