Archive for the ‘DESIGN’ Category

ICELAND BETTER WORLD – PROTECTED FROM BAD ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT

From a presentation in fron of the parliament on the first day of May. People looking at providing a better world looking after the environment. Here are more images from the event posted on the internet. The town building in centre of Reykjavik in Iceland. This image shows the hose of parliament (the black one) […]

May 1, 2013   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

END OF THE YEAR SHOW IN ICELAND ACADEMY

  Present operation going on The Iceland Design Faculty opened the exhibition of the student work after winter 2012-13. The school is going through fundamental changes and development this year and next so I was worried about the contents from the work but the results lifted my opinions. The students have showed that they can […]

April 23, 2013   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

MORE ACTION IN MOZAMBIQUE

Klass meeting planning project and starting operations. Guests from our Norway school and local students and teachers in Maputo Presentation and dialogue from students. Collaboration between ISArC and KHiO (http://www.khio.no/Norsk/Design/) The projects are going well among the local gang. We wait for more information later but fundamental is the participation and collective learning from one […]

April 18, 2013   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

DESIGNERS ARE PARTNERSHIP BROKERS

Anne-Marie Slaughter writes about how the conditions are changing and we are designing our own profession. This might be a different condition to before. She discusses changes that have come with the digital world and then says: “many old titles and jobs no longer make sense” “A similar phenomenon is happening with traditional professions. Technologies […]

January 4, 2013   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

TALLIN ACADEMY WORKS

The students finishing the work before Xmas holiday for a few days before action starts again. Lots of different work in the Academy in Tallin. Great to see architects dealing with reality and opening up potentials. Some images from the activity. Tweet This Post

December 18, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN  No Comments

INNER SPACE – INDRE ROM IN DOGA, OSLO

A SENS & SANS exhibition in DogA in Oslo A strong exhibition of photographs in the very good exhibition space in DogA where many strong design and architecture activity takes place. Here are a few images from the event. Tweet This Post

December 18, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN  No Comments

THE WORLD OF THE PRINTED MEDIA

I have been wondering what is happening to the newspapers. Something that I have enjoyed all my life and they are kind of dying now with the introduction of all the new ways of communicating. Most of the stuff that comes through my front door today is rubbish post with advertising for things that I […]

December 14, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  No Comments

FIRST GRADUATION IN ISARC – FIRST ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN IN MOZAMBIQUE

There are happy and fundamental days for the first graduation in ISArC in Mozambique. The program has run over three years now and the first graduation took place on Friday 30th of November 2012! Congratulations to all! Here are some images from the event! Here are some images from our work there over the time. […]

December 6, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

DESIGN MARKET FOR XMAS IN ICELAND

  Regularly designers in Reykjavik run their market and especially now just before Xmas is there time to offer new designs and solutions. I popped over to their market last weekend to meet up many past students and to evaluate what new people are offering. Here are a few simple images from the event. Tweet […]

December 5, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

REUSE OF MATERIALS AND KNITTING FOR FASHION

I spent many times with my grandmother who knitted all the time, making mittens, socks and various other traditional clothing. Icelandic wool was and is still the indigenous material for Icelandic clothing and actually fashion. It comes from the traditional sheep that the Vikings brought with them from Northern Scandinavia. I still have some pairs […]

November 23, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, GREENLAND, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

CIRRUS NETWORK – NORDIC SCHOOLS OF DESIGN

This is the front of the Cirrus Website that I made some years ago. I have posted important material from that site also here on my site so not much will go missing if this site will die. I am not responsible for running this site or network longer so the site might go missing. […]

November 22, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

CIRRUS MEETING IN FEBRUARY 2012

Meeting 16th Februar 2012. The Cirrus Website has crashed so the images have to be replaced soon   Part of the crowd in the meeting The 6th annual teacher meeting took place in Copenhagen in mid February. The last year has been a bit different dealing with cut funds from the Nordic Council of Ministers, probably because […]

November 22, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

CIRRUS REACH

1. Cirrus Policy. The main purpose is to sustain a global powerhouse in design through education and research in the Nordic-Baltic region. And to pay attention to the specialities that strengthen design, crafts, arts and innovation in the region. The network promotes Nordic-Baltic cooperation between the member institutions through staff, student and researcher’s exchange, intensive projects, symposia, meeting […]

November 22, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND  No Comments

WORKSHOP IN BLUE FACTORY – ICELAND

A course in Iceland July 15th – 22nd – 2012 Here is a description of a summer workshop in the Blue Factory in Iceland. Fourth time this Icelandic event takes place in conjunction with LUNGA WORKSHOP. Click here for the project and workshop description named: Pre-Christianity Roots of Nordic Creative Language. Tweet This Post

November 22, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND  No Comments

PREVIOUS WORK IS FALLING OUT OF WEB – HERE I PUT OUT AGAIN

The aim of the event of unusual format – unconference – is to create network among young designers and use it as a platform for further actions. Event is planned to be held in February. Young designers and design students from each Nordic-Baltic region country will participate. Young designers from 9 Nordic-Baltic region design schools […]

November 22, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed