Archive for the ‘DESIGN’ Category

SOUTH KOREA DESIGN INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY PROJECT

For a number of years we have been working on the DIG-Equality project, me and my partner Sóley Stefánsdóttir, a graphic designer with further education in gender studies. She has been instrumental in collecting material and reaching to activists, both in Iceland and globally. We wrote the project description DESIGN INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY after […]

May 14, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, GENDER DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

ICELAND ASSOCIATION OF ECO CONSUMERS

THE ASSOCIATION WEBSITE IS HERE (NOT IN ENGLISH YET) Yesterday we had the first official meeting of the association that has been running of course un-officially for a year. I include here are a few photos from the meeting and a link to the website of the association. We went to the establishment of the […]

April 15, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

DESIGN MARCH IN ICELAND

Auður, member of the design club gang presenting new products from agriculture from BÚBÓT (farmers products) Design March! One more time the design field in Iceland ran the exhibitions, events and entertainment for the promotion of design as a tool to address world and local issues. This takes place every year in the month of […]

March 28, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND  Comments Closed

ANE MAKING PRINTS

Ane (here is her blog) and me have been in projects together and it has been interesting to follow how she has developed more and more into traditional methods in a school full of computers and clever digital things. This to me seems very much where very many of my students are going while not […]

March 19, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

STRATEGIC BREAK IN OSLO

In the workshop for the master students in Oslo. Cutting and putting together. Project in KHiO discussing strategy for the future. We are discussing design strategy and where design participates in dealing with global issues, production in industry, tourism and food – and actually many more areas. We discuss various globally active projects and go […]

March 14, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

OSLO ACADEMY WORK IN MARCH

My desk in Oslo with the Mac, textile from Mozambique and photo from the Greenland Project. It is great to come to my work place in KHiO, my academy in Norway. My desk is my place and friend and now summer is pretending to arrive. Sun and people sitting outside the school for the lunch […]

March 13, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

WORKSHOP IN DESIGN STRATEGY IN KHiO

Strategy as a term actually comes from military origin and refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal or goals. An identical definition has often been used to define design. The dictionary says for the term ‘design’: To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent: ‘design a good excuse for not […]

March 11, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

THE MONGOLIAN YURT

I have met friends in Iceland that have built a Mongolian Yurt and are doing creative projects and promotion of a different way of working and living. We had great conversation about the use of materials and the traditions that are inherent in this kind of adaptable architecture. The Mongolian Yurts are attracting interest from […]

March 8, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

BiO-SOLHEIMAR IN ICELAND

One of the greenhouses is being now used as the restaurant and presentation location. Solheimar today provides all its production to localities off the Reykjavik capital and suburbs. Here is a photo album from Sólheimar I went for a visit one more time to Sólheimar, the oldest eco farm in Iceland. They are working development […]

March 5, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

PROJECT IN ICELAND – ICELAND DIALOGUE

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February 5, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, MUSIC  Comments Closed

THE EAST OF ICELAND!! POTENTIAL OR INDUSTRIAL DEATH?

Egilsstaðir is a small town in the Eastern part of Iceland. A very young town, I remember when I came there first in the 60’s it was very mellow commercial and school location central in the country being a link to all the fjords with very active fisheries. The main school was located close and […]

February 3, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

EXPERIMENTATION IN GRAPHICS IN MOZAMBIQUE

We had one more project in ISArC in Mozambique in the end of the year. The first week of summer holiday was damaged by our short term workshop in computer graphic design and in clothing tayloring. Håvard Steensen, a graphic designer from our school in Oslo and Dagfinn Skoglund a fashion design teacher in the […]

February 1, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

ÞORPIÐ, AN EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCT WORKSHOP IN EAST ICELAND

A photo of the window of the workshop in evening with lots of snow outside. We are all there chatting, Lára, Signý and Sóley with me facing the window with the camera. Yesterday we were invited to meet Lára Vilbergsdóttir and Signý Ormarsdóttir in the workshop Þorpið. The Icelandic word Þorpið is a common name […]

January 30, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

FINAL DAY IN OUR ICELAND DIALOGUE

We have so far had a fantastic final day in our project. Lots of experimental work has been done and will be posted during the coming days. Ten groups of students are presenting their ideas, results of conversations and experiments. Here is a simple photo album that will be extended as material arrives. Tweet This Post

January 27, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, MUSIC, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

  The project has been run for one week now and people are coming together with dialogue, finding common ways and what is worth talking about and approaching. The groups have moved around town, visited various activities locations, visited arts and design shows and basically come together. The second week is the one for more […]

January 22, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed