Publicerad 15:36, 23 May 2013
Skrúður, Núpur receives the 24th The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for gardens 2013
Skrúður is a vegetable garden in Dýrafjörður, a fjord in the north-western part of Iceland, just a few kilometers from the Arctic Circle. Núpur is the name of the mountain looming over the garden. Together, the two receive the Carlo Scarpa Prize for gardens 2013. Sigtryggur Guðlaugsson, a...
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Publicerad 09:00, 17 May 2013
Berg by Thórunn Arnadóttir
BERG is a collection of hexagonal storage boxes by Thórunn Arnadóttir, introduced in Harpa during DesignMarch 2013. Inspired by basalt columns, hexagonal rock formations that are a prominent feature in Icelandic landscape. BERG is designed for Brúnás, a cabinet making workshop that works with surfaces, veneers and laminates. BERG makes...
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Publicerad 17:00, 14 May 2013
Studio Visit | 7FACTORY
7factory consists of the Reykjavik-based Italian designer Anna Giudice and Valeria Morando, who is based in Savona, Italy. They share their Icelandic studio with Fabio del Percio, founder of HVER Design, with whom they recently collaborated for “Sounds of Iceland“, wool fabrics with decorative patterns of sound graphs produced by sounds originally...
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Publicerad 09:00, 7 May 2013
Katrín Ólína & Garðar Eyjólfsson | Set of Tables
Designers Katrin Olina and Garðar Eyjólfsson have collaborated to create a set of tables that they showed during DesignMarch 2013. Part of 13Al+, a Nordic collaboration between designers and manufacturers which explores new possibilities in design and production of items from icelandic aluminum and promotes Nordic exchange of skills and...
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Publicerad 09:00, 1 May 2013
Iceland Academy of The Arts | Final Exhibition 2013
This year’s graduates of the Icelandic Academy of the Arts (Listaháskóli Íslands) are currently exhibiting in the Reykjavik Art Museum. The extensive exhibition features projects by students from all four design departments of the school, architecture, fashion design, product design and visual communication, as well as final projects by students from the...
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Publicerad 14:39, 19 April 2013
Friday Candy | Kristjana S. Williams
It’s Friday! Here is a little eye candy to start off the weekend: Kristjana S. Williams is a London-based Icelandic illustrator. Growing up in Iceland has been the real inspiration for my work. When I was growing up I found nature there stark and unforgiving; I never saw trees or...
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Publicerad 14:10, 19 April 2013
Marcos Zotes | Pixel Cloud
The current financial situation has left a landscape of obsolete scaffolding structures scattered across the city; urban scars that remind us of the fragility of our current society. PIXEL CLOUD is an architectural installation that addresses this condition by transforming an ordinary scaffolding structure into a fully immersive environment of...
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Publicerad 15:39, 16 April 2013
DesignMarch 2013 | Floating in Gljúfrasteinn
The Icelandic author Halldór Laxness (who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1955) wrote in Heimsljós, 1940, You can take everything from me except the freedom to look up at the sky occasionally. There is hardly a better way to do so than floating in a hot pool. During DesignMarch, designer Unnur Valdís...
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Publicerad 13:28, 15 April 2013
Reykjavik Fashion Festival 2013
Hi all, happy Monday! To start off the week, here are some images from this year’s RFF. Enjoy! First off, REY. Founded by Rebekka Jónsdóttir in 2009, REY has quickly become a local favorite. REY is all about fashion, good quality and honesty. We want to create clothes that become...
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Publicerad 09:00, 15 April 2013
unZip at Milan 2013
unZip, a ompression-packaged cover designed to slip over classic wooden dining chair by HAF by Hafsteinn Juliusson, Rui Pereira and Ryosuke Fukusada was introduced in Milan last week. Here is a little information about the project from the designers: Nowadays, distribution and production plays a huge role when one thinks about developing...
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