iLike #Stockholm Design Week

Indebted to David Report for the info on the iLike event during this weeks Stockholm Design Week.

Design studio Bernstrand & Co have asked 100 “creatives”, plus allegedly politicians, to take a photo of their favourite product/event.

Design studio Bernstrand & Co will then display them in their studio.

In Stockholm.
So that only those in Stockholm can see them.

Great.

It’s like the internet never happened.
Or maybe it hasn’t in Stockholm

@Design studio Bernstrand & Co – Almost all photos will be taken with a phone that is only as popular as it is because of it’s internet capabilities and functionality.

Let us also look at the pictures on it.

Or at least on a normal computer monitor.

Thanks

iLike #Stockholm Design Week

But since we can’t make it, it would be good to see what others enjoyed…..

iLike Stockholm - but to see pictures of it we have to go to Stockholm. Ain't technology great.

The 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards: Furniture Shortlist Nominations

A couple of weeks ago we posted the shortlist nominations for the furniture category at the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards.

On February 17th the Award Exhibition opens at the London Design Museum, and  in advance of that we have decided to take the opportunity to present each of the furniture nominations in a little more detail.

On the one hand a very lazy way to get a series of 12 posts; on the other a chance to give those of you who are unfamiliar with one or the other of the designs and/or designers some reference points and an independent assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the works.

(There should now be a picture with the logo of the Brit Insurance Design Awards – only they don’t appear to have one…. Which is kind of ironic if you think about it :))

MODERN[ISM] exhibition at Design Museum, Helsinki

Helsinki in spring might not be everyone’s idea of the perfect holiday location; but we’ve tried it and can thoroughly recommend it.

And should it be colder than normal, from February 12 until May 9 the Design Museum is hosting a new exhibition: MODERN[ISM]

Although the principle focus of the exhibition will be the “golden age” of modernism from 1910 to the late 1930s, the exhibition promises to explore modernism in all its facets and to address the importance of modernism for contemporary design. Examples of Nordic, and for all Finnish modernism, will be showcased in the exhibition.

A series of lectures and a book on Finnish modernism will complement the exhibition.

In addition to exhibits from the Design Museums own collection, MODERN[ISM] also features exhibits borrowed from, for example, the Alvar Aalto Museum, the Bauhaus Archiv of Berlin,  and The National Museum of Norway.
Which all just sounds, well, thoroughly modern.

And certainly worth checking out if you are in or near Helsinki this spring.

Full details can be found at the Finnish Design Museum‘s homepage.

Modernism at the Design Museum Helsinki