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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
The visual Idenitity of the currently running Sequences VI Festival was designed by Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson. Here are some words by Arnar on his work for Sequences and his work in general: The brief was making a visual identity for Sequences VI real time art festival which is a biannual festival… Read more
Studio STEiNUNN recently relocated to a beautiful space by the harbor, formally used by a netting factory. During DesignMarch, they set up an installation that is the result of a collaboration between fashion designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir and illustrator Laufey Jónsdóttir. Here are a few images from the exhibition by Hulda… Read more
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