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Student Series ❘ Stella Björg Björgvinsdóttir

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Ugluholt (Owl Hill) is an illustrated typeface project built on the life at Ugluholt by graphic design graduate Stella Björg Björgvinsdóttir. In the letters you can find the animals and plants that live at Ugluholt. Representing the letter A is auðnutittlingur (common redpoll), býflugur and bláber (bees and blueberries) decorate… Read more

Student Series ❘ LHI Fashion Show 2012 Part 3/3

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Graduating fashion designers from the Iceland Academy of the Arts put up a show at Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhús – here are a few tasters, enjoy! Above Guðrún Sturludóttir Below Tanja Huld Leví Guðmundsdóttir Above Tanja Huld Leví Guðmundsdóttir Below Steinunn Björg Hrólfsdóttir Above Steinunn Björg Hrólfsdóttir Below Mai Shirato… Read more

Student Series ❘ LHI Fashion Show 2012 Part 2/3

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Graduating fashion designers from the Iceland Academy of the Arts put up a show at Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhús – here are a few tasters, enjoy! Above Margrét Sigríður Valgarðsdóttir Below Björg Skarphéðinsdóttir Above Björg Skarphéðinsdóttir Below Sunna Örlygsdóttir Above Sunna Örlygsdóttir Images Courtesy of LHI

Student Series ❘ LHI Fashion Show 2012 Part 1/3

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Graduating fashion designers from the Iceland Academy of the Arts put up a show at Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhús – here are a few tasters, enjoy! Above Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir Below Hera Guðmundsdóttir Above Hera Guðmundsdóttir Below Halla Hákonardóttir Above Halla Hákonardóttir Below Eva Brá Barkardóttir Images Courtesy of LHI

Student Series ❘ Dagbjört Ylfa Geirsdóttir

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Ævar is a graduation project by the 27-year-old product design student Dagbjört Ylfa Geirsdóttir. Made of leftovers from Hampiðjan, a global manufacturer of ropes, fishingnets and other related products, Ævar is made of polyethyline ropes that are used to make trawls for the fishing business. Named after a man who… Read more

Student Series ❘ SPARK by Dröfn Sæmundsdóttir, Kolbeinn Ísólfsson and Egill Rúnar Viðarsson

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SPARK the electric race car is a cooperation project of The Iceland academy of the Arts and University of Iceland. The students of the Iceland Academy of the Arts designed the car’s dashboard, seat and body along with the logo, homepage and the team’s whole image.           … Read more

Student Series ❘ Jón Helgi Hólmgeirsson

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Jónófón is an acoustic vinyl-record-player that uses a papercup and a horn made out of paper to amplify the music from the vinyl record. The gramophone that was invented more than 120 years ago by the german Emile Berliner was a piece of furniture that played heavy records through a… Read more

DesignMarch 2012 on Vimeo

Take a look at this beautiful video Glamour the Concept Boutique made – and mark your calendar, see you on 14-17.3. for DesignMarch 2013. Have a great weekend!

We ♥ Siggi Eggertsson

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Back to routine after DesignMarch, then! Have you noticed our beautiful blog header design? The galloping horse is by the talented graphic designer Siggi Eggertsson.       Eggertsson graduated from Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2006 and currently lives and works in Berlin. At age 27, he has… Read more

DesignMarch 2012 I Dýrðin dýrðin

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The Nordic House, in cooperation with The Icelandic Association of Landscape Architects and Iceland Design Centre, arranged a competition for the best idea on landscaping of the area around The Nordic House. The goal was to get realistic and exciting ideas on the design and content of this unique area. Vatnsmýrin in… Read more