Products, Design, Art, Fashion and other things that we find cool, interesting, provocative and simply brilliant
This is a screen-dump from our upcomming Normann Copenhagen online shop. We are still in Beta (testing the backend, shipping in real life, adjusting some graphics), but are planning to soft launch within a few weeks. Expect to find the whole Normann Copenhagen product range from the small Butterfly Can opener to the big and cozy Memory chair designed by Ole Jensen.
We will keep you up-to-date on our homepage, Flickr, Twitter and right here on the Spotted By Normann Copenhagen blog.
Next week the Copenhagen Fashion Week takes place. We are – as always – excited to see all the new fashion trends. If you are planning to attend, please take a close look at the video below. It may be almost a year old (thats about 5 years in Fashion years), but the knot is still perfect. Look & learn… and let us not catch you with any other knot!
You may have heard about the latest product from Apple, the iPad. Here at the Normann Copenhagen HQ we are quite excited about the new invention. Here is why:
1. With its large screen, the iPad is perfect for showing our product pictures. The minimalistic design ensures that all focus will be on the product, not the computer/keyboard/mouse.
2. It’s mobile… not like an iPhone, but still much better than bringing a laptop around town when our Sales Managers are on customer visits.
3. It’s stylish. We love beautiful design and for us the iPad is an awesome piece of industrial design.
4. We already know it. We are addicted to the iPhone Apps, so being able to move the apps over to the new iPad is just perfect for us. Right now we use: TweetDeck, Skype, iTranslate, Google, Dropbox, Convert, ScanLife, NikeID, RedLaser and WordPress to mention a few.
5. Don’t tell it, show it. We think video is perfect when we want a customer to see how a lump of clay is transformed into a unique table or when we want to show how a Rocking glass rocks but can’t bring every single product with us.
6. We wrote 5 reasons in the headline but we will probably also be using the iPad for music, watching films, playing games, writing mails etc.
p.s. Mr. Jobs, if you are listening in on this channel, please send one of the first iPads our way… please.
Last week we asked you to help us come up with a name for our newest product (a coat rack designed by Jade Barnes-Richardson). We are overwhelmed with the number of really good names. We especially liked the name:
The name was almost simultaneously suggested in three different places (blog, RUM, Facebook). We will therefor send a Hang On coat rack to all three name designers. Thank you to everybody that helped us find the perfect name.
We expect to launch HANG ON soon – you will hear it first right here on the blog.
We are now in Beta. Please go to Google Wave to find your assignment.
How’s that for a eye-catching headline? The picture is taken by the Italian designer Odoardo Fioravanti (designed the Fusion series for us). Apparently his cat liked our old logo so much that it decided to eat it!
This marks the transformation of our old logo (with the barking dog) to the new – without. Bon appetite.
UPDATE: Thank you very much for all the super creative names. We will announce the new name on monday the 1st of February.
A coat rack named???
This is our next product. It is a coat rack and its name is… well, this is where we need your help. Normally we keep the name process to ourselves, but this time we thought it could be fun if you – our dear reader – would help us. We have a few name suggestions, but are still looking for that “now why didn’t I think of that” – name.
Think – but think fast
You only have until monday the 25th of January.
The prize
If we choose to use your name suggestion, you will be rewarded with one of the very first Normann Copenhagen coat racks. We do not promise that the best suggestion will actually be the name of the product.
How to submit your suggestion?
Write it in the comments field above, send a mail to blog(at)normann-copenhagen.com, or Twitter the name followed by the hashtag #NameANormann
More pictures of the coat rack below.
This is Daniel, our new super sales rep. As part of his training to become a Normann Ninja, he must first learn how to assemble all our lamps like a true Master (Exhibit A). Daniel did pretty good job with his first Norm 69 lamp, completing it in 1 hour and 41 minuets. Still a bit of practice before he reaches the Zen level of Master Ronni, which still holds the record time of 34 minuets. If you can beat the record time, we will put your picture on the frontpage of all our online platforms.
Need help assembling one of our lamps? Download the step-by-step manuals or watch the how-to video. Select lamp: Norm 03, Norm 06, Norm 69
“This is good design” was the first thing we said to Jesper K. Thomsen when he showed us his ideas for the Camping series. Now we are not the only ones to think his indoor furniture are awesone.
Camping has been awarded with the prestigious design award 2008-2009 Good Design Award. The award is given by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd and is awarded to quality design of excellence form, function and aesthetic.
The Camping series was awarded with its first design award at a jury session in New York less than a year after the launch. In February 2009, the series was launch for the first time in Scandinavian at Stockholm Furniture Fair. The world premiere was in April 2009 at the Salone Internazionale Mobiles in Milan where Normann Copenhagen exhibited its new furniture collection New Danish Modern where the Camping series got lot of attention.
The series consists of chairs, table, stool and daybed in moulded beech wood.
Learn more about Camping on our homepage
www.normann-copenhagen.com/camping
See how the Camping furniture are – made in Denmark.
This is the very first drawing of the salt & pepper set 58° N… made on a paper napkin. The designduo Ulik conceived the idea of creating a cool and simple Salt & Pepper set in a Coffee bar in Oslo.
Ulik says: Our idea was to design a salt and pepper set that would be robust, and at the same time elegant. This is an everyday item for different types of table arrangements and people want it to retain its newness and purpose for a long time.
Ulik aka. Stian Mørland and Brynjulf Krokstrand both have a background within design from Oslo National Academy of Arts.
When we first saw the design we loved the simplicity and the materials used. The cold matt porcelain and cork are a great combination and feels really nice to hold and use.
Why the name 58°N? – the answer is quite simple. It is the latitude where Denmark and Norway meet.
