We want to celebrate it is online! We are throwing a big launch reception on Friday from 7pm to 10pm in our Flagship Store – and you are invited!
Join the facebook event here.

If you can’t wait until Friday or if you are not able to make it to Copenhagen – take a look at the new site now www.normann-copenhagen.com

If you are a young talented designer remember to submit your design proposal before 13 June on www.timetodesign.eu

Do you want to know more about Time to design and what you win? Check it out here.

Artist and Art Director of Flair Magazine Daniele Costa went to Milan. Here he made drawings of the new furiture, design, lighting and accessories he spotted on the fair.  The result is a bunch of really cool drawings. Our Bunny chair designed by Ikos-Berlin was also a victim of his pen.

Check out other Milan drawings and more of his work here.

Here Allan and Peter from the store is taking down the Hang lamps and putting up 25 Bau lamps.

Here the Flagship Store before:

And after:

At the moment on our Facebook page we have asked which version of  the Bau Lamp you prefer – Multi or Nature?  See the result and give your vote here
The Bau Lamp is designed by Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt and is a sculptural self assembly lamp.

To celebrate we made this collage and decided to put pink products on our homepage.

 Empty Salone 2012

The Normann Copenhagen Stand under construction

Tram spotting

More meat

 Coconut fountain

Fabric on trees

Reflection

Pixel Kvadrat – up close

Pixel miss Hallingdal

Outside the box

Pink on pink action

Perspective

Light frames

Mindcraft

Making stuff

 Clay away

Local wood shop

 Wood work

Mechanic boxes

Italian chair

Grande

 Gold coin

Future tub

 Ebay party

 Ebay party cakes

Letters on Strings

 Duomo

 Drawing Stuff

Art packed away

 Backyard

 Rho – the city without people

On the way home to Denmark

Plants- and lots of them.
Bring nature inside your home.

Fresh yellow – on walls, chairs, rugs
and even on shelves.

Styling was made in smaller groups.

The Vitra and Moroso exhibitions were as always impressive.

Click on the image below to get a preview of our Spring news.

About Time to design: 
Time to design – new talent award is a design award aimed at young design talents in the beginning of their career. The prize includes three months residency at the Danish Art Workshops, 50.000 DKK sponsored by TA, the Danish Association of Wood and Furniture Industries to cover material costs and photographer, individual career coaching by OeO and two weeks of exhibition in the Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store.

Deadline:
Deadline for submission is June 13, 2012. Submit on www.timetodesign.eu. Also follow Time to design on Facebook.

What you get?

2 weeks exhibition in
Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store

3 months residency at
Danish Art Workshop

See how the Time to design winner 2008 used the workshops here.

Network and career counseling by OeO.

Listen to winner of Time to design 2010 tell about network.

Lots of PR

Deadline for submission June 13 2012. www.timetodesign.eu

Our new Beater designed by Ding3000 has just received the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2012. With its different and innovative designs Beater impressed the Jury and won the prestigious design competition. We are of course really proud of this.

More than 1,800 manufactures and designers from 58 countries participated in the battle of winning the exclusive award, which is a quality proof for aesthetic and lasting design. In total 4,515 products were judged by 30 International Jury members.

Award-winning Designtrio
Besides Red Dot Award 2012, Ding3000 won the Good Design Award 2011 for the Rainbow Trivet earlier this year. Beater has also already gained lots of attention at its launch in spring 2012. The British design magazine Wallpaper has for example chosen Beater as new and standout pieces in the interior special (W*157).

Here at the Normann Copenhagen HQ we always think it is exciting to get to know a bit more about the designers. Therefore we have asked Ding3000 some questions about their way of work, how Beater came about and their latest inspirations.

Why do you think Beater has won the prestigious Red Dot Award?
“It’s difficult to say what’s going on in the heads of a design jury, but I guess it’s probably because besides all shape, material or colour issues we have a useful product innovation here. An usual eggbeater is quite a space consuming object and one of only a few kitchen tools which can not be stored away in a drawer. We found a solution for this problem by making our whisk foldable.”

Both Rainbow Trivet and Beater Whisk have won an award within 2 months. What characterizes a typical Ding3000 product?
“We try to design products which offer a benefit in multiple ways. It can be a product which is a classical problem-solver like the BEATER whisk. But we think it’s also worth to design products which

- are more beautiful because they evoke positive associations or reminiscences
- bring a little bit of magic in everyday’s life because they work with a trick or legerdemain
- put smiles on faces because they are enriched by a healthy dose of humour”

Is there a fun story behind the design of a foldable whisk?
“Actually there is: One of us did a very poor drawing of a whisk which was inspired by a bunch of straw tied together with a rope but with no additional function. Then somebody else misunderstood the drawing and said: Wow: A foldable whisk! So our advice to all the designers in the world: Always draw poorly that someone can misunderstand your design and finally make your product better.”

What was the first dish you made with Beater?
“Since the Pannarello of our espresso machine is not working, we use it to froth the milk for our coffee in the office.”

How is a typical Ding3000 day at the office?
“Unfortunately we are spending too much time sitting in front of our computers checking E-mails but we try hard to focus on the things which make us better and more creative designers like sketching, arsing around, being lazy, walk the dog, building quick mock-ups, going to the hardware store, discussing with the manufacturer etc.”

Can you mention the last five things that inspired you for a new design?

1. A folding yardstick
2. The Yangzhou Mountains
3. Building Bricks
4. A five pockets jeans
5. A race track

Buy your own Beater here.