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And the winner is!

This Thursday, the 26th August, the winner of the Time to Design award was announced. The award was presented at an event at the Danish Art Workshops. Designers from 34 nations had applied for this year’s competition, but there was only one winner.


Siren Elise Wilhelmsen, this year’s winner of the Time to Design Award

We are proud to announce this year’s winner; the 28-year-old Siren Elise Wilhelmsen from Norway.
She won with her design project Developing Time – Time Developing. The winning project is a development of her graduation project from the University of Arts Berlin.

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Behind the scenes of Light Tower

Light Tower is a sculpture. A sculpture made by aluminum. Well, actually Light Tower is a tea-light candlestick for five tea-lights.  Why the name Light Tower? It looks like a tower and it is a tower. A  tower full of lights. Light Tower is one of our newest products which will be in stores later this fall.

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It’s time!

It is time to announce the winner of the Time to Design award 2010. We are proud yet again to participate in the award by showing and following the new young design talent for the next months.

This year’s award ceremony will take place on Thursday 26th of August at 2pm to 4pm at the Danish Art Workshops and you are invited. At the premises at Strandgade 27B, Director of the Danish Art Workshops Frederik Hardvendel will welcome you to this year’s award ceremony followed by a panel discussion ”Design Your Career”.


The Panel, from left; Enrico Fratesi from GamFratesi, Thomas Lykke, design director OEO, Anders Byriel, director of Kvadrat, Stine Gam from GamFratesi and Jesper Pagh, designer and co – founder of Link Up.

The panel will have a discussion about how you make it in the design business. With a panel consisting of one from the producer side, one from the design side and one from the consulting industry, the discussion provides different angles on how to make it as a designer. An issue which may have multiple answers, depending on which side of the industry you are from.

After the winner has been announced, the winner presents the winning project – we can’t wait!

Come and be inspired by other successful people from the design industry.

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Meet tomorrow’s designers – today

Carlsberg’s raw warehouse at Pasteursvej 4, currently form the framework for the Danish Design Schools annual graduate show. It is an exhibition where the 75 new design talents have the opportunity to show their talent to the public.

This year’s concept is based on the term FAQ, which refers to a list of frequently asked questions about a given topic and replies. We often ask the same questions and therefore are the response from the designer interesting for many.


Many found their way into the raw warehouse, despite the very rainy weather.


Dis[Play] by Lena Vogelius is a multifunctional furniture that is a reminiscent of an accordion as it can be pulled together. Dis[Play] is found to rethink traditional storage methods and the way we use them.

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Interview with the British designer Tom Dixon

Tom Dixon is touring the world with his latest design. Last thursday the designer himself dropped by our Flagship store in Copehagen to give a talk about design. We sat down and had a chat with him before the event. Below you can listen to the exclusive interview with the British designer.

Watch the video interview with Tom Dixon

Bonus: Short video from the Tom Dixon evening with lots of designtalk, live-music and drinks.

What do you want to ask Tom Dixon?

As you may already know Tom Dixon will visit the Normann Copenhagen flagship store on August 12th from 7 pm. This is in connection with his Road Show tour to nine European cities and we look very much forward to welcoming him.

On this evening Normann Copenhagen will ask him all the questions we have always wanted to know. Are you also dying to ask Tom Dixon a specific question? Now is your chance.

Where?
Post your question in the comment field below.

Deadline
Sunday August 8th.

We will post the interview with Tom Dixon here on our blog, where you can also check out if your question was amongst them.

The exhibition runs from August 4th to September 10th 2010.

Normann Copenhagen wins social media award

Last night, we attended the Danish e-business award show hosted by FDIH at the beautiful old Danish stock exchange in Copenhagen. We were nominated in the category: Social Media… and won. We are proud to be recognized for our use of online media, but to be honest, the real award is how much closer the use of online technology has brought us to… you.

Have a nice weekend

Michael Rying
Online Sales & Brand Manager

Job opportunity – in Denmark

Normann Copenhagen søger sælger (barselsvikariat) til Jylland og Fyn. Klik herunder for at læse stillingsopslaget.

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The sence of beautiful design


Sometimes you don´t know f it is design or art you are looking at. Yesterday, we went to the opening of Nicolai Bergmann´s exhibition “Livet imellem” right here in Copenhagen. Wow – we were blown away! He is really a true flower designer/artist.  Check out some of his flower creations below.

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We love great design

Normann Copenhagen is a way of living - a mindset. We like to think of it as putting on a pair of glasses and seeing the world in a different way. We love to challenge the conventional design rules.

On this blog we write about our design, the designers, and interesting things we spot around our hometown - Copenhagen.

Enjoy
Normann Copenhagen