Products, Design, Art, Fashion and other things that we find cool, interesting, provocative and simply brilliant
A Tech Company will reveal a new hardware product today!!! Nothing interesting about that. But replace “A Tech Company” with the brand name Apple, and now you got everybody’s attention. Designlovers will gather around the live-blogging sites that will keep us up to date - minute by minute during Steve Jobs presentation. It’s amazing that Apple has succeeded in turning a product presentation into something that can be compared to a sports event.
100% RESPECT
Magnus in the process of cutting a very unique and very thick Oak table to one of our customers.
Throughout October you can buy this cool t-shirt”Love your Bada-boom booms” in our store and you will support the fond A Race Against Breast Cancer that supports DCTB (Dansk Center for Translationel Brystkræftforskning) .
The T-shirt costs 150, - DKK and the entire amount goes directly to DCTB…no hidden profits.
This Friday(October 10th ) we will throw a spectacular event in our flagship store in Copenhagen. Among the guests will be some of Denmark’s finest athletes, politicians, artists and guests who are prepared to spend some extra money for an extremely important cause. If you are a heavy spender with a big wallet, we have a few tickets left…give our PR Manager Johanne Toft a call.
Graphics: Caroline Trautner. Photo:Per Søgaard. Model: Pernille Andersen/Scoop models. Hair & makeup: Maria Edwards…everybody worked for free…thank you very much.
The Normann Copenhagen rocking glass designed by Britt Bonnesen has been used by Portuguese based OON solutions when launching their concept “Candles That Save Water” at the Expo 2008 exhibition in Zaragoza this past week. Their concept is to transform waste Oil from households into candles. Shows how taking an environmental approach can be done with a twist of design.
Bonus info: 1 litre of oil pollutes 1.000.000 litres of water…scary
Everybody spends time on it every single day. It’s being used all over the world –in buildings, on planes and trains, so how come every single toilet pretty much looks the same? It’s as if the toilet industry is run by a bunch of old blind and very tired engineers producing only white smooth porcelain toilets!
However if you ask a designer like Ole Jensen to think natural, this is the kind of creative result you will get. Personally I’m not sure I would like a pink toilet, but I salute his creative mind.
Michael
This morning I saw one of the Danish Ministers (Connie Hedegaard) on her way to work, sitting in the backseat of her VW Phaeton…nothing interesting about that. But take a close look at the small picture and you will see her bicycle on the back of the car. In fact several of the Danish Ministers prefer riding their bikes when in town… imagine that in Washington, Paris or London. Copenhagen I love you.
Last Friday the Normann Copenhagen sales team visited Ole Jensen in his workshop. It was a great chance to get a peek into what new projects Ole is working on. However what was even more interesting was how Ole described his work - from the first idea to the final product. Ole truly loves what he does and if you doubt us, just take a look at the pictures below…true passion
Meet Ole in his workshop (video)
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Have you ever noticed how designers are presented? Often they are portrayed in very stylish and polished surroundings. However, you very seldom get to see the real thing - how they work.
The other day I got to visit Rikke Hagen and learn how she turns a piece of hot glass into the most beautiful shapes… its hard work - very hard. Your skin is only a few centimeters from melting glass, it’s very noisy, sometimes the room is full of smoke and you only have a few seconds to get the shape perfect. So next time you buy something made out of glass, remember that you only see the tip of the design-iceberg.
Rying
Fredericia Furniture has just been awarded the “Interior Innovation Award Cologne 2008″ for the Stingray rocking chair in veneer. The award was presented at this year’s Köln Internationale Møbelmesse, one of the world’s leading furniture fairs. The Stingray has also been part of the Normann Copenhagen showroom collection since 2007.
We recommend Ross Lovegrove, Kenichi Ebina, Hans Rosling, Bono, Majora Carter and Sir Ken Robinson
Often the most beautiful design is the simplicity found in nature.
By Sarah
You might not show signs of being pregnant, but Tokyo Railways gives you this cool badge to show that you have priority for the best seats of trains. Can come handy when the trains are PACKED during rush hours. Cool concept we should have world wide…
Peter H
You can not always help it, but check out these homeless houses we saw when in Tokyo. Very clean and well made….
You never know if the owner could be a homeless architect.
Peter H
Ross Lovegrove met two of his biggest fans in New York.
Poul
This is how to do it.
Jan
What every store owner dreams about.
Jan
Make your marketing personal
Jan
