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And the winner is!

Published August 26, 2010 Art , Design , People , Places , Respect Leave a Comment
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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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Meet tomorrow’s designers – today

Published August 20, 2010 Art , Design , People , Places , Respect , Spotted elsewhere 1 Comment
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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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Traffic design – the Danish way

Published August 13, 2010 Respect Leave a Comment
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How do you get more people to ride their bikes in the city? – you simply design the streets so they reflect how you would like the traffic to flow. This picture above is from Store Kongensgade – a street which will take you straight  to the very center of Copenhagen (Kongens Nytorv)… nothing interesting about that! But take a closer look at the dividing white line on the pavement. Busses and bikes co-exist in the wide lane where as the cars have to settle with just one narrow lane… which is probably the reason why it’s much faster to get around Copenhagen by bike than by car… now you know!

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Guess a Designer?

Published July 14, 2010 Design , Flagship Store , Respect 1 Comment
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At Normann Copenhagen we love great design, also if it is not our own. Can you guess who the designer behind these lamps is?

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What does your work smell like?

Published June 24, 2010 Places , Respect 4 Comments
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At Normann Copenhagen we love flowers (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C). Yesterday we spotted this flower facade right in the center of Copenhagen (Kongens Nytorv).

More companies should seize the idea and hide their boring grey concrete facades behind a curtain of flowers… would make everybody happier and the company smell better.

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Practice for Earth Hour – turn off the light now!

Published March 27, 2010 Our Products , Respect Leave a Comment
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Tonight at 20.30  (Copenhagen time) its Earth Hour and people across the globe will turn their light off for an hour. We think its a great way to put focus on our enviroment and of course to have fun in the dark!

Don´t want to be left in the “spotlight” and be better at turning off the light… every day. Need a bit of help? Head for our homepage where we have prepared a live demo with two of our most popular lamps. The Norm 69 lamp and the Norm 03. See you in the dark.

Reach for the stars… literally

Published January 5, 2010 Places , Respect Leave a Comment
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Ever heard the expression “Reach for the stars” – well someone took it quite literally with the Burj Khalifa building. Our dear CEO Poul witnessed the opening ceremony of the tallest building in the world and according to his live blog reporting its “F…… amazing”.

More pictures of the “Rocket” below

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And the winner is…

Published December 17, 2009 Our Products , Respect Leave a Comment
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The winner of the “Be creative and win” – 2009 is the fantastic picture “Cold” by Sena C.

The sick Familia cup made us want to curl up under our Plaid with a cup of hot Choclate, especially these days when Copenhagen is ice cold and covered in snow. This picture encourages for some “local warming” at home.

There can only be one ! But we fell in love with this picture of a dog digging in the Spine Rug, so we made up a new price “The Creative Ninja ‘Award” that goes to ; Hannah L for “Hiding”

See all the great submission on our Flickr account

Copenhagen is hot!

Published December 7, 2009 Respect Leave a Comment

Good luck COP15 – make our grandchildren proud.

It could have been our CEOs

Published November 18, 2009 Respect 1 Comment
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UPDATE: We just got this video:

Our two CEO´s at Normann Copenhagen (Jan & Poul) are huge Red Bull fans and start every morning with a shot of Red Bull… its true! They were both pretty happy the other day when the drink finally became legal to sell in Denmark. To mark it the crazy people from Austria are in town including 10 x world champion Orlando Duque… guess what he did from the Copenhagen Opera House?  Super cool pictures 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
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