Urban infrastructure and wayfinding systems are an important aspect of the city scene. Street signs, type design and characteristic objects on local street corners can serve as identity markers for cities and citizens alike. PhD fellow Matthias Horneman-Thielcke and museum curator Pernille Stockmarr offer insights into the background of Designmuseum Danmark’s new outdoor exhibition […]
On the outskirts of many Danish cities, there are neighborhoods where not only the houses but also the windows speak. Not in words, but in shapes. In almost every window there is a vase – the same vase. It sends a quiet but insistent signal: someone who has their life in order lives here. In […]
Many years have passed since the time when Wegner gave us one classic after the other. However, both he and his designs and design processes have maintained their relevance for today’s world and for the future. A coming museum is going to tell one of Denmark’s most important design stories – and it is […]
[…] as CLO 3D, which is increasingly used in the industry and is also becoming widespread in the Danish fashion industry, gradually becoming part of the curricula of design schools. 3D tools have the advantage that design proposals can be visualized in a relatively lifelike manner, and, therefore, it is expected that companies can reduce […]
While the rain briefly visited ‘the Sunshine Island’, as Bornholm is affectionately known, experts and an interested audience came together for a debate about the potential of crafts and design in the green transition under the heading ‘Too Good to Throw: Better consumption with crafts and design’.
[…] her. ‘Getting to know people with a completely different approach to arts and crafts and design than in Denmark has been very instructive,’ says Vibeke Rohland. ‘ Utility function is a terribly reviled word. But it actually refers to something fantastic. Namely, that the mould is given something extra.’ ‘I can't remember exactly what […]
[…] Humanity faces massive challenges to preserve the planet as more and more people have the opportunity to join the consumption party. Formkraft explores how crafts artists and designers are contributing to the green transition. Read theme More knowledge in the archive! The Formkraft archive contains a goldmine of articles with digitized journals from 1948-2009 […]
[…] isan example ofapractitioner inwhose works the distinctions collapse. He stubbornly de and reconstructs industrially produced furniture and fittings, mainly from IKEA’s well known range. The result isfunctional, utility-oriented things. But the functionality plays together with the far-reaching meanings that arise inthe transformation ofthe objects from consumer products created for aglobal market toraw material for […]
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[…] things stolen, itisbecause ofthe name, not because they have been made special, for the things are also available in These things are akind ofobjects ofdesire. They are utility objects made special by a design, logo orname, sothat place and object are inextricably linked -they are marked, sothat they stand out from other things ofthe […]
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[…] ceramics. This year’s graduates show that with their mastery ofthe material they are perpetuating the legacy of Danish design with artistic idioms that range wide between everyday utility objects and free sculptural forms. Det her er etlidt kedeligt billede af en enkelt afAnja Englers fine steldele af støbt hvidt og indfarvet porcelæn. Små og […]
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