[…] Special Economic Zones, it is difficult to see the material flows and their environmental impact. To take a local example: Here in Oslo, there used to be textile mills and other types of manufacturing industry along the Aker river running through the city. This meant that people had a relation to how stuff was […]
[…] how function, materials, and concept all play a role in the selection. One of the newest works is Sun Disc (2025), an acoustic panel by architect and textile object researcher Cecilie Bendixen. The work combines function and aesthetics and was donated by the C. L. David Foundation. Another example is the Järpen lounge chair, […]
[…] also open up to craft artists and designers. This is not happening, despite the fact that more and more visual artists are expressing their artistic practice in materials such as textiles or ceramics. The recent Venice Biennale manifested exactly this trend, with a preponderance of textile works that focussed on craft artists and local crafts.
[…] point of departure at Design School Kolding (DSKD), where she is a teaching associate professor and thus has first-hand insight into the mindset of the new craft makers and designers. At the school, the new generation of makers and designers generate new potentials for the textile field that we can all learn from. Read article
[…] her point of departure at Design School Kolding (DSKD), where she is a teaching associate professor and thus has first-hand insight into the mindset of the new craft makers and designers. At the school, the new generation of makers and designers generate new potentials for the textile field that we can all learn from. Read
[…] aspect has moved into the background in courses on form. Students from the Schools of Visual Arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts work with textile and ceramics and are heirs to part of this tradition. The focus on designer-makers may have represented a reinterpretation but has only a tenuous connection to […]
[…] 'Generation Why' exhibition unfolds as an interesting double vision of what it means to be an artisan today. Here you are not 'just' a ceramicist, glass or textile designer, for example. In a time when everything can in principle be produced by machine, expressing yourself in a craft, technique or material becomes a conceptual […]
Moderator: Anne Louise Bang, ph.d. textile designer, researcher, VIA University College Join Louise Koch, cand.pæd. and MA in cognitive science, on a journey into the Metaverse and learn why as a designer, you play an important role in shaping the future of the three-dimensional internet and the development of new virtual worlds. Discover how you […]
[…] good idea to have a goal when developing images with AI, and as a designer, your goal could be to create a print for a piece of textile, a pattern for a sandblasted glass surface, or a relief effect or ornament for jewelry. All of this is actually possible with AI. You can further […]
[…] rich detailing, curled forms and ornate patterns. The Esbjerg poet Per Højholt writes in ‘Havet komplet’10 that the lace resembles the Tønder pastor Adolf Brorson’s poetry, which thus in turn resembles Tønder’s woodwork. Fashions change, however, the textile industry embraced new production methods, and in the early 19th century, the lace industry slipped into obsolescence.