[…] the loss of identity that comes with being in an intensive care unit and having to wear hospital clothing, which is typically white, anonymous and unbecoming. The collection features slits, ribbons and wide sleeves to make it easy to access tubes and other equipment in connection with the patient’s treatment. The textiles are designed […]
Keyspeaker: Tim Ingold, Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen (UK) Speakers: Cilla Robach, Head of design collection, National Museum, Stockholm Ingrid Halland, architecture and design historian Anne Fabricius Møller, fabric printer and textile designer Panel debate: Morten Løbner Espersen, ceramicist Vibeke Riisberg, textile designer, PhD, Design School Kolding Rebecca Uth, industriel designer Morten Riis, Deputy Mayor […]
[…] until 100 years from now, at which time they will be published as an anthology printed on paper made from the wood. In the meantime, the expanding collection of manuscripts can be viewed in a beautiful, specially designed room in the New Deichmanske Library (in Oslo, ed.). Here, the manuscripts – eight, so far […]
[…] a building that will feel homely to the locals but which can also attract an international audience. Marianne and Eva Wegner have promised to make their knowledge, collection and archive available to the association and, later, to the museum.’ And even though Wegner is the ultimate principal, his story also acts as a springboard for […]
[…] this year’s Biennale: the collective aspect. Helen Clara Hemsley’s expressive jewellery is made using contributions from others and thus charged with stories, while Ane Fabricius Møller’s large collection of lost and found gloves has been used to create imprints in a brand-new hand sign alphabet: a contribution to new pandemic or post-pandemic greeting forms. […]
[…] their possessions. One level down from the hoarder, we find the collector, who derives so much pleasure from the objects and their stories and aesthetics that the collection can continue to grow, endlessly. The collector is the guardian of the objects, obliged to preserve and appreciate them – a role that may seem eccentric […]
[…] archive as inspiration for making and using durable design and craft objects for the future. Photo: Sif Pristed Nielsen from the project ‘First World Problems’ with patterns made of the blue-striped weave of hospital bedding. The collection also includes hand-painted motifs on used laboratory workwear. The project highlights the many ways of extending the lifespan of textiles.
[…] atman ikke ser for- mens potentiale tilatrykke lidt, bare lidt. ved verdens tilstand. Z Alex Soza. Fra anti-volds-kollek- tionen Dead Man Walking. Alex Soza. From the anti-violence collection Dead Man Walking. THE WORLD-PICTURE OF FORM L Design in an experiential perspective Essay: By Mads Nygaard Folkmann Itissaid that the poet, through the medium ofwords […]
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[…] But he isboth attracted and repelled bythe modern media world, which he nevertheless uses and comments on inhis work. Inthe same way he refers in his first collection tothe French philosopher Descartes, who stands for pure thought and the well known statement “Ithink, therefore Iam”. Again he is repelled aswell asfascinated, and tries torealize […]
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[…] me for an exhibition with the textile desig- ner Jack Lenor Larsen inNew York. That’s marvellous! the poem inthe “Postulates” col- lection orthe outlines ofthe city inthe collection “Urban”. IfIhave had any support from anything that has promoted my products over the years, itmust have been the many foundations. They have meant that the […]
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