BECOMING A DESIGNER

BUCKMINSTER FULLER IN ENVIRONMENTAL TEACH-IN, NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, MAY 1970. (P.24)

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:56:00 +0000

HOUSE NA BUY SOU FUJIMOTO

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:01:00 +0000

I just found this amazing video of Sou Fujimotos fantastic House NA, that I have written about before. The house is completely open and transparent, like you are living in an scaffolding structure. It really blurs the boundaries between inside and outside, private and public. The only way to get some privacy in there is by going higher up in the building. Nice.

FRESSH3

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:43:00 +0000

Just wanted to share all the good music I listen to these days. Enjoy!

ROPPONGI NOUEN, TOKYO.

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:49:00 +0000

THREAD WRAPPING MACHINE

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:49:00 +0000

by Anton Alvarez. Amazingly beautiful isn't it??
The Thread Wrapping Machine from Anton Alvarez on Vimeo.

HARVEST EVENT

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:56:00 +0000

This is a "Harvest Market" that I did for my master project the 14th of October.! It was a market-event with vegs, fruits and herbs from the gardens where I have mine; Telthusbakken. People donated everything from apples to carrots, and the money went to a good cause. More than a month has passed, but I have gotten som time to reflect upon it!

The main purpose was for me to get out there, and get in touch with people that maybe wanted to grow their own food, and also to bring people who already grow together with the people who does not. Unfortunately the weather was horrible that day: rain and wind and almost zero degrees! So what is normally a very busy location on sundays was almost empty this day.

Read more on my masterblog.

THREAD WRAPPING MACHINE

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:52:00 +0000

This is genius! And very beautiful. The thread wrapping machine by RCA graduate Anton Alvarez. Watch and enjoy.

Thread Wrapping Machine by Anton Alvarez from Dezeen on Vimeo.

JAPAN

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:25:00 +0000

I am for the moment in JAPAN!!!!!!

It has been my dream for many years to go here, and finally it has happened. I am actually all by myself, but so far it is no problem at all. Today I will get a guided tour in the gardens and temples of Kyoto!

See you

EARTHRISE

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Watch the FANTASTIC series Earthrise here! This is the two last episodes of season three.

The first episode is about Detroit and how they transform their city into becoming a leading example of what urban farming can do to society, and how we need to think about how we are living our lives in the future!

The second episode looks at how we can develop more sustainable and closed small economies based on use of for instance energy and food resources. Alternative currencies can also build a local community, as in Brixton, which is a part of the Transition Town movement.

These series is fantastic! Go <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise/" title="Earthrise on AlJazeera" target="_blank">HERE</a> to watch all episodes ever.

Thanks, Ferdinand.

IN BLOOM

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Now our allotmentgarden that me and my boyfriend have in Telthusbakken here in Oslo, is at one of its most beautiful stages! I took some pictures of the flowers there.

TON MATTON - THE NET AROUND US

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:46:00 +0000

THE DESIGNER AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY (VIDEO!)

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:07:00 +0000

I contributed in a workshop on Iceland earlier this summer arranged by the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts together with HDK Gothenburg. It was about local sustainability, and I was there together with students from all over northern Europe. It was a very nice trip, and two of the guys; Snorri and Jón made a film that you can watch if you press this link.

For me this whole trip was a little eyeopener; there is of course a lot we as designers can do in our community. But we tend to think too big sometimes, and maybe also too global; the problem or potential may be right under your nose, in your own local community, in your own nighbourhood! And not even maybe, it most definitely is.. I think that starting to think this way can free us from the way of designing for mass production, because as soon people start seeing that designers exist everywhere, and that we are a resource in peoples everyday life (not only on a commercial level), we can be integrated into the local workforce as any other professions.

We can create new and perhaps educational experiences, we can provide facilities for new social contact crossing the lines of generations, ethnic backgrounds and professions, we can explore and facilitate new methods for local production giving people possibilities they didn't know that they had etc. etc.

By visiting different locations around the small town Höfn on Iceland, we learned how a holostic strategy for local development is very important to enable new things to happen. Not in a practical way perhaps, but in an economic way. As designers we can provide great skills in developing these strategies and we can also work on the ground by initiating various examples of what a locality could contain together with people.

Enjoy the video, there will be more pictures later! :)

TRAILERTIME

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:07:00 +0000

I WANNA see these films!

MOBILE SHOWROOM UNIT AT KEVIN AZZOPARDI SHOW TONIGHT

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:45:00 +0000

Tonight fashion designer Kevin Azzopardi will have his SS13 show here in Oslo, and we will also show our collaboration project; a mobile showroom unit.

As a fashion designer, selling your collection is essential, and for Kevin we wanted to explore new (or old) ways of doing this by dusting off the good old travelling sales man.

Stay tuned for press images, and be very welcome tonight at Gallery TM51, Thorvald Meyers gate 51, Oslo.

BOTANICUS INTERACTICUS BY DISNEY RESEARCH

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Disney have apparently a quite advanced and broad research department on f.ex. computer graphics, robotics, human-computer interaction, behavioural sciences etc. This project is a quite advanced technology for registering human connection with plants. They have also programmed it to become tools in our everyday lives. I think it is amazing if it is possible to actually measure the well-being of all the organisms on this earth that does not speak.

BROEN BAKERI

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:00:00 +0000

This sunday something called Open Restaurant Day (or just Restaurant Day)was happening all over the world! The idea is that everyone should be able to open a restaurant wherever. Me and two classmates, Eva and Tabea wanted to join the concept which is quite popular some places in the world, but not yet in Oslo; we were the only ones here this time! It started off in Helsinki in 2010, and they arrange approx. 4 restaurant days a year.

So... We wanted to create something in a public space, and knew the wheather was going to be nice, so we searched for the perfect spot! Suddenly we spotted the bridge right outside our school, and all three of us immediately realized that it was going to be crazy cool to do it there. We planned for some hours, and decided on a bakery-concept; Broen Bakeri.

It was going to be a wonderful day, with a lot of people, chatting and eating, it was a great atmosphere the whole day through! Some of the things we had for "sale" and taste; brownies, cookies, lemon cake, carrot and coconut-cake, apple-pie, chocolate buns, cinnamon buns, spinache quiche, waffles and dumplings.
Watch out for next restaurant day!

PIXELS BY PATRICK JEAN

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:18:00 +0000

I LOVED this retro-fantastic piece of a funny game action animation movie. Watch it! Love the brutal tetris sequence.

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. by onemoreprod

COLOUR TREAT

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0000

For references, just click the images.

http://pinterest.com/pin/228346643576844864/

ACTRESS - R.I.P.

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0000

I love the new album from Actress!! Darren Cunningham is the mind behind, and has made a record of new and original, simple, but catchy dancemusic, right up my alley. It is called R.I.P., go here to listen to it all. I attach a little YouTube piece to give you a taster. – Tastes goood! (mr. Dunningham phtographed in a Snowdon Short for Acne)

SHANE MCADAMS

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:30:00 +0000

Shane McAdams is an artist specialized in ball point pen (!!). His energetic and sometimes quite psychedelic drawings/paintings is beautiful to the core, and on the edge to what many would call kitch I guess. His last series is call Synthetic Landscapes.

WILDER SUMMER ISSUE IS OUT!!

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0000

... but still not in my mailbox!!!
I hate that it takes so long for the mail to travel from US to here.. But it seems to be worth the wait, especially with that NICE poster. YUM!

CHARCOAL BY FORMAFANTASMA

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0000

THIS is one of the most beautiful product design projects I have seen in a long time. I haven't really been following that scene for a while, since I think it is SO MUCH CRAP out there right now, and I puke of almost every "design" blog and other media chewing around on the same horrible stuff over and over again.

SO apparently, these guys swope through right in front of my eyes. They have other really good projects as well (and work mostly with furniture and product design objects), but now I want to show you this project.

CHARCOAL. Formafantasma were invited by Vitra to join an exhibition they were going to have at the Vitra Campus, and was paired with Swiss Doris Wicki, one of the few crawftmen performing the process of slow burning wood. It is a well known fact that charcoal purify water, and they have been using it many places around the Earth for centuries; Japan and Egypt f.ex. The designers made a series of transparent glass jars and water filters/purifiers made of charcoal. The result is SO beautiful, I'm speachless..

COLOURFUL NESTS BY TORAFU ARCHITECTS

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Japanese Torafu Architects has made these beautiful coloured box-desks called "Koloro". Large studies has been made to figure out the dimentions of the boxes, and what additional elements they should contain. Additional functions such as windows, shelves, hooks etc makes them flexible and more airy. The aim is to give people a way of making their own little "space within a space", and they come in a range of colours so enable customers personalisation of it.

ART TREAT

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0000

I have been pinning for my life lately, and it tend to be a lot of weird art.. I'll give it to you here! For refs, just press the pics! Thanks, enjoy!

SHIT! HAY CATALOGUE 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Olave) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Hay has made an amazing styling for their 2012 catalogue! They are so trendy down there in Denmark... I haven't found out who actually did this though, but it's very very cool!

Hay has really established themselves to become a quite stabile, but exciting actor in the furniture and interior industry, with what has emerged as quite a large range of products. And when they look as good as they do, it shouldn't really be a problem either.. *droooodle*..