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EXPERIMENTATION IN GRAPHICS IN MOZAMBIQUE

We had one more project in ISArC in Mozambique in the end of the year. The first week of summer holiday was damaged by our short term workshop in computer graphic design and in clothing tayloring. Håvard Steensen, a graphic designer from our school in Oslo and Dagfinn Skoglund a fashion design teacher in the [...]

February 1, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

ÞORPIÐ, AN EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCT WORKSHOP IN EAST ICELAND

A photo of the window of the workshop in evening with lots of snow outside. We are all there chatting, Lára, Signý and Sóley with me facing the window with the camera. Yesterday we were invited to meet Lára Vilbergsdóttir and Signý Ormarsdóttir in the workshop Þorpið. The Icelandic word Þorpið is a common name [...]

January 30, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

FINAL DAY IN OUR ICELAND DIALOGUE

We have so far had a fantastic final day in our project. Lots of experimental work has been done and will be posted during the coming days. Ten groups of students are presenting their ideas, results of conversations and experiments. Here is a simple photo album that will be extended as material arrives. Tweet This Post

January 27, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, MUSIC, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

  The project has been run for one week now and people are coming together with dialogue, finding common ways and what is worth talking about and approaching. The groups have moved around town, visited various activities locations, visited arts and design shows and basically come together. The second week is the one for more [...]

January 22, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

REFLECTIONS ABOUT DESIGN AND LIVING

  Kristín Gunnarsdóttir, fashion designer and worker in the Iceland Design Centre giving her inspirational talk about creativity and being simple in the search. Tweet This Post

January 18, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

ICELAND DIALOGUE HAS STARTED

Hanna Styrmisdóttir giving the first tutor talk in the lecture series. One of the groups doing exercise   Photo Gallery from Day One click here! Today we started our dialogue about design and art in current conditions. A completely interdisciplinary work and also arrived visiting students from foreign school. I have 120 students in the course [...]

January 16, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, MUSIC  Comments Closed

Emil makes a bike!

Family member Emil makes bikes of all types for all types of people. They run the bike shop Krian and here he is making one more bike. Tweet This Post

January 3, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND  Comments Closed

CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN OSLO

Here is the program for the conference. Rather unclear so here is also the link to it. Tweet This Post

December 13, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, ISAC - KHiO, PONDERINGS  One Comment

DESIGN WORKSHOP IN MOZAMBIQUE BECOMES TRADITION

The digital class where the students experimented with layers and compositions in photoshop and illustrator. We have had regular workshop with the design students in ISArC in Maputo. This time the workshop was directed as very technical and practical, especially in fashion and graphic design. The guests from my school in Oslo this time were DAGFINN [...]

December 3, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

CONFERENCE ABOUT DESIGN POLICY FOR ICELAND

  On my birthday in the end of August there was held a conference in Reykjavik about the first proper Design Policy Possibility for Iceland. The event was actually a fundamental step after years of hopes and attempts by architects and designers to create some kind of a comprehensive direction for their fields. It is [...]

October 28, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed