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Daily obsession for a year

|His goal was to challenge and explore a spoon’s aesthetic and functional qualities, using the wood’s structure, so this Norwegian guy has cut a spoon a day for

Instantly addictive

|I love liquorice. In Denmark I discovered this liquorice powder range by Johan Bülow. He uses it raw on oysters and also in chocolate pies. I

Scale is you in relation

|’Contact is content’ is the title of a wild exhibition with a small river as a metaphor for time. Travel half an hour from Copenhagen to Humlebæk and you can

Rags to riches

|When living in New York, I used those huge $1 China bags to go with a big pile of laundry to the nearest laundromat. The unglamorous polypropylene tartar bag is now becoming

Just one good chair

|After a tremendous career as a furniture designer, at the age of 73, Wegner designed his final, very comfy, hand-crafted chair. From a life’s experience he was determined to let

Envelop the back

|Concept of a new chair for the ‘Organic Home Furnishings competition’ in 1963 at the MoMA in New York. He did not win with this

True feelings

|I’m just back from Denmark. Teaching there was such a great experience. In Copenhagen I was introduced to this fun-work: handmade porcelain tableware by two blind-folded

Love Line

|Illustrations for a series of packaging, called Love Line

Love U II

|In life one should mix lots of sweet with a little bit of sour to get the most wonderful new experiences, friendships or tasty mixes, like my favorite cocktail: a

Celebrating monogram

|LV invited some fashion legends & artists to design a special edition. Love this Limited Edition by Christian Louboutin. Price £2,910 Bag Louis Vuitton (click to see Frank Gehry’s and

Teaching in Denmark

|Design Skolen Kolding invited me as a guest teacher for the Master students Communication Design. Really looking forward to it! School DSK Still Nanna Asmussen (click for video)

Star of David in action

|The idea behind the rebranding of the Jewish Museum in New York was to connect the historic with the contemporary. Design Sagmeister & Walsh

Salt water car, zero emission

|This beauty uses salt water as a part of its NanoFlowcell technology and already got certified for use on European roads! The ‘Quant’ has a projected top speed of 350 km/h,

Vacation at home

|I’ve seen a piece of land with lots of trees for sale in Bergen, North Holland. Would love to buy it and invite this architect to

The sound of fashion

|Fun! Click here for a video about the sound of fashion Brand Cos Video Lernert & Sander

Past, meet future

|Traditional but modern. This car is pure design, unfortunately without a motor (yet). The fine Superleggera (translation: superlight) body is crafted by hand with smooth aluminum sheets moulded over an alloy spaceframe. The

White trash

|Old museum portraits on flattened cans. The idea came from a frustration of the extreme disparities of class in South America. The artist’s favourite portrait is the one left: Rosalba Peale

A F**king Didactic Educational .MOV File

|You have to see this fantastic movie at the Stedelijk. The artist says nowadays digital images are constructing reality. She filmed at a concrete photo calibration target for

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