Normann Copenhagen is proud to announce that normann-copenhagen.com was nominated and awarded with bronze in the category “best branding website”.
Friday March 27th was a big night for everybody within the Danish creative ad/design/web industry. It was time to honour the best and most creative agencies and their customers with the Creative Circle Award 2009 held in the beautiful Tivoli garden in Copenhagen.
This spring, molo will be in New York and Chicago to introduce a new system of flexible LED lighting that integrates with our modular system of softwall + softblock to transform these elements into completely flexible, freestanding, glowing partitions.
This luminous version of softwall + softblock emphasizes the visual delicacy of the textile fibre and makes the expansion, contraction and fluid movement of these freestanding soft structures all the more magical.
“Build Live Tokyo,” a competition aimed at raising awareness of BIM (Building Information Modeling), was held February 25-27. Build Live is the Japanese version of the international BIM Storm event. Graphisoft Japan was part of the Skunk Works team, led by Maeda Corporation, which won the Grand prize.
The six participating teams were tasked with designing an environment technology research center, including a collaboration research facility, conference center, and exhibition space, at the Tokyo Bay site. Three out of the six teams were using ArchiCAD.
.MGX by Materialise has collaborated with Arik Levy to create a ground-breaking new exhibition which will be revealed at the Swarovski Crystal Palace during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.
The exhibition, entitled “Osmosis”, will run from April 22 to 27th, and was inspired by the unique concept of crystal. The revolutionary .MGX rapid prototyping technologies enabled Levy to create an installation that travels between art and technology, design and engineering as well as reflection and light.
In order to strengthen, improve and broaden its activities in North America, Poliform Spa has become majority shareholder of Poliform USA effective March 2nd 2009, acquiring full control of the Poliform USA operations including the ownership of the Corporate showrooms of New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and Seattle. Poliform USA, importer and distributor of Poliform/Varenna products is also present in North America with a network of showrooms all through the US and Canada developed and expanded in over 15 years thanks to the vigorous presence of Poliform.
“The reason why we pursued to achieve full control of Poliform USA” says Giovanni Anzani – one of Poliform Spa shareholders together with Alberto and Aldo Spinelli – “is our determination to develop and assist at the best of our capabilities the American market, directly investing our energy and our resources to improve our presence in the US and Canada, to promote our products and services, and directly sustain our business in
this crucial international market”.
With the 'Roman' storage set and the 'Elsa' small chair for Ligne Roset, François Bauchet has carried off one of the most difficult creation exercises: re-reading commercial standards that are near clichés. Both these projects are innovative by their construction principle and sense of detail, and are carried by a line that is self evident.
Although there is a saying that 'the devil hides in details', the same holds true for the god of good design... Apart from fluid lines imparted by the folded metal sheet that structures these pieces, the originality of the 'Roman' range lies in its ingenious assemblage system.
The presence of Hansgrohe AG at the ISH 2009 will focus on unique design, innovative technologies, pure showering pleasure and the sustainable use of water as a resource.
At Hansgrohe AG there is a tremendous sense of anticipation in the lead-up to the ISH, the world’s biggest sanitary engineering trade fair to be held in Frankfurt from March 10 to 14, 2009, six weeks before the start of the trade fair. “We are ready and well prepared, and can hardly wait for the opportunity to present our innovations,” reports Richard Grohe, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of the fixtures and shower specialist from the Black Forest. “Everyone at Hansgrohe has worked very hard over the last two years to make sure there will be a veritable fireworks of attractive innovations to be presented at our industry’s leading trade fair.”
When the world's largest specialist trade fair for sanitary installations opens its gates from March 10 through March 14, 2009, the ISH in Frankfurt/Main, Hansgrohe AG, producer of fixtures and showers and headquartered in Schiltach (Black Forest) plans to offer architects, planners, interior designers and property developers a special trade fair service at its stand in Hall 2 (Stand A.02).
“At the ISH, we don't just want to show novel products but also wish to provide information on deployment alternatives and solutions”, explains Dominik Bauer, Head of International Projects at Hansgrohe AG. “
From 26th of march till the 31st of may, the Designhuis accommodates archaeology of the future, an exhibition on trends composed by li edelkoort. This first exhibition on trends, viewed through her eyes, reveals that trends are not a brief phenomenon, but are deeply rooted in our daily lives.
Following the successful launch of Bernhardt Design’s Global Edition collection in Milan 2008, Creative Director Jerry Helling has commissioned another all star cast of designers to create new products for Global Edition 2009. New works have been designed by Fredrikson Stallard, Suzanne Trocmé, and Harry and Claudia Washington.
The new pieces have been designed with an eye toward hand craftsmanship and intricate detail that lends them an enduring simplicity. The materials used for the collection include hand oiled walnut and stainless steel coupled with old world sewing techniques and precise upholstery details. While essentially modern, this collective of gifted international designers has created pieces that are not easily categorized into one particular era or trend line, and are as varied and unique as the participants themselves.
