Oslo Designerlaug

                                                    

Inspired by my friends in NY and their American Design Club, I have together with two classmates formed Oslo Designerlaug (Oslo Designer Guild). Great concept who can help young and emerging designers in Norway sell their products.

ODL (ODG) will host the first exhibition this Christmas somewhere in Oslo!

Info from www.odl.no:

ODG
Oslo Designer Guild seeks to bring Norwegian designers together. Norwegian designers have lately been good at promoting themselves outside Norway, but there are few good platforms for Norwegian designers to showcase their work locally. ODG wants to raise awareness around the newly established and emerging Norwegian designers, promote a sense of community, and create exhibition and sales opportunities.

Pictures from the book “Once Upon a Chair”

The book has been launched, and the book presents three of my chairs: “Beehive”, “Lola” and “Pauline”.

Heres some pictures:

Lola

Beehive

Pauline

New pictures of “Gul stol”

Here is a better picture of my new prototype named “Gul stol” (yellow chair).

Once Upon a Chair

The new book “Once Upon a Chair” from Gestalten who will feature my work, is soon to be published.

Here is the cover from the book who will be launched this september. Can’t wait to see it.

 

Designers Saturday Awards 2009

Just finished a chair for a competition this september during The Designers Saturday in Oslo.

The chair is named “Gul stol”. The chair is elegant and feminin, specially  with it’s characteristic legs, who lookes like wearing high heels. With this chair I wanted to reach out to the users curiosity and feelings.

The chair is made out of solid beech, and spraypainted yellow.

I’m very pleased with the result, and time will show if I’m one of the top three.

Here is some pictures taken with a cell phone, will update with better pictures later…

     

Beehive at Oslo Fashion Fair

The Beehive chair will be exhibited at Oslo Fashion Fair from August 12th to 15th.

Pauline will be at Hove this year!

Hovefestivalen wants my loungechair Pauline to be in one of their interview locations during the music festival this summer! So I’m letting them borrow my two prototypes for the week (the red one, and the striped one), and hopefully there will be some media coverage.

 

Besides of being one of the best (in my opinion) in Scandinavia, Hove is a festival with a strong environmental profile.
They encourage us to travel eco- friendly, eat eco- friendly and as they say on their site: “- F**k eco-friendly! Avoid unwanted pregnancy and overpopulation, use a condom. And recycle it.”

Her is the line- up for this summer!

Pauline in Vietnam

Great article about me and Pauline in NOITHAT- Interior design magazine in Vietnam.

Anyone who can translate?

The new book Furnish 2 (working title) will include my work!!

My work will be printed in a book this year! Fantastic news! The publisher are the wellknown Gestalten

“The company is best known for the more than three hundred books we have published that document and anticipate vital design movements for our own title list as well as customer publishing projects. Gestalten also provides Curation, Art Direction, Consulting, Production, Distribution and Design Services to international clients such as Volkswagen and Diesel. “

I have the first book named Furnish, and it’s one of my favourites! So I’m really looking forward to see wich prototype they will include.

“Furnish2 presents the latest developments, products and concepts from the best designers today. Both established designers and promising young talent are embracing design which challenges aesthetic boundaries, attitudes and visual codes.”

- Hell yeah!

Release in September 2009

New pictures of Beehive

My good friend Mads H. Pålsrud has taken some new pictures of the Beehive chair.  Here are some of them. Looks good!