Happy New Year 2006
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May this new year 2006 will be more prosperous for us all! Editors of Nordic Design Blog wish you all the best for the year 2006. We hope you will get good luck in your life.

Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1 | Typographica

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Typographica published an article presenting their favorite fonts of 2005, selected by contributing writers. Selection process has only one requirement: the fonts must have been released in the first half of the year.

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Saab Global - Pressreleases Stockholm, December 5, 2005

“Top Pick” Honor for Saab 9-3 Sport Sedan in New US Safety Report

The Saab 9-3 Sport Sedan is a Gold Award winner in the first-ever Top Safety Pick award by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

This finding confirms the high level of occupant protection provided by the Saab 9-3 Sport Sedan, which has also received an industry-best five-star rating in the EuroNCAP crash testing.

The ‘Top Safety Pick - Gold Award’ is a best-of-the-best distinction that recognizes car designs that provide the best occupant protection in front, side and rear crashes based on Institute testing.

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The story about Mainospisa thread on pingstate already spreads on various blogs in Finland. You can read about it on:

• s1t.net
• Kari T.
• CopyFraud
• 33100 Jocka

A2ZMpls has added a photo to the pool:

My cousin from Stavanger gave us six Porsgrund cups and saucers that have designs by Pia Myrvold. Pia was one of her music students, and I believe these are limited editions. This one is the design for November - we have July through December.

Kayak49 has added a photo to the pool:

Norwegian-made Åsnes skis; hickory surface.

Bob Helsinki Oy

Very interesting approach in one Finnish advertising agency site’s design: Bob Helsinki.

At the first moment when I saw it, I thought that something wrong with the person who posted this link on pingstate.nu, but after some frustration I got the idea - these folks styled their page as Google image search results. It’s looks fresh, but what about copyrights?

Reciprocity has added a photo to the pool:

Direct front view of Mountain Redstart production glass bird designed by Oiva Toikka, Iittala glass works, Finland. Introduced into production 1994. Height 9.5cm.

Gloel has added a photo to the pool:

This traditional-looking glass cup also carries marimekko label. Amazing, but I saw the similar one in my grandmother’s kitchen cabinet when I was a child in Russia. That one was sure not of marimekko’s creation.

News & Events at Scandinaviandesign

Foto: Robert Eldrim, Medljus

Famous Swedish designer Mats Theselius creates unique and stylish chairs that become living classics straight after they come under designer`s hands.

In his “National chairs” series now issued new “Swedish chair”. This chair called “Norrsken” and it located in dinning room of Princess Victoria in King’s palace in Stockholm.

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