From Finland’s Oipuu, Hedelmavati is an unconventional square wooden bowl that uses curved wooden slats to hold its contents. One of many heat-treated birch designs by Oipuu inspired by topography. Oipuu also makes wooden kitchen utensils, bookmarks, clocks, thermometers and more.

Via MoCo Loco

 

Here some books about Flickr just released, an exerpt from the flickr blog:

How to Use Flickr: The Ditigal Photography Revolution

This books is a great introduction to Flickr, both in the sense of flickr.com, the website, and Flickr, the, um … socially constructed conceptual framework for a new model of online interaction. It not only runs down the features, but contains a lot of great interviews, sidebars, stories of how people use Flickr, ettiquette, and notes on how the features are getting used and the social dynamics that have evolved. Definitely the book to get a friend or loved one you are trying to "convert" to Flickrism.

Flickr Hacks: Tips and Tooks for Sharing Photos Online

Part of the venerable O’Reilly ‘Hacks’ series of books, and co-authored by Paul Bausch (Blogger co-founder and inventor of the permalink!) and Jim Bumgardner (creator of the Flickr Colrpickr and collaborative posters), this book is for the more technically adept Flickr user who’s interested in stretching Flickr functionality to the limits, through the website as well as through the API. With a great forward by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake.

Flickr Application Development with PHP

This one we haven’t read (it’s not out yet, but is available for pre-order from a few places) but it’s clearly intended for the real geek/programmer, toiling away building new services, sites, features and products using our APIs.

 

or was it tow-fu

Originally uploaded by hfb.

What illegally parked cars fear most.

 

Hole in the ground

Originally uploaded by coldmountain.

Thanks for coldmountain for this great photo, it’s sure is one of the best images in our Nordic Design photo pool on flickr.

I missed the chance to write about new Kamppi shoping center just after it was opened due the my personal buseness, so I must to do it now.

The new Kamppi shopping center opened on March 2006 in Helsinki. There is over 50 shops and integrated bus station.

The Kamppi Center is designed by the very best architects in Finland. Architect agency Juhani Pallasmaa created the market square, the department store and the adjoining Lasipalatsi Plaza. The Kamppi market square and Lasipalatsi Plaza.

Aki Davidsson architects designed architecture of terminals.

More on Kamppi center:

Design Finland: The new Kamppi shopping mall
dw: kamppi

 

There is a good article posted on Finland for Thought recently, it tells us about the differense in attitude toward the sick persons on work in Finland and the U.S.

Phil writes:

So I’ve been sick the past few days, finally woke up feeling a bit better today. Friday I went into my office, after two hours of coughing and blowing my nose, I got this sense that my co-workers wanted me out of there – so I worked from home the rest of the day.

There’s a big difference in the attitude towards being sick in Finland and in the U.S. I was raised in a family where my mother wouldn’t let me stay home from school unless I was vomitting throughout the night. Sore throats, sneezing, coughing, cold symptoms just meant that I was sent to school with a box of generic-brand (so hard on your nose) kleenexes.

Read more on Finland for Thought

 

They created new airBaltic company style and logo and many other very nice works.

Web site of the company.

(via designcollector)

 

FLOOR-MODEL imports mid-century modern furniture from Denmark and Sweden for sale in United States. Our items range from unique, high quality items such as credenzas, dining sets, and lounge seating to examples by renowned designers of the period such as Hans Wegner, N.O. Moller, Erik Buck, Arne Norrell, Kai Kristiansen, Arne Vodder, Illum Wikkelso, Tove & Edvard Kindt-Larsen, Peter Hvidt, Orla Morlgaard-Nielsen, Yngve Ekstrom, Ib Kofod-Larsen, Johannes Andersen, etc.

Our new website will be online within the next few days (today is 3/16/06), which will have photos of all of our in store inventory as well as some pieces from our warehouse.

Please visit our showroom located @ HD Buttercup 3225 Helms Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90034 (310) 945-5053 tony@floor-model.com

Wholesale inquiries, please contact info@silicathree.com www.silicathree.com

 

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (France) designed showroom for Kvadrat in Stockholm. It opened in February.

At this time they developed a new product : the “Tiles”. Textile modules made of fabric and foam that can be assembled together to build hanging walls.

Designers :: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Via trucdesign

 

Levels

Originally uploaded by coldmountain.

Interior of the Radisson SAS hotel, Aarhus. A great place to take photos. I took three bracketed shots from this angle, and this one was a stop over-exposed. The sunny highlights are completely blown out, but I like the light in the rest of the shot.

Best viewed as large as possible! (more…)

 

Brightly Muted

Originally uploaded by TsTsTs.

TsTsTs wrote:

This is a chair was made and designed in Denmark circa late 1950′s/early 1960′s. It is by no designer of note (at least that I know of). Generally, I collect Scandinavian furniture, but the pieces were not high-end/designer pieces for the time. I think pieces like this or many others I have were for mass consumption and very much influenced by the high style of the like Wegner, Risom, Juhl, Mathsson, Wirkkala, Aalto, etc.