We wrote recently about initiative of authors of Home Rejuvenation blog to find out which design blogs and bloggers influence the discerning readers and the rest of the blogging community. They decided to make an email survey, where their readers voted for ten best design blogs.
Here’s a rundown on the 10 most influential design bloggers:
- Bloesem (www.bloesem.blogs.com)
- Sfgirlbybay (www.sfgirlbybay.blogspot.com)
- NotCot (www.notcot.com)
- Swiss Miss (www.swiss-miss.com)
- Oh Joy! (www.ohjoy.blogs.com)
- Desire To Inspire (www.desiretoinspire.blogspot.com)
- Decor8 (www.decor8.blogspot.com)
- MoCo Loco (www.mocoloco.com)
- Apartment Therapy (www.apartmenttherapy.com)
- Design*Sponge (www.designspongeonline.com)
You can read the rest of article with detailed info of each of 10 most influential design blogs on Home Rejuvenation blog.
Here are my personal favorites among winners, and some of them are from friendly sites of Nordic Design Blog.
OHIKEA! » Now it looks like an IKEA!: The site for Ohio IKEA News
Some time ago I was stumbled upon this site and now its feed among of others in my feedreader. It’s a site of Jen Funk Segrest, a web designer and IKEA fan who lives near Cincinnati, Ohio.
In her blog she patiently documentating every step of progress of newcoming IKEA store in West Chester, Ohio. It’s really fun to read how she describes the phases of construction and opening ruckus. OHIKEA has a good collection of IKEA’s related links too.
The fact of exsistence of such passionate fans of one company giving me the feeling that Stefan Engeseth’s ideas about consumer revolution are totally wright, what do you think?
Design Finland: Young Designer of the Year 2007 prize to Julia Lundsten and Janne Kyttänen
Our friendly Finnish blog Design Finland posted recently an article about winners of Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2007 prize. They are Shoe designer Julia Lundsten and designer Janne Kyttänen.
Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2007 is very influenting and remarkable in Finland, and we congratulate the winners!
From Design Finland:
The awarded designers have both received their design training abroad – Julia Lundsten in London and Janne Kyttänen in Barcelona and Amsterdam. Lundsten established her shoe-design company FINSK in London, and Kyttänen the Freedom of Creation company in Amsterdam. Based on the designers’ strong personal conception of design and intelligent insight into design and methods of manufacturing, these companies display international promise in both content and business skills.
Read the rest of article on Design Finland
å male en benk
Originally uploaded by Ronald Lohne.
A poster for comic movie “to paint a bench”, created by Norwegian Graphic Designer Ronald Lohne. Nice composed as all his works.
Nordic Design – The Boston Globe
Scandinavian open-face sandwiches are tasty works of art.
The Boston Globe published recently an interesting article about Smorbord: traditional Scandinavian sandviches, here a short excerpt:
Small open-face sandwiches are big in Scandinavia. The Norwegians call them smorbrod, meaning “buttered bread.” The Danish use a similar name – smorrebrod.To the Swedes, the sandwiches themselves are smorgas, while the more familiar term smorgasbord literally means “bread-and-butter table” and represents a selection of small hot and cold dishes – including sandwiches, of course – served buffet style.
Read more on The Boston Globe
What’s New From ITC: October 2007 – ITCFonts.com
ITC Teethreedee turns old style letter shapes into edgy, rough-and-ready typographic statements. As drawn by Tomi Haaparanta, Teethreedee exudes a kind of Bruce Springsteen appeal: square-jawed, strong-armed, soft-spoken. You can be sure that headlines set in Teethreedee will be noticed and respected.
This time Karl-Oskar Karlsson is our guest, and he was so friendly to answer to few our questions:
NDB: Hi Karl, we love your designs, and The Duo from Combine project is my personal favorite. I think so our readers will find intersting to learn about your creative process, how these beautiful ideas were developed?
KK: It all started as a project at School of Design in Kalmar/Nybro when I was studying glass design. My project was selected by Orrefors to be made by them. The creative process begun in the combination of the local materials – wood and glass. They gave something to each other and the contrast really captured me.
NDB: Where do you get your inspiration from?
KK: Well inspiration, for me it is not so much inspiration, rather transpiration. Hard work in the creative process and an focused and awareeye.
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Designcollector. Online magazine for designers.
There is always room for good online magazine for designers. Especially if this magazine is updating regularly, has a clear interface and good network of partner sites. Then the success is guaranteed. is a blog/ezine/directory of design deli’s from over the world. Althought being publishing in Russian, its visual emphasis making Designcollector valuable for every design lover.
Salvador Dalí – Surrealist! 3.10.-16.12.2007
The Salvador Dalí – Surrealist! exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the art and person of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989).
The exhibition presents paintings, drawings and watercolours produced by Salvador Dalí over a period of sixty years. Dalí painted his first Surrealist work at the end of the 1920s. The exhibition includes a series of water colour illustrations produced by Dalí in 1945 for Benvenuto Cellini’s autobiography. Dalí’s interest in the scientific and technical axis of time constituted a recurring motif in his work. By adapting several scientific discoveries in his art Dalí also created his own individual style.
Designboost is a novel concept at the Swedish design arena with its combination of workshops, lectures and exhibitions. The theme for 2007 is sustainable design and it will be discussed and questioned by the 25 speakers at the lecture date Thursday October 18. Today we release the names of the last 10 speakers.
Quite often only the environmental issues are brought forward in the discussion about sustainable design. At this years Designboost event we would like to broaden the view. We think it is important to turn things upside down. Sometimes left is actually right, says David Carlson, one of the founders behind Designboost.
We believe in knowledge exchange. The more you give, the more you get. Our goal is that Designboost will be characterised by new insight, new thoughts and preferably laughter, or as we put it; right, aha, haha, says Peer Eriksson, one of the Designboost founders.
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