Exlusive tablelamp in black glossy lacquer and Black/gold lampshade. Lampfot is made in baroque style, the lamp gives a very worm soft light.

Mr Di is the large table lamp, and then you can also buy Mrs Di that is the smaller version.

Designer: Markus Hällstrand & Michael Carlsson
Brand: Eli Gnosjö

Via Pid.se

Image: Fabsugar

H&M decided to dig into the vibrant Marimekko archives and bring back the bold retro prints for their Tribute to Marimekko collection, in stores April 10. Swimsuits, dresses, scarves, tops, and bottoms will all be available in vivid color combos like red and pink, olive and orange, and red and turquoise.

Selected parts of the collection will also be sold at 10 Corso Como Milan and 10 Corso Como Seoul, and at Dover Street Market in London.

Link: H&M

Via Fabsugar

We have wrote about talented photographer Uzi Varon in our blog. His Double Exposure project was shown in Helsinki last January and is booked to Tampere for next fall and then to Helsinki again on March 2007.

Thanks to Uzi, he published today the project on his website, and we now able to enjoy it online.

The project contain 27 images made from two photographs taken in Israel and Finland. Compared together these pictures giving amazing and sometimes really moving effect. The music by Jason Carter adding dramatic effect to the show. Worth to take some time for looking.

Finland, Israel, Photography, Varon

I noticed one interesting article about Reykjavik in GOING TO section of New York Times:

WHY GO NOW In 2006 the United States population will reach 300 million, and Iceland’s will hit 300,000. In national pride, the two countries will remain about equal, which goes a long way toward explaining why Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, refuses to feel like a small town. About two-thirds of Icelanders live in the city and its suburbs, and if the concentration of museums and galleries, bookstores, excellent restaurants and lively night spots per capita isn’t the highest in any city in the world, it has to be close.

Read the rest of article on New York Times site:

Image: Aaron Meshon

Reykjavik, Travel, Nordicdesign

Link: red swirl

Ginevra wrote:

Simple. A plate, a wooden table, a red wall. My homage to Scandinavian design, to its vibrant colours, clear shapes and contrasts of plain wood and plain white. I’m thinking Marimekko, Ikea, Kosta Boda and how what you see as a child influences the designs you like as an adult.

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Scandinavian, design

Swimming Towards the Light

Originally uploaded by Reciprocity.

Detail of bubbles in hand made glass vase. Designed by John Orwar Lake for Ekenas Glasbruk AB Sweden

Ekenas produced glass from 1917 until its closure in 1976 and J. O. Lake was its main designer from 1953 until 1976. Vases and bowls with shading colours of gree/blue and yellow/green/pale blue with internal bubble decoration were probably designed and produced in the 1960’s. This was photographed with diffused sunlight shining through to enhance the bubble structure.

This great project has place in 2003, but it deserves NDB reader’s attention today. North [2003] exhibition was formed by photographs taken by UK photographer Luke Harby in Finland, Lapland and Norway during June 2003.

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kjmniemi has added a photo to the pool:

Call for workshop participation

Tangible code

Wednesday 15th of February - Saturday 18th of February

at Atelier Nord Oslo/Norway

by Marius Watz & Erich Berger

Free participation

Application deadline Friday 27th of January Send applications with CV to sense@anart.no

Recently, code evidently became artistic material and programming artistic practice. The coding artist literally hacks his/her artwork, forms it with skilled hands, touching and communicating with and through it.

Physical electronic interfaces enable the artist to tighten the relation between the artwork and the audience.

Tangible code is a workshop for artists and practitioners who are interested in the concepts of programming and physical computing.

The employed tools are the multi platform and open source programming and hardware environments Processing and Arduino. (more…)

Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground

Sight road sign, Finland. Source: Tiehallinto.fi

I noticed these road signs that reminded me Mac’s command key when I come first time to Finland, but I was too lazy to find out about any coonections… This sign is used across Nordic countries to mark general sight places, like old buildings, churches and castles. But this time a mystery is revealed by the authors of Macintosh GUI (Susan Kare, Steve Jobs):

It’s difficult to come up with a small icon that means “command”, and we didn’t think of anything right away. Our bitmap artist Susan Kare had a comprehensive international symbol dictionary and she leafed through it, looking for an appropriate symbol that was distinctive, attractive and had at least something to do with the concept of a menu command. Finally she came across a floral symbol that was used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground. She rendered a 16 x 16 bitmap of the little symbol and showed it to the rest of the team, and everybody liked it. Twenty years later, even in OS X, the Macintosh still has a little bit of a Swedish campground in it.

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An update: The original story seems to have been stolen: