Gustav. has added a photo to the pool:

New website for Swedish photographer Björn Lofterud - made by gustavarnetz.net

Some time ago we published an interview with Swedish designer Karl-Oskar Karlsson on our blog. It’s became a good tradition to establish good relationships between NDB and designers we interviewed and they sending us their updates and new product/design announcements, giving us excellent opportunity to keep hand on the beat of Nordic Design. This time Karl-Oskar sent me an update about his new products and site renovation: as usual, his designs are awesome and site looks great!

New creations of Karl-Oskar Karlsson:

Black Jacks

Ergonomic hand tool for glass blowers. In cooperation with ESSEMCE SWEDEN.

Photos of Fusing

Photos on canvas and photopaper in sizes up to 100×150 cm. (If you want to buy them for your new interior project, contact Karl via his site).

Jewelry

Beautiful necklaces made of glass in the kingdom of crystal.

Link: www.karloskar.net

These QTVR panoramas of New Year 2008 celebration in big cities over the world doesn’t leave you bothered, it’s just fun and enjoyable to watch them. I love image from Sydney especially. These pictures available on Panoramas.dk site, created by a commercial photographer Hans Nyberg from Denmark.

Link: New Year 2008-Sydney-Rio-Amsterdam-London-Hongkong-Taipei - 360 degree Panoramas

Via vikinotbecks

Picture from the coast in the Northern Norway - Alpenglow in the mountains and clouds

Thomas Laupstad wrote:

In this picture, from the coast in Northern Norway, you can see the “Alpenglow” (from German: Alpenglühen) phenomenon on the clouds and mountain peaks. It is a phenomenon that appears as a red glowing band as the sun sets.

Fire Station at Fiskars

Originally uploaded by Qvidja50.

Alan Lishness, one of contributors of Nordic Design photo pool on flickr posted recently this nice history article about Fiskars company, simply must read:

“My friend, Petri , and I shot in the small town of Fiskars, Finland, located aproximately 100 Km from Helsinki. The cutlery company bearing its name was incorporated in 1649 by a Dutch merchant who had been granted a charter to establish a blast furnace and forge there. Today, Fiskars (the company) is widely regarded for the contemporary quality of its tools, and Fiskars (the community) is a thriving premium arts and crafts center. ‘Fiskars Fire Station‘ on black”

scultpureborassweden

Originally uploaded by Ebit Management.

A different kind pf photo taken today during my lunch brake. I usually take photos of nature, leaves etc. This on is of a sculpture in the city park in the city centre of Borås in Sweden

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

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.

flickr, books

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

Kamppi, Architecture