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Flash Designer Mattias Lindberg aka Fakepilot is considered as one of the best flash programmers in Nordic Countries.He states on his site: “Don’t rip off my work like Levi’s, Nokia and Usher did, hire me directly instead”. Okay, we must to admire that his works are very influential. Now we have a chance to talk with Matias, and here is our conversation:

NDB: Hi Mattias, many readers of NDB have seen your works, and these creations are very popular among many lovers of Nordic design and architecture, can you describe the creative process, how these beautiful ideas were developed?

ML: Thank you. It usually starts with music. I always need music to animate or I have to create it myself. My visualization ideas often comes from improvisation based on the music. I see things visually when I hear music. Not very clearly, instead I follow paths, errors, shadows and interesting shapes and forms that I start to draw. If a client provides me with ideas and images, then I use that as a base. If it’s bad… Well, if it’s bad then I … did you know that I have this magic ability to turn shit into gold? It’s true!

The second time I worked with Diddy/Sean John, the clothing brand. I got these really bad songs from Bad Boy Recordings. I got like 20 songs and they where all pretty crappy. Sorry Puff! But it’s true! At least, it’s not my taste, you judge for yourself. It’s not good animating to. I edited the music myself; scratched a little, synced the lyrics in the songs to fit the intro. 

Instead of other more normal work-flows, I even do sound effects before the animation is started. I make sounds of clicks and blips, zippers and more – so that the music sounds more interesting. Then I start to animate by improvising.

It’s strange, when people ask what I do. I don’t even call myself an designer. Nor do I call myself a musician! At the same time, I have cut and edit music for both Beyonce and Diddy! And got it approved. Sure, it’s for the web and no album release… But I like to take credit for this. Hehe…

NDB: Where do you get your inspiration from?

ML: Besides everyday life, dreams and the fact we’re lost in a bubble – I don’t. I see what doesn’t exist and wonder why no one does it. I got some idols, maybe that’s what you want to hear. Banksy (http://www.banksy.co.uk/), Malcolm X, Chris Cunningham, Noam Chomsky, Gandhi. Yesterday was Che Guevaras anniversary . He’s not an idol of mine, I just wanted to mention him, cause many seem to look up to him. I read about him yesterday. To me it seems he was on the right track in the beginning, but later on he got too blood thirsty, killed too many people and even said in some interview that if he would have gotten control over the Soviet missiles that was on Cuba, he would have nuked a U.S. city without questioning. Also read that he wasn’t for democracy but dictatorship or military power. He liked North Korea and North Vietnam. Still have some reading to do, so I might have missed something? You will never see his face on one of my future t-shirts, though. It’s weird, he is symbol of revolution and socialism, but he is used mostly to sell capitalism. People seem to think that they can simply look revolutionary – then they don’t have to be revolutionaries.

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CSS Nordic is an innovative CSS Gallery for Nordic web designers.

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mökkikunta: Facebook: hundreds of new Finnish users every hour

It is difficult to explain quite why the Finns found Facebook right now, and not earlier. In Norway, for instance, the big boom in new members took place back in the spring, and there are now nearly 370,000 Norwegian Facebook users, and more than 400,000 in Sweden.”

Wallsticker Competition Welcome to the design competition of design3000 and DESIGNSPOTTER.com!

Our friends from DESIGNSPOTTER calling all interested to participate in Wallsticker Competition, don’t miss your chance to win!

design3000, founded in 1999, has become one of the leading design shops in the world wide web with more than 3000 visitors per day. Interested users can choose from a range of more than 5.200 products of well known manufacturers. Regular special editions as well as unusual products, which cannot be bought by retail also belong to the wide offering of design3000.

DESIGNSPOTTER.com considers itself as a platform for young and fresh design far from convention and establishment and counts to one of the Top100 design blogs in the web. The online design magazine daily presents the latest trends of international young designers and newcomers. Furthermore DESIGNSPOTTER.com presents itself at shows e.g. at the international furnishing show in Cologne or at the TENT in London, is multiple media partner, and runs a PR- and marketing-agency for designers and architects.

Together, from October 8th until November 23rd 2007 we are looking for the hottest Wall Paper Stickers in the world.

Freshly penned by you and straight to the design3000 shop? Nothing is impossible! If creativity overwhelms you and you cannot sit still because it just wants to come out, if you also want to grab a piece of the fortune cookie, than just register an show us what’s in you!

All for fame and glory? For sure…
But beyond it a total prize money of 1.750 Euro awaits you!

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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:

1. Bloesem (www.bloesem.blogs.com)

1. Sfgirlbybay (www.sfgirlbybay.blogspot.com)

1. NotCot (www.notcot.com)

1. Swiss Miss (www.swiss-miss.com)

1. Oh Joy! (www.ohjoy.blogs.com)

1. Desire To Inspire (www.desiretoinspire.blogspot.com)

1. Decor8 (www.decor8.blogspot.com)

1. MoCo Loco (www.mocoloco.com)

1. Apartment Therapy (www.apartmenttherapy.com)

1. 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?

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