For your expensive raincoat needs

When your umbrella starts to fail.

SuperLove Denmark

OLE!

Mold Beginnings

Cutting the template out of a steel sheet

Filing down the edges of the steal sheet

Steel Sheet after being bent to correct radii

Bottom mold and template for backrest together (no tapering and wrong proportions)

Putting in particle board bracing

Drilling. Hours and hours of drilling.

Now I am officially Danish

BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE

After a literal 5 days worth of trying (don't laugh) I have procured a bike.

Louisiana (Museum not State)

We took the train yesterday to the Louisiana Art Museum. Their architecture wing topped the Stockholm Modern Museum and it took us a good 3-4 hours to even make a dent in it.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

It keeps raining

Someone please buy this for me. Its only $600 - a steal really. It will improve my quality of life, I'm sure of it.

1.5 more days to finalize

Living the life (of a depressed architect)

Building starts on monday morn'

I hope I'm famous someday and people pay a lot of money for my twelve thousand 1:1 scale trace paper drawings of this chair.

Damnit....

Erling Christoffersen and I are the same person (but hes better at design)

BLOGS!

Chair Whore

(Because chairs are also life or death - much like blogging)

ModelsModelsModels

TEDGlobal and TEDxBrooklyn

If Americans want to live the "American dream," they should go to Denmark.

-Richard Wilkinson

Via Lovely Laura Willming.

ALSO:

TEDxBrooklyn Art

TEDx Brooklyn / Hello ZSO / The KDU from Sara Blake on Vimeo.

Christmas In July

Yesterday everyone (well me because im late) got their studio desks to use to finalize our designs this week. I'm slowly realizing that my chair is going to go down in horrible horrible flames unless I pull out some seriously impressive things tonight (it might be okay).

Additionally, productivity kind of drops off when there is a parade of santas with christmas music outside our window.....

What is going on Copenhagen?

Henry David Thoreau

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society"

I'm going to write my paper on the PK 11 chair by Poul Kjaerholm

Wallpapering my life.

Photo Via Joel from Eliel Saarinen House

More stupid things from Stockholm.

Via Joel and Erika's collaborative genius/insanity.

Are you wearing a watch?

Well Yes - this one.

DIG IT

O'Clock Watches by Laboratorio.quattro

On the agenda for tomorrow

Designmuseum Danmark

and

Tivoli

Also finally going to Mikkeller?

Tomorrow might be lush after a good nights sleep.

Velkommen til København (igen)

Fine Portraiture.

Flemming!

Robyn Obsession

Anyone surprised by this obsession can leave now.

Study Tour is over - Back to reality

Time for some serious sleeping and then some serious DESIGNING.

IKEA Headquarters

Last day of Study Tour left us at the Ikea Headquarters to get a tour of the testing facilities, museum, model making shop and warehouses. Sadly we couldnt take photos but we did get to meet some of the in-house design team including Marcus Arvonen.

"IKEA PS MASKROS imitates a dandelion ready to be scattered by the wind. And when lit, the shadows on the walls resemble just that - the room dissolves and transforms. Like when the sun shines through the trees. The pendant lamp is a real mood enhancer, decorative and riveting even when switched off."

-Designer Marcus Arvonen

Also we ate meatballs (Obviously.)

Moderna Museet

Tuesday consisted of a quick stroll around the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), which may be one of my favorite Museums I've seen so far - despite not having a typical design wing.

The Museum was layed out essentially in two parts - Architecture and Contemporary art. The Contemporary side was primarily photography (really bizarre photography) but the architecture side was pretty good.

Its pretty funny because on my first study abroad to Pontlevoy, France, My friends Tyler, Evan and I did this really dumb project building a Pico Cricket drawing machine as a warm up for our big final projects.

This machine (DaVinci-Style) at the Moderna Museet kicks our Drawing Machine's Ass.

In the architecture wing there was this really nice exhibit (admittedly I don't know what it was about) but the use of space was great - It was excellent inspiration for a TEDx Lobby or an interactive piece. It was nice because not only is it informational (Unless you're lazy like me apparently...) but sort of interactive and sculptural. It also has the strong transformative impact in a large space with little actual material that we always talk about when designing for TED.

Each of the planes was made up of a 1/2'' piece of ply wood cut at angles and then rejoined along the edges. They were hung from steel cable will minimal stoppers under each piece. The effect was awesome.