A DesignMarch Recap + Five Icelandic Designers on Our Radar
We traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland to check out the latest and greatest on the Icelandic design scene. Here's what we saw...
Earlier this month we traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland to celebrate DesignMarch?s 10th anniversary and check out the latest and greatest on the Icelandic design scene. During these festival days, the entire city of Reykjavik was alive with excitement and pride as everyone (including the mayor of Iceland and Björk herself ? true story!) traveled the design circuit to explore exhibitions, installations and showrooms. We came, we saw, we soaked. Here’s a recap of our favorite moments:
During DesignTalk, we listened to Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg who just finished her PhD and wrote her entire thesis about the idea of better. She asks: ?What is better" Whose better" And who gets to decide"? At a time when designers and companies are striving to innovate for the better, create for a better future, and better today?s environmental issues, she encourages the design community to dig deep and question whether a design truly is better. For example, is a ground-breaking technologic device made in factories of poor conditions and low wages truly better" If synthetic biology can help rejuvenate forests, can we consider the industrialization of nature better for the world" An insightful talk that ended on a hopeful note, we left feeling inspired.
Paper designer Bea Szenfeld gave a delightful presentation about designing for L...
Earlier this month we traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland to celebrate DesignMarch?s 10th anniversary and check out the latest and greatest on the Icelandic design scene. During these festival days, the entire city of Reykjavik was alive with excitement and pride as everyone (including the mayor of Iceland and Björk herself ? true story!) traveled the design circuit to explore exhibitions, installations and showrooms. We came, we saw, we soaked. Here’s a recap of our favorite moments:
During DesignTalk, we listened to Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg who just finished her PhD and wrote her entire thesis about the idea of better. She asks: ?What is better" Whose better" And who gets to decide"? At a time when designers and companies are striving to innovate for the better, create for a better future, and better today?s environmental issues, she encourages the design community to dig deep and question whether a design truly is better. For example, is a ground-breaking technologic device made in factories of poor conditions and low wages truly better" If synthetic biology can help rejuvenate forests, can we consider the industrialization of nature better for the world" An insightful talk that ended on a hopeful note, we left feeling inspired.
Paper designer Bea Szenfeld gave a delightful presentation about designing for L...
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