DesignMarch 2014 Preview: Product Design
Above: Rendez-Wood, Academy of the Arts / Austurland: Designs from Nowhere / Staka It’s less than two weeks until we don our thermals and head to Reykjavik for DesignMarch 2014. In this post, we take a...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014 Preview: Jewellery
ARTS THREAD heads to DesignMarch 2014 next week! Before we head off, we familiarise ourselves with some of the jewellery exhibitions taking place during the event. Kría shows its latest collection of...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014 Preview: DesignTalks
DesignMarch 2014 kicks-off with DesignTalks on Thursday 27 March. The theme of this year’s talk is Dealing with Reality and will bring together some of the leading creatives from across the globe. The...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014: Day 1 Highlights
ARTS THREAD is in Reykjavik for DesignMarch 2014! Read the highlights from day one. DesignMarch 2014 kicked off on Thursday 26th March with DesignTalks. Lead by Stephan Sigrist of think tank W.I.R.E...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014: Day 2 Highlights
Day two of DesignMarch 2014 began with a trip to Epal, Iceland’s prime design store, to meet local product and furniture designers. Sandra Kristin, who graduated from Akureyri School of Visual Arts in...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014: Rendez-Wood?
Third year product design students at Iceland Academy of the Arts exhibited a series of objects that explore the value and potential uses of Icelandic wood. Ágústa Sveinsdóttir created Spil, a series...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014: Day 3 Highlights
Our third day at the DesignMarch festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, began with a trip to the Aurum showroom to take in designs by textile students from the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts. Aurum textiles...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014: Q&A with Dagný Björg
Dagný Björg, a second year student at the Technical College Reykjavik, exhibited her Okta furniture design at Epal during the DesignMarch festival. ARTS THREAD spoke with the aspiring young designer to...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014: Q&A with María Dýrfjörð
School of Visual Arts graduate María Rut Dýrfjörð showcased her HiddenWorld pattern collection at the Epal exhibition during DesignMarch 2014. The up-and-coming designer graduated in 2013 with a degree...
View ArticleDesignMarch 2014: Q&A with Anna Gudmundsdottir
The Rendez-Wood? exhibition was one of the highlights of this year’s DesignMarch festival. Among the third year product design students of the Iceland Academy of Arts taking part in the exhibition was...
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