We can’t wait…..
Agnes Cupcakes is opening soon in Sværtegade, Copenhagen. It will be the first Cupcake Bakery in Denmark dedicated exclusively to cupcakes. Hook up with the sweet treats on Agnes Fanpage.
Designer Keiichi Matsuda is a designer and film maker who often enjoys exploring futuristic design concepts through the medium of film.
It’s no joke. Manufactured in the U.S.A on an Amish farm. Scooters come in 3 sizes. 16″, 20″ & 24″. The 16″ is recommended for kids ages 6 to 12. The 20″ for young teens to adult and the 24″ for those of you 6ft and over. They can be purchased through Reform School.
How priviledged are you when your sponsor, Meinl, puts your name on their cymbals? Tjeck out these unique and personalized cymbals!
Meet the designer Tom Dixon at the Normann Copenhagen Store, 12th of August 19-22. You’ll need to pick up a ticket beforehand in the shop (it’s free). DJ Thomas Madvig will be playing and Somersby will make sure there’s something sweet, alcoholic and sticky in your glass while you mingle away. Tjeck out more at AOK.
During Copenhagen Fashion Week ‘The World’s Greatest Catwalk’ will take place on the pedestrian street in the centre of Copenhagen, Strøget. The street will be transformed into one long runway where 220 models will walk 1 mile (1.609 km) and beat the world record for the longest catwalk ever.
We will of cause be there since the catwalk runs right along our office. It’s this Saturday 14th of August at 15.00.
It’s Copenhagen Fashion Week and that means that Copenhagen gets crowded with models, fashionistas, fashion victims, fancy folk and the like. Not to mention the new up-and-coming talents ready to enter the scene.
Goatskin meets offcuts from furniture production in ergonomically shaped pumps by Liza Fredrika Åslund for the first collection of fashion-art from WHAT’S MORE ALIVE THAN YOU®.
Even though Fredrika just graduated from the Danish School of Design – the shoe line has already been patented and put into production. Congrats from Johannes Torpe Studios.
ABC Chairs by Roeland Otten
Lo-fi sofa by Christiane Hoegner
(via Designtaxi)
peter bruegger: moustache mugs
The fine bone china mugs are available in six different iconic tache styles.
‘Enjoy effortlessly masquerading behind a character moustache while drinking your favourite tea or coffee… explore your favourite masculine expression! choose between feisty fu-magnum, ambiguous mustafa-chaplin and cheeky maurice-poirot!’
IT’S NOT A VIDEO – IT’S A PAINTING, posted with vodpod
After noticing Marco Brambilla’s “Civilization” video installation in the elevators at The Standard New York Hotel in 2009, Kanye not only wrote about it on his blog, he commissioned the experimental filmmaker to collaborate on the video for “Power,” his new single. The result is this video collage extreme!. The whole thing is in fact inspired by Michelangelo’s frescos in the Sistine Chapel, the piece depicts a faux historical moment – an empire on the brink of collapse from its own excess, decadence and corruption. All the little layered collage pieces move in extreme slow motion forming an abstract and visually rich environment.
You can read an exclusive interview with Marco Brambilla on Coolhunting here.
Sculptures by Charles Ray and Robert Therrien, respectively.They transform ordinary household items into extraordinary works of art by recreating everyday objects true to their original material and color but on a much larger scale.
Currently showing at major art galleries around the US.
(via notcot)
The way you can see she is a real princess, is as soon she sit down the back of the chair will rise automatic! Smart, right!?
Funny how the Eifeltower appears in a suburb to Tianjin…
Sea cucumber is a very crunchy experience, a bit like eating a piece of old rubber
Our partner in China; Xiaofei (the guy in the front…)
Chinese Airlines have some strange restrictions – you cannot bring cutlery, champagne or crab!
We are working in onyx. As you can see on the picture, this is not our work, but we are SO excited to start this up!
Onyx is a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color (save some shades, such as purple or blue). Commonly, specimens of onyx available contain bands of colors of white, tan, and brown. (source: Wikipedia)
Le Creative Sweatshop has done amazing paperwork (and not the boring bureaucratic kind!) for fashion shoots, packaging, product and interior design. At Johannes Torpe Studios we’re stunned and inspired by their creations.
Over the last fifteen years or so there has been a steadily increasing desire for design to prove its commercial value, to demonstrate to clients that their investment is tangibly worth it.
The British Design Council has written a very interesting article that we highly recommend reading as it effects all parts of the design business.
‘Practicing designers often get caught in the trap of thinking that design is the solution. What they need to realize is that, to a businessperson, design is a solution. Looking at the objectives sought, such as “increased revenue,” it’s clear that there are many approaches to achieve that goal, and design is just one of them,’ writes Peter Merholz, president and a founding partner at experience design consultancy Adaptive Path.
Graphic/Communication designers have a unique ability to communicate visually, however their talent is often restrained by client needs. Positive posters give graphic designers an outlet to create freely, and to use their skills to inspire, challenge and make a positive difference in a non-commercial way. Join the competition here. The picture shows a small segment of last years contributions.
Morten and Rune RK have both found time in their busy touring-schedule to play one of their rare and exclusive B2B-sets at this years sold out Skanderborg festival.
It will go down on the night of Thursday the 5th at 02.00.
Rytme Hans stage will be the setting and with a capacity of 15.000 people the two are guaranteed to rip it up.
WANT TO DESIGN WITH US?
Johannes Torpe Studios is currently looking for two interns for the fall semester. You will be a part of our young and dynamic design team and take part in all aspects of the design process.
We expect you to be ambitious, self-propelled and easy to work with. You have a strong commitment to the world of design that provides you with initiative, ideas and the willingness to help out where needed.
As our product designer/architectural design intern you must:
- be a talented senior student
- have a pro-active, hands-on approach
- be able to work easily with the Adobe package.
- be a Surface- and Solid modelling-wizz
- speak and write English fluently
As our graphic design intern you must:
- be a talented senior student
- have a pro-active, hands-on approach
- have Adobe as your BFF
- have some Flash/html experience.
- speak and write English fluently
Duration of Internship:
From 1. September 2010 to 1. January 2011
Application: Send CV, portfolio and application
in .pdf format no larger than 5Mb to:
job@johannestorpe.com
Note: “Don’t call us – we’ll call you”.
Hard copies will not be returned.
Project done by Johannes Torpe Studios in collaboration with Jeppe Utzon.
Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world’s dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US. Tjeck out how he manages to make stats look sexy…
“With all the respect, we don’t want to follow ‘the Danish Design Traditions – we want to create new ones!”
Space Enablers featured on Lifeweek’s Good’s Good pages.
(BUT IT STILL ROCKS!)
Press clip from ‘Rum’.
The interior magazine ‘Rum’ offers a sneak-peak into our office, our world. The office on Skoubogade, Copenhagen, is often inhabited by quirky characters and curious items – not to mention the very diverse sound setting. Situated right on Copenhagen’s central pedestrian street, we listen to everything from marching bands and Hare Krishna – to eleven-year-old castrates singing Italian opera – that’s the sound of inner Copenhagen city life. Hey, and not to mention Rune RK’s studio, that regularly throws in a beat or two of the next club hit in the making.
It might seem that it really is a disco all the time, but that’s not the case. It’s in fact a serious business that’s currently skyrocketing, planning an office launch in China later this summer. We’ll keep you posted!
The couch in the picture is our famed ‘Mormor’ couch, the low flintstone table in front of it was originally developed for the Paris-Texas high-end fashion store. The white table to the right is called Coupé and is produced by Moroso.
THE SPACE ENABLERS
The Space Enablers is a product family that includes Slide, Drift and Soft Shelter developed by Johannes Torpe for Haworth. The Space Enablers take the traditional office environment into the new Millennium by facilitating new and more flexible ways of working – upgrading and mobilizing the office environment.
SLIDE AND DRIFT
Slide and Drift; are both flexible laptop tables that encourage spontaneous and effective business meetings standing up or sitting down, anywhere, anytime.
SOFT SHELTER
Soft Shelter is enabling a more lounge-like and casual encounter. It’s designed to be an easily configurable solution that can be moved around, shaped and reshaped – facilitating various degrees of privacy and comfort. Its flexibility and its acoustic properties allow you to customize the appropriate atmosphere for any business encounter.
“IF IT FEELS LIKE WORK, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG”
The Space Enablers ignite energy, creativity and connectivity. In the often so grey and gloomy office environment the Space Enablers will make space flexible and ad bubbly colorful hotspots that entail the very philosophy of Johannes: “If it feels like work, you’re doing it wrong”.