Rumor has it that Brazilians are among the happiest creatures on this tiny blue planet. A country with growing economy with more than 200 million hearts full of passion. One of our states, the beautiful Pará, could fit four Italys and it is not even the biggest one. Can you imagine the diversity in such […]

Dorrit Bøilerehauge is, among other things, an online editor, media strategist, CEO and trends sociologist. We had the chance to ask her few things about her Brand Elegance, a must-have guide for those companies that still fail to engage audience and customers through the correct synergy between all the platforms. 1) What makes Brand Elegance a relevant book? DB: […]

DMY Berlin is certainly one of the events with the highest concentration of good design in Europe and for this reason one of the most interesting. Former Berlin Tempelhof airport hangars were the perfect venue for the exhibition that gives a quick sneak on the upcoming international design trends, showing products from around the world. Among the others, names from Taiwan Designers Week, […]

On a grey and rainy morning in March I have an appointment with the Danish Designer Boris Berlin. Boris is greeting me at the front door of the building housing the design studio Iskos – Berlin Design. On the stairs is a lovely smell of wood. A very appropriate introduction to the conversation we are […]

During the Stockholm Design Week, the Furniture and Northern Light Fairs presented an impressive range of Nordic designers. Nordic design is recognised for its simplicity, but to the international visitor this may at times also be experienced as rather austere. From that perspective the meeting with the Moomin lamps seem like a greeting a friend. […]

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson   We are always at someone else’s house and, as guests, we must have the utmost respect. It is with this mind-set that I had the pleasure of discovering a land linked to design in a visceral way, if […]

On this week’s Copenhagen design fair – Design Trade – the public had the opportunity to experience the new brand Skandinavisk. The industrial design brand translates the Scandinavian key concept of hygge, which may be translated into cosiness, in its products for the home. With their clean lines and no-nonsense expression the Skandinavisk scented candles, […]