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Artist Of The Issue: Elín Edda
Elín Edda is a young artist, a published author and a soon-to-be graphic designer. She released a book of poems last year called ‘Hamingjan leit við og beit mig’ (“Happiness looked back and bit me,” in English) as well as a two…
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Artist Talk: Designer Ágústa Sveinsdóttir
At DesignMarch 2016, Ágústa and Elísabet Karlsdóttir—who together make up the powerful design team ALVARA—presented a jewelry line called ‘Silfra’. In December they launched their second collaborative project, the clothing line USELESS. We asked Ágústa about her recent work and working as…
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Rendered Useful: A New Line Of Reindeer Products By Alvara
Each permitted hunter is allowed one reindeer. There are around 1,200 permits issued through a lottery system during reindeer hunting season, from July 15 – September 15. The hunt is a mechanism to protect the fragile highland ecosystem and to keep the…
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Fashion Magazine Aims For Equal Opportunity Centerfold
Reykjavík Fashion & Design is looking for beauty in any of its myriad forms for a centerfold spread. Living in Iceland is literally the only requirement. The magazine announced today that they are seeking a new model for the winter fashion spread…
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Witchcraft and Hypnagogia in Hildur Yeoman’s World of Fashion
Having dressed Reykjavík’s residents in patterned designs and jeweled finery for the past several years, Hildur Yeoman has slowly but steadily become one of Iceland’s leading fashion designers. We met the designer in her workshop as she was putting the finishing touches…
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PHOTOS: ‘Ytri Höfnin’ Graduation Exhibition
The graduation exhibition by bachelors students in design, architecture and fine arts from the Iceland Academy of the Arts is one of the main art events of the year. This extraordinary exhibition is closing on Sunday May 8th and we urge anyone interested…
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Static in the Air, Words on the Page: Or Type at DesignMarch
Last Thursday, the first night of DesignMarch, central Reykjavík was humming with openings of various types. Among them was the Or Type Reading Room exhibit at Mengi: a presentation of new and recent typefaces by the Icelandic/Danish design duo GUNMAD, with two…
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President Praises Pirate Party, Jungle Bars For Icelandic Innovation
At a DesignMarch event held at the Presidential residence of Bessastaðir last weekend, the President addressed a throng of local and international artists and designers to offer his take on Icelandic innovation. From music to film, and from business to politics, his…
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Jonathan Barnbrook On Iceland, Japan, Working With Bowie
Jonathan Barnbrook is a London-based veteran designer, creating numerous iconic typefaces such as Priori and Mason. Over his long career, he’s worked with everyone from the Occupy group to Sydney Biennale to David Bowie. We caught up with him just before his…
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Glacier Lightbulbs & Art Carpets: DesignMarch Hits Seltjarnarnes
The sixth annual DesignMarch has stormed into town, drawing local and foreign artists to the capital city to show their creations. The festival, organised by the Icelandic Design Centre, is now in its sixth year and runs until March 13. If you…
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Design March 2016: Friday’s Must-See Events
Yesterday’s opening at Hafnarhús was amazing. So many interesting jewellery and furniture designs were exhibited, by both foreign and Icelandic designers. Art-lovers sipped on white wine and Bríó while drooling over the couch of their dreams, or that perfect lamp. Today is…
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DesignMarch Is Here! Our Guide To Thursday’s Events
DesignMarch is upon us! That festival where swanky elites, fashionistas and hipsters come together wearing their wackiest outfits to enjoy light refreshments, free drinks and, of course: design. This year’s festival has a lot cool of events in store—the programme booklet is…
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Talking Design: Hlín Helga’s Guide To The 2016 DesignTalks
Hlín Helga is the curator if the 2016 DesignTalks, a day of inspiring discussions and seminars held at Harpa each year as part of DesignMarch. The theme for 2016 in innovation—looking at innovative products, but also how to cultivate an innovative design…
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All New Everything: Innovation Is The Theme At DesignTalks
If it wasn’t for design, you’d be naked right now, sitting outdoors, on a patch of raw ground. You wouldn’t have an iPhone to call for a ride, and even if you did, the person on the other end wouldn’t have a…
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Icelandic Design Awards Winners Announced
The winners of this year’s Icelandic Design Awards have been announced, and this year puts the spotlight on the 1973 volcanic eruption in Heimaey. The Iceland Design Centre announces that this year’s award goes to Eldheimar, an exhibition in the Westman Islands…
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More From Nowhere
It may seem absurd, passing by Iceland’s largest aluminium smelter in the mountainous Eastfjords landscape to visit an exhibition that celebrates creative thinking, small-scale production and local know-how in culturally relevant activities. Yet, there it is—under the steep mountains of Eskifjörður, just…
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Ámundi: “Let Go, Give Up, Surrender”
As I walk into the Reykjavík Museum of Design and Applied Art for the first time, I can’t help but feel that everything looks very familiar. And, well, that’s because it is. The space is currently home to a 30-year design retrospective…
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Wow, Jessica Walsh Answered Some Questions Sourced From Some Of The Fancier Parties To Iceland’s Design Community
Hi Jessica, Ms. Walsh, sorry to be emailing you out of the blue like this. And, while you’re travelling? So rude. Either way, feel free to disregard this missive if you are busy with other things. Here’s the thing: I am editor…
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DesignMarch Seminars At Harpa: Play To Win
One of the major components of DesignMarch is DesignTalks—a packed day of lectures and seminars held at Harpa, where leading design professionals from around the world share their projects, methods, thoughts and ideas. Each year comes with a theme, and 2015 will…
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Former Eve Onliners Create New Icelandic Video Game
Two former CCP employees, Ívar Emílsson and Oddur Snær Magnússon have teamed up with designer Mundi Vondi to create a new bite sized massive multiplayer mobile phone game called ReRunners. Under the banner of Klang Games based out of Berlin the Icelandic…
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The New Kids On The Block
Laugavegur, quite the dandy’s lane, is swarming with trendy menswear addresses that all offer a certain vision of what lavishly dressed men should be. Enter Skyrta (“Shirt”), a newly launched Icelandic made-to-measure shirt company that lets the local peacocks decide what spiffing…