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  • The Design Lover’s Xmas Gift Guide

    The Design Lover’s Xmas Gift Guide

    Finding the right gift for the design lover in your life can be tricky. There’s a lot of stuff out there—and it can be hard for some of us to discern what of it really merits gifting. But, fret no more! From…

  • Opening Today: Rán Flygenring Exhibit

    Opening Today: Rán Flygenring Exhibit

    Documentary illustrator Rán Flygenring spent the summer of 2015 travelling around Iceland, documenting her experiences as a participant in Iceland’s rich and lively bathing culture with the illustrative medium of pen and paper. This exhibition showcases the breadth of her summer’s experiences,…

  • The Reykjavík Grapevine Design Awards 2015

    The Reykjavík Grapevine Design Awards 2015

    For our fifth annual Design Awards, we gathered a small panel of experts to help us determine what was on the cutting edge of Icelandic design in 2014. Here are the results: the winners and runners-up in each of the four categories,…

  • Urbanization On Paper: A European Narrative

    Urbanization On Paper: A European Narrative

    Spark Design Space has a clean minimalist facade, a welcome place to rest your eyes next to the garishly painted corrugated tin front of its neighbour Kiki. The large glass windows show the dozens of posters tiled on the back walls of…

  • Not Your Usual Cup Of Tea

    Not Your Usual Cup Of Tea

    I pop the translucent lime-coloured candy into my mouth and swish it back and forth from one cheek to the other. It’s not sweet, as I had expected from its Jolly Rancher-like appearance; instead, it has an organic, hearty flavour. As the…