Between Art and Purpose

It took a while for interior architect and product designer Frida C. Midttun Finnerud to bring herself to scale down Doodlewalk, but she is now introducing the follow-up, Doodletalk.

“With large objects, you become part of them, whereas with small objects, you remain, in a way, on the outside,” says Frida when we met her in her Oslo-apatment.

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Risk-taking couples.

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An Underground Movement

The design community in Stockholm wasn’t willing to wait until 2027 to organize a new trade show.

While visiting the capital during the annual trade show season in February, we were amazed by how the community had managed to pull off a design fair without any overarching organization. Take a look at some of our findings.

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Ross Lovegrove about nature's own creative language

– Everyone I meet loves form, but that doesn't mean it's easy to make shape. When it is just a little bit wrong, it's very disturbing. A beautifully balanced shape is something precious that apparently costs nothing. It's just there, completely natural.

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