Børnebobler/ Childrens bubbles

Around the world it bubbles with interesting initiatives in the area of children and design. Designskolen Kolding plays along with the children as target group of new design products and services but also as creative individuels who use and make design.

The city of Kolding is working on a mayor strategy to become the most significant design city in Denmark. This includes many areas, also schools and day care facilities. On wednesday September 15th Designskolen Kolding had focus on children as we hosted a seminar about design for children and design with children. 120 people attended the seminar to hear the many presentations.

For more information (in danish) and download of the presentations: designskolenkolding.dk

Crafts Collection

The Jungle Wallpaper is now part of Crafts Collection no 14.

Jungle is a children’s wallpaper with prints that resemble the pictures in a colouring book. The motif is a pattern of plants and animals that the child can colour in. Children will be excited about creating their own jungle, so the wallpaper offers hours of activity and immersion. The children have the basic human experience of affecting their surroundings and taking over the space around them, as we have always done with cave paintings and graffiti.

Sustainability is not only about minimising pollution or transportation; it is equally important to create products with a long life cycle. By offering the user an opportunity to interact with the product, the wallpaper acquires an added layer of value. Because the child is a co-creator of the jungle, his or her sense of ownership is increased. The wall will appear as the child’s own creation rather than just a wallpapered surface. Jungle is made of unbleached paper coated with chalk with prints in a water-based photogravure dye that is free of organic solvents.

For more information: craftscollection.dk

Biennaleprisen 2009

Designer Maria Kirk Mikkelsen vinder den prestigefulde Biennalepris 2009 sammen med to andre projekter.

De tre vindere. Fra venstre: Katrine Borup, Maria Kirk Mikkelsen, Henrik Toft.

Maria Kirk Mikkelsens vinderprojekt er et børnetapet, der vandt sammen med en broche og en bølgekraftmaskine. Helt tilfældigt starter alle værker med B – og netop B er begyndelsesbogstavet i ordet bæredygtighed, som er det fælles tema for Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk og Design 2009. Prisen er på 100.000 kr., og det blev uddelt i dag på Trapholt i Kolding som led i Danmarks største udstillingsbegivenhed for kunsthåndværk og design. Med afsæt i begrebet bæredygtighed har 178 af Danmarks bedste kunsthåndværkere og designere indsendt projekter til Biennalens konkurrence, kun 30 har fundet vej igennem censorkomiteens nåleøje, før tre af værkerne onsdag blev kåret som vindere af konkurrencen på den censurerede udstilling på Trapholt.

De tre vindere har fortolket bæredygtighed på meget forskellig vis.
Med udgangspunkt i bæredygtig produktionsmetoder har designeren Maria Kirk Mikkelsen skabt et interaktivt tapet, man selv skal farvelægge.
- Projektet bemærker sig med sit enkle og originale designkoncept. Det involverer både voksne og børn i boligindretningen, begrundede medlem af Censorkomiteen og formand for Danske Kunsthåndværkere, Mark Lauberg, ved overrækkelsen på museet Trapholt.

Se video fra prisoverrækkelsen her

Jungle wallpaper on the Biennale for Crafts and Design

The Jungle wallpaper has been selected for this year Biennale for Crafts and Design. This year the exhibtion will focus on sustainable design.
Jungle is printed by the Danish factory Fiona, that has a very environmentally friendly production. Further more Jungle has been chosen because of its high level of involvement of the user. The exhibition is open from May 7 to September 9 on location Trapholt.
For more information: Trapholt

Flora Gum on Salone del Mobile

Covo presents my pouf on this years furniture fair in Milan. For more information se http://www.covo.it/

Exhibition on the Faroe Islands

Do you happen to be in the Faroe Islands you are hereby invited to the grandopening of the DK:KNIT exhibtion at the Nordic House. Drinks are served on March 6th at 17.00.

For more infomation (.... in Faroes)

SALE 70% ON TAPE

In January and February we sell all tapes from Make up the wall with a discount of 70%.
Use the tape as tags, decoration or for parcels. You can buy the tapes directly from the webshop at http://www.makeupthewall.com/

DK:KNIT

Designskolen Kolding is showing the exhibition DK:KNIT. It is open on weekdays from 9-16, last day is February 27 2009.
DK:KNIT is an impressive collection of knit work created by former students of the academy. All the exhibitors are today working professionally with knitting, both as knitware for fashion, interior products and exhibition pieces.

I participate with "Pink and powder, puf and pillow" - an interpretation of modern mans fagility. The pieces was show for the first time at Charlottenborgs Forårsudstilling 2003.


Exhibitors: Dorthe Merete Lykke Jensen, Malene Farup, Maria Kamper, Maria Wolf Rasmussen, Maria Kirk Mikkelsen, Line Dyrholm, Hans Christian Madsen, Katarina I Geil, Gitte Wetter, Pernille Højager Egelund, Rikke Jo Tholstrup, Anne Lindberg, Signe Emdal.

For more information -in danish- about the exhibtion: DK:KNIT

Flower Box de Luxe

Make up the wall proudly presents the Flower Box de Luxe:

From December 1st you can find this exclusive Flower Box de Luxe in the web-shop at a special price.The box includes 7 popular flower templates and a black Posca marker; all you need to make incredible art-pieces on your wall.

Price 120 €, you save 44 €!

Visit http://www.makeupthewall.com/ for more inspiration.