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This is the blog for lower east & lower east lab. A mix of stuff from our design & communication world (things we do, things we have done, and things we experience and get inspired from) and news from our lab – where all kind of actions and experiments can happen – that be workshops, creative meetings, urban safaris (with focus on start up, architecture, design or food), and exhibitions, events, dinners and a lot more.

Else Duedahl

A Minor Detail

February 10, 2019

Lower East Lab are very happy to present: A Minor Detail. Else Duedahl / Pen on Paper Exhibition in Lower East Lab Berlin 20.02-14.04.2019 Exhibition opening Wednesday 20.02. 5:30 pm to 8 pm Join the opening! See the event on facebook Else Duedahl (born in 1948) is preoccupied with the notion of serial processes –

hare & birds

New exhibition in the lab

November 1, 2018

Lower East Lab are very happy and very proud to present the Berlin based Colombian artist Camilo Toro with “Set the hare into a fight, the birds are gonna fly away anyway“. Come and disappear in the universe of magic realism paintings. Opening November 16th 5pm-8pm. The artist will be present, and do guided tours

posters & art

Kurt Trampedach

October 1, 2018

3 new posters and 3 new postcards designed by Lower East for Kunsten. Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg – for the current exhibition about the danish artist Kurt Trampedach – Dark Encounters. About the artist and the exhibition – from the museums website; “When it comes to modern Danish art, Kurt Trampedach (1943-2013) is now

breakfast talks

Journey to lioness

September 11, 2018

We continue our series of breakfast talks in the lower east lab. This time our good friend, the Japanese artist Naho Iguchi come by the lab. The freshly made coffee and fresh baked bread will be on the table September 20th at 9:30. “Journey to Lioness” is a framework for expressions by an artist, Naho,

exploring glass

Glass, fashion & fantasy

August 21, 2018

GLASS fashion & fantasy – the interesting summer exhibition at the danish Hempel Glass Museum – Lower East did the graphic design of the catalogue for the exhibition. “With GLASS fashion & fantasy, the museum wants to explore how the special qualities of the glass, such as transparency, fragility, richness of colours and dangerousness can

summer greetings

Summer postcards

July 16, 2018

A series of summer greeting postcards – designed & illustrated by our lovely intern Pi Bartholdy, who (for some strange reason) dived into the theme of fish and creatures from the past. We added text about us and our work to the postcards – and wish you all a wonderful summer!     we are

urban safari

lower east explore

May 18, 2018

These days we are doing an Urban Safari in Berlin with students from the KaosPilots in Switzerland. They are here to get inspired, to develop new (business) ideas, to meet people, to explore Berlin, and to be together with their class mates. We arrange and facilitate parts of their week-long journey in the streets of Berlin.

vilhelm lundstrøm

Art posters

March 14, 2018

We designed a series of four posters for the exhibition “Vilhelm Lundstrøm og den gode smag“ (Vilhelm Lundstrøm & the epitome of good taste) at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark. Here you can see all the posters – if you want to own one or more of these master pieces, you can buy

start with a coffee

Breakfast talks

February 19, 2018

Breakfast talks in the lower east lab! We are starting a new ‘thing’ in the lower east lab; breakfast talks. Now and then we will pop-up with morning gatherings  where we invite sweet and interesting people and projects to the lab. Invite for a coffee and a talk. For this debut we have on Wednesday February 21th

glass & ceramics

Teaching & talking

February 18, 2018

We love to teach and talk about how to communicate! Last week the lower east core team went to the Danish island Bornholm to work with the students from the ceramics and glass programme at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. We met a group of dedicated students eager to learn – and exited to take new steps with

it’s cookbook design

Words from the designer, Helle Marietta

December 18, 2017

  “Food that make people talk to each other, Camillo’s Kitchen”, written by Jørgen Smidstrup, designed and illustrated by Helle Marietta. The Camillo cookbook project has been an amazing “con amore” project for Jørgen and me and a big part of our lives for the last years. While Jørgen (aka Camillo) has been developing all

looking at art

La Biennale di Venezia 2017

December 11, 2017

Some beautiful, sunny and cold November days the Lower East delegation visited the Biennale in Venezia – enjoyed all the art, the pavilions, the Arsenale areal, and most of all the exhibition ‘Intuition’ in Palazzo Fortuny. A wonderful experience to be surrounded by such fantastic art for days! At the same time we loved hanging out

let’s talk art

Graphic stuff for the museum

December 10, 2017

For the Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelt’s Museum in Denmark we did the graphic stuff for the exhibition A Fabulous Encounter (Rencontre Fabulous in the French, and Eventyrlig Dialog in the Danish). The exhibition is a meeting and a dialogue between paintings of the CoBrA artist Carl-Henning Pedersen and the sculptures created by H.R.H. Prince Henrik. It was

on tour

Visiting Venice 2017

December 6, 2017

– As told by the Lower East Interns. At our recent four days trip to Venice with our Lower East family – the agenda was as followed: Art Biennale, Italian food, more art, sightseeing and perhaps a Spritz to finish up the days (in respect of the local tradition, of course). A pretty good agenda if

film shooting

Stuff happening in the lab

November 21, 2017

Last week we had the Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin visiting the lower east lab for a one day film shooting. Over and over again the hard working team did the scenes for the tutorial video – recording, sound, acting, light and the manuscript all came together during the day, and suddenly everything was done, and

poster

Gone fishing

October 12, 2017

For our ‘con amore’ project Camillo’s Kitchen we have created a poster with fish – illustrated by the creative Juliana Toro. You find almost 40 different fish on the poster, and their names in english, danish, german, spanish and italian. “Gone Fishing. Camillo’s Kitchen“ is the perfect kitchen or restaurant poster. We have the posters in A3 and

workshop

How to communicate your business

September 19, 2017

Last week Lower East facilitated the Climate-KIC Nordic Bootcamp: “How To Communicate Your New Business – and Build a Community Around Your Startup” in Copenhagen, Denmark. Around 30 nordic Greenhouse and Accelerator startups participated in the workshop, arranged by Climate-KIC Nordic. The theme was: “Being able to communicate your new, and often still “un-finished” business, to the world is a

History ...

Roman Ondak

August 29, 2017

The exiting exhibition ‘Roman Ondak. History Repeats Itself’ are running until September 17th at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark. We had the pleasure to design the book for the exhibition by the Slovakian artist Roman Ondak. The book is enriched by very good photos from the opening days of ‘History Repeats Itself’ and

the cookbook

work in progress – cookbook from Camillo’s Kitchen

August 27, 2017

During the next week or so we will finalize the design, the writing and the editing of the cookbook from Camillo’s Kitchen. Then we’ll send it off to the printing house – and cross what ever we have that everything will work out in the best way. Launch and tour dates to be announced very soon. The

50 Years

50 Voices of Design

August 24, 2017

The Design School Kolding has 50th anniversary this year – to celebrate that they have (among a lot other activities) published a very fine book 50 designers, graduated from the school, tell their story in the book, and give an insight in the world of design and designers – Lower East’s Helle Marietta Pedersen is one