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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.

KiC Kunsthåndværk i Centrum

November 2, 2012

Today KiC – Kunsthåndværk i Cenrtrum opens in Ridehuset Aarhus. KiC is a censored arts and crafts market, which presents arts and crafts, that unfold in the field between art and design. More than 60 designers are represented. On the market you can find textiles, jewelry, glass, ceramics etc. Christmas shopping can start here. Lower

Today’s Picture. New ones.

October 30, 2012

New Today’s Picture from Lower East. Pictures from sunny and warm October days in Nice, France. Dates 23, 24, 26, 27 and 28. We are still showing the coolest one, or the most beautiful one, or the one that tells the best story of the day. All of them being carefully treated and maybe improved in photoshop. The search

Three Lions and Nine Hearts

October 25, 2012

If in Aarhus, you have the chance to meet three fantastic lions! “The sculptor Claus Ørntoft has just completed a major sculptural installation for
 Marselisborg Palace Park in Aarhus which will be unveiled at a ceremony on 
Friday 26 October 2012 at 15:00. The work, a gift to H.M Queen Margrethe II from Aarhus Municipality

Edvard Munch Angst / Anxiety at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

October 21, 2012

Lower East are very proud of having designed the graphic material for the huge Edvard Munch exhibition that is shown in ARoS Aarhus Art museum. We designed the big exhibition book and a great wall biography in the exhibition room as well as brochures. The exhibition is amazing and absolutely wonderful – we highly recommend

Aarhus Filmfestival 2012

October 19, 2012

Lower East just finished the graphic work on the printed programme and on the website for Aarhus Filmfestival 2012. And now we look so much forward to see all the fantastic shorts and docs scheduled this year. Check out the festivals website, reserve the days November 6-11 – and find your way to Aarhus, Denmark.

MFO-Park, Oerlikon, Zürich

October 8, 2012

Hey, what a cool park!! The MFO-Park in Oerlikon, Zurich, Schweiz. The sun was shining, one of the first days of October, it was 20 degrees, and all the fantastic colors of the autumn appeared. What’s not to like?! Okay, maybe we had a lucky moment. Lower East jumped of the train, and had the

Today’s Pic

October 7, 2012

The Today’s Picture from the ‘Lower East World’. Pictures from October 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7. Sunny and good Autumn days. We are still showing the coolest one, or the most beautiful one, or the one that tells the best story of the day. All of them being carefully treated and improved in photoshop. The search

Oh oh oh it’s magic

October 1, 2012

Now it finally happended. Our good friends in the Alps, the KaosPilots Switzerland, started up the first team today. KaosPilots Team SUI1. The students were all well-equipped with a beautiful suitcases, with lower east designed luggage tags.

Today’s Picture

September 30, 2012

Another week has passed. The last one in September. The weeks selection of Today’s picture from Lower East fell out this way. Photos taken and posted on September 23, 24, 26, 27, 28 and 29. We are still showing the coolest one, or the funniest one, or the one that tells the best story of

Lower East on Bornholm

September 28, 2012

European Glass Context 2012 forms part of a biennial symposium for European contemporary glass and ceramics on the island of Bornholm in Denmark. Through comprehensive exhibitions, workshops, master classes and lectures, an opportunity will arise to discuss and present the best of contemporary European glass today. This event is motivated by a desire to promote the

Urban Safari Berlin

September 26, 2012

Berlin is a vibrant metropole, a melting pot of young entrepreneurs and fresh ­ideas, funky design and inspiring inviting atmospheres. A perfect spot to be diving into, make you smile, think of old and new ideas, wonder about how f*** crazy some ideas can be and simply enjoy the love for new, small and bigger

Welcome Party

September 21, 2012

The brandnew KaosPilots Team from Switzerland are curious to meet you, partners and potential playmates for the coming years of their project design and innovation work here in Bern and worldwide. Are you curious to meet them? Welcome Party October 5th in Bern. 18:00 sharp. We think there will be a chance to meet Lower

Today’s picture

September 21, 2012

This weeks selection of Today’s picture from Lower East. Taken on September 15, 16,17, 18, 20 and 21. We are juggling with and working on this new project, where we will pick one photo per day (or so!). We will show the coolest one, or the funniest one, or most likely the one that tells

KaosPilot bag

September 19, 2012

Two weeks from now the KaosPilots Switzerland welcomes the first team of students to the school in Bern. Lower East has designed the new ‘school bag’, and behind the lines everything is getting ready for the brave and most likely excited students. The new website is very close to be published, until then keep informed

Zentrum Paul Klee. Bern

September 18, 2012

Right now there are two exhibitions at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland. Lower East rushed through the museum/kulturhaus, we suddenly had that one extra hour to spend with Meister Paul Klee. The first exhibition, Master Klee! Teacher at the Bauhaus, “is organised in accordance with the 24 chapters of Klee’s teaching. For each chapter a selection

dOCUMENTA (13) – 4

September 12, 2012

We rush in to bring the last post from dOCUMENTA (13). We spend some good hours just being, looking, listening and exploring this very cool project: 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House: (text from the documenta webpage) “In collaboration with a team of development workers-in-training from Chicago and from Kassel, Theaster Gates is restoring and

dOCUMENTA (13) – 3

September 10, 2012

It’s closing time. dOCUMENTA (13) are closing the doors for the exhibition in Kassel, Germany on September 16. Be there – or you will have to wait until 2017 for the next documenta. If you manage to go there this week, you just HAVE TO see the William Kentridge installation ‘The Refusal of Time’. Five

Border Crossing – again

August 25, 2012

Danish newspaper Politiken just gave a fantastic review of the Border Crossing at Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark – five hearts out of six. Once again we suggest you to check the thematic exhibition that touches on contemporary migration issues in films and videos by some of the world’s foremost visual artists/film and video directors out, exhibition

dOCUMENTA (13) – 2

August 23, 2012

Second post from Lower East’s Documenta (13). Study for Strings, a atmospheric sound installation by the artist Susan Philipsz, based on Pavel Haas’ Study for Strings from 1943. At the end of platform 13 at the former Hauptbahnhof, which is today only in marginal use, we listened quietly to the artist’s work mixing up with the railway noise

dOCUMENTA (13) – 1

August 22, 2012

There’s a big thing going around these days: The dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition in Kassel, Germany. From mid-June until mid-September, 100 days to be precise. Lower East went there and we were really impressed, almost blown away. Art all over Kassel! We managed to see maybe one-tenth of the exhibitions, most likely less. We had some