Very, very cool jazz album covers. Can’t remember what I was looking for. But fell into a trap filled up with jazz album covers from the 50ties and 60ties. So cool, so simple, so well designed. From what I found, here is a small selection, where you almost can hear the music by looking at

A client and good friend just mailed this one to us. Read between the lines, he said 😉 We will immediately pass this fucking good advice on to someone else, who maybe need it on a monday like this. You can even buy it as a poster – check the website of Good Fucking Design

Graphic design, silk screen printing and cycling. What a cool combination. Lower East hopped on the bike to see the exhibition Grand Boucle; “’Grand Boucle’ is a study of racing bicycles from 1903 until 2009, presented in the form of a magazine and silk screen poster collection of vintage bicycle head badges.“ The exhibition is

Just passed by a shop full of furnitures designed by Dieter Rams (the famous german Industrial Designer from Braun AG, whom we blogged on yesterday) at Torstrasse, Berlin. (Yes, our pictures are a bit strange; the shop was closed and quite some reflections came from the large windows.) We later found out that that the

Dieter Rams’ ten principles of “good design“. Lower East find so much inspiration in the work of Industrial Designer Dieter Rams these days. Rams were for many years head of design at Braun, and parallel to that he designed furnitures for Vitsoe. He is the man behind many innovative, ever-lasting and very beautifully designed Braun products.

If you are into design, architecture, patterns, painting, writing, note books, bringing order in your desk mess, or feel the need to enrich your color palette, Modulor on Moritzplatz in Berlin is HEAVEN. You can find everything here, even things you didn’t know existed, and you didn’t know how much you needed it. Best of all, you

The coming KaosPilot School in Bern, Switzerland has just created this funny, energetic, half-minute trailer. Check it out. Lower East and the programmers are right now working on the new website for the school, we are all quite exited about that. Coming up during the summer. Keep you informed? Of course we will! Until then this

Lower East were invited to check out a new house of one of our friends. Actually it was a very old house, and a lot has to be done, before she even can think of moving in. But who cares, as long as the kitchen was decorated with this fantastic, old wallpaper, probably from the

These days, and until 8 July, the new designers from Kolding School of Design in Denmark (Designskolen Kolding) show their master’s projects. Lower East checked it out at the opening this tuesday, what a lot of fantastic projects we saw there and what an amazing lot of talent. Go check out the exhibition, it’s really

If somehow you still are in Odense, Denmark, or if you find your way to the hometown of H.C. Andersen before August 26 you must go and see the exhibition ‘Out and Look’ with hundreds of pictures by the excellent danish photographer Viggo Rivad at Museet for Fotokunst at Brandts. At the day Lower East checked out

“It is excellent video art“. This weeks art experience according to the newspaper Politiken. Maybe you should drop by Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark? Lower East is checking the exhibition “Border Crossing“ out now.

Today is the day! Today the exhibition Border Crossing will open at Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense Denmark. Lower East finished the design work on the catalogue just in time (and hopefully the printing house will keep promises and deliver latest at 4pm). The exhibition will run until September 16 2012. Here we invite you to a

On June 21 the exhibition Border Crossing will open at Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark. Lower East are right now working late hours to finish the catalogue for the exhibition. The exhibition will touch on contemporary migration issues in films and videos by some of the world’s foremost visual artists/film and video directors: Alfredo Jaar (Chile/US), Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan), Aernout

Lower East visited Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich the other day. Enjoying the exhibition “100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design“. Really cool work; high quality, simple solutions, good focus on typography and on precision. Extract from the museums website; “The view of one hundred years of graphic design shows both the diversity of current visual communication as

Two new & fresh Lower East Note Cards. Todays theme seems to be flowers. As soon as we reach the number of 12, the production of the cards will start. Stay tuned. See the previous cards: here & here

At the Bauhaus workshop at Borups Højskole Copenhagen the students were given an obstruction. They were put together in groups for about two hours and given a photo challenge. The task was to shoot their own interpretation of some of the famous photos of the Bauhaus students. Our students threw themselves into the challenge with

Last week Lower East facilitated a Bauhaus workshop at Borups Højskole Copenhagen in the Next Step class. The students were introduced to the Bauhaus movement by a presentation and a movie about the Bauhaus school. We followed in the footsteps of the famous Bauhaus designers and the Next Step students created amazing work inspired by

Very special design offer from Lower East. But only this week!

This weekend Lower East attended our very first Greenland film festival ever; Greenland Eyes (in Berlin). One of the screened films was directed by our good friend Niels Bjørn, the main reason why we found way to such a small niche festival. The film, Greenland Year Zero, was a poetic and interesting documentary on Greenland facing some of its

Today at Betahaus in Berlin we had a visit from Højer, Denmark … actually it was yesterday … anyway, a group of 23 students (at the age of around 15 years old, we think) and two teachers from Hoejer Design Efterskole, passed by to hear about the work of Lower East and the life of