Two new Lower East Note Cards. A production still in it’s early stage. The amount of cards is slowly growing, some day soon we will reach to the point of printing time … Back to work. Check earlier blog post with Note Cards here

Lower East just created these colourful flyers & labels & stuff for the opening party at ‘Dansens Dag’ (International Dance Day) in Copenhagen. The opening party are taking place on April 28, while the official ‘Dansens Dag’ is the day after April 29. If in Copenhagen, go there, celebrate and dance! Check out the programme

Great poster! Maybe one should take a culture trip to Great Britain? Maybe checking out Turner at National Gallery or Hirst at Tate Modern. Take a look at Visit Britain

Lower East are in Copenhagen these weeks, teaching at Borups Højskole (folk high school). The students at the Next Step, are working on application tasks for the design & architecht schools, for the Mediehøjskole in Copenhagen and for several other creative schools in Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm. Tough and demanding times for the ambitious students, some

Lower East is in Kolding, Jutland. We had a great experience at the old castle Koldinghus, which is an art space showing art and design exhibitions. We saw the beautiful exhibition  “The PH-lamp – the light design of Poul Henningsen”. The design of the exhibition was a great combination of big photostats of rooms and

Lower East dedicated this weekend to join Berlin’s celebration of Gerhard Richters 80th birthday. Together with our good friend Claus Lembourn we first viewed the huge retrospective exhibition at Neues Nationalgalerie “Gerhard Richter: Panorama”. It was breathtaking. We were thrilled by the way the exhibition was curated and designed and the museum – drawn by

Lower East are these days working with the coming KaosPilot school in Bern, Switzerland. We joined a very inspiring three day workshop in Creative Leadership there, lead by David Stockholm and Paul Natorp from the KaosPilots in Aarhus, Denmark. All the hours we found around that and the entire thursday we used to continue the work on

Yesterday Helle visited Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin and met one of the founders and directors of the center, Perla Montelongo, who shared thoughts and experiences – of starting up the center, about working in Berlin, about Berlin’s art scene, about how a dinner can be a great start of an art collaboration

Spring is here, sun is shining, winter’s clouds disappearing. New and fresh ideas coming up. Take a quick glance at a few of the new Lower East Note Cards. A production in it’s early stage. The cards is to be produced this spring. Note Cards? As the name says… Of course it can be used

Lower East are having guests visiting from Denmark, Susanne Jøker Johnsen, Director of the European Glass Context 2012 and Dagmar Brendstrup, Executive Director of Glasmuseet Ebeltoft. Together with Glass Artist Ann Wolff we visited the great people at the new glass studio Berlin Glas, Lea, Tim and Phillip. Thank you for sharing your experiences with

Friday night we went to the opening of “Kopf oder Zahl”, the glass artist Ann Wolff’s solo exhibition at Galerie Seitz, Berlin. It was a beautiful exhibition. Ann has worked with art for about 50 years and is ongoing experimenting with material and expression. She showed new works in glass and concrete together with some

As a kid I just loved cars, had hundreds of Matchbox cars, which I played with all day long. On the Sunday car trip with my parents and my elder siblings, I knew the names and models of almost all the cars we passed. Had my clear favourites. Trying to look back maybe design was

As passionate graphic designers we are always talking about the graphic design that surrounds us in our everyday life. A work related condition. Going shopping for dinner can be a graphic adventure or a disaster. What are good graphics. Do they communicate the product in the best way. Why do we buy the stuff. Is

Lower East paid visit to the corny museum, Museum der Dinge (Museum of Things) in Berlin, the other day. Text from their webpage: “Since summer 2007 the museum shows a significant part of its large and rarely exhibited collection of design and everyday culture of the 20th century in an “Open Storage” presentation. On the one

“You can never hold back spring Even though you’ve lost your way The world keeps dreaming of spring“ as Tom Waits sings. Spring is coming! As always. But even more desired every year. Along with the usual small signs (birds appears, the eranthis emerge from the soil, the sun shines … occasionally) the Good Old Kawasaki shoe

Hurry! Hurry! Deadline for applying to the KaosPilot school in Bern, Switzerland is March 14. Lower East developed and designed the graphic campaign material to catch the right students for the education. The school will start up October 2012. More info www.kaospilots.ch

At the wonderful Borups Højskole, a folk high school in Copenhagen, Lower East teaches regularly. This spring at the ‘Next Step’, a pre-qualification class where the students can prepare for and maybe apply to educations such as design schools and architecture schools. In a late February week Jørgen worked with the students in the classic graphic design

Don’t hesitate! Next time u are short of a bathtub, contact Herr Kurt Vandrey.

We went to visit the Britz housing area in Neukölln, Berlin. Architects Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner. Great architecture and a nice place to live we presume. We are not quite sure how many of the buildings are designed by Taut and Wagner, but take a look at the great colours, rythms…..we like it!

Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is a wonderful place, where two graphic designers have made a home for old letters, which have ‘gone out of business’ – NICE! Visit the Buchstaben Museum website