The full story about the danish “FDB Møbler“ (translated: Coop Furniture) – from the early start in 1942 until today, where a handful of the furniture classics has been put into production again. The book is written (in danish) by professor at Copenhagen Business School and professor of modern Danish history, Per H. Hansen. We

Wonderful exhibition at the Danish Embassy in Berlin with Danish Design Classics. Børge Mogensen, Arne Jacobsen, Kay Bojesen & Co. Dänische Design-Klassiker. 7.-31. Oktober 2014. The exhibition is on show until October 31., 2014. More info at the Dänische Botschaft’s webpage (in Danish or in German). Or at the Nordische Botschaften page. Pictures from Lower East’

Lower East have together with Volcano Concepts organized and planned a Food Safari Berlin in October 2014. If you are happy about food, talk about food, work with food, can’t keep your fingers from the pots and pans or simply just want to dig into the lively food scene here in Berlin, check this link out. The date will be October

The European Ceramic Context 2014 on Bornholm is up and running. It will continue until 23.11.2014. Lower East just came back from the opening of the two big exhibitions and a wonderful opening party. The catalogue we designed for the event had arrived to the island and looked just as we wanted it to –

Logo love! Car logo love! And some car love… From the streets of Kreuzberg, Berlin. Attention big car companies: If you don’t find your car on the pictures below, we, in Lower East, are ready for some design/redesign of your logo and visual identity. Just call!

Lower East are happily involved in NEW BUSINESS in Switzerland; the one year training for entrepreneurs who want to grow their project ideas into sustainable and inspiring businesses. We work with changels on the program, both as designers and communicators – and as teachers and inspirators. The program started successfully up in September, next module will be in October – still a seat

The Bauhaus-Archiv Museum in Berlin just had a new corporate identity, created by the Stuttgart-based design agency L2M3. New website, new typeface, new logo – and this absolute wonderful quartet of posters; Oskar Schlemmer’s “Triadic Ballet”, Marcel Breuer’s world-famous tubular steel chair, the building of the Bauhaus-Archiv – a work by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and Marianne Brandt’s tea infuser and strainer.

Lower East designed the new website for Danish textile artist Lise Frølund. We had a very fruitful coorporation with Lise. She wished for a simple, aestetic and elegant website with good space for presenting her projects in text and pictures and a website that was easy to use. This is what we designed for her.

Lower East have together with Volcano Concepts organized and planned three Food Safari Berlin in September and October 2014. If you work with food, can’t keep your fingers from the pots and pans or simply just want to dig into the lively food scene here in Berlin, check this link out. Dates in 2014: September 11-12, September 25-26 and October 23-24.

Lower East are working on the graphic stuff for the European Ceramic Context 2014, a part of a biennial event for contemporary European Glass and Ceramics on the island of Bornholm, Denmark. It is a great event with participants from 29 European countries. Through exhibitions, workshops, master classes and lectures, European contemporary ceramics are presented

On August 15th the American art director & graphic designer Paul Rand would have turned 100 years old. Mr. Rand is (still) a very big inspiration in the design work in the Lower East Lab. He “was a pioneering figure in American graphic design. Adopting what he called a ‘problem solving’ approach to design, he

Lower East are strongly involved in NEW BUSINESS in Switzerland; a one year training for people who want to grow their project ideas into sustainable and inspiring businesses. We work with changels on the program, both as graphic designers and communicators – and as teachers/inspirators. The full program starts up in September – a new intro

Lower East have together with Volcano Concepts organized and planned three Food Safari Berlin in September and October 2014. If you work with food, can’t keep your fingers from the pots and pans or simply just want to dig into the lively food scene here in Berlin, check this offer out. Dates in 2014: September 11-12, September 25-26 and October

Quick impressions from a summer visit at the “Det Grafiske Værksted i Hjørring“ (The Print Workshop in Hjørring, Denmark). The Print Workshop is a professional and fully equipped printing studio. They have two offset lithographic presses which can print 60x80cm and 90x130cm formats respectively. In addition they have a direct press for stone, with printing dimensions

Art is in the air. In Berlin. Right now. Among many other exhibitions, right now worth traveling or leaving the sunbed for is: The fantastic “David Bowie“ exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau (until August 10th), the Berlin Biennale (until August 3th) and the Ai Weiwei, “Evidence“ also at Martin-Gropius-Bau (until July 13th). Go there if you can

In the last days of May Lower East held an Urban Safari in Berlin – a group of 17 very berlin-curious students and team-leaders from KaosPilots Switzerland, toured the streets, backyards, urban gardens and cool places of Berlin. Under our guidance we together explored the lively city for two days – most of the time on bikes. On

“Artist in Residence“. Sounds good, right? The City of Stockholm, Sweden has been so kind to give Lower East a stay in “Villa Bergshyddan“, a cosy looking house at the waterfront in Stockholm. From May 12 to May 18 we will be working very concentrated on the writing and the designing of the cookbook “Camillos Køkken –

Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is a wonderful place. Out of love and passion for typography two graphic designers began to collect old letters from company facades. They created a “retirement home“ for the letters “gone out of business”. It is such a great idea. The letters are kept for the future and you find all kinds of

A lot of people in Lower East Lab! Thursday evening March 27. the lab hosted Nordic Business Event 2014 gathering Nordic and Berlin business people and entrepreneurs with nordic background or nordic relations. Topic for the night was: Starting up in Berlin. The successful event, arranged by German Expansion, attracted more than 60 people and they seemed

A new, playful visual identity created for Innovationsdorf Bern in Switzerland. Created recently, and barely taken in use yet. The direction is clear – they have a very cool place down there, already a lot of interesting inhabitants – and now a visual identity they can play with. We wish them luck! Follow the project