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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.

Urban Safari Berlin April 2013

February 21, 2013

Come join the Urban Safari in April! Berlin is a wonderful and 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 funny & crazy some ideas can be

Caribbean typography

February 20, 2013

Lower East travelling the British Virgin Islands. As we were trying to get hold of (and in contact with) a very famous graphic designer at the islands, we spotted this cool place with a lot of cool typography. The moon wasn’t full and the famous guy managed to escape…

Michael Kvium’s real monsters

February 5, 2013

Lower East are back from a great opening of artist Michael Kvium’s real monsters exhibition at Kunsten in Aalborg. We were honoured to be asked to do all the graphic stuff for the exhibition. We had a fruitful cooperation during the whole process with the staff from Kunsten. As we arrived to the opening on

Danish artist Michael Kvium at Kunsten

January 22, 2013

On Saturday Februar 2nd, the arts museum KUNSTEN in Aalborg, Denmark, will open the real monsters. michael kvium exhibition. Lower East have designed the catalogue to the exhibition, showing 30 recent works by the artist. “Central to the works is the depiction of human figures. In these pictures Michael Kvium (b.1955) grapples with religion, politics

New website for The KaosPilots Switzerland

January 21, 2013

Now online! The KaosPilots Switzerland started up in October. Now the brand new website is up’n’running. Hope you will check it out. The good people at the school just have started searching for students for Team 2. Maybe you have what it takes? Maybe you know someone who has? Lower East have designed the website.

Urban Safari Berlin 2013

December 31, 2012

Why not give yourself a New Year present? 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 funny & crazy some ideas can be –

The Syndicate

December 16, 2012

The Syndicate is a little wine company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. As one of the Lower East‘ers is one of the founders behind The Syndicate, It was of course natural that Lower East (who else should have done that?) designed the visual identity for the project. Quick, cheap, functional & simple. Orange, black and white – sometimes

Urban Safari Berlin

November 9, 2012

In the soon coming November days 22 and 23 Lower East are the hosts of a Urban Safari in Berlin. We have two to three seats left, so if you are a quick mover, join us for this adventure. Maybe you can even get a reduced price 😉 Lower East – in co-opreation with changels – invite you

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

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

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

Good Fucking Design Advice

August 6, 2012

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

Grand Boucle, Berlin

July 25, 2012

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

More Dieter Rams

July 20, 2012

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

“Design should not dominate things“

July 18, 2012

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.

Searching for Heaven?

July 16, 2012

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

A cool wallpaper

June 30, 2012

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

The young talents from Designskolen Kolding

June 28, 2012

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

Opening Border Crossing

June 20, 2012

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