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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.

Border Crossing

June 11, 2012

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

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

June 6, 2012

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

Next step Bauhaus

May 8, 2012

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

Special Monday Offer

April 30, 2012

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

The Young Ones

April 27, 2012

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

New Lower East Note Cards

April 24, 2012

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

The PH-lamp – the light design of Poul Henningsen

April 1, 2012

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