Lower East

it’s the blog

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.

it’s a new website

New website for the Hempel Glass Museum

May 4, 2015

New & fresh website for the Danish Hempel Glass Museum. Up and running now! The museum show right now their 50th year jubilee exhibition “Colours“ – go and see it for yourself, the exhibition will be on show until 30th September this year. “The exhibition presents 16 artists of 11 nationalities and gives you an insight of modern glass

it’s a book

DG15 – book design for Glasmuseet Ebeltoft

April 22, 2015

Lower East designed the book for the exhibition “DG15 – 40 Years of Contemporary Glass in Denmark”. The museum wanted the book to mirror the exhibition idea – to both tell the story about Danish glass during the last 40 years and to show the direction of Danish glass today through a varied combination of text,

Sometimes you do get a second chance!

April 10, 2015

If you want to be a KaosPilot in Switzerland, you actually still have a chance to apply. They have extended their application deadline, and welcome you to send in your application as soon as possible or latest until April 15th, 2015. Read about the school and the surrounding environment in this damn fine newspaper (by the way designed

Danish glass

April 7, 2015

Glasmuseet Ebeltoft are showing “DG15 – 40 years of contemporary glass in Denmark” – an exhibition, which document and show the development of Danish glass over the past 40 years as well as the current trends and the direction of glass today. Lower East did the graphic design of the book as well as the logo for

what’s new?

March 19, 2015

what’s new from innovationsdorf bern, from kaospilots switzerland, from changels, from new business and bits and pieces from urban safari berlin, quiet days and lower east. We did the design of this fine newspaper, 32 pages, filled with thoughts, questions, information, pictures… You can check out and read the entire newspaper on this link to

Posters for KaosPilots Switzerland

March 12, 2015

Voila! A new series of posters for the KaosPilots Switzerland. Design by Lower East and very fine photos by Rahel Krabichler. With short text portraits of students from the school, an insight in their motivations and reasons to attend the three year education and information on the school. And a reminder that deadline for application for the new team

Supalife Kiosk

March 2, 2015

Up there in Raumerstrasse in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, you find a damn fine kiosk, the Supalife Kiosk. An inspiring gallery filled with cool screen prints, graphic art and illustrations. You find a delicate selection of books too, and you can attend beginners workshops in screen printing, woodcut printing and a lot more (if you ask). The kiosk is the base for

The Intern speaking – How to promote Lower East Lab

February 27, 2015

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working with the question – how to promote Lower East Lab? What can we do right here and now? What will need time to grow and what would happen if we had no limitations and could do whatever we wanted? Can we do a big billboard

Follow your dreams

February 24, 2015

Ever dreamt about becoming a KaosPilot? Now could be the time! There is a kaospilot school in Denmark and one in Switzerland. They will be forming new teams very soon. Application deadline in Denmark is already on March 2nd, and in Switzerland the date is March 18th. Open Doors in Bern, Switzerland on March 13th. And an

A pixi book for grown ups about Frederikskirken in Vonsild, Denmark

February 13, 2015

                      Lower East had the pleasure of designing a small book (in Danish) about the beautiful church in Vonsild near Kolding called Frederikskirken. The church was inaugurated in 1824. The architect was the famous C.F. Hansen who was also the architect behind the great Vor

Ta’ fat om dansen

January 19, 2015

A new, very interesting and quite huge dance project has just started in Denmark; Ta’ fat om dansen (“Grasp the dance“). Ta’ fat om dansen is a three-year nationwide dance project that offers inspiring and life giving dance activities for all. The project will reach out to thousands of people across Denmark and is the largest dance

New website KULTURERHVERV

December 1, 2014

We just finished this little beauty – a new website for the organization Kulturerhverv (culture-business). We designed the visual identity too. Check it out (it’s in danish – but you’ll get it, it’s about creativity, about creating value, about business and culture working together, and stuff). You can apply for membership too – good events

Aarhus Filmfestival 2014

November 10, 2014

From November 11th to November 16th the yearly Aarhus Filmfestival will take place. Over 6 days the filmfestival will be screening a great amount of international shorts and documentaries. Check the program at the festival’s webpage – good stuff is happening in Aarhus, Denmark. Among other stuff Lower East designed the poster for the event. Poster Aarhus

Furniture for the people

November 5, 2014

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

European Ceramic Context 2014 Bornholm

September 17, 2014

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 –

new bauhaus posters

September 9, 2014

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.

European Ceramic Context 2014

August 14, 2014

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

Paul Rand 100

August 13, 2014

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

Det Grafiske Værksted / The Print Workshop

August 4, 2014

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

Camillo’s Kitchen

May 5, 2014

“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 –