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

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

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

The coming KaosPilot School in Bern, Switzerland has just created this funny, energetic, half-minute trailer. Check it out. Lower East and the programmers are right now working on the new website for the school, we are all quite exited about that. Coming up during the summer. Keep you informed? Of course we will! Until then this

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

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

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

Two new & fresh Lower East Note Cards. Todays theme seems to be flowers. As soon as we reach the number of 12, the production of the cards will start. Stay tuned. See the previous cards: here & here

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

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

This weekend Lower East attended our very first Greenland film festival ever; Greenland Eyes (in Berlin). One of the screened films was directed by our good friend Niels Bjørn, the main reason why we found way to such a small niche festival. The film, Greenland Year Zero, was a poetic and interesting documentary on Greenland facing some of its

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

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 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

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

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