For a very few days, actually just until Sunday August 16th, the exhibition Genesis by Sebastião Salgado is on show at C/O-Berlin in Amerika Haus. Lower East visited the fantastic, stunning, thoughtful – and totally overwhelming photo exhibition. From the C/O-Berlin webpage: Genesis is a visual homage to the blue planet. In opulent black-and-white photographs, the photographer Sebastião

Diamonds are blue. The German bike company Diamant created their first bike in 1895. This blue beauty, probably from the late eighties, we found in Kreuzberg, Berlin. It had a short and good life in Lower East Lab (also as a photo model) before if continued it’s travel to happy new owners in Denmark.  

Passed this old gas station and these old garages in a backyard in Muskauer Strasse, Berlin Kreuzberg. Very cool place.                  

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

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

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

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

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

Do you want to explore inspiring spaces and meet interesting people? Then Urban Safari Berlin is the thing! Berlin is a vibrant metropole! The city is right now a melting pot of start-ups, young entrepreneurs, fresh ideas, inspiring atmospheres, cool exhibition venues, an innovative food scene and just amazing corners. A perfect spot to explore,

“Design and architecture became exuberant, colourful, sexy, light-hearted and fluent“. Lower East just had to check out this very, very interesting and inspiring exhibition at the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin today! HAUS-RUCKER-CO
 – ARCHITECTURAL UTOPIA RELOADED “The late 1960s witnessed an extraordinary sense of awakening and optimism. In the wake of the first space programmes an

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

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 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.

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 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