Very, very cool jazz album covers. Can’t remember what I was looking for. But fell into a trap filled up with jazz album covers from the 50ties and 60ties. So cool, so simple, so well designed. From what I found, here is a small selection, where you almost can hear the music by looking at

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If somehow you still are in Odense, Denmark, or if you find your way to the hometown of H.C. Andersen before August 26 you must go and see the exhibition ‘Out and Look’ with hundreds of pictures by the excellent danish photographer Viggo Rivad at Museet for Fotokunst at Brandts. At the day Lower East checked out

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

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

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

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 a kid I just loved cars, had hundreds of Matchbox cars, which I played with all day long. On the Sunday car trip with my parents and my elder siblings, I knew the names and models of almost all the cars we passed. Had my clear favourites. Trying to look back maybe design was

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

“You can never hold back spring Even though you’ve lost your way The world keeps dreaming of spring“ as Tom Waits sings. Spring is coming! As always. But even more desired every year. Along with the usual small signs (birds appears, the eranthis emerge from the soil, the sun shines … occasionally) the Good Old Kawasaki shoe

Don’t hesitate! Next time u are short of a bathtub, contact Herr Kurt Vandrey.