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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.

Last Monsters

April 19, 2013

Sunday is the last day with Michael Kvium’s Real Monsters at Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark. Don’t miss this opportunity! Go there if you have the chance. link to the museums website 

Urban Safari Berlin May 2013

April 11, 2013

Come join the Urban Safari in May! Berlin is a wonderful and vibrant metropole, a melting pot of young entrepreneurs and fresh ­ideas, funky design and inspiring inviting atmospheres. A perfect spot to be diving into, make you smile, think of old and new ideas, wonder about how funny & crazy some ideas can be

Are you ready for a change?

April 8, 2013

The KaosPilots Switzerland are looking for courageous new KaosPilots. Maybe it’s your time now to apply for one of the most inspiring leadership educations in the world? Application deadline by April 19th, 2013 Check it out yourself. Go to the informative and beautifully designed website 😉

Real Monsters

April 1, 2013

Still three weeks with Michael Kvium’s Real Monsters at Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark. The exhibition runs until April 21 and presents the recent works by the artist. Really cool work from Kvium! And be aware. Your view on your fellow citizens and what you see in the mirror will change for ever. While there, don’t miss the brand

Still a few spots left – join the Urban Safari Berlin

March 20, 2013

Come join the Urban Safari in April! We invite you on an intense 2day safari in Berlin with focus on inspiring business, creative spaces, cool art venues and sparkling start-ups. We have put together an ­inspiring journey for you to get a powerful bouquet of the colorful flower power of this city. This Urban Safari is

Glasmuseet Ebeltoft: Ocean

March 20, 2013

On this Saturday March 23 Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark opens the exhibition OCEAN. The museum “… sets the scene for a unique experience, with an extensive exhibition and coherent programme of events“. The exhibition runs until November 3, there should be plenty of time to visit the beautiful museum. Lower East are the designers behind the

Not just for fun!

March 19, 2013

Guys! We didn’t just design this poster for the fun of it! Application deadline for the KaosPilots Switzerland is Wednesday March 20 at 12.00 If you are able to collect all the information on the poster, you might have a chance to join their Team 2, starting September this year 😉 Check it out at

KaosPilots Switzerland

March 4, 2013

The KaosPilots Switzerland are now looking for students for their Team 2. Two info events is going on this week. In Bern on Wednesday March 6 and even in Oslo, Norway, info event Saturday March 9. If you are interested in hearing more about the school, if you are thinking about applying for the education, why

Today’s Picture February 2013

February 25, 2013

Lower East are still searching for Today’s Picture. Trying to capture the day in one picture. Here we show the pictures from February – from Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark via Berlin, Germany to Tortola, British Virgin Islands. Some miles… We are showing the coolest one, or the most beautiful one, or the one that tells the

Urban Safari Berlin April 2013

February 21, 2013

Come join the Urban Safari in April! Berlin is a wonderful and vibrant metropole, a melting pot of young entrepreneurs and fresh ­ideas, funky design and inspiring inviting atmospheres. A perfect spot to be diving into, make you smile, think of old and new ideas, wonder about how funny & crazy some ideas can be

Michael Kvium at Kunsten

February 1, 2013

Lower East are heading for the opening this afternoon of Real Monsters. Michael Kvium at KUNSTEN – Museum of Modern Art Aalborg. We have designed the catalogue and poster for the exhibition. We are happy about it, looking forward to the respons from the artist and the museum. “They emerge out there in the murky twilight.

Today’s Picture from January 2013

January 29, 2013

Lower East continues the search of Today’s Picture. Here are the pictures from an ice cold January in Denmark and in Germany. We are still showing the coolest one, or the most beautiful one, or the one that tells the best story of the day. All of them being carefully treated and maybe improved in

Today’s Pic November & December

January 24, 2013

A collection of Lower East’ “Today’s Picture“ from the periode mid November to end of December 2012. This time photos from Berlin, Germany, from Aarhus, Denmark and from Bern, Switzerland. We are still showing the coolest one, or the most beautiful one, or the one that tells the best story of the day. All of them

Danish artist Michael Kvium at Kunsten

January 22, 2013

On Saturday Februar 2nd, the arts museum KUNSTEN in Aalborg, Denmark, will open the real monsters. michael kvium exhibition. Lower East have designed the catalogue to the exhibition, showing 30 recent works by the artist. “Central to the works is the depiction of human figures. In these pictures Michael Kvium (b.1955) grapples with religion, politics

New website for The KaosPilots Switzerland

January 21, 2013

Now online! The KaosPilots Switzerland started up in October. Now the brand new website is up’n’running. Hope you will check it out. The good people at the school just have started searching for students for Team 2. Maybe you have what it takes? Maybe you know someone who has? Lower East have designed the website.

How to become a KaosPilot

January 14, 2013

The KaosPilots Switzerland are looking for 35 changemakers, responsible entrepreneurs, peacemakers & bridgebuilders. Women & men with a splash of tribal mind, compassion & awareness – willing to take a risk, search for inner and outer balance and with a sense of the real world. And last, but not least playful – and humour guys. Humour!

Urban Safari Berlin 2013

December 31, 2012

Why not give yourself a New Year present? Berlin is a vibrant metropole, a melting pot of young entrepreneurs and fresh ­ideas, funky design and inspiring inviting atmospheres. A perfect spot to be diving into, make you smile, think of old and new ideas, wonder about how funny & crazy some ideas can be –

Take a walk on the slow side

December 28, 2012

One of the very best places in Berlin to seek for a peaceful hour. The Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof in Kreuzberg. A slow walk here, mostly with a camera in hand, often give us a new way of seeing things, fresh ideas on current issues & topics, or maybe new and inspiring things just pop up in our minds

The Syndicate

December 16, 2012

The Syndicate is a little wine company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. As one of the Lower East‘ers is one of the founders behind The Syndicate, It was of course natural that Lower East (who else should have done that?) designed the visual identity for the project. Quick, cheap, functional & simple. Orange, black and white – sometimes

Urban Safari Berlin

November 27, 2012

In the beautiful November days 22 and 23 Lower East – in cooperation with changels – were the hosts of the first Urban Safari Berlin. We had a wonderful and intense 2day safari on bikes in the urban Berlin jungle – among many other places we visited co-working spaces as Wostel, The Wye & betahaus, and had a guided tour at the