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Posters for KVINFO

The photo exhibition “Peace & Togetherness” draws attention to the fact that we also in Denmark live with neighbors, colleagues and friends who are deeply and personally affected by the current conflicts. At the same time, it emphasizes the global need to be able to live together and in peace, regardless of one’s nationality, ethnicity, religion or gender.

The six women with roots in Sudan, Ukraine, Russia, Israel and Palestine whom we meet in the exhibition all have war and conflict close to their lives due to their background in the conflict-affected areas.

Photographer Stine Heilmann and KVINFO are behind the photo exhibition.

Lower East has designed posters, postcards and giant photo prints for the exhibition, which premiered on the International Women’s Day 2024, where it was on display in Vega, Copenhagen throughout KVINFO’s 8 March event.

talks on creative placemaking

Back in September ’22 we had this amazing event: Nordic Talks on Creative Placemaking

Why are art & culture so integral to the development of thriving, attractive areas?

An afternoon in Berlin of art and discussion, where Creative Placemaking takes center stage. Two curated talks in which we explored the ups & downs of utilising both design and business in the development of urban areas that nurture creativity.

The talks took place in our Lower East Lab Berlin, a creative co-working space that accommodates community dinners, a design studio, and much more.

Featuring experts and innovators from C.F. Møller Architects, Henning Larsen, Hines Real Estate, Sigurd Larsen Design, OS Arkitekter, Ramboll, Bak, and more,

‘Nordic Talks on Creative Placemaking’ were presented by NordicLA in collaboration with VOLCANO, Lower East Lab and the Danish Embassy in Berlin.

Nordic Talks in the lower east lab, September 2022

Nordic Talks in the lower east lab, September 2022

Nordic Talks in the lower east lab, September 2022

Nordic Talks in the lower east lab, September 2022

And then a glass of wine…

Kvinfo

New visual identity and new website for Kvinfo, Denmark.

In the summer & autumn of 2021 we worked on a wonderful task, to develop a new visual identity and website for Kvinfo. In a rewarding, funny, inspiring and trustful cooperation with the leaders and communication people from Kvinfo, our job felt just natural and easy.

KVINFO is Denmark’s knowledge center for gender and equality. KVINFO works at the crossroads between knowledge, politics and practice. They create an overview research and knowledge on the field and bring this knowledge into play broadly to decision-makers, media, companies, organizations and the public in Denmark and internationally.

They interpreter knowledge into change by developing tools and solutions to specific challenges related to gender. The letters in KVINFO stand for: gender, knowledge, information and research.

End of December 2021 we launched the website – Kvinfo worked hard & succesful with the content, we designed and our web wizard Rico Tijsen did the programming of the site. Illustrations/collages for the website were created by designer Juliana Toro, our very creative and skilled play- & soulmate.

Over the next period the new visual identity will be folded out; the logo, the colors, the fonts, the icons and all that jazz.

Check out the website on this link.

 

Website for ‘Projekt Udenfor’

Back in September we launched this fine website for this fine client of ours; ‘Projekt udenfor’ – an organization, that work to improve the conditions for society’s absolutely excluded. They combine outreach street work with collecting and disseminating knowledge about homelessness.

They work mainly in Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark – and also internationally in a worldwide network.

As part of ‘Project udenfor’s’ work to prevent exclusion from homelessness and ensure better conditions for people who have already been excluded, the organization is engaged in several international activities. Their international work aims partly to exchange experiences, methods and knowledge across national borders and partly to seek political influence at European level.

Our task was to design a new website, that was “good-looking, trustworthy, beautiful, communicating, wise and ‘wow!’“ – that was what we were striving for. We also included graphic illustrations and ‘poetic’ photos from Copenhagen in our work.

Again a very meaningful job, thanks to the organization for a fantastic co-work and co-creation!

Check out the site on this link – so far only in the Danish.

 

International Women’s Day

For Kvinfo, Denmark we did the graphic work for the celebration of March 8th 2021. This year’s celebration is an online event (due to the Covid-19 restrictions) live on zoom and facebook.

International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.

KVINFO is the Danish centre for gender, gender equality and diversity. KVINFO is the hub for research, knowledge and information related to the current dialogue on gender, equality and equal opportunities; nationally as well as internationally.

Join the celebration – and keep up the good work for equal rights!
Live-streaming on Facebook or Zoom via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87686290307

Here some examples of the graphic work:

Walking in the Void

For Glasmuseet Ebeltoft we designed the book for the exhibition Walking in the Void. The artists behind the exhibition, the American-Swiss couple Philip Baldwin & Monica Guggisberg, rank among the elite of contemporary artists working in glass. Dougald Hine, writer & cofounder of “a school called HOME” contributed to the book with an essay in twelve chapters. Exhibition photos by Christoph Lehmann. Read more about the exhibition and see more pictures here

Chinese Whispers

We at Lower East have done the design for the exhibition “Chineses Whispers“ at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark. We have been working on the idea of building an exhibition landscape with transport boxes – that supports the exhibition’s concept of the journey of stories from one country to another. The artworks are on display at the transport boxes, which emphasize in a raw and simple way that the works and stories have traveled throughout the world to reach Ebeltoft.

On the wall we have painted a huge world map stating with red dots where the artists live and work. We really liked the work, the cooperation with the museum, and are very satisfied with the result. If you want to see the exhibition it runs until March 2020.

CHINESE WHISPERS. Erin Dickson

Inspired by the childhood game of the same name, Chinese Whispers is a project initiated by British artist Erin Dickson, which explores issues on national identity across borders and continents involving 15 international artists working with glass.

For centuries, glassmakers have worked in glass factories or have been in glass production far from their homes, and taken their knowledge and their craft from one region to another or from country to country. Thus, glass art and the glass society are characteristically transnational. With the transformation of a classic Venetian vessel, Erin Dickson illustrates this exchange between glassmakers across the globe. At the same time, she comments on the global challenges of our time by exposing the misinterpretations, which undeniably result from differences in language and culture.

The exhibition is part of the project ‘From Where We Stand’ – a collaboration between seven Danish art museums on national identity.

Artists represented in the exhibition: Silvano Signoretto (Italy), James Devereux (Great Britain), Hyunsung Cho (Chorea), Sibusiso Mhlanga (Swaziland), Einar & Jamex de la Torre (Mexico), Rasmus Nossbring (Sweden), Zuheir Alkazzaz (Syria/The Netherlands), Mia Lerssi (Denmark), Jing Li (China), Nadège Desgenétez (France/Australia), Petr & Ondrej Novotny (Czech Republic), Kelly O’Dell (USA), Christina Hellevik & Leif Møller Nielsen (Denmark), Bevan Taka (Maori/Sweden), James Maskrey (Great Britain).

 

CHINESE WHISPERS FOR GLASS PRACTITIONERS. 15 artists working with glass are involved in Erin ­Dickson’s Chinese Whispers, which started in Italy, where Erin Dickson saw a classic Venetian vessel at the Murano Glass Museum in 2015. Erin Dickson asked the Italian glassblower Silvano ­Signoretto to recreate the vessel in black glass from a photo, and then describe his working process with 100 words. Using Google Translate, his description was then translated from Italian to the native language of the next artist in line. From this auto generated translation, the next artist would then create his or her version of the vessel and so on. The results of this ‘whispering game’ for glass ­practitioners are 15 variations of the original vessel, ­interpreted and recreated by artists across the globe.

 

CHINESE WHISPERS. The expression Chinese Whispers is commonly used in many English speaking countries around the world as the name of a very simple game. A person whispers a sentence into the ear of the person sitting next to him or her, and the next person passes the whisper on to the person next to him or her and so on until the last person says the sentence out loud. By now the initial sentence will be totally changed beyond recognition.

Kurt Trampedach

3 new posters and 3 new postcards designed by Lower East for Kunsten. Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg – for the current exhibition about the danish artist Kurt Trampedach – Dark Encounters.

About the artist and the exhibition – from the museums website;
“When it comes to modern Danish art, Kurt Trampedach (1943-2013) is now considered something of a legend. Throughout his career he went his own way, with no regard for conventions or contemporary taste. With his original artistic language he made an early breakthrough at the start 1960s and quickly achieved international success.

The exhibition features an extensive selection of the artist’s most important works from the 1960s and 1970s, including self-portraits, sculptures and tableaux loaned from both Danish museums and private collectors.“

The exhibition will be on show until January 6th 2019.

 

Letter Museum Berlin / Buchstabenmuseum Berlin

Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is a wonderful place. Out of love and passion for typography two graphic designers began to collect old letters from company facades. They created a “retirement home“ for the letters “gone out of business”. It is such a great idea. The letters are kept for the future and you find all kinds of documentation of where the letters came from etc. If you have interest in typography, studying graphic design etc., you should definately go and visit this place. It is a totally private initiative, so by visiting the museum you support the conservation and documentation of all these beautiful letters.
More info at the museum website and on the facebook page

Olafur Eliasson at Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark

A triangular sky and lava stones at KUNSTEN.

Lower East finished during the hot July the design and production of the catalogue for the Olafur Eliasson exhbition at the arts museum KUNSTEN in Aalborg, Denmark.

Olafur Eliasson’s work ‘Den trekantede himmel’ (‘The triangular sky’), has been specially created for the Museum’s  sculpture park. Until end of August you can experience two other Eliasson works at the museum : “Lava floor”; Icelandic lava stone, all over the gallery floor – and “Jokla Series“.

Link to the museums website.

The cool photos in the catalogue is taken by Anders Sune Berg.