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28. February 2018
Power & Potential at DesignTalks 2018
Kicking off DesignMarch is the opening event DesignTalks! This day is filled with inspirational talks given by leading international creatives and professionals, illustrating the power and potential of design. DesignTalks strives to provide professionals of all fields with inspiration for collaboration and problem solving.
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28. February 2018
Party like it’s your birthday at DesignMarch!
DesignMarch is Iceland’s largest, and most important, design festival. This year marks the festival’s 10th birthday of transforming the capital city into one big design venue. The events of the festival are organized by Icelandic designers and architects, with an increasing number of foreign participants.
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28. February 2018
Have you met HA?
The sixth issue of HA is hot off the presses and sure to please Icelandic design and architecture enthusiasts. This time around, the magazine contains nearly 140 pages of interesting content — which, when it comes to the Icelandic design scene, there’s definitely more than enough of.
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07. February 2018
Hugarflug February 8th - 9th 2018
Hugarflug, yearly artistic and design research conference of IAA, now takes place for the seventh time with over 50 artists, designer and scholars participating with different means.
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22. December 2017
Merry Christmas, gleðileg jól!
Thank you for this year, we wish you all the best for 2018. Happy holidays!
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09. November 2017
The Icelandic Design Awards 2017
The fourth Icelandic Design Award ceremony will take place in Iðnó on November 9.
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27. October 2017
Do you have an exciting product / art / music you want to sell?
PopUp Verzlun is now open for applications for the yearly X-Mas designersmarket. The market will take place in Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhús Saturday the 9th of dec. 2017.
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14. July 2017
HA Issue No. 5 is out now!
The fifth issue of HA magazine on Icelandic design and architecture is out now.
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13. July 2017
Grand opening of YPSILON - a brand new concept store
Ypsilon, a brand new concept store opens it’s doors for the first time in downtown Reykjavík, Thursday, 13 July at 17h00.
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10. July 2017
Arnar Már Jónsson on Reykjavik Culture Night
The London based fashion designer will display his menswear collection which has been featured in Vogue, ID & Hero Magazine and other publications.
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31. May 2017
Exhibiton | THE CITY BEING
Thursday, May 25th at 5 p.m is the opening of the exhibition THE CITY BEING in the Nordic House.
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08. May 2017
The Iceland Academy of the Arts Graduation Exhibition
Students from the Iceland Academy of the Arts exhibit their final BA projects at Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhús from May 13 until May 10.
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08. May 2017
Blue Lagoon Donates an Icelandic Ceramic Collection to the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Art
Blue Lagoon recently donated an Icelandic ceramic collection to the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Art. Comprised of a diverse array of ceramic art, the collection represents the work of Icelandic artists, as well as international artists who worked in Iceland.
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12. March 2017
Exhibition | Roundabout Baltic PLUS Iceland
Design with a sea view. A visual tale of nature and design intersections. Exhibition of contemporary design from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden – and Iceland.
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04. March 2017
Exhibition | Case Studies, Product Design into the 21st Century
Exhibition opening in Reykjavík Art Museum – Kjarvalsstaðir, Saturday, 4 March at 16h00.
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14. December 2016
HA 04 is out!
In the fourth issue of HA we feel nostalgic, make the invisible tangible and prepare for the fourth industrial revolution. What happened to the clothing brand Don Cano? How does the winning proposal for Kársnes look? Is Iceland ready for automative revolution?
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13. December 2016
DesignMarch 2017 registration is now open
Register now to participate in DesignMarch, held on March 23-26, 2017. The deadline for registrations is on January 17.
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13. December 2016
Christmas calendar
Ho, ho, ho – it's Christmas time, and we celebrate with our annual Christmas Calendar.
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13. December 2016
Icelandic Design Fund allocates 19.5 million ISK to designers
The Icelandic Design Fund received 68 applications for some 200 million ISK, of which 16 projects received a combined 18 million ISK in grants. In addition, the Fund allocated 15 travel grants.
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02. November 2016
Gudmundur Ludvik presents Máni in Cologne
Icelandic-danish designers Gudumundur Ludvik and Hee Welling designed Mani collection for Area Declic. Mani will be presented for the first time in Cologne at Orgatec Exhibition on October 25-29.
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02. November 2016
The Iceland Academy of the Arts exhibits at Dutch Design Week
Iceland Academy of the Arts shows ‘No Waste’ at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven on October 22-30.
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03. October 2016
The Icelandic Design Award 2016 Shortlist
The Icelandic Design Awards will be handed out for the third time in October 6th, in Safnahúsið, Hverfisgötu 15, at 18:00. Here are the four projects shortlisted for this year's Icelandic Design Award, chosen by our Jury.
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30. September 2016
Designer of Adidas shoes made of recycled plastic to speak at DesignMarch
We are happy to announce that Alexander Taylor will speak at DesignTalks 2017.
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25. August 2016
Exhibition | Experiment - Clay and more opens in Hafnarborg
Friday, August 26th at 8 p.m. two exhibitions will be opened in Hafnarborg. This year‘s fall exhibition, Experiment - Clay and more, in the museum's main gallery and in Hafnarborg's Sverrir's gallery an exhibition by swedish designer Jenny Nordberg, 3 - 5 Seconds - Rapid, Handmade Production where Nordberg will do a performance.
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24. August 2016
Icelandic Design at Helsinki Design Week
Gardar Eyjolfsson partakes in Design Diplomacy in the Embassy of Iceland in Helsinki on September 7, and Katrin Olina speaks at Showroom, Habitare. Her Primitiva collection will also be available at Helsinki’s newly opened design store TRE.
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24. August 2016
We have moved! – New house for Icelandic design in the heart of Reykjavik
Iceland Design Centre takes over new headquarters on Aðalstræti 2 in the heart of Kvosin, the oldest part of downtown Reykjavik.
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23. August 2016
Exhibition | Century of the Child at the Nordic House
The Nordic House exhibits Century of the Child: Nordic design for children from 1900 to today. Running until 27.2.2017, the exhibition showcases Nordic design for children from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
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09. July 2016
NEW NORDIC. FASHION. FOOD. DESIGN. at Nordic Embassies, Berlin 8.7.-7.10.
The Nordic embassies in Berlin host a summer exhibition on Nordic fashion, food and design with a strong ecological and ethical focus. From eclimate change to slow fashion to wild food, the exhibition portrays and discusses the Nordic way of life with its strengths, focuses and challenges.
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08. July 2016
Gagarin receives the international Red Dot Award for ‘Powering the Future’ exhibition
Design agency Gagarin will be awarded the Red Dot Award for Communication Design for ‘Powering the Future’, an exhibition designed to mark the 50thanniversary of Landsvirkjun, the National Power Company of Iceland.
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07. July 2016
Happy summer!
Iceland Design Centre will be closed for summer holidays from July 4 until August 2. Gleðilegt sumar!
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