Thorunn Arnadottir (London, UK)
Thorunn Arnadottir (London, UK)
"Icelandic style is very playful. Our designers are quite conscious of their cultural heritage and often deliberately try to illustrate their cultural identity through design. Personally, I am interested in different cultures, but in order to get a good perspective I think it’s important for me to also know my own culture well."
Thorunn Arnadottir is an Icelandic designer living in London. Her multi-disciplinary work spans a host of different topics and techniques, driven by experimentation and deep research into cultural origins and human interactions. Essentially, she hopes to encourage the user to look beyond their regular assumptions of an object or a system by asking questions about our society and the culture we live in.
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IdN v19n3: The Line Issue — Artist on the Front Line
A line is so much more than just the distance between two dots. It is the fundamental building-block that every artist employs – even if, like Jackson Pollock, they are simply dribbling paint onto a horizontal canvas. It is a signifier of innate talent: the critics speak of "bold" lines and "subtle" lines. One would be hard-pressed to think of any work of art that did not involve lines – even Malevich's notorious 1915 "Black Square" wouldn't have worked without an outline to define it.
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Brogen Averill (Auckland, New Zealand)
Brogen is fascinated by European furniture and the inspiration of the Bauhaus school makes him want to delve into other areas of design, pushing his creative ideas to a point where he hopes they will revolutionise the field in New Zealand.
Ragnar Freyr (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"I do not consider the minimalism in my work to be a message in itself. However, I believe that minimalism is a strong vehicle for honesty in design – and life. It requires that one strip away the un-needed and keep the essentials. One cannot go too far, though. Design needs to have soul – a flavour of some kind. It needs to be interesting."
A line can be the source of creation The more lines you put down, the more you'll find something interesting and unique out of your creation that no-one else has made yet.
Björgvin Friðgeirsson (Reykjavík, Iceland)
"I feel that I should be doing more projects that mix music with art — I am actually in the process of getting in touch with more musicians with a view to working with them. I think it would give me a perfect creative balance with all the ui/ux stuff I’m doing with my main clients right now."
Teo Pirisi aka Moneyless (Milan, Italy)
"The line for me is a sort of guideline to follow, something that takes me and makes me grow. Clean lines in constant motion."
I think of a line as something that defines or records, or sometimes does both simultaneously. The act of defining would include the act of connecting.
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