Participate in DesignMarch in May - Now open for submission
Now it is open to apply for participation at DesignMarch in May. Submit your application by November 30th.
Colorful winter collection from Anita Hirlekar
Fashion designer Anita Hirlekar presents new AUTUMN / WINTER 20-21 collection, focusing on embracing hand crafts, colour and innovative fabrications. All designed and produced in Iceland.
The Icelandic Design Awards will be in January
The award ceremony and a seminar scheduled to take place on the 5th of November has been postponed due to recent circumstances because of the Covid 19 pandemic. The Icelandic Design Awards 2020 and the seminar will take place in January 2021. Further dates and information to come.
DesignMarch 2021 will be in May
Moving March to May! DesignMarch, Iceland´s largest design festival will take place from 19th-23rd of May 2021
DesignMarch x Studio 2020 is participating in Dutch Design Week
Studio 2020was created as a response to the Covid 19 pandemic during DesignMarch in June this year, an experimental way of communicating Icelandic design, content beyond and below appearances alone. We invite you to DesignMarch x Studio 2020 3D virtual room at Dutch Design Week.
Six Icelandic designers participate in Virtual Design Destination: New Reality by Adorno
This year, the Virtual Design Destination by the danish digital gallery Adorno will be the place to discover fourteen curated country collections of collectable design during the London Design Festival,12th- 20th of September, featuring more than 200 exclusive pieces.
IUA Fashion show, streamed live tonight at Vísir.is
The IUA graduation fashion show 2020 will happen on the 1st of September at 19:30 in a very unusual way. There will be no audience at the fashion show on grounds of Covid-19, but it will be streamed online live at Vísir
Valdís Steinarsdóttir Nordic designer of the year at Formex Nova 2020
In fierce competition with top designers from all over the Nordic region, Formex Nova 2020 is awarded to the Icelandic designer Valdís Steinarsdóttir, who in her work focuses on recycling natural materials. Together with researchers she has, among other things, developed two completely new materials, Bioplastic Skin and Just Bones.
"HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?" - IUA MA Design, Explorations and Translations Graduation Exhibition
IUA MA Design, Explorations and Translations Graduation Exhibition will take place in Ásmundarsalur from the 8th to the 16th of August. The exhibitions is a journey guided by an upside down compass. It offers directions to a place not exactly known, a place of impermanence that if reached could very well disappear.
Iceland Design and Architecture, the National Energy Authority of Iceland, and the Environmental Agency of Iceland introduce NatNorth.is
Iceland Design and Architecture, theNational Energy Authority of Iceland, and the Environmental Agency of Icelandare releasing a common information website, NatNorth.is, on a variety of projects intending to share knowledge, increase quality, and enhance sustainability in the Nordic north.
It actually happened! Iceland held their annual designfestival, DesignMarch, in June
Iceland’s annual design festival, DesignMarch, initially scheduled for the end of March, took place for the 12th time in Reykjavik from 24-28 June, transforming the northernmost capital of the world into one big venue for design with over 100 shows and over 80 exhibitors.
A call for a team of designers to design signs and a signposting system
Iceland Design and Architecture, in cooperation with the ministry of the environment and natural resources and the ministry of industries and innovation, is calling for a team of designers to design signs, signposting system, and a manual for tourist destinations and protected areas.
The importance of design and architecture when shaping tomorrow’s societies
Icelandic Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, and Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources with Hlín Helga Guðlaugsdóttir curator of DesignTalks.
Studio 2020 at DesignMarch in June
For this year's edition of DesignMarch, the team is experimenting with a concept called STUDIO 2020. During the festival the studio will be a platform for varied forms of interviews, LIVE talk shows, performative design interventions, thematic conversations and podcasts.
DesignMarch 2020 is on for June 24th-28th!
DesignMarch, Iceland´s main design festival will take place in Reykjavík this summer! The festival 2020 was scheduled at the end of March, as it has for the past eleven years; due to Covid-19 pandemic it was postponed.In light of recent positive news the festival can go forward, however in altered form in full collaboration with local authorities
IT’S MORE ABOUT THE PRINCIPLE – Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson is an artist whose work has made a mark around the globe, with its signature play on the divisions between art, architecture and design.
A city is much more than a collection of buildings
An interview with architect Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir, who runs an award-winning firm in Germany, Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei, along with her husband, Arno Lederer, and their long-time collaborator, Marc Oei.
We can design the future
Product designer and futurist Helga Jósepsdóttir travels around the world and consults about what is to most of us a mystery – the future.
In short - Wool Shoes by Stundum Studio
A variety of interesting designs.
Anything is possible
An interview with Edda Katrín Ragnarsdóttir, a product designer and ceramicist, has spent the last two years working closely with artist Egill Sæbjörnsson on creating the artistic world of the trolls Ūgh and Bõögâr.
In short - Lauf
A variety of interesting designs.
In short - Bioplastic Skin
A variety of interesting designs.
In short - Morra
A variety of interesting designs.
Earth Matters by Philip Fimmano
Philip Fimmano is a contemporary fashion and lifestyle specialist, a design curator and a close collaborator of Lidewij Edelkoort, one of the world's most renowned trend forecasters.
In short - Postprent
A variety of interesting designs.
Type as Form – Studio Studio
Graphic duo Studio Studio consists of designers Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson and Birna Geirfinnsdóttir.
Wave by Genki Instruments won the Icelandic Design Awards 2019
The Icelandic Design Awards was rewarded for the sixth time on the 14th of November. The ceremony took place at Iðnó were the minister of tourism, industry and innovation, Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir gave out the main price. Wave by Genki Instruments won the Icelandic Design Awards 2019.
The Iceland Design Award 2018 goes to… Basalt Architects!
The Iceland Design Awardswere given out for the fifth time 2 November 2018.
In short - A . M . Concept Space
A variety of interesting designs.