Dirty South Gallery

07 March

A shoe is born

07 March

The Distiller

TOPPSTÖDIN

TOPPSTÖDIN

A powerplant of ingenuity and craft! As one of the first countries to fall in the economic crisis that still cast its shadows over us, Iceland now show that when everything goes bad something good always comes out of it. As recession hit Iceland with full power, everyday life of the Islanders changed. A young and target oriented generation has taken the opportunity to do things themselves...

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Simon Klenell, Frigger tactics

Simon Klenell, Frigger tactics

At Konstfack Degree Exhibition 2011 we where dazzled by the work of Simon Klenells master degree project. Through his playfull approach to the craftsmanship his project "Frigger tactics" presents a beautiful series of itemns. Within a production-based craft like glassmaking, there has always been a will to challenge and rewrite the given order of the material and its production.The working...

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Production with craftmanship

Production with craftmanship

Erïk Bjerkesjö's subversive style has been a long time in the making, he completed masters in advanced fashion footwear design at Polimoda under the guidance of Patrick de Muynck & Linda Loppa.Erïk's vision is to make a thoughtful, elegant design that is innovative and a post-modern synthesis.The inaugural collection is being entirely manually produced by the designer himself as well as...

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