Cards for the Crash

1250 postcards are packed and ready to go into the welcome goody bags for the participants in the SNDS Copenhagen Crash conference, with greetings from my studio. I hope you will use them as an alternative to the sometimes horrible tourist postcards on sale on every corner in Copenhagen. Stamps are available at any kiosk – on the same corners :-)

Copenhagen Crash closing in

We're getting closer and closer to the start of the Copenhagen Crash seminar - in less than two weeks the show will begin! A lot of people have already signed up, but there is still room for more! Especially the Swedish people have yet to sign up in large numbers – and the latest email newsletter from the organizers was targeted directly at the Swedes. Read it here (it's in Swedish, of course!)

One of the main reasons to go to Copenhagen is picking up a reward in the "Best of Scandinavian News Design" competition. A total of 80 awards will be given out on the 23rd of May. The Award Show is the climax of the conference. Prior to this, 34 speakers or moderators have shown up on stage; 12 heavily, but beautifully, built Danish freestyle wrestlers have thrown each other to the floor; eight design doctors have given first aid to newspapers in need, and 250 news people have met again or made new contacts.

So there are plenty good reasons to sign up now – even if you're Swedish! See you in Copenhagen.

Personally, I'm involved in putting together the programme – which is almost in place – and in producing all the printed materials for the conference. My own typeface "KATALOG" which is still in beta is used in combination with Myriad Pro Condensed from the SNDS design manual – and of course the warm yellow and the SNDS heavy red are the colours in the graphic identity of Copenhagen Crash.

The programme, signage, posters and banners, website, name tags, even the screen saver for the intervals between speakers, and not to mention the catalogue of winning pages, CDs, diplomas for the award winners, and labels for the packaging of the diplomas – all this will have passed through my little trusty Macbook Black before entering the world of designers in the middle of Copenhagen ...

See the final programme and sign up at www.snds.org/crash2008
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Raku-workshop i Fredensborg

Lørdag den 19. april etablerede keramiker Nanna Skibsted og kollegaen Ida Bjørn en improviseret raku-workshop på parkeringspladsen foran Ting- og Arresthuset i Fredensborg. Workshoppen var del af programmet i forbindelse med ni kunstneres udstilling i Tinghuset, og fandt (heldigvis) sted i et fantastisk forårssolskinsvejr.

Her er en lille film der viser hvordan rakubrændingens proces er skruet sammen: Først varmes den glaserede keramik op til knap 1000 grader i den gasfyrede ovn (det er den der larmer); når glasuren er smeltet, tages emnerne ud af ovnen og lægges i savsmuld, der bryder i brand pga den kraftige varme fra keramikken. Emnerne tildækkes med savsmuld, og glasuren undergår en svært forudsigelig forandring (reduktionsbrænding) - og får dermed sit karakteristiske udtryk. til sidst afkøles kermikken i en spand med vand og vaskes ren for fastbrændt savsmuld. Nannas smukke raku-skåle (og meget andet keramik) kan ses og bestilles på www.skibsted-keramik.dk

Mere information om udstillingen på www.pryds.com/tinghuset
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Tuse Næs-udstillingen er åbnet!

Endnu en udstilling med mine malerier er åbnet – i Tuse Næs Kunsthåndværk hænger der nu en lang række malerier og collager. 40 i alt, faktisk, så der er masser at se på i det pragtfuldt beliggende galleri lige for enden af Holbæk-motorvejen. Midt i fredet natur og med nyistandsatte lokaler byder den kombinerede café, galleri og kunsthåndværkerbutik velkommen. Herover et par billeder fra udstillingen.
Der er åbent torsdag til søndag kl. 11–17 til og med den 29. juni 2008.
I pinsen er der desuden åbent mandag 2. pinsedag, også kl. 11-17.

Mere info på www.pryds.com/tusenaes