May 19, 2007
Anthropology and Culture, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Five lessons to learn from iconic Marimekko’s success in spanning time

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  Daring yet classic – 2007 is a year for Marimekko pattern design. I got the buzz as a sudden urge to buy Marimekko stuff as Christmas presents in December. Why? The fabrics contain a funk ...
May 14, 2007
Communication

Buy songs on the internet

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Just bought a new hit that I wanted to play the other night. But unlike iTunes this service doesn’t allow you to play their files on a Mac. We can fly to the moon but we can’t download songs to Macs (unless you use anything but this site). ...
May 13, 2007
Anthropology and Culture

The true face of the organization

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I just stumbled on this interview in the CBS magazine (Copenhagen Business School) about blogging and how the use of social software can help a company show it’s authentic identity. Download the article as PDF. Article by Anders Hochheim, photography by Mads Armgaard. ...
May 11, 2007
Communication, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Design and Identity

Specialekontoret på DR online

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Historie om Specialekontoret nu også nu DRs online nyheder ...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Talks and events

Specialekontoret on DR P1

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Radioavisen (the danish national newscast) woke me up this morning to talk about Specialekontoret. The idea is to create the best physical and mental environment for students. I just grabbed it with my Mac. You can hear it here: Specialekontoret DR P1 or find it on DR Radioavisen – it was on a ...
May 10, 2007
Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Talks and events

Branding Denmark means action

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Lately I’ve been asking myself what the authentic danish brand is all about. Almost a year ago I was discussing this with Wally Olins as I was asking his opinion as (however well-informed) an ou ...
May 9, 2007
Design and Identity

Packing design: When what you see is what you get!

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You probably don’t give it much thought on a daily basis, but packing design can make it or break it for you – as well as for the company offering products on the market. Packing is heavily integrated into our lives. Beyond being a container for goods, well-designed packing tells the qualities o ...
May 8, 2007
StagisLife

The revolution that is ” :-) “

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So, my friends and I landed in heated discussion the other day. Is the infamous smiley a good or a bad thing. Let me clarify the arguments: Pro Smiley: The Smiley let’s us get our message across easily, setting the tone in written language, which can often be hard. Example: Nikolaj, my dear bo ...
May 1, 2007
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

Students trying to get proper space – an opportunity for danish companies?

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Not so long ago, I paid a visit to one of the many small communities that students have created in order to have a place to go to as they do their final dissertation at the university. As of now there are about 8.000 students working on their master-thesis (specialestuderende) in Copenhagen and only ...
April 29, 2007
Creativity and Leadership

Music for one apartment and six drummers

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“Music for one apartment and six drummers” on YouTube by tishcro I just got this little piece of art that Jytte from the KaosPilots sent me. Reminds me a bit of the Blue Man Group that I saw about five years ago at Luxor in Vegas and somehow also the legendary Honda Accord Commercial. Ma ...
April 28, 2007
Communication

The virtual me

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Yesterday I read an article in Politiken which stated that 50 % of your identity is available to the rest of us online. Abelone Glahn states in the article that if you don’t exist online then yo ...
April 27, 2007
Creativity and Leadership, StagisLife

Co-creating with Björk + STAGIS’ new blogger

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Björk – one of my favorite artists and Possibly Maybe the greatest nation branding and marketing spin Iceland will ever experience, paving the way for so many artistic goodies from the small nation far North in the Atlantic. On May 7th Björk’s much-awaited album Volta will hit the shops an ...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

New CSR opportunity for innovation and knowledge-leaders in Denmark: Specialekontoret

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Today Nanna and Marta launched the Specialekontor-website. It’s the first public annoncement of an ambitious socially responsible project we’ve been working on during mid-2006. This year we are aiming to make it become a reality! About a year ago our sociologist Katja had finished her di ...
April 24, 2007
Communication

Real money in a virtual world

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Second life. What can I say? I am seduced and frightened at the same time because of this 3D virtual world. The numbers on the list to the left speak for themselves – the community has many members, who spend and earn a lot of money in Second Life. Even though this is a very […] ...
April 23, 2007
Communication

tv turnoff week by adbusters

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It’s “tv turnoff week”. Started today. So… turn it off. It’s not going to make you happy anyhow even though you might think so (especially if you’re living in Denmark – you’re supposed to be among the happiest people in the world, says new european res ...
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