Walking through Elliðaárdalur towards the dreary brown factory that houses Toppstöðin, I somewhat expect to step into a vast industrial space full of dead machines and time-clocks. Instead, I find myself stamping my boots off in a vestibule with faux-wood panelling, neatly designed event posters, …

Something happened a few years back with fashion in Iceland. Maybe it was part of the creative tsunami following the economic collapse or maybe it was the result of all of the art attention that Iceland has been getting over the years. For whatever reason, …

Diversity, collaboration, innovation and risk are a few of the qualities
that the Iceland Design Centre has aimed to highlight during
DesignMarch, a four-day festival taking place since 2009. It was these
qualities that drew them to the proposal submitted by independent
graphic designers Jónas Valtýsson and Ármann Agnarsson …

Dear reader,
Welcome to DesignMarch!
I was strolling around the fair grounds at the Stockholm Furniture Fair a few months ago, square metre upon square metre, hall after hall. There were new chairs, tables, lights, and what not in beautiful pale pastel pink, lush jungle green, …

…For Best Product, Product Line, Design Project, and Fashion Design of 2012
Now in their third year, The Grapevine Design Awards are bigger than ever. We once again rounded up a small panel of design experts and asked them to determine what was most cutting-edge in …