Absorbing art, music and design- Denmark diaries

Louisiana views.. in and out

Art installation on the street behind our window..golden and trippy

At Distortion

Danish Design classics - timeless

The Beginning..which is not actually the beginning

Have been back in London for a week again. Pretty much homeless- but oh, how much I missed it! being in London then, not so much being homeless.. After two months filled with hopping between Tallinn-Helsinki-Stockholm-Copenhagen; spending my last pennies on flights or ferry tickets and stalking people I was determined to meet along the way.

It involved walking 6km in the pouring rain to an unknown area in the suburbs of Copenhagen (to the studio of Barbara I Gongini) - nearly being transformed into a smurf as the cobalt blue shoes and coat I was wearing (soaking wet by then) got a wicked idea to share their colour with my skin.

However, all the people I’ve stalked -and I am sorry for being a pain!- and met during the last year or months truly deserve celebrating. Every single one of them has inspired me, motivated me and showed that the (crazy) idea I came up with some time last summer, is not a bad one.. it’s something worth living for.

So the idea.. The idea was to create a network, connecting the new creative talent from the Nordic countries (I’m from Estonia, and yes, it IS a Nordic country too, no matter how many people argue otherwise).

Finding and getting together the cream of the creative avant garde- from fashion and product design, photography, graphic design, illustration, contemporary art, interactive design..

Building a network of partners – establishing collaboration with other communication, creative management and production agencies in London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Reykjavik and in couple of years.. NYC.

And, by connecting people and ideas, create synergy, new partnerships and collaborative projects, ground-breaking business ventures.. and whatever else will come out from it.. a new reality maybe.

The core purpose of this blog is to celebrate the creativity and synergy, keep you in the know about the latest happenings in the minds and lives of the creative people, who live half a year with midnight sun and the other half in eternal darkness. Introduce new faces and the work they do, and also.. update you on the development of the project ÖÖ (means ‘night’ in Estonian) which will be part of London Design Festival this year, transforming some lucky ‘to-be-confirmed’ location in Central London into a dark and surreal Nordic fantasy land.