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Children and city planning is nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024
Children and city planning by the interdisciplinary design team Þykjó, is nominated as Project of the year to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024.
October 24th, 2024
Masks by James Merry is nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024
Masks by designer and visual artist James Merry is nominated as Project of the year to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place in Gróska on November 7th.
October 23rd, 2024
Arnhildur Pálmadóttir is the winner of the 2024 Nordic Council Environment Prize
The Nordic Council's Environment Prize goes to architect Arnhildur Pálmadóttir from Iceland for her interdisciplinary interest and focus on reducing CO2 emissions and increasing circularity in the building industry.
October 22nd, 2024
Secondary is nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024
Secondary by Studio Erindrekar and Sigmundur Páll Freysteinsson, is nominated as Project of the year to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place in Gróska on November 7th.
October 22nd, 2024
Kerlingarfjöll Highland Base is nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards
Kerlingarfjöll Highland Base by Blue Lagoon Design Team, Basalt Architects and Design Group Italia is nominated as Place of the Year at the Icelandic Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place in Gróska on November 7th.
October 17th, 2024
Smiðja is nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024
Smiðja, office building for Alþingi by Studio Granda is nominated as Place of the Year at the Icelandic Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place in Gróska on November 7th.
October 16th, 2024
Þrístapar nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024
The destination Þrístapar in Vatnsdalur in Húnavatnssýsla by Gagarín, Landslag and Harry Jóhannesson is nominated as Place of the Year at the Icelandic Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place in Gróska on November 7th
October 15th, 2024
Volcano nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024
The book Volcano, by illustrator, designer, and author Rán Flygenring, is nominated for Product of the year at the Icelandic Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place in Gróska on November 7th.
October 10th, 2024
James Cook nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024
The James Cook sweater, designed by Helga Lilja Magnúsdóttir, fashion designer, in collaboration with Stephan Stephensen, artist, for BAHNS, is nominated as Product of the Year at the Icelandic Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place in Gróska on November 7th.
October 9th, 2024
Inorganic Resonators nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2024
Inorganic Resonators by Halldór Eldjárn and Jón Helgi Hólmgeirsson is nominated for Product of the year at the Icelandic Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place in Gróska on November 7th.
October 8th, 2024
Early bird tickets to DesignTalks 2025
DesignTalks, an internationally acclaimed conference and the keynote event of the DesignMarch festival will take place April 2nd 2025. Early bird tickets are now available to this popular event that has been sold out the last few years.
October 1st, 2024
Open call for exhibitors at the Nordic House for DesignMarch 2025
Are you planning to participate at DesignMarch 2025and would like to exhibit at the Nordic House? The Nordic House is calling for proposals for exhibitions at DesignMarch 2025, which will take place from April 2nd to 6th.
September 17th, 2024
Join us! Open for application for DesignMarch 2025
DesignMarch will take place April 2.- 6. 2025, for the seventeenth year in a row.
September 9th, 2024
Lavaforming Iceland´s Pavilion for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
The Pavilion, commissioned by Iceland Design and Architecture, presents the project, Lavaforming, led by s.ap architects Founder Arnhildur Pálmadóttir
September 6th, 2024
Designing with nature - symposium in New York
Iceland Design and Architecture in collaboration with Blue Lagoon and Parsons School of Design, hosts a symposium Thursday September 5th about the role of design thinking in emergency design during times of natural uncertainties. Can we design our relationship with nature?
September 1st, 2024
DesignMarch 2025 in April
DesignMarch festival will take place April 2nd - 6th 2025 - bringing the spring early to Reykjavík. This is the seventeenth year in a row that the festival will take place.
August 21st, 2024
Open call: DesignTalks 2025
Do you have an idea for DesignTalks 2025? Open call for suggestions on speakers and topic in until September 15th.
August 16th, 2024
Happy summer from Iceland Design and Architecture
The office of Iceland Design and Architecture closes due to summer holidays from July 15th but will reopen on Tuesday, August 6th.
July 12th, 2024
Icelandic Design Award 2024 - open for suggestions
The Icelandic Design Award has opened for suggestions and everybody can send in suggestions, your own work or others until midnight September 4th. The goal of sending in suggestions is to ensure that excellent work does not pass by the jury, and therefore we encourage owners of good works to nominate their own work.
July 2nd, 2024
Arnhildur Pálmadóttir nominated for the Nordic Council Environment Prize 2024
Arnhildur Pálmadóttir, architect is nominated for the Nordic Council Environment Prize 2024 for her interdisciplinary interest and focus on the reuse of building material. There are eight nominees and the prize will be awarded in Reykjavík in the fall.
July 1st, 2024