Jonas Edvard: A Material Alchemist in Sustainable Design
“I encourage people to be curious, to focus on the moment, to react upon feelings; right now is an interesting moment” – Jonas Edvard View…
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Seray Asker: Designing goddesses, beasts & other modern myths
“The thought that I was breathing the same wind as our ancestors did a million years ago … carrying their culture to the 2000s in…
Future Heritage: Forward Thinking Design Inspired by our Cultural Past
“I would see so many beautiful things, but often find them antiquated and not functional in the modern world.” – Feyza Köksal, Turkey Dach &…
An Investigation into Our Objects' Life Cycles: Sustainability in Material and Process Innovation
“In a world where everything goes so fast, the general public loses the notion of how these objects arrived to their hands.” – Josefina Muñoz,…
Reflections of Nature Across Global Design Cultures
“Our society’s current relation towards nature is an endless source for reflection.” – Studio Plastique, Belgium Perhaps in our obsession with creating a world of…
Gaspard Graulich at Crossovers: Exploring Design's Cultural Landscapes
“I don’t want to express my feelings; I want my objects to make people feel their own” – Gaspard Graulich “Prélèvement” N.8 & N.1.…
Studio Plastique at Crossovers: Searching for Answers within the Plastic Arts
“As a society, we are not only disconnecting from our natural environment, we are also alienated from what we consume” – Studio Plastique View Studio…
Belgium at Crossovers 2019: Honest and down to earth, literally and figuratively.
” It’s their poetic silence and subtle tactility, which makes them beautiful, and gives them a global appeal.” – Elien Haentjens Curator of the Belgian…
Draga & Aurel: Cultural Crossovers
“our partnership expresses our creativity through a perfect combination of art and design” – Draga Obradovic & Aurel K. Basedow View Draga & Aurel’s work…
Announcing Denmark at Crossovers 2019: An idea of how we could also strive to live.
“Danish design is interesting when designers keep developing the tradition of working with the relationship between man and object.” – Pil Bredahl Curator of the…
Eyvind Solli Andreassen at Crossovers: Balancing on the Edge of Craft and Art
“I feel that we are all always slightly out of balance whether it be physical or mental and I transfer bits of this from myself…
Announcing Norway at Crossovers 2019: Pushing forward; Free from the rules of the past.
“We do not feel the same responsibility to the past as our neighbors and due to this we are more free to challenge.” – Kråkvik…
Announcing Iceland at Crossovers 2019: The conscious shift we as humans are facing.
“When children and young adults feel the urge to protest and claim their right for a future we’ve got to listen and do something.” –…
Theodóra Alfreðsdóttir at Crossovers: Narrating the Stories of our Everyday Objects
“By being transparent about production we give each and every object a narrative that people can relate to.” – Theodóra Alfreðsdóttir View Thedóra Alfredsdottir’s works,…
Vito Nesta at Crossovers: A Journey Designed in Full Color
“I have used black very few times in my works, to me, it is a useless and cold convention.” – Vito Nesta Try and think…
Announcing Italy at Crossovers 2019: Visions of a perfect, idealized, utopian Milanese living space.
“The long tradition of Italian design continues; it evolves just as it sees fit” Annalisa Rosso & Francesco Mainardi Curators of the Italian Collection For…
Josefina Muñoz at Crossovers: Creation through Collaboration in a Circular Economy
“As a designer, I seek to inspire, inform and provide a voice to artistic professions” View Josefina Muñoz’s work, Game of Stone, in the Swiss…