Amazing work by my close friend Alex Simon! Congrats to him and his team
Not #suoerbowl but it’s a new era of #socialsports even for us that are #badatsports
Per Madsen, Scandinavian DesignLab , Copenhagen
Nikolaj Kunsthal (Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center) is an art center in inner Copenhagen, located in a former church from the 12th century. The task was to create an identity, which expresses the mission of the art center, while at the same time benefitting from the unique location - the church building. The new identity also had to ensure that the disadvantage of the location (the fact that many people pass by every day, dismissing it as a church and do not come inside) was turned into and advantage. The Solution By personifying the art center - Nikolaj - and letting it speak - “Let there be art”,
The Social Kitchen:Dean Poole, Alt Group was created in collaboration with chefs Natalia Schamroth and Carl Koppenhagen of the Engine Room, furniture designer Sam Haughton of IMO and Fisher & Paykel.
Custom table seating 50 people under a ‘blow up’ cube, and a series of classic New Zealand dishes reinvented, the Social Kitchen was designed to showcase the best in New Zealand appliance engineering and design and demonstrate the evolving role of kitchen as social hub. Visitors were treated to a range of eight bite-sized works of art. Dunking an Earl Grey biscuit into gingernut tea was the beginning of new interpretations of tried and true tastes. A series of studio-based images presented the ingredients at different stages of assembly. The project included staff uniforms, pole-based serving platters, menus on t-shirts, a newspaper and a video documenting the design process of each contributor.



