Foredrag den 18 nov.09 i Tisvilde

Sidst var det til Show How på Design Week i København, og nu ses vi måske i Nordsjælland.
Den 18 november kl. 19.30 holder FairTrade Designers et lille foredrag om vores projekter og arbejdsform. Det sker på Bio Bistro i Tisvilde og koster 60,- pr. person. Vi håber at se jer.

Den økonomiske situation i verden, lige nu, gør det endnu vigtigere end før,  hvordan vi vælger at bruge vores penge; fordi menneskeliv kan afhænge af det valg. Det er derfor en stor glæde for FairTrade Designers at den ene af gruppens tre medlemmer, Liselotte Risell, har valgt at bruge tid og energi på at åbne en butik [...]

FairTrade Designers at INDEX

On this picture you see ‘the Chulha’, the winner of the HOME categorie, in the INDEX Award 2009, where FairTrade Designers also participated. ‘The Chulha’ is a stove designed to limit the dangerous health conditions caused by traditions of indoor cooking in many rural areas of the developing world. Learn more.

Even though FairTrade Designers concept is [...]

FairTrade Designers at Copenhagen Design Week 09

FairTrade Designers are participating in Copenhagen Design Week 09 at the Show How exhibition, where their wooden WORMbowl will be shown for the first time.
In relation to this project the 3  co-founders will be at a ‘case presentation‘ on Monday the 31. of August 14.10 – 14.40. Talking about their experience with product developing made in [...]

FairTrade Designers på Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk & Design 2009

Med foto collager og lydspor, beskriver vi  vores arbejde og processer, fra vi startede i 2007 og frem til nu. Vi udstiller på Trapholts censurerede udstilling frem til 6 september 2009

Skrivebord 1: Vi taler om hvorfor og hvordan vi startede FairTrade Designers.

Stilleben 1: Broderede produkter produceret i samarbejde med Threads of Yunnan.

Skrivebord 2: Besøg hos [...]

Green Ghana

FairTrade Designers has been in Ghana, again.
This time with the purpose of working with the sustainable wood company Samartex, located in Samreboi in the rainforest in Western Region. Our primary goal was to carry out prototypes based on our designs for the cooperation project with DIPP (Danish Import Promotion Program, Dansk Erhverv).

Accommodated in a beautiful [...]

FairTrade Designers og DIPP i Ghana

FairTrade Designers har været i Ghana igen.

FairTrade designers var i Accra for DIPP, for at lave en workshop for lokale træ kunthåndværkere, med henblik på samarbejde. Workshoppen skulle give de Ghanesiske træproducenter bedre indblik i det danske marked, den danske forbruger og kvalitet. Give inspiration til nye produkter målrettet det skandinaviske marked og derved øge [...]

Late news from N.Y.

Time to see more of the city. We walked up and downtown, and there is sooo much to see.
Neoncolors in the window deco at the YSL flagshipstore.

Time to visit the nightlife – again
We dined at the Freemans, at the end of the Freeman Alley on Rivington. Very popular , – nice food! but you have [...]

More CIFF

CIFF takes place at the ‘Javits Center’, located in the west end of 34. St. – Off we go again, and there is still lots of visitors at the fair and lots of ‘Hands On’ all over the CC12.
Anglo-Danish designer Louise Campbell and Dwell editor Sam Grawe are having a talk about Campbells work, with [...]

Sushi and Salsa – and the reason we are here ICFF

Danish Crafts Collection ‘CC12′
Hands On! -on show at CIFF in N.Y.C – May 2008.

The CC12 stand locationed right in the begining of the main walkway.

Lots of visitors made the staff work hard. Now it’s exciting to see, what will come out of this.

The fair is not too big an area, and that is nice – [...]