Rikke Otte

Experimental Typography. 'The concept in this project is to transform music into type. All lyrics were on the outside and graphic elements became the inside experience of the music represented as a poster to be folded out, just as music folds out from the speakers. The inside text is a review of the music, and each graphical element is a representation of a certain sound or instrument from the music.'

http://www.rikkeotte.com/

—Graphic designer based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
—'I wish to create curiosity. Not just towards my work, but towards life in general. To make people remember that there are different ways of seeing and experiencing life.'

Casper Heijkenskjold

1. Proposal for Copenhagen's Night of Culture 2010, where galleries and museums are open until midnight.
2,3. Part of Moonspoon Saloon's "look book" for California 2010.


http://www.casperheijkenskjold.com/

The work of Casper Heijkenskjold, a danish designer currently doing an internship at Sagmeister's office in NY— is insightful and at timesinterested in inspiring a reflection upon the rol of design in society. "I see the process of communicating visually as a way to explore new paths and a way to get to know myself and the world around me better. It enables me to think about how things are connected and to have fun while I am here."

Ufex

Exhibition/collaborative show with Bora Tanay.

http://www.ufex.dk/

"UFEX is a digital design collective comprised of Mikkel Møller Andersen and Kasper Fjederholt, based out of London and Copenhagen respectively. They often create “analog” sculptures that are photographed and constructed in a way to make them appear inexplicably digital."

Nina Saunders

1. Never, 1999
2. Sincerely yours, 2007
3. Pure thought, 1996
4. Delicate landscape, 2009

http://www.ninasaunders.eu/

—The cushion bulges have a transformational function, since they can alienate otherwise familiar objects. My work moves between the field of beauty / ugliness, comfort / exclusion, home equity / alienation.
—Chairs are designed to support the human body and thus we identify with them. And as furniture supports specific environments and convey messages about the user's status, ambition and even the sex, age and employment. They have an enormous expressive potential.
—Humor is so important. Ironically, I have had my best laugh in a hospital just before an operation.
—Interviewed in danish by Matilde Digmann.

Born in 1958 in Odense, Denmark, Nina Saunders was trained in Central St Martin's and has since 1975 lived and worked in London. She works with "mutated furniture that has been deprived of their original function, rooms that with her radical intervention are allocated social or ideological statements".

via wrongdistance.
Some images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Karina Petersen

Fart / Speed. Typography. Feb 2010.

http://www.karinapetersen.com/

Here is a little information about the Fart-project provided by Karina on my request:

—The project started with a friend of mine asking me, if I would design two spreads for an online-publication he was planning. Each artist got a word to work with/illustrate. I got the word FART which, additionally to its English meaning, has a second one in Danish: speed. This was my starting point, and from this theme I worked quite freely with shape, colours and texture.

—I see my work as two sided, I have a daytime job as a graphic designer, and I work with a very minimalistic graphic approach, but at the same time I do love to experiment. There is a giving interaction between the two; in the way they supplement each other. I see in my work, both a very strict minimalistic path, but also a much more artistic approach.

Karina Petersen, born in 1982 in Denmark, has recently graduated with a MA in graphic design from the Designskolen Kolding (2009). Her work has been published in ComputerArts Projects, Typeplayer, Playfull type, and in ROJO magazine.

via Behance

Johann Rosenmunthe

Anonymous, 2008.
Off, 2008.

"I have been preoccupied by exploring how you might view the world in a slightly different manner. It's human nature to categorize every thing in boxes and turn situations and people into stereotypes in order to comprehend the world. In the wake of globalization we have to include almost every human being on the planet since the natural distance between people has been erased. That means that you invariably will—and have to—reduce people to anonymous stereotypes. Just like others do the same thing to you.

I find it interesting when the philosopher Slavoj Zizek talks about the downside of globalization. He believes we have to develop a new way of distancing ourselves from people we don't know, so that we are able to treat them with the respect a completely unknown person deserves. We can't act as if we know other cultures as well as our and can't criticize them as we can our own culture."—Interview with Ann Bülow, 2009.
http://www.rosenmunthe.com/
http://www.behance.net/

Kollega

http://kollegaworks.com/
Graphic design studio formed in Copenhagen in 2007 by Emma Holmberg and Rebecca Larsson. 'Kollega is currently taking a break. Emma is working as a graphic designer in Malmö/Sweden and Rebecca is working freelance also situated in Sweden. Kollega will however not completely dissapear and will surely work with projects in one way or another in the future. So be sure to check in here for updates!'

Annette Meyer

b.1966 Denmark
Fashion design at Art Academy in Utrecht in Holland and at the Royal Collage of Art in Antwerp in Belgium.
http://www.annettemeyer.com/

Hvass & Hannibal

Sofie Hannibal and Nan Na Hvass are a Copenhagen-based art and design studio.
http://www.hvasshannibal.dk/

via booooooom

Sofie Hannibal

http://www.sofiehannibal.dk/illustrations.html

Sofie Hannibal studied at the Danish school of design, Denmark, and she currently works and lives in Copenhagen.

Bygg Studio

http://www.byggstudio.com/
Design studio | 2006, Copenhagen | 2008, Stockholm
Sofia Østerhus + Hanna Nilsson + Markus Bergström
Editorial design. Denmark | Sweden