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Article: Online fashion

Published on August 9th, 2008

 

Cover of Dansk Daily, 9th of August 2008

Danish fashion brands such as; Designers Remix Collection, Wood Wood, Dyrberg/Kern, Vondahe are currently launching their own online stores, but such E-business can prove to be rather tricky. The breakthrough of e-business revolutionized the way people buy electronic equipment, and e-business has made competition increasingly fixed on prices.

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Article: From Gemstones to Jewelry: Georg Jensen

Published on August 8th, 2008

 

Cover page of Dansk Daily, 8th of August 2008

The Danish jewellery industry as we know it today can be traced back to the early 19th century. Around 1904, when silversmith and sculptor Georg Jensen started his workshop in Copenhagen in, he was initially inspired by organic shapes and insects.

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Network for Business leaders: KingsArmsNet

Published on July 14th, 2008

 

Preview of KingsArmsNet.dk

KingsArmsNet is a new and exclusive network for twenty business leaders from Denmark. They met during a leadership training program and decided to stay in touch so they could exchange valuable insights and experiences. Since it is difficult to have collegues when you ate actually in charge, KingsArmsNet also functions as a social group. Read more.

 

 

New website for me

Published on July 7th, 2008

 

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The personal website has evolved from a standard business card to an online portfolio. Some switched to blogs, whilst others moved into the online open spaces of social networks like MySpace and Facebook. My old website had become a Hemmingwayan island, perpetually isolated from the real action and consequently fragmented into numerous sub-sites for various projects.

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Column: Cocktail of the week

Published on July 1st, 2008

 

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One of my recent passions include writing a weekly column about cocktails. It is a voluntary project, but also an excellent reason to get a drink on a plain tuesday afternoon. The column is published almost every week on www.eventuelt.org.

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Corporate identity in simple Flash games

Published on May 15th, 2008

 

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Sabroe, one of the best-known designers, specialist manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality refrigeration equipment in the world, wanted to have a simple memory game on their website.

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Article: Latour, Oysters and Champagne

Published on May 1st, 2008

 

Cover of Kontekst #6

The full title of this article is “From Foucault and filter coffee to Latour, oysters and champagne” and it is my personal account of how I see voluntary work in student organizations and what I find so fascinating about it.

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Online education: Sprogbogen.dk

Published on April 30th, 2008

 

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Sprogbogen.dk is a free e-learning center, where you can practice your skills in Danish grammar, spelling etc. The site is a supplement to the book Sprogbogen.

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Taking a break form E-learning

Published on April 15th, 2008

 

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During the past seven years I’ve been doing quite a lot of projects evolving  around the concept of e-learning. Most recently, I worked with Finanssektorens Uddanelsescenter (the Educational center for financial institutions) creating small games and other activities to give the user a break from the actual learning. Read more.

 

 

Article: Student organizations and voluntary work

Published on April 1st, 2008

 

Cover of the April 2008 issue of Delfinen, #140

In the April 2008 issue of Delfinen (#140) the theme was “Social Responsibility”. Therefore, I decided to write a short text about voluntary work in student organizations. In the article, I provided my own perception on putting student work in a broader perspective and adviced the reader to try this too. Read more.

 

 

Folding doors

Published on March 18th, 2008

 

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On March 18th 2007, carpenter Flemming Wulff sent me an e-mail. He had heard about me at a conference for self-employed people, where Anne-Maria Dahl had mentioned me in her speech. In addition to his work as a carpenter, he is running a small production company which develops custom-made folding doors (see image).

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Article: Hold the door!

Published on March 1st, 2008

 

Cover of the March 2008 issue of Delfinen, #139

In the March 2008 issue of Delfinen (#139) the theme was “Tradition”, so I wrote a brief essay on how to behave correctly. My claim was that Emma Gad (the Danish equivalent to Miss Manners, aka Judith Martin) had been widely misunderstood as a dictator of proper behavior, which is really not the case.

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Article: A tailored master of the stage

Published on March 1st, 2008

 

Photo by Mathias Vestergaard.

During fall 2007 I spent three months in New York City. It was a great experience for me. During my time in Manhattan I wrote several articles about life in the city. While I was there I was contacted by Chris Pedersen, whom at the time was the fashion editor of Euroman.

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Article: Aarhus And The City – Part 3/3

Published on February 1st, 2008

 

Outside La Esquina.

The theme of the February 2008 issue of Delfinen (#138) was “Make it new”, so in my last article about New York I focused on some the current trends in NYC. What I found was that many restaurants and bars were practicing a kind of pseudo-secretness.

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Article: Aarhus And The City – Part 2/3

Published on December 1st, 2007

 

Martin Roald on top of the house in Brooklyn, where he was living in fall 2007.

In my second article about New York, I focused on how to get there. How can you get to experience the life in Manhattan if you are from Denmark and do not have a work permit?

I asked two Danish students, who were doing internships at the time.

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Article: Aarhus And The City – Part 1/3

Published on November 1st, 2007

 

St. Marks Place in East Village, NY. There is always something to do.

During my fall 2007 stay in New York City I wrote a series of articles about life in the city, compared to my home town Aarhus. The articles were published in the student magazine Delfinen. In this first article in what became a trilogy (published in November 2007, #136) Read more.

 

 

High-end Fashion store: Komakino 4.0

Published on October 1st, 2007

 

Preview of Komakino 4.0

The Komakino Guerrilla Store is an amazing men’s store in Vancouver, BC. It moves to a new location every year, following the constant fashion flux. With every move, there appears a new website and for me it was an honour to design this year’s. First, I developed the version 2.0 website, with panoramic images of the physical store. Read more.

 

 

Talk: Entrepreneurship in a different way

Published on September 21st, 2007

 

How to become your own boss... poster for event at In Spe

Yesterday, I gave a short presentation on “entrepreneurship in a different way”, at In Spe (the entrepreneurial network at Aarhus School of Architecture). Usually, entrepreneurship is all about business plans, budgets and investors. My key point, in this presentation was that (especially as an architect) you can acually just start work. There is really no need to slow yourself down with all that planning.

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Book review: City Of Glass

Published on September 8th, 2007

 

Sample of the graphic novel adaption of City Of Glass by Paul Auster.

In the September 2007 issue of Delfinen (#134) I wrote this incredibly short power review of the graphic novel adaption of Paul Auster’s City Of Glass.

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A writer’s website: Thorkild Borup

Published on July 29th, 2007

 

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The idea of designing a website for a writer was a new challenge for me. Thorkild Borup has written several books about famous Danish authors including H. C. Andersen, Benny Andersen, Ludvig Holberg and Tom Kristensen. Therefore, he needed a simple website where the main focus would be on the text/words and he showed me a couple of examples from other websites.

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Article: Fashionomics

Published on May 1st, 2007

 

Cover of the May 2007 issue of Delfinen (#133)

After a short break, Helle Rohde Andersen and I resumed our scribblings about fashion. In our fifth fashion article, published in the May 2007 issue of Delfinen (#133), we provide an account for how fashion affects national economics.

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Movie: Udsat

Published on April 22nd, 2007

 

Still image from the movie 'Udsat'

The story is relatively simple, yet it has a certain ambiguity that adds an overall tension to the movie. We did worked most on the pre-production of the movie.

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Online shopping guide: LidtMereLuksusIHverdagen.dk

Published on January 18th, 2007

 

LidtMereLuksusIHverdagen.dk, a personal shopping guide by Pernille Skovbjerg Pederse

LidtMereLuksusIHverdagen.dk is a personal shopping guide designed and researched by Pernille Skovbjergs home website . The site also is a clear statement about how websites can be more interesting, inspiring and feminine. Read more.

 

 

High-end fashion store: Komakino 2.0

Published on November 14th, 2006

 

Preview of the Komakino 2.0 store

Komakino Guerrilla Store Version 2.0 is a high-end fashion store, built around a nomad-concept: the store moves to a new location every year! Currently it’s located in Vancouver, Canada. Read more.

 

 

Essay: Provincialism

Published on October 1st, 2006

 

Café table for one, with espresso, sunglasses and a Danish translation of Oliver Sacks 'An Anthropologist on Mars' (1995)

I spent the summer of 2006 in London attending a three-week course in microeconomics at the London School Of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Personally, I found simple microeconomics to be applicable in many areas of life and back in Aarhus I was wondering if I could use it to explain why it is so difficult to meet new people in Aarhus.

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Showing the hidden – Flash animation for Quickwood.com

Published on September 2nd, 2006

 

Screen shot of the animation for Quickwood

Quickwood is a US based sales company, specializing in products for the wood working industry. In 2001, I was approached by them because they needed a simple and bandwidth effective visualization of their latest product.

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Review: Canteens on Campus

Published on September 1st, 2006

 

The best cantina on campus: at the department of chemstry

During my first year of studying (and ever since, actually) I’ve spent a lot of time having lunch with my study group. However, we never just had lunch. During the meal discussions always revolved around the quality of the food and the atmosphere.

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Article: The Implicit Dresscode

Published on August 11th, 2006

 

Cover of Delfinen #126

In our fourth article for Delfinen, published in September 2006 (#126), Helle Rohde Andersen and I tried to reveal the various dresscodes on the different faculties on campus. Although it was meant as a funny exaggeration, some people took it too seriously and I was actually threatened at a party, a couple of months later. Read more.

 

 

Safe Shopping game for teens

Published on July 7th, 2006

 

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Consumption of goods has become an activity involving ever more products and choices and ever younger consumers. Today, shopping is considered a normal activity for teenagers. However, in a market governed by complex and opaque laws of commerce, being young and unexperienced can make shopping rather haphazardous. Especially, when it comes to warranties and return policies.

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Article: Fashion Crisis Emergencies

Published on May 5th, 2006

 

Anne shows how you can avoid a fashion crisis

In this article, published in the May issue of Delfinen (#125), Helle Rohde Andersen and I give advice on how to deal with a fashion crisis.

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