Pleks

New Identity for photographer Anne Mie Dreves

ianbennett — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:11:07 +0000

Anne Mie Dreves is a danish photographer from Copenhagen, who works within in the fields of design, business, fashion, art & more. The new identity is based on the categorisation of Anne Mies photos. The photos are now organised in a grid system, where two axes represents the categories; Life & Death and Inside & Outside. Every photography of Anne Mie Dreves is then placed somewhere in this system.

Explore the website

New set-up in Pleks

ianbennett — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:59:16 +0000

Irene Lønne and Mads Quistgaard have in the past years acted as respectively strategic and creative responsible in Pleks, but in the future they will continue their work in each their companies. Mads will continue Pleks as before, while Irene will develop the strategic field in her company, Strategic Design. Mads and Irene will however still collaborate when possible.

Pleks on the frontpage of IDEER in Weekendavisen

ianbennett — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:52:53 +0000

This weeks Weekendavisen features an article about type and identity on the front page of the section ‘IDEER’ (Ideas). Mads is quoted through out the article about the growing importance of type as a ’secret’ tool in communication. Type and identity is the title of an on going Pre-Doc project Mads is working on.

Pleks Examines the Future of Design (again:-)

ianbennett — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:32:00 +0000

This year Mads acted as a final examiner for the visual communication departments at The Danish Design School and Designskolen Kolding.
Conclusion so far: Stucco is back, QR-TAGS are here to stay and Critical Design is the future.
Welcome to the new talents and critical minds from our finest creative schools.

100-Krone banknote

ianbennett — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:51:13 +0000

4 May 2010 a new 100-krone banknote is issued. Pleks was invited by Steen Ejlers to collaborate on a Danish custom typeface for the new Danish banknote series. And now the second banknote is issued.

Read about the 50-Krone banknote – TV spot (Danish) – TV spot (English)

We’re creating futures at DDC

ianbennett — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:00:29 +0000

If you’re interested in knowing what’s the role of the designer, the short answer is ‘many things’. And in the future it will be ‘many more things’ as technological, social and environmental changes impact us. As a contribution to the exhibition 10+ Design Forecast Pleks was asked to come up with our answer to the question of the designer’s role in the future. The result can now be seen at the exhibition at the Danish Design Centre.
10+ Design Forecast takes stock of Danish design in the first ten years of the new millennium and examines which design trends have a big role to play in the years to come.
Made in collaboration with Mark Stevens
Go and see from the 28th of April 2010 – 31st of October 2010

The Danish Design Centre – Download the poster

Talk about Strategic Design

ianbennett — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:46:19 +0000

Irene Lønne gives a talk about strategic design at a seminar arranged by Danish Designers. The seminar is the start of a new network at Danish Designers about strategic design. The takes place May 4th at Oticon.

More info: Danish Designers

Merging design and architecture – a year after

ianbennett — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:41:29 +0000

Its now been a year since the debate about merging the Danish Design School and The Danish Academy, School of Architecture began – what has happened since and who thinks what? Irene Lønne is commenting on the merging of the two institutions in the newsletter from Danish Architects Association.

Pleks designs new railway clock

ianbennett — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:50:08 +0000

Pleks has designed a new clock for stations and platforms in close collaboration with Banedanmark. The design has its point of departure in the danish design tradition though it radically changes the railway clock as we have known it since the seventies and is supporting the strategy of a more modern railway. The face of the clock is dark grey, with white strokes and arms. The arm showing the seconds is yellow. Colors, form and details are optimized to bring forward a distinct, clear and readable design. The clock is lightened from the front with LED lights used in a new way that has been specially developed for this project. Banedanmark is currently replacing the railway clocks at 115 stations as a part of a large updating project of the danish railway infrastructure.

Banedanmark press release

Member of Jury for the Danish EU presidency in 2012

ianbennett — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:00:14 +0000

Mads Quistgaard has been appointed as a member of the jury for the competition about the visual identity for the Danish EU presidency in 2012.
Denmark has held the EU presidency six times since it became a member of the EU 1 January 1973. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the Danish Design Centre have now arranged a competition for the visual identity for the seventh presidency.

The Danish Design Centre

New Web-site for Strategic Design Consortium

ianbennett — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:47:39 +0000

Irene Lønne is at the moment working on a research project about Strategic Design together with Aarhus School of Architecture – the initiative now has its own web-site: strategicdesign.aarch.dk

Member of board of representatives

ianbennett — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:00:01 +0000

Irene Lønne is reappointed as a member of the board of representatives at Kolding School of Design.

New Designer

ianbennett — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:27:40 +0000

The talented Stefan Thorsteinsson joined Pleks as Designer on February 1st. Stefan was previously working at Pleks as an intern and we’re delighted to welcome him on a full-time basis.

Strategic Design Consortium

ianbennett — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:20:27 +0000

Irene Lønne has been appointed Ass. Prof. at Aarhus School of Architecture. She will conduct initial research that will inform the establishment of a consortium for strategic design in Denmark. Irene works with a team of enthusiastic people – all with top interest and knowledge about strategic design as a driver for business and innovation.

More information (DK) – More information (ENG)

New intern

ianbennett — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:19:05 +0000

Troels Degett Holmsted joins us as an intern from The Danish Design School. He has just returned from studying in The Netherlands and we are pleased to have him at Pleks.

Papanek Commission

ianbennett — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:22:53 +0000

Mads Quistgaard is appointed member of the Papanek Commission at Danish Designers. The Papanek Commission’s role is to conduct research on sustainable design, CSR and democratic design and provide recommendations for implementation.

Ved Stranden

ianbennett — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:48:29 +0000

Ved Stranden 10 is the new and hip â€˜vinothekâ€™ in Copenhagen, offering a selection of excellent wines from Austria + elsewhere. The surroundings are comfortable, inviting yet utterly modern and well designed. The wine itself corresponds 100% with the setting. Pleks had the pleasure of contributing to the experience with a visual identity that is created in the same spirit

Strategic Design Consortium

ianbennett — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:38:53 +0000

Academic Research Project in collaboration with AAA (Århus Arkitektskole), Head of the design department, Jørgen Rasmussen, Irene Lønne, Assistant Professor.
The project seeks to investigate the grounds for strategic design in Denmark, establish common ground around the term, and frame its future potential – both as research topic and as a business tool – within the design industry itself as well as other business areas. Irene was granted a four-month post-doc as Ass. Prof. to work on the project.

Guldkorn

ianbennett — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:31:41 +0000

Guldkorn
Playful experience design

Problem
Guldkorn was a Danish award show for the creative industry (now called the Creative Circle Award). Inviting 18 different agencies to pitch for the prestigious job of designing the identity for the show, they happily picked Pleks.

Solution
We created a playful identity that combined circus imagary with award ribbons and primary colours for a tongue-in-cheek identity for the 2006 show. We produced vast amounts of products including animations, catalogues, set design, clothes etc.

Result
The identity provided a convincing experience of a fictional yet complete world, where everything from the entrance ticket, stage design, catalogue and the presenters’ wardrobe matched.

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Fritz Hansen

ianbennett — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:19:33 +0000

Fritz Hansen
Bridging product and brand

Problem
Fritz Hansen, a large manufacture of design furniture (from renowned architects and designers like Arne Jakobsen and Poul Kjærholm), has gone through a rebranding process and needed a product catalogue to support the new strategy and look.

Solution
Pleks collaborated with Fritz Hansen for eight months to get their new product catalogue just right in terms of design and art direction. In the making of the catalogue, Pleks introduced a new navigation system and developed an easy way to match products with the numerous upholstery options.

Result
80.000 catalogues around the world working for Fritz Hansen. The catalogue bridges product and brand via strong scandinavian design.

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