In the exhibition 'At Home in The Design Museum' over 200 examples of Icelandic design will be put on display. The museum counts over 5000 artifacts in their collection dating...
The exhibition Presence at The Museum of Design and Applied Arts showcases new sweaters by textile designer Ýrúrarí. The exhibition is based on experiments with various textile...
Ada Stańczak is a ceramic designer and material researcher based in Reykjavík. She received her education in cultural studies at the University of Warsaw and in ceramics at The...
FÍT in collaboration with The Museum of Design and Applied Art introduce The best book design from all over the World. The Stiftung Buchkunst - a German book design association...
The exhibition is focused on a selection of Roth’s output as a commissioned graphic designer, items less celebrated and more difficult to come by, due to their ephemeral nature...
Anna Gulla and Harper are master milliners trained at the Cutters Academy in Gothenburg where they met and fell in love in 2010. Based in Kölingared (SE) and Reykjavik (IS),...
Iceland’s municipal swimming pools have no customers, only guests - locals and visitors, people of all ages, backgrounds and body types, with different postures and...
Over the last months, the Museum of Design and Applied Art has been archiving the work of the architect Högna Sigurðardóttir (1929 – 2017). Högna was born in the Westman...
Agnes Freyja Björnsdóttir, Silvía Sif Ólafsdóttir and Sylvía Dröfn Jónsdóttir graduated from the Department of Product Design at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2020. Their...
The family of Högna Sigurðardóttir donated her architectural drawings along with documents, letters and photographs to the Museum og Design and Applied Art in 2019.
Sunna Örlygsdóttir was born in Reykjavik, IS. Before receiving a BA in fashion design from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, she spent a year training in traditional...
Few designers in Iceland have created as many works that are present in Icelanders’ daily life as Kristín Þorkelsdóttir. They can be seen in the most mundane of places—in...
Sveinbjörn Gunnarsson has worked as a graphic designer for the past 20 years. He has always been fascinated with miniatures and modelmaking and here he will get the chance to...
Natural dyes: a modern perspective
Sigmundur graduated from the fashion design program at the Icelandic University of the Arts in 2019. He has experience in innovative...
Ýr Jóhannsdóttir is a textile designer and artist who works under the name Ýrúrarí. In her work she adventurously knits together humour, movement and craft.
Wool is a sustainable, natural raw material with infinite possibilities. This exhibition showcases products made from Icelandic wool by contemporary designers and craftspeople...
Sigurbjörn Helgason has set up his workspace in the museum shop where he will be making birds, large and small. The adventurous birds are made from a variety of found...
The bookwork Paperflowers was made by Rúna over a period of two years on a Rotaprint machine at her studio in Amsterdam. It was in a print run of 100, bound into signed books....
An exhibition on the works of Sveinn Kjarval (1919–1981) at the Museum of Design and Applied Art focuses on his important pioneering work in Iceland in the field of furniture...
Icelandic Visual Language is the title of Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon’s ongoing research project on the history of applied graphic arts in Iceland.Opening will be held the 24th...
The aim of the project is to raise awareness of consumption and the amount of clothing that is being donated to The Red Cross. What happens to these items? What kind of...
Ásthildur Magnúsdóttir is a weaver and eider farmer. Her textile work covers everything from the finest damask to rough rya rugs. Ásthildur is a specialist in the history and...
Jewellery artist Anna Maria Pitt has set up her work space in the museum store. Anna María studied silversmithing and jewellery design at New Bucks University. In her work,...
Cities are perhaps humankind's greatest creation. They evolve out of the constant interplay of people and their environment. They consist of both visible elements, such as...
Iceland's ever-changing weather is the subject for designer and artist Shu Yi, who is setting up a design workspace in the entrance hall of the Design Museum. The artist...
To celebrate 100 years of constitutional independence of Iceland we are hosting an exhitibition on Instagram under the name 100ar100hlutir transletes to 100years100items. We...
Mannabein is a live exhibition where the designer, Torfi Fannar, has set up his work in the entrance of the museum and uses this space as his work base for the next few weeks....
Kron by Kronkron is the creation of Hugrún Árnadóttir and Magni Þorsteinsson. Over the last ten years they have designed 1200 pairs of shoes, which equates to a new pair every...
The product designer Hanna Jónsdóttir will be working here for the next few weeks on the project ÐYSLEXTWHERE. Her collaborator is Ingrid Brandth from Norway but they have been...
The Icelandic wool sweater has developed through the centuries from a sturdy item of work clothing, used primarily in difficult outdoor jobs on sea and land, to being a...
Design has been part of the publication of records from the very beginning but it wasn’t until the mid 20th century, when Drangey employee Tage Ammendrup started the record...
Þær Sonja Bent og Elín Hrund Þorgeirsdóttir hafa komið sér upp sýningar- og vinnuaðstöðu í anddyri Hönnunarsafnsins. Í sumar munu þær vinna að rannsóknarverkefni sem felur í...
Chair is a new exhibition that will open at the Museum of Design and Applied Art as part of DesignMarch 2017. The exhibition features a number of chairs by Icelandic...
An exhibition of a selection of drawings and sketches from the museum collection and from private collections will open on Saturday, November 19th. The pieces displayed provide...
Museum collections are collections. They are made up by a number of collected objects and sources that have some meaning to the museum and usually more than one. But how are...
The municipality of Garðabær in cooperation with the Iceland Design Centre held a competition this spring on a design for a new welcoming crest or logo to mark the entrance to...
Jewelry artist Helga Ragnhildur Mogensen, ceramic artist Bjarni Viðar Sigurðsson and fashion designer Anita Hirlekar have received deserved attention for their works in recent...
Steinunn, who lives and works on her art at Hulduhólar in Mosfellsbær, has had a long and prosperous career as ceramicist in Iceland. She is renowned for her elegant yet...
On DesignMarch we open a retrospective on graphic design. In a career that now spans 30 years, Ámundi Sigurðsson has worked every kind of project imaginable in visual mediums...
Fashion designer Helga Björnsson spent years in the midst of the haute couture at Louis Féraud in Paris and has created costumes for Icelandic theatres. Her drawings and...
The exhibition Are You Ready, Madam President? examines the wardrobe of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, a public figure in Icelandic society. Vigdís was fifty years old when she was the...
The Society of Icelandic Goldsmiths celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, and the exhibition Prýði/Splendor has been developed in collaboration with them to mark...
Exhibition on last year’s recipient of the Nordic Torsten and Wanja Söderberg prize, Hjalti Karlsson the Icelandic graphic designer who works with clients from various...
Dögg is an important representative of a growing group of Icelandic product designers who work with international manufacturers. Her varied designs reflect experiments with new...
Paradigm is a travelling exhibition featuring contemporary craft artists from Norway. Paradigm is an exhibition curated by the independent curator and artist Lars Sture and...
Towards modernity in Icelandic design The Museum of Design and Applied Art’s summer exhibition focuses on a few aspects of the arrival of modernism in Icelandic domestic...
Designers Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, Harri Koskinen, Front, Henrik Vibskov and Sigurd Bronger and Sigurður Gústafsson have all been awarded Torsten and Wanja Söderberg’s prize –...
Designers Steinunn Sigurðardóttir (IS), Harri Koskinen (FI), Front (SE), Henrik Vibskov (DK) and Sigurd Bronger (NO) and Sigurður Gústafsson (IS) have all been awarded Torsten...
On Museum Night the Museum of Design and Applied Art opens an exhibition featuring chosen items from the Glit Pottery from between the years 1958 and 1973. The exhibition...
Gísli B. is truly one of the most dynamic graphic designers in the history of 20th century Icelandic design. After returning from his studies in Germany in 1961, Gísli founded...
The story of a fleeting moment, a depiction of a moment in Icelandic product design over the past decade; the infancy of this discipline in times of transformation. ...
It is sometimes difficult to put into words the feelings invoked by something that moves us; but words are only one means of communication. We can also communicate using facial...
Since its foundation in 1998, the Museum of Design and Applied Art has collected numerous artifacts of high quality that shed light on Icelandic design. The collection now...
This exhibition is devoted to the Icelandic designer Gunnar Magnússon and his domestic furniture. He was born in 1933 in Olafsfjördur in the North of Iceland and studied...
Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir - Museum of Design and Applied Art’s exhibition at DesignMarch 2011 Using human hair as a main source of inspiration, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, a.k.a....
An overview of the work by this fascinating Icelandic product designer who has been making products that range from tiny utensils to complete series. Sigga Heimis has been...
Materials play a crucial role in all design and creativity. Often designers find inspiration in the qualities of the material, while on the other hand the material itself may...
