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Free Applications is a 3D-printed chair based on a rough model of a chair in 1:10 scale. Free, easy-to-use programmes were used for its design and modelling, allowing mistakes generated by the misinterpretations of AI technology at different stages of production. The search for a quick and flexible process in turn led toward a new … Continue reading Free Applications
LINK TO VIDEO Text by Henriette Noermark “Transport is absolutely crucial to the machinery of global production, but, given that it still makes huge use of fossil fuels, it is also one of the most problematic elements. During the pandemic, we saw what happens when transport does not work. We have become totally dependent on … Continue reading Active Cargo
Open Infinity’s shape is directly picked up from a container and then reproduced fifty times over. The curve’s predetermined shape makes the design process more effective as many steps can be excluded. The result is a suggestion — ”it could be like this” The 100% scrap-based steel wire is bent into shape in Värnamo, Småland. … Continue reading Open Infinity
– How do you decide if a smile is true ”One early morning during the covid winter of 2021 I had a rich and vivid dream. I woke up with a clear image of a smiling chair with alluring eyes. I tried to draw it immediately but it was impossible to describe and capture the … Continue reading Positive Enough
Designer of the year – Swedish Design Awards by RUM 2022 So happy. So honored. Thank you to the jury and to byRUM ❤ WATCH VIDEO >>> Motivation: With inspiring playfulness, Jenny Nordberg has taken on everything from lamps made of leftover metal to jewelery made of composite office material. With her creative approach to … Continue reading 22.02.03 DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
A 2 meter long cup made during Covid 2021 for the Between Objects project. Shown at The Classen Library during Copenhagen Art Week and at QB Gallery in Oslo, Norway.
The Accumulations lamp was born during the exhibition with the same name, Accumulations, shown at Olsson & Gerthel in 2020. “The exhibition Accumulations (September 9-26, 2020) at Olsson & Gerthel is based on a library of rejected elements, which through Nordberg’s disruptions are given new function and potential. In the performative presentation, she joints these … Continue reading Accumulations Lamp
A set of jewelry done for What Is Gold. A digital vendor and loosely arranged art, craft and design initiative. Independent practitioners and non traditional jewelers are offering artisanal produced items, one-offs and more within jewellery. What Is Gold is the place for rare findings. There are no middle hands and the author of the … Continue reading Office Supply
The Ghost
By jenny | March 11, 2021
Am I a ghost? For several years, Johnny Ståhl has held a position at my studio. His primary task is to send emails, especially to manufacturers and subcontractors of various kinds. The responses he gets are always helpful, quick and polite. Whenever someone wants to talk to Johnny though, he is never there. He hasn’t … Continue reading The Ghost
Book about the practice of Jenny Nordberg. Published in 2020 by Nilleditions. Buy it here. “Jenny Nordberg is arguably the brightest shining star in contemporary Swedish design. Her experimental and forward looking design practice manages to bring together a series of values that for most designers is very hard to achieve, if not unobtainable – … Continue reading Strategies for moving freely