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Me and my homemade camera and A selfportrait
25.08.10 Photography | Build your own pinhole camera of cardboard and gaffa tape and take a selfportrait with it.
Box
25.08.10 Art | The students had to find a box in which they should make an installation or build a room.
A Cabin for a Fisherman
25.08.10 Architecture | From an analysis of a specific site in Skive harbour, the task was to transform the work to an abstract model.
introducing graphic design fall 2010
25.08.10 Graphic Design | Double portraits of brand new students and the letter that is created especially for them by their new workmates in graphic design.
THE SUMMER EXHIBITION
20.06.10 Exhibition | Here are some images from the great summer exhibition 2010.
Designing an intervention
19.06.10 Design | In relation to the "Skive Festival" the students had to design some form of intervention, that involved the festival-goers.
SKIVE-RÜGEN-BERLIN-SKIVE
10.06.10 Graphic Design | The experiment at this year's study trip was a camping trip to Rügen in the former East Germany, followed by four days of traditional study trip to Berlin. Mapping, exhibitions, nice bookstores and visits to great graphic designers.
BERLIN AND ART
10.06.10 Art | Galleries, exhibition places, meting artists and experienceing the city. Among others we saw the big Olafur Eliasson and the huge Bruce Nauman shows.
Foto AND ObjeCt
10.06.10 Photography and Design | Photography and designed objects are intertwined in a state of dependence in a world where pictures of objects increasingly communicate their presence rather than the actual object in itself ...
> Read more, see photos from Photography
> Read more, see photos from Design
Barcelona
10.06.10 Architechture | This semester the architecture and design classes went on a fieldtrip to Barcelona. The intention of the trip was to visit the city's many open spaces and famous buildings, as well as the not so well known.
Beautiful Barcelona
10.06.10 Design | Design and architecture left rainy Skive and went on a studytrip to sunny Barcelona. Southeropean architecture, multidisciplinary designoffices, stringent studios, well assorted tapasbars and much much more ...
FROM PICTURE TO REALITY
10.06.10 Architechture | Zooming into a detail in a photograph. Convert the detail into a piece of architecture.
> Read more, see photos
HOLLYWOOD SIGN
10.06.10 Graphic Design | The students at Graphic Design have each made a sign with the Hollywood typography. With the sign they were to make a mythology about a self-elected place at the school so that this place in the future would welcome dreamers, artists, Austrian bodybuilders and other students welcome at Krabbesholm.
Yarn Bombing
19.05.10 Design | or "Yarn Grafitti" is a principle for combining a traditional craft, knitting, with a temporary craft, grafitti ...
Site-specific action
19.05.10 Architecture and Design | Design and Architecture spent 4 spring-days working together on a mutual project. The intention was to work with the concept of a place, to consider the qualities of a chosen spot ...
Shape and surface
17.05.10 Design | This project tries to present findings in the area of shape and surface in various kinds of catalogues.
Visuals as Space
17.05.10 Graphic Design | Together with guest teacher and former student Daniel Nørregaard the Graphic Design students were working with visuals in relation to space. 2D, 3D, no space or something comepletely different.
SCI-FI NIGHTCLUB
15.04.10 Art | A transformation of the artspace into a installation with objects, light, sound, projections and colours. A kind of trashy, surrealistic sci-fi nightclub with inspiration from different cult movies were the result.
Foldings
15.04.10 Architecture | A folded architecture with a function, a user and a location ...
TYPOGRAPHICAL MILK
15.04.10 Graphic Design| An assignment on differing between a series of products using typography. In this case a local milk ...
Michel Auder: ”Dinner is Served”
Four Boxes Gallery
27.02.–14.03.2010
Opening 27.02.10 at 20 pm | Krabbesholm is delighted to host Michel Auder's first solo exhibition in Denmark at our new exhibition space Four Boxes Gallery. The exhibition will display new video and photo works by the artist, along with some of Auder's earlier works never before exhibited in Denmark.
SKETCHING WEEK
10.03.10 Architecture | We had a week with sketching-technique - using ink, pencil, chalk.
metamorphosis
09.03.10 Architecture | Using the concepts of volume and plane the students were assigned to create variations of forms and architectural space.
LANGUAGE AND OBJECT
07.03.10 Art | On 2,5 meter long laths of larch tree the art students have written texts about their favorite places ...
MAKE ME “HOT”
07.03.10 Photography | This week was about making each other “hot”, maybe even in a way the students had never seen themselves before – a transformation.
BOOK SHELVES
07.03.10 Graphic Design | Graphic design students have made shelves for their three favorite books.
Product line
07.03.10 Design | Printed motifs can be used to connect – otherwise unrelated – products into a product line.
BIRDBOOKS
02.03.10 Graphic Design | If you imagine that communication is always hitting the right spot you are wrong. It is equally difficult to aim your communication towards business men aged 25 to 45, as towards a bird!
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workshop Workspace
02.03.10 Design | For a crossdisciplinary workshop the designteam produced a series of furniture, that served as a temporary inventory for the BowWow-exhibitionhall.
COVER VERSION
03.02.10 Art | The student had to find an artist from the last 10 (or 50 years) and make one or more cover versions of her works.
NYCHTAGRAFI
10.02.10 Photography | After experimenting with various types of photograms, we set out to remake Strindberg’s celestographs by placing photographic paper directly on the ground and letting it be exposed to the night sky.
HELVETICA FAVORITES
03.02.10 Graphic Design | After watching the Documentary we set Helvetica on a test for the semester's first real assignment. A poster project with its startingpoint in a quote from the movie.
Space and interior
03.02.10 Design | The first big assignment for the designstudents this spring was to create their own workspace.
lost highway
03.02.10 Photography | Picture yourself as Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty or Robert Loggia! Individually or in groups the students have made serias of photos capturing the visuals of the movie.
krabbesholm library
03.02.10 Architecture | Based on several light experiments the students were assigned to draw a library for the school.
THE WINTER EXHIBITION
13.12.09 Exhibition | Here are images from the great winter exhibition for the autumn term 2009.
sweeping up project
06.12.09 Art | The american artist Michael Stickrod’s teaching were referencing a work by the great and late german artist Joseph Beuys: "Sweeping Up".
berlin
06.12.09 Architecture | On a field trip to Berlin we visited the Bauhaus school in Dessau, The Jewish Museum, Le Corbusier Haus, The Olympic stadium, National Gallerie, Sony center, The Memorial Place, Spree Park, The Crematorium in Berlin, The Rigstag ... and many other places.
Middle of nowhere
06.12.09 Photography | In a bus from Skive to a little town that only was chosen for its name. Everybody went to by themselves to their chosen town, a travel to the unknown ...
THE YELLOW CROCODILE
10|09|08|07.12.09 & 27|26|25|24|23.11.09 Graphic Design | The Yellow Crocodile is today's visual commentary on a political headline. It marks an active position - a necessity if you want to train your ability to communicate visually.
How to enjoy space
08.12.09 Architecture | In 3 days the students then had to sketch and construct a spatial commentary to the existing space using black mdf-board.
Mobile sound devices
08.12.09 Design | In this assignment the students had to make a portable sound-device that reflected their own needs and definitions of portability.
LONDON
08.12.09 Design | Exciting visits at museums, at schools, at design bureaus, small studios and workshops, in shops , eating out and hanging out - overwhelming and rewarding.
HALLOWEEN
25.11.09 Photography | With Halloween serving as the stylistic and thematic inspiration, the students were asked to construct horrific images of an unknown backside of the old manor, Krabbesholm.
A POLITICAL STATEMENT
24.11.09 Architecture | With starting point in Skive Folkeblad, students at architecture have been asked to find an article that can be commented on with an architectural response.
POSTERS
11.11.09 Art | Art students have made posters based on poems they have written themselves. The poster have been displayed in the neighbourhood of Sankt Hans Torv in Copenhagen where they act as private statements in the public space.
reenactment
11.11.09 Photography | Reenactment also serves as a good way of gaining practical experience with lighting, recording, editing etc. – when you reenact, the contents is already given allowing the student to pay her/his full attention to the technical aspects of film- and video production.
BAUHAUS POSTERS
10.11.09 Graphic Design | The graphic design students have designed a series of posters for the a furniture exhibition made by the architecture students. The posters are based on discussions of the Bauhaus concept from the 1920s ...
A tool for a trade
09.11.09 Design | Creating a tool for the hand that represents the users personality whilst taking usability into account.
Objects from Bottles, Bags and Boxes
09.11.09 Design | We have been collecting plastic bottles, plastic or paper bags and cardboard boxes of any size, shape or colur to form a material ressource.
Personality Objectified
09.11.09 Design | A simple exercise - on paper. Take an existing piece of furniture, and give it the necessary treatment so that it can be described in the same way that you can.
Plywood furniture
09.11.09 Architecture | To increase comprehension of the importance in regards to detailing when working with architecture, this 1:1 scale assignment is an exploration of the furniture-types; table, chair and shelving unit.
COLLAGE
21.10.09 Art | The Norwegian visual artist and musician is an artist in residence for a couple of months. He taught working with collage for a week. Some of the results are shown here.
STYLE AND PERSONALITY
21.10.09 Graphic Design and Photography | By using the language of fashion photography, the students have created sensitive portraits, which lifts the individual out of daily life at the school and into a dreamworld of beauty and success.
Residence for a student
21.10.09 Architecture | The purpose of the assignment was to elaborate a multi-purpose furniture/interior in a 20 m2 space to contain and fulfill the various needs of student life.
Silhouette Showpieces
08.10.09 Design | We are dealing with 2 essential issues in fashion in this project - the overall form: the silhouette and the object of extravaganza: the showpiece.
FOUR BOXES GALLERY: COLLECTIVE SPIRITS
03.10.09 – 23.10.09 | Artists: Atelier Bow-Wow (J), Yvette Brackman (US/DK), Kajsa Dahlberg (SE), Nina Beier and Marie Lund (DK/UK) and Søren Martinsen (DK). In our new exhibition space by Atelier Bow-Wow at Krabbesholm we are happy to present the exhibition ‘Collective Spirits’. The exhibition aims to discuss various new collective forms and work-process in our society today.
FOUR BOXES GALLERY OPENING
05.10.09 | Picture from the opening of Four Boxes gallery ... and the party.
ATELIER BOW-WOW
03.10.09 | Krabbesholm is pleased to announce the opening of Four Boxes Gallery, a new exhibition building designed by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow.
Vest St.
29.09.09 Interior Design | The furnishing project for Vest St. is now finished. Carsten Johansen has designed a concept of tubular steel furniture based on a multi funktional cupboard wall. Kristian Bust has in cooperation with Chriscoating made a floor painting in red and white covering the entire ground plan.
CODE 09
30.09.09 Graphic Design | On CODE 09 Krabbesholm has presented the winning projects from our design competition for a stool for the new exhibition building at Krabbesholm Højskole.
MY PERSONAL BUSINESSCARD
30.09.09 Exhibitions | An assignment on drawing and producing a font to be used on your personal businesscard. Guest teacher: Fontdesigner Trine Rask
HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE
09.09.09 Art | Examples from the introductory course at the artclass. We worked with a starting point in the documentary "Here is always somewhere else".
STOPMOTION
09.09.09 Photography | As a joint start of the semester all students across the different main courses have worked with film as a theme. On the photography course the students ended up making a stop motion movie with their camera.
Parasitic Furniture
09.09.09 Design | A parasitic piece of furniture is a small scale piece of furniture or furnishing that only works in coherence with another piece of furniture or another element in the home.
wearable
09.09.09 Design | When in need of a visual media, sound and in particular music may create pictures in our mind. Here we try to transform impressions from one media to another, - fra auditive to visual 3-dimensionality. Into a wearable ...
'light box'
09.09.09 Architecture | With inspiration from 'The Pillow Book' by P. Greenway, the students had to create a scenic room where the main character of the movie, Nagiko, would meet her lovers.
filmposters
09.09.09 Graphic Design | Small videos filmed with the build-in camera on the Mac. The posters shown are filmposters retelling the stories from the small documentaries.
ARCHITECTURE POSTERS
09.09.09 Architecture | The architecture students have designed posters on the architecture at Krabbesholm.
SUMMER EXHIBITION 2009
22.06.09 | Here are some images from the great school leaving exhibition for the summer term 2009.
> See photos
ADMISSIONS FOR ART ACADEMYS
08.06.09 Art | Every spring the students from the art course prepares their application for various educational institutions. This year students have been accepted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, The Jutland Art Academy, Goldsmiths in London, Central Saint Martins in London and the two Danish design schools in Copenhagen and Kolding.
My favourite pHOTO
20.06.09 Photography | During the semester a lot of pictures has been taken in the spare time. Here each photography student presents their favourite photo of today, for now ...
SKIVE NEW HARBOUR FRONT
20.06.09 Architecture | The vision for Skive New Harbour was to create a meetingplace for the youth of the city including culturel activities.
FORM
18.06.09 Photography and Design | ”When things’ way of being things form a synthesis and when the visual statement of things is reconciled with its way of functioning in the three-dimensional world, true moments of bliss will occur.”
> Read more and see photos and design
BERLIN POSTERS
18.06.09 Graphic Design | Grafisk Design’s study trip went to Berlin. We were visiting famous studios, we were studying the typography of the streets, we were watching architecture and fine arts - and returning home everybody did a poster inspired by the trip.
> Read more and see the posters
EUROPALLET CHAIRS
11.06.09 Design | Furniture made out of Europallets. Raw and industrial structures converted into seating devices with a close contact to the body.
> Read more, see photos and download recipes
COLLECTIVE STRING PROJECT
11.06.09 Architecture | To change peoples' body movements and experiences of space by involving people in Krabbesholm physical surroundings and by using the material Polykordel string with a breakage at 54 kg pr. string.
Holland
11.06.09 Architecture | This years trip for the schools architecture - and design classes went to the Netherlands.
PEEPSHOW
Peepshow in a former optician's shop in Istedgade
Exhibition: 25.04.09 - 23.05.09 non-stop
In a display window in a former optician's shop in Istedgade in Copenhagen, you will during the next month have the opportunity to take a peep into another world.
> Read more, see photos and videos from the exhibition
PHOTO APPLICATIONS
01.05.09 Photography | During the semester some of the students have sent in applications for different photography schools. Here you can see three of our photography students' applications.
WIRED FURNITURE
29.04.09 | 1,4 mm of wire was used for sketching 3 typologies: Coffeetable, chair and storage.
akkurat - a whole family
29.04.09 | Graphic Design has spend a week amongst lower-case, upper-case, x-heights, ascenders, descenders, baselines, medians, ligatures, serifs.
CAUGHT IN ACTION
27.04.09 | Starting from the primary components of a lamp being bulb, cord, socket and plug, lamps have been developed that relate to need, context, concept and fantasy.
ITS ALL BLUE
27.04.09 | Blue is the colour of the sky and the sea. Blue is the favourite colour of the Western World. The darkblue suit and the blue denim, that remind us of cowboys and the Wild West.
HOME ASSIGNMENTS
27.04.09 | A lot of our students are every spring applying for the Graphic Design schools in Denmark and abroad.
sex
07.04.09 | An assignment on sex. The students should work with the theme in a subtle and discrete manner. And there are no graphic scenes or images of bodies allowed. The students decide for themselves what has "sexappeal".
fashion photography
07.04.09 | Three assignments with fashion and commercial photographer Mikkel Strange. In all the pictures there has been worked a lot with light both natural and artificial.
transformation
07.04.09 | For 2 weeks the architecture students worked with the term transformation using different materials, means of expression and working methods.
tectonics
07.04.09 | When aesthetics meet statics. What happens when the small cardboard model turns into a 1:1 scale structure?
WINNER OF THE BOW-WOW STOOL COMPETITION
The 10 finalists in the competition have now produced their stools in 1:1 and the jury consisting of representatives of PP Møbler, Atelier Bow-Wow and Krabbesholm Højskole has chosen a winner.
It was not an easy choice!
A Song
23.03.09 | A different kind of teamwork where you work together in pairs of two. You find a piece of music that has a meaning to you. Then you give the song to your partner that has to photograph a series to the tune ...
POSTERS
23.03.09 | Graphic design students have developed and cut their own movable types to be used for posters quoting famous artists ...
Chair of plenty
15.03.09 | A chair that consists of many of one kind. The presentes results show how this will direct the shape, composition, expression and construction of the chair.
The art party
15.03.09 | At the Artparty the artstudio was decorated with sculptural objects upon which there were livevisuals projected, The party started with a concert with Snöleoparden and Henning Frimann.
THE DAYLIGHT
14.03.09 | The room is 25m x 15m x 7m ... Yuo are only allowed 6 openings for the daylight to pass through.
PLASTIC-FANTASTIC
12.03.09 | Focusing on light the architecture class prepared spaces for one of Krabbesholm's bigger party events.
> See photos
fashion label
12.03.09 | How do you create a fashion label, tell the story through the logotype and the visual identity?
Camera Obscura
21.02.09 | The camera used in this assignment was a pinholecamera. A camera that can be made out of cardboard and tape.
COLOR
21.02.09 | Here are examples of the results of working with to different assignments. One about the overlooked – and mybe boring – reality and one with colors as the theme and content.
LIGHT AND SHADOW
21.02.09 | Photographed analogue (for real) and printed in the darkroom.
SCULPTURE
21.02.09 | The assignment was to construct a polychrome sculpture from very basic/common materials. The sculpture had to be either figurative or nonficurative but in that case with a content realting to reality.
PPO
21.02.09 | Place - Person - Object ...
INTRODUCTION COURSE TO DRAWING
21.02.09 | It is not always easy to disseminate your surroundings and architechtural visions.
This years course we began sketching, measuring and learning different ground principles in the world of drawing and perspektiv drawing. Now it is up to the individual student to develop their own technique.
The twisted truth
21.02.09 | Series of two pictures that should look into one of the qualities that photography has, the ability to lie.
SUIT THE HAND
21.02.09 | A knife is a tool and it has to solve a problem for the user. Make a knife that will make you feel dressed up for the task.
SOL LEWITT Posters
21.02.09 | Silk screen printed posters. Inspired by the artist Sol LeWitt’s “35 Sentences on Conceptual Art”. The work with silk screen prints often produces small errors and mistakes resulting in a more handmade aestetic which is very beautiful. Small gifts so to speak!
INTRO WORKSHOP
20.01.09 | A few photos from the intro workshop spring semester 2009. Subjects were
places - person - network; and everybody ended up with masks.
> See photos
WINTER EXHIBITION
14.12.08 | Here are some images from the great school leaving exhibition for the autumn term 2008.
> See photos
BOW-WOW STOOL FINALE
13.12.08 | In cooperation with PP Møbler, Krabbesholm Højskole arranged 1st October a competition for a stool for the new exhibition building at Krabbesholm Højskole designed by the Japanese drawing office Bow-Wow.
There were many exciting ideas and many original suggestions for the Bow-Wow stool.
The jury evaluated every single stool and after a thorough discussion, it selected the following 10 finalists:
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LEISURE SCAPE
12.12.08 | The focus of the assignment, was to develop a new concept for an urban landscape based on leisure and recreation economy.
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DIFFERENT STUFF
12.12.08 | Here are some images documenting different works in the last two months of the fall semester.
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LIVE VISUALS
12.12.08 | The students made live visuals for the Friends’ Party at the 1. of November.
Guest teachers: Anders Gerning & Steffen Bygebjerg
> See video
KRABBESHOLM IN THE FUTURE
06.11.08 | The students assignment was to holistically redesign the school.
Through discussions, observations and interviews, each group had to define the architectural problem they intended to solve.
> See photos
ANNA GULMANN
Workshop
31.10.-27.11.2008
31.10.08 | The KBH Kunsthal shows the results of a workshop on upholster held by the designer Anna Gulmann done in cooperation with the design students at Krabbesholm Højskole.
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UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE
31.10.08 | Anna Gulmann asked the students to upholster an already existing chair. The upholstery were to give the chair a new function, a new design, a new life.
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TOP 5
29.10.08 | An assignment with a personal Top 5 as a starting point. Different techniques were to be used: photo, text, illustration, collage and typography.
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THE RECREATIONAL HOUSE
29.10.08 | The students had to design a small house, a small house with many possibilities. More or less an autocamper without wheels.
> See photos
FASHION
29.10.08 | From the dramatic universe of Stanley Kubrick’s film, Eyes Wide Shut, the students did a very glamourous clothing collection of love, sex & death.
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CONCEPTUAL BASED PAINTING
29.10.08 | The norwegian artist Marianne Hurum had a workshop in conceptual based painting with a lot of short and fast assignments.
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ESCUTCHEON
27.10.08 | An assignment on making an escutcheon / coat of arms for yourself. Some of the students decided to include important periods of their life, some their personality of today.
> See photos
KBH KUNSTHAL: TOVE STORCH (DK)
20.10.08 | Tove Storch has created a specific exhibition for Kbh Kunsthals 7 glass cases. The exhibition contains 7 silk boxes in various sizes. One box for each glass case. The boxes consist of a simple wooden construction where around there are wrapt a thick silk satin in different metallic colours.
> Read more, see photos from the exhibition
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
27.09.08 | Three workshop days transversely to the main subjects. The students were devided into seven groups, each group illustrating one of the deadly sins in scale 1:10.
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INSPIRED BY LONDON
27.09.08 | This autumn semester's study trip went to London ...
> See posters
PACKING
27.09.08 | The students were assigned to work on packing for non-existent products.
> See photos
PHOTOGRAPHING ARCHITECTURE
27.09.08 | The students had to take a photograph with a staged motive. Architecture was to be the main focus.
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A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
27.09.08 | We all have things and objects that immediately puts us in contact with the past - a teddy from a fun parc, the first joystick for a game ...
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REALITY
27.09.08 | The first two weeks of the students stay in the artclass were spend working with the theme "Reality".
> See photos
MOBILE-CHARGER-DEVICE
27.09.08 | Design a device or an extension for you mobilephone and charger-unit that unites the two in an appropriate way.
> See photos
ILLUSTRATION
04.09.08 | Illustrations made for short shories by nordic authors. Black and white vector graphics and maybe with a little colour.
> See illustrations
THE ORDINARY MAN'S EDIFYING EXCURSION CABINET
by Hartmut Stockter (DE/DK)
23. August – 19. September 2008
25.08.08 | At the exhibition The Ordinary Man’s Edifying Excursion Cabinet at Kbh Kunsthal Hartmut Stockter presents several of his works that all take shapes as tools and instruments.
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INTRO'S
25.08.08 | 'From shape to substance' was the theme for all courses as intro.
> Art, architecture, product design, graphic design
SUMMER EXHIBITION
25.06.08 | Here are some images from the great school leaving exhibition for the spring term 2008.
> See photos
AMSTERDAM
25.06.08 | The architecture-class went to Holland on this years study-trip. We saw works of among others Koolhaas, UN-studio, MVRDV in around Almere, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Hilversum.
> See the photos
THE EAST LOOP. THE PAPER
25.06.08 | A newspaper and a poster series from the trip to the East. With texts, photos, sketches og typography from each student.
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EXHIBITION I COPENHAGEN
20.06.06 | The whole photography team got the possibility to exhibit in Vesterbro in the new art and gallery corner of Kødbyen.
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LONDON TRIP
20.06.06 | We had a great study trip to London looking on art, architecture, men and things.
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THE EAST LOOP. THE TRIP
20.06.06 | Exploring typographics, the story of Bauhaus, shrinking cities, the Berlin Art Biennale, The studio of Hort in berlin, Booka Shade, Tillmans and maybe a few things more.
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LIGHTING
20.06.06 | The assignment was to make a pendel and name it according to the light it produces.
Three light sources were abailable.
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2 OR 3 THINGS ABOUT A SPACE: A SYMPOSIUM
17.05.08 | The symposium is a series of presentations by artists, designers, architects, and curators seeking to imagine the conditions for a curatorial program that can be hosted in Krabbesholm’s new building designed by the Tokyo based architect firm Atelier Bow-Wow and scheduled to begin construction this fall of 2008.
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ARTNERS WORKSHOP
27.05.08 | The guest teachers Tobias Røder and Mikkel Lemvig confronted each graphich design student with a personal assignment.
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AN EATING PLACE
24.05.08 | The students were assigned to design a new restaurant for Krabbesholm forest. By studying the building site and the nature of this area, they had to decide what specific kind of kitchen that would be appropriate for the area ...
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WHITE HOUSE - REDUX
24.05.08 | The project White House Redux is a competition arranged by the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York.
The idea was to shape a new White House for the 44th president of the USA.
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15 KRABBESHOLM STUDENTS AT CHARLOTTENBORG SPRING EXHIBITION
12.04.08 | 15 students from the Krabbesholm spring course are represented at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition ...
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MY OWN ASSIGNMENT
15.05.08 | The students should write their own assignment, thereafter they had to choose either their own or one of the other assignments …
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MOCKUMENTARY
15.05.08 | With a starting point in reality each student had to fabricate a fictional story and support this with photographic documentation …
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GOODIEPAL TOUR DE FORCE CONTINUED
05.05.08 | Goodiepal’s new educational book “Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra” has just had its world premiere at the Berlin Biennale. Right after the Berlin Biennale Goodiepal has had a workshop with the new students at Krabbesholm.
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TO DRAW IN SKETCHUP
05.05.08 | Starting with an old facade and an oversight drawing of Helene's house were the students to draw and visualize this in Sketch Up. This programme is good for both sketching and for presentations.
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MAPPING VIBORG
05.05.08 | In collaboration with the gallery "Brænderigaarden" and the art association in Viborg the architechture team and the art team created a project to make Viborg's spaces in the city more visible.
> See the photos
ART ACADEMY APPLICATIONS
05.05.08 | Here are examples of what the students from the artclass send to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ as application for admission this year. Some of the images are stills from video's.
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NGO
05.05.08 | Designprogram: logo, website, letter, posters, slogans, etc for fictitious ngo-organisation.
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APPLYING FOR THE DESIGNSCHOOLS
05.05.08 | Part of the students spent a couple of weeks on the home assignment for the designschools in Denmark. The themes this year was conflicts or vulcanoes.
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MOODBOARDS
05.05.08 | For the home assignment for the design schools, featuring the issue of ”conflict”, a broad variety of moodboards were produced as part of the research, - have a look at some of them:
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GOODIEPAL TOUR DE FORCE CONTINUED
12.04.08 | On the 16th of April 2008 Goodiepal will relocate his students from
the Danish Royal Academy of Music in Århus to Berlin for what appears
to be the last lecture in a series of computer and electronic music
composition teachings for DIEM, Dansk Institut for Elektronisk Musik.
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PORTRAIT
19.03.08 | A week with focus on light with fashion and commercial photographer Mikkel Strange as guest teacher.
> See the photos
TANGRAM CLOTHING
19.03.08 | Tangram is a traditional Chinese puzzle made out of 7 pieces that form a square - or anything else.
> See the photos
LIGHTS FOR PALACE DESIGN
19.03.08 | Various ways of interpretating the well known rice paper lamp, - to a little shop, Palace Design ...
> See the photos
KRABBESHOLM WALLPAPER
19.03.08 | Sitespecific wallpapers for various locations at the school.
> See the photos
CONTENT
10.03.08 | Projects defined by political, social or psychological dimensions ...
Guest teacher: Kristian Körner
> See the photos
HELVETICA - A DOCUMENTARY
10.03.08 | We spend a week celebrating the 50th anniversary of Helvetica ...
> See the photos
ARTIST BOOKS
10.03.08 | A group of students from each main course should produce at least one Artist Book during a week ...
> See the photos
AURICULA
29.03.08 | Auricula is a sound art exhibition at Krabbesholm Kbh Kunsthal featuring the artists; Ann Lislegaard, Stormhat (aka Peter Bak Nicolaisen), Lars Tingskov Mikkelsen and Ursula Nistrup. Auricula is curated by Kristina Valborg Valberg.
> Read more, see photos
LANDSCAPE AND MAN
27.02.08 | Unspoiled nature, the grandness in the large scale
landscape or in the close up - vs the
traces that man leaves in nature.
> See the photos
INTRO PROJECT 2008
07.02.08 | The spring semester 2008 started with all main courses on the same project.
> See the photos
PLAY
07.02.08 | Most people perceive play to be spending time without purpose, which makes the idea of play in serious contexts unnescessary - such of an astronaut at a space station or a soldier in Afghanistan. Extraordinary workplaces need particular attendance though.
> Read more, see the photos
THE FIRST LOGOTYPE
07.02.08 | The startingpoint was a fictive clothing brand or music label. The elements where geometric shapes and type+ one color. Since the assigment included an introduction to the screenprint workshop the whole result should be made by hand - including a t-shirt.
> See the photos
THE WINTER EXHIBITION
17.12.07 | Here are some images from the great school leaving exhibition for the autumn
term 2007.
> See the photos
GOODIEPAL WORKSHOP
17.12.07 | Together with seven students from Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium and Krabbesholm students Goodiepal has made an exhibition for KBH Kunsthal.
> See the photos
BLACK LIGHT
30.11.07 | The Graphic Design and Product Design classes worked together producing scenery, light, visuals, graphics, drinks ... and lots of atmosphere to a party with the theme: Black Light.
> See the photos
SVEND DANIELSEN WORKSHOP
30.11.07 | The danish painter Svend Danielsen stayed here a week to teach painting. The students worked with simple color and motivepractices.
> See the photos
BOOK PROJECT
24.11.07 | In this project the students were introduced to the actual making of a book. We focused on duration and navigation with in a book.
> See the photos
CROSSINGS / TRANSITIONS AS SPACE
24.11.07 | Transitions are defined as a place in which you're not staying naturally.
The students were to expand/prolong the time in which someone passing by would be in the transition without pausing in the walk.
> See the photos
A RELIGIOUS SPACE
24.11.07 | The purpose of this assignment was to exemplify a type of working process within architecture. Based on different experiments with light the students had to create continuing, adjacent religious spaces.
> See the photos
MURDER
14.11.07 | These pictures starts from the duet between Nick Cave and Kylie Minoque's "Where the wild roses grow" from Murder Ballads.
> See the photos
ELECTION POSTERS
14.11.07 |
Design new logo and three posters for the party you are going to vote for to the general election. Only one typeface, only one color and only one graphic element on the posters.
> See the photos
A SPACIAL INVESTIGATION USING LIGHT AS INSPIRATION
07.11.07 | By making test with daylight, the students were asked to create a spacial experiments with religious connotations.
> See the photos
EXHIBITION
07.11.07 | Some images from our midsemester show.
> See the photos
DESIGN WITH DIGNITY
07.11.07 | Consumerism is a way of being part of a community and a way of creating identity. But some groups of consumers are more rarely spoken to than others - could be people suffering from tinitus, incontinence or being blind a.o. They are not "worth" approaching.
> See the photos
MAGAZINE
07.11.07 | An oldie but a goodie in terms of working through the different aspects of graphic design:
Development of ideas, development of a concept, grid, layout, choosing and using of typeface, logo, use of pictures...
> See the photos
ECSTACY
07.11.07 | Interdisciplinary workshop for architecture, art and photography students
Groups with mixed participants came together to take part in the workshop. The assignment was to focus on two stages in the course of events of an ecstatic moment.
> See the photos
FONTS AND SIGNS
24.10.07 | An assignment on stealing letters from signboards or -posts in the city of Skive ... and then mixing them together and making a 'common sign-font'. The pictures shows posters made with the final fonts.
> See the photos
IT'S FUN TO PAINT
24.10.07 | The artist Kristian Bust was here and had a painting course for beginners. The weather was fine and the students worked with different assignments ...
> See the photos
PHOTO CHANGES
05.10.07 | An assignment on photographing one of the fellow students in a way so she appeared another person. More beautiful or another type.
> See the photos
SKETCHUP-INTRO
26.09.07 | The students were introduced to the drawing program Sketchup.
> See the photos
7 CORRUPTED CHAIRS
12.09.07 | For their exhibition 7 CORRUPTED CHAIRS at KBH Kunsthal SUPERFLEX has challenged 20 students from Krabbesholm to practise corruption in connection with the production of 7 different chairs.
> See the photos
SLEEP WELL
12.09.07 | The students were asked to find a place to sleep outside their own bed, make a set of night clothes and document their sleep by means of photography, video, drawing or painting.
> See the photos
STORING
12.09.07 | Pick your favourite piece of wear and design an object to keep it!
> See the photos
VARIATIONS OF A T-SHIRT
12.09.07 | Experimenting with shape and expression. Using only needle, thread and jerseys for manufacturing it - of many kinds.
> Read more, see the photos
MATERIALIZE ME – HANDMADE FOR MASS PRODUCTION
09.09.07 | What happens to a CD when you put it in the oven? How do you turn the organic waste from the sewage into an object? What can you do with 1000 coat hangers? A week of materialising!
> Read more, see the photos
THE FIRST WEEK
05.09.07 | In the first week of art the students worked with small assignments from day to day. Such as: the readymade, beauty, provocation and the role of communication in an artwork.
>
Here are some of the results
A3 / A1
05.09.07 | Personal intro-assignment that turned into a workshop. Finally a poster in A1 was realised using silkscreen technique. Guest teachers: Mads Freund Brunse & Gudmundur Ulfarsson
> See posters
ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2007
05.09.07 | In keeping with tradition once again this year Krabbesholm was invited to do a project for the Roskilde Festival. By the end of the semester 23 students moved to Roskilde to build Orange Bar at the festival campus – the most prestigious project ever made by the højskole for the festival.
> See photos from the bar
SUMMER EXHIBITION 07
24.06.07 | Photos from the final exhibition for the spring class. We will miss you :-)
> Take a look ...
MEDIATION OF NATURE
23.06.07 | From a week with the canadian artist Terence Gower where the students worked with sitespecificity in the surrounding nature.
> See photos
A PLACE
17.06.07 | The soul of a place. A favorite place. A inner space. A space where one does something special. A wondering of what a place is.
> See photos
LETTERS
17.06.07 | Graphic Designers and former Krabbesholm students, Line Jensen og Mads Hougaard, were in charge of the graphic design class for two weeks i may.
> See photos
THE FUTURE HOUSING IN SKIVE
17.06.07 | The students assignment was to reorganize the southern part of the harbour in Skive. Different types of future housing were created through a mapping of the area.
> See photos
DRESS MY FACE
17.06.07 | The students made for nerds, for barbie-girls, glasses inspired by rolls royce and optical art as well as very biiiiig sunglasses ... in collaboration with a local shop, who had invited a designer of glasses, Antette Estø, to tell her opinion.
> See photos
STOPMOTION FILM [2:02]
17.06.07 | Making a stop motion movie allows you to play with animation in a primitive way.
> See photos
STUDYTRIP HOLLAND
17.06.07 | The architecture classes went to Holland to study architecture.
We saw the hottest, the most famous and the most spectacular architecture in Amsterdam, Almere, Hilversum, Utrech and Rotterdam.
> See photos
TYPO BERLIN 07
17.06.07 | Again this year we were lucky enough to get tickets for TypoBerlin2007.
Combining a huge european conference with a city full opportunities and you have the setup for a perfect study trip.
> See photos
ACADEMY APPLICATIONS
15.05.07 | Here are some examples of what was made for applying at the artacademy in Copenhagen this year.
> See photos
STUDYTRIP TO BARCELONA
15.05.07 | Beautiful sights, visiting studios, schools, museums - as well as all time classics such as the Mies van der Rohe Barcelona-pavillion and Gaudis Casa Mila ...
> See photos
APPLYING FOR THE DESIGNSCHOOLS
15.05.07 | The themes this year was homelessness or entrance.
> Product Design
> Graphic Design
JACKIE BROWN
09.05.07 | Experience yourself as Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson or Robert De Niro!
> See photos
ORANGE BAR
09.05.07 | When the semester ends, 23 students is going to move to Roskilde to build Orange Bar at the Roskilde Festival campus.
> Read more
PROPOSAL FOR A NEW ART CENTER IN COPENHAGEN
02.05.07 | Danish and international architect officies are exhibiting at Krabbesholm from monday May 7th.
Six architects in all will give their proposals for a new art center in Copenhagen.
> Read more here
KRABBESHOLM IN MILAN
28.04.07 | Krabbesholm has returned home from our exhibition at The Milan Furniture Fair May 18th to 24th 2007.
It was fantastic!
> Read more, see great pictures
FASHION WEEK
21.03.07 | Fashion photography in many ways. A copy of a picture from a trendy magazine. Film stars from a distant past. Free fashion-go-mad pictures. What happens at the afterparty.
> See photos
PHOTOS FOR THE MILAN FURNITURE FAIR
28.03.07 | Krabbesholm students have made directed photos of the lamps for the Milan Furniture Fair.
> See photos
EXPERIMENTAL
21.03.07 | The danish filmmaker, painter and installation-artist Søren Martinsen made a workshop with on experiments.
> See photos
GLASGOW - EDINBURGH
21.03.07 | We, e.g. the photo- and the artdepartments, had an interessent trip to the rainy Scotland where we stayed in dynamic Glasgow and took a day's trip to the charming and mystic Edinburgh.
> See photos
NETHERLANDS vs SWITZERLAND
21.03.07 | An assignment on doing a 40-pages book without using the computer and inspired by known swiss and dutch graphic designers and a postcard.
> See photos
COLOUR APRON
21.03.07 | Make 2 aprons – a set where each apron has a colour and a character. Who is the apron for – a midwife – springseedling, dirty bitch – schoolgirl, princess – femme fatale?
> See photos
TYPOGRAPHICAL
21.03.07 | Small assignments with the common denominator: typography. A redesign, an LP-cover, magazinelayout.
> See photos
REDISIGN-OBJECTDESIGN
21.03.07 | This topic of this project is to find a product, a design, a habit or an attitude and redesign it into something better ...
> See photos
HOUSE FOR A WOMAN
21.03.07 | The students had to make a house for an imaginary woman and her passion.
> See photos
KNIFE FOR LIFE
21.03.07 | The task undertaken was to work with discipline of the tool: the Knife for Life.
> See photos
THE ESSENCE OF LIGHT - 3 WINNERS
05.02.07 | Product director Vibeke Mogensen from Louis Poulsen Lighting has together with Nanna Vestergaard and Kurt Finsten from Krabbesholm Højskole elected 3 winners in the lamp competition “The Essence of Light”:
> Read more
INTROART
07.02.07 | Short exercises introducing different media and different ways of thinking: Drawing (after a movie and after music), sculpture, readymade and textbased work.
> See photos
SELFPORTRAIT
07.02.07 | A picture of yourself, your stuff or something else that feels important. Your own interpretation, please ...
> See photos
3 x 3 x 3
07.02.07 | Along the stream at Krabbesholm forrest, the students had to build small 3x3x3 m houses.
> See photos
STILLS
07.02.07 | Conflict, tolerance, crisis, dialog, network and democracy became posters, typography, logotypes and short videos.
> See photos
WRAPPIN’ UP A HOTDOG
07.02.07 | Can you make a more competitive image and wrapping of a hotdog compared to that of pizzaslices and shawarmas?
> See photos
THE ESSENCE OF LIGHT
07.02.07 | Workshop for designing a lamp for the competition arranged by Krabbesholm in cooperation with the Danish lighting company Louis Poulsen.
> See photos
THE AUTUMN EXHIBITION
17.12.06
| Here are some images from the great school leaving exhibition for the autumn term 2006.
> See photos
BOOKCOVER
16.12.06 | In one week the students made a redesigned bookcover for their favorite book.
> See covers
BORDERLINE MAGAZINES
16.12.06 | Make a magazine concept for blind people, tree huggers, animal lovers, people in wheelchairs, nudist...
> See photos
AN EXHIBITION BUILDING AT KRABBESHOLM
05.12.06 | From 3D object, which was later to added metal, the students were to generate an exhibition building.
> Read more
HOUSEPARTY
05.12.06 | Design home accessories for party fun - new design ideas to revolutionise house parties.
> Read more
DREAM
Create a series of photographs, a sculpture or a video based on a dream.
Wheather it is the dream you had yesterday, a dream you had ten years
ago, the dream of a dream or somebody else's dream is up to you.
> See photos
REPETITION
14.10.06 | Using the principle of repetition as a guide to
design an object for the home.
> See models
BEER LABELS
14.10.06 | An assignment on making logo, beer labels - and one more
thing - for a fictitious micro-brewery.
> See photos
CHAIRS FOR ROSKILDE FESTIVAL
14.10.06 | To this year's Roskilde Festival students from Krabbesholm
together with architect Carsten Johansen made four sets of chairs/seating
arrangements
for different areas of the festival city.
> See photos
ON ADVENTURES IN BERLIN
05.10.06 | From “The Bauhaus” in Dessau to
buildings by the architects Sauerbruch & Hutton in Kreutzberg.
> See photos
FEMMES REGIONALES CREATES STUDENT ROOMS
05.10.06 | Late September Femmes Regionales came up with a proposal
for 6 rooms at Krabbesholm. The rooms will be finished at January 2007
- stay tuned ...
> See sketches
ØKSNEHALLEN
04.10.06 | "The Idea of a Chair" was in September exhibited
by the auction company Lauritz.com in the Øksnehallen in Copenhagen.
> See photos
WILD ANIMALS
15.09.06 | A rococo world inhabited with kings and emperors, mythological and
historical figures – and quite a lot of wild animals.
> See wild
animals
SPACE IN MOTION
09.06.06 | Barcelona-based architect Mette Bak Andersen
was
visiting
the
school
and
made a workshop together with the students where they made a room in motion.
> See photos
KRABBESHOLM AT COPENHAGEN
INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR
From May 4th to 7th Krabbesholm was invited to exhibit at the Copenhagen
International Furniture Fair. The exhibition was based on the Krabbesholm
project “The Idea of a Chair”.
> See photos and read more
THE IDEA OF A CHAIR - WEAR
08.06.06 | If
the pieces of furniture were to decide themselves - what would they
turn into?
> See photos
KRABBESHOLM AT THE MILAN FURNITURE FAIR AND COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL
FURNITURE FAIR
Krabbesholm’s project “The Idea of a Chair” was exhibited
at the I Saloni - The Milan Furniture Fair - from April 4th to 10th.
> Read more
and see pictures from Milan
PHOTOJOURNALISM
04.05.06 | Graphic Design students as photojournalists ...
> See photos
VIA BUGATTI
23.04.06 | The students made a concept for the furniture exhibition
in Milan.
> See photos
NEW BOOK: THE IDEA OF A CHAIR #2
29.03.06 | Catalogue for the furniture fairs.
> See book
AT THE FUNERAL OF MRS MARGARETH SMITH
29.03.06 | Clothes for funerals. Guests: Anna Ruberg and Anna Gulmann
> See photos
CARDGAME
08.03.06 | Cardgames with a twist of oppositions short-long, hey-goodbye,
open-closed,
certain-uncertain, hard-soft etc ...
> See photos
SCULPTURE
08.03.06 | Sculpture assignment including scaffold, typography, numbers
and symbols.
> See photos
BOOKLET ON A TYPEFACE
08.03.06 | A close-up of
a typeface - one you love or hate!
> See photos
SOUNDSCAPES
28.02.06 | Short pieces using fieldrecordings from campus.
> Listen
OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
28.02.06 | Do a simple work, make a road movie, make an
evil and ugly piece, find out what was important for the town, leave
something behind in the town and bring something back, make portraits
of people.
> See photos
CLAYDIES AT KRABBESHOLM
28.02.06 | A workshop on developing ideas from unusual combinations of words
...
> See photos
WINNERS of the design competition ”The idea of a chair”
16.12.05 | More than 100 former students have participated in Krabbesholm’s
design
competition “The Idea of a Chair”. We have received so many exciting
and competent projects that it has been extremely difficult for the judges to
choose “max. 3 winner projects” as we wrote in the conditions of
the competition. Actually so difficult that we ended up choosing no less than
4 winners.
The 4 winners are – in alphabetical order:
> Read more
ROSKILDE BAR
03.07.05 | Once again in year 2005 Krabbesholm has made a project for the Roskilde Festival: a gigantic bar of several hundred square meters.
> See photos
KRABBESHOLM CD'S
29.04.04 | Krabbesholm is presenting a new initiative in continuation of our series of books about art, architecture and design: a series of CDs with audio works by artists associated with the school.
> Read more, buy the cd's
ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2004
03.04.04 | Krabbesholm is contributing to the Roskilde Festival 2004 with two pavilions for the festival's new art exhibition space EX-S.
> Read more, see the pictures
NEW INTERIOR DESIGN: PALACE***
03.08.03 |
Danish/American artist Ulrik Heltoft and Krabbesholm director Kurt Finsten
have furnished the students' rooms in the garden wing PALACE***.
> Read more
KRABBESHOLM AT ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2003
03.07.03 |
At Roskilde Festival 2003 Krabbesholm has contributed with several projects:
graphic design for a new visual identity program - sculptures and lighting.
> Read more,
see the pictures
KRABBESHOLM AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2003
03.06.03 |
At Statione Utopia the New York based artist Anton Vidokle is
distributing 10,000 free copies of a book designed in cooperation
with Krabbesholm Højskole.
The book is part of the Krabbesholm Book series on art, architecture
and design.
> Read more
NEW WEBSITE
01.06.03 |
This is our new website! www.krabbesholm.dk, vers. 3, released on June the
1st. Check it out!
If you want to compare with our former, award winning site -
www.krabbesholm.dk, vers. 2 > click
here