I don’t know why, but the Swedes produce a lot of good speakers. Hopefully most of you have already seen one of Hans Rossling’s presentation, if not here is one from TED 2007. And just today, through Eirik Newth’s blog, I found a link to Fredrik Härén, a Swedish guy who went to China to […]

In a few days Norwegians will vote for local and county representatives, and of course the newspapers and TV channels are full of debates and analysis. Today I watched the equivalent of a town hall meeting with mostly representatives from the national parties in Northern Norway on our state television channel (link in Norwegian). The […]

I am very intrigued by design, and think I recognize good one when I see it (although I cannot for the life of me create it myself), and so I thought it was interesting when I came across a blog that does nothing but post frontpages of newspapers and discuss their design. I originally came […]

I came across a very interesting article in a Norwegian newspaper yesterday, sadly only available in Norwegian (here). They discuss some of the schools in inner-Oslo that have a predominance of Muslim students, often the children of immigrants from Pakistan, Sudan and Somalia (there is a school in Oslo where 90% of the students speak […]

A visionary project in Austria, replacing all ads and logos in a space with one color. And all the businesses cooperated.
Stian