Thursday, February 21, 2008

thorunn arnadottir


thorunn arnadottir has the kind of creative thinking i love to come across - it’s not so much an "!"aha as a "hmmmmmm that’s really nice", or "that's cool", or "oh, so thoughtful" or sometimes even - "wow that’s such an obvious solution or idea, why didn’t anyone think of that already"?!

for example, this chocolate box based on a pattern from an icelandic wool sweater. liquorice and marzipan bites covered in dark, white and milk chocolate.

a bead clock. each bead in the necklace represents 5 minutes. the whole necklace represents one solar day. the orange and red ones represent the whole hours. as the wheel turns, one bead falls off and drops down the string every 5 minutes. to tell the time you count the beads from either the silver bead (midnight) or the golden bead (noon) to the last bead that fell off the wheel.

but that’s the stuff that hovers up near the surface of accessibility in terms of where thorunn goes with her imagination. to go deeper, visit her website at thorunndesign.

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