In Copenhagen the guest will be Denise Burt from Elevator Design. Denise Burt is an independent graphic designer, based in Copenhagen and with a desk at Republikken. She comes from New Zealand originally but have been working in Denmark for the last 10 years. The network of clients that has evolved are mostly in the music industry – especially around classical music and "new music" which is contemporary classical music (usually the very avant-garde, more "diffucult" music). The challenge in her work is to bring this elite high-culture to new audiences and to present it in an attractive way to make people curious rather than scare them away... while at the same time satisfying the creative spirits behind the music.

Olina has developed a rich visual language that builds on research, experimentation and intuitive creative drawing processes that combine the use of technology with the hand drawn. Her imagery and graphics are often centered around natural elements and the imaginary. As her work has evolved, Olina has created a personal world where sense of wonder, new experiences and questions about the nature of things abound. 

Olina has also collaborated with high tech companies such as materials producers Dupont Corian and 3M. Her clients have included porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal and furniture manufacturer Swedese. In addition, she has worked as a consultant and visualizer in the field of creative development for organizations such as Clear Village Foundation.

In 2008, she created Eulespiegel, an animation featuring otherworldly landscapes and imaginary creatures. Another recent project has been Cristal Bar in Hong Kong where her dream-like drawings cover every interior surface, enabling a new level of interactivity in three-dimensional space. Cristal Bar has won numerous international awards, including the Forum Aid Award in Stockholm, the SEGD Merit Prize in San Diego and the DV Culture Prize in Iceland in 2009. Olina is currently working on the natural history of the characters that populate her growing world and developing narratives around them.

Enjoy!

The Rumpus Room, with creative director Tomas Roope.
Date: May 5, 2010, at 20.00, tickets: 50 dkr.
Info: www.therumpusroom.tv

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Airside has a very strong environmental and sustainability ethos – the company was awarded a Green Mark for its internal practices and we are partners in Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest, an organisation devoted to promoting sustainability in the design community. 

Airside likes to tell stories, and in order to do this have created a lot of work that is very illustrative. Airside understand the need to connect with people emotionally and have fun finding ways to do this. 

Alex Maclean – Founding Director / Creative Director
Alex trained and worked in commercial interior design before going on to study Architecture and Interior Design at the Royal College of Art.  His work on the MA led to a research fellowship, where he worked on developing ‘Information Environments’. Alex then began work in the emerging world of the internet and after freelancing on a number of computer modelling and internet projects, he started Airside with Nat and Fred in 1998. Alex is creative director at Airside, running moving image projects. He will follow a project from the initial creative meeting to final delivery, coordinating the design team and liaising with Airside’s project managers, keeping creative control of the project. 

Anne Brassier – New Business
Anne has been at Airside since 2001 and handles all new business matters. From meeting clients to receive the brief and talk about projects, through to handling press and marketing once a project is completed, Anne is the client’s point of contact before and after a project is undertaken by Airside.

Anne is also mother to the Stitches – woolly creatures adopted to new homes via Airside’s online shop www.airsideshop.com She originally studied Computer Programming, particularly enjoying machine code. And now has a secondary career as a photographer specialising in weddings and performance photography (dance, theatre, film stills).

www.airside.co.uk