I love to travel and also after having lived abroad for 4 years I have take my fare share of flights. Many times I have stood with a boarding pass in my hand thinking its just the ugliest, must uninteresting piece of paper I’ve seen, yet it contain important information about your flight. Tyler Thompsen has not only been irritated about the same thing, but he has actually done something with it. He has started making new designs for delta boarding passes and here you can see his suggestions to better looking boarding passes that also communicates the information in a better and easier way.

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I will not deny that the phrase “a diamond is a girls best friend” it’s true, but in my case its not always the fact that it’s a real diamond that matter. The beauty is in the squared shaped lines of the stone, the way it reflects the light and plays on see-thoroughness, just like these vases from Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto. The vases are based on an old way of Japanese flower arrangement, and by combining them together you’ll have a playful, elegant and colorful jewelry for your home. (more…)

The Norwegian designfirm Commando Group was appointed by D2 magazine to do the illustrations for a cover story on perfume in November. Not only did the final result become stunning and sophisticated drawings, but here you can also see some of the sketches on their way to the final illustrations. I love how they captured and maintained the old school feeling that makes me think of Hitchcock movies and Mad Men….

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Its the beginning of a new year and a new decade, so together with my good friend Tine Moe I´ve made a calendar for 2010. We based the design on norwegian animals and bugs, and made the deisgn simple and clean, with strong colours. Take a look after the jump and leave a comment to let me know what you think about it!

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It’s the end of 2009 and this will be my last post this year. It’s been an exiting year for Playmedesign… with Salone del mobile in Milan, becoming part of Carousel, and getting under the skin of Norwegian design. Playmedesign is looking forward to a new year that will be kicked of tomorrow with my first, of a series of articles, in the web edition of the magazine Abitare. Hopefully we’ll have a new logo in not to long and Carousel also have some exiting secrets that will be revealed in 2010. So Happy new year, stay tuned and don’t hesitate to send me your work!!

Photo by Ashley Champagne