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Just came back from BBB...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:18:48 +0000

We just came back from the ”Bread & Butter” exhibition in Berlin, which took place in quite an interesting historical building: The Tempelhof Airport. Tempelhof has been designated as an airport since 1923 and in 1941 the current terminal building was taken into use. At one point it was among the largest buildings in the world and Norman Foster described it as ”the mother of all airports”. An impressive sight! Anyway, we were on the “1st floor” – a section for young and upcoming brands (read companies with limited funds!) situated rather remotely in the very corner of the old airport. On the lower left corner of the collage you can actually see the view from the "1st floor" and surely we where quite delighted not to be part of that borring, traditional-tradeshow-atmosphere down there. Instead the "1st floor" kind of reminded us of the old A-house days, with the small almost ramshackle rooms, where we could do whatever we wanted. Some local artists had installed the walls with some simple art, super well suited for our little setup. Our friend Rolf from HAY had helped us with some cool and simple furniture and Bo from I'm a kombo helped us with little fun play-stop-pause-rewind cookies that people could enjoy with their coffey from the next door café. Thanks to Rolf and Bo. Altogether it was three well-visited days in company with our friends from WoodWood, Happy Socks and Libertine-Libertine. And hey, we even got to try out the legendary Berghein Panorama Bar – quite an experience!

Tips for better ideas

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:18:48 +0000

Even if the thought of classrooms scares your creative soul, the Rethink Scholarship should get your creative juices flowing. Their attempt to spread the news about their $ 18 000 scholarship makes your childhood pop-up books look terribly outdated and sets a new standard for creativity with 'analog' tools. In an age of increasingly cheeky attempts at viral succes, this video is refreshingly genuine and surprising. Now go apply!

LEGO Mini Figures...

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:18:48 +0000

Our friends from LEGO have just launched a line of Mini Figures perfect for collectors. Series 1 consists of popular iconic figures from the LEGO world. Due for a 2010 release the series is made up of 16 figures, each blind packed, so you’ll have to shop around to get the whole collection, but as they are just $2 each, it won’t empty your wallet.. Series 2 could be a curated series, who knows?

Heading to Bread & Butter shortly...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:18:48 +0000

On the 18th of January we are heading to Berlin to take part in the Tradeshow Bread & Butter. We will have a room on the 1st floor with our friends and partners from WoodWood and it'll be great fun. We have loads of exciting meetings set up, but if you're anywhere close, please stop by...The exact location is the new fashion-meets-art area called '1st Floor'. We will be in the room right next to the bar...hope to see you.

Here's a few pics from a night with I'm a kombo...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:18:48 +0000

It was an untraditional "Christmas Lunch" rejuvenating our understanding of how to eat food. Eating from a trash can, from a lamp and from a Christmas tree. Kind of strange, but at the same time rather amusing, especially looking at everyone else around the table and how their face expressions evolved through out the night...try it! Rumors say they've found a new venue and will be doing another round sometime in February. their website will keep you updated.

Finally joined Facebook and Twitter...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:13:19 +0000

First off was our Twitter account and now we've also created a Facebook account, here it is.

2009 in 22 tracks from 22 genres...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:13:19 +0000

For the record, this is my first contribution to the AIAIAI blog. I usually blog about music at goingotherplaces.com, and I hope to keep you entertained on here, too, in the future.

Until 2010 gets its own soundtracks, the Dutch playlist-portal 22tracks has invited 22 different genre-experts to each pick their favorite track released in the last year from one of 22 different genres. The tracks include Breakage's cutting-edge dubstep, Japandroid's noise pop, and Lindstrøm's pleasant vibes, but also visit more experimental grounds with Steve Reich's compositions and a healthy dose of reggae, jazz, latin, and jazz thrown in for good measure. Don't let the genre-craze intimidate you, the tracks are all solid and well-worth a listen until 2010 delivers its own soundtrack.

Great ideas just click...

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:18:18 +0000

Cool new site launched by our fellow Danes at LEGO: www.legoclick.com.

"It's a little place on the Internet devoted to creativity, innovation, and the moment when ideas just CL!CK. Come to inspire and be inspired. And bring your LEGO bricks"

Note the free LEGO photo iPhone app...

Here's a list of our favourite tracks of 2009...

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

Like so many others do this time of the year, we would like to suggest what we think is this year's best tracks. The songs are not necessesarily from the best albums of 2009 (but most of them are really...)

The songs are in no particular order. Just click on the links to listen...

Dirty Projectors - Stilness On The Move

Miike Snow - Animal

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

Animal Collective - My Girls

The Rumour Said Fire - The Balcony

Girls - Lust For Life

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

The XX - Islands

Passion Pit - Seaweed Song

When Saints Go Machine - Fail Forever

Phoenix - Girlfriend

Bat For Lashes - Daniel

Merry X-mas from AIAIAI...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

Before our grand X-mas lunch at I'm a komBo (will bring you photos of that later), we went through the freezing streets of Copenhagen to visit some friends and wish them a Merry X-mas. We started out at the Pølsevogn (sausage wagon), went by all the little legendary pubs, that truly mean a lot to our Danish culture, passed WoodWood and Norse, went down to Studiestræde 31 - where we might move to at some point - and ended up with a cup of varm chocolate by our friends at Ricco's. We took a few pictures on the way and created this little sequenze....Merry x-mas!!

Check out this new blog by LA Graphic...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

Check out this new blog from the nice gals, and good friends of ours, over at LA Graphic Design - They definitely know their way around art, design, architecture and just random cool stuff. Latest, we espacially like their post on the collaboration between artists Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton

I'm a komBo has just opened a super cool pop-up restaurant...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

Our good friends from I'm a komBo (Lasse & Bobby) have just opened a so-called pop-up restaurant at the A-house, where we used to reside in the old days. The restaurant is open for the month of December and it's been overbooked long before it opened. Luckily we got a few seats and are heading there on Saturday for an AIAIAI Christmas dinner. Will bring you photos next week.

The pop-up restaurant marks the opening of a new apartment hotel project at the A-house called STAY. STAY has pre-opened during the COP15 and houses part of the American delegation for the 2 weeks. Rumors even say Air-force One is landing on Friday and that they are heading straight to the A-house for a quick "STAY". The place will close down for Christmas and re-open early next year.

AIAIAI are actually part of the project STAY. As old facilitators of the creative institution at the A-house, we've been asked to provide STAY some creative concepts and ideas, making it more that just a regular apartment hotel and following up on what happened back in the house back in the days. Pop-up resaturants, music profile, creative workshops, fashion shows are just a few of the projects we're working on. Keep you posted on how it proceeds.

Heist Store x Nate Gamble...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

Our friends from The Heist have been working with Melbourne based artist Nate Gamble for a while now to present the Heist store 09/10 tee shirt range. Along with this, Nate will be selling some original works and prints. For those of you that don't know Nate, he is a Melbourne artist and skateboarder, has been working a lot in group shows of late such as the Coll-Yarra-bration show on last week with guys like Andy Murphy. If you are anywhere close you should drop by The Heist on the 18th Dec, 6.30pm for a drink or two...

WoodWood opening in Vienna...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

Our friends and partners from Woodwood are opening up their third store in few days - this time in Vienna, Austria. Our products are going to be available at the store amongst a bunch of other cool brands. Congrats from AIAIAI!

Ace just opened a little pop-up store in Tokyo...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

Pop-up stores seems to be the new thing to do and most of them are not worth mentioning. When we where in NYC last month we met up with the people from ACE HOTEL and they told us about their upcoming pop-up store project at Isetan in Tokyo. Featuring all their really cool collabo stuff through out the years, this is actually not just a matter of selling out the stock they have left. Congrats to Jou and his crew for pulling it of! Make sure you drop by if you are anywhere close...

Winter Distortion coming up this weekend...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

If you don't have plans for the weekend (or next) here's a suggestion. Put on your furry gloves and hats and dig into the world of Distortion. Expect a ton of great acts and fun happenings - as usual...

Beck Covers The Velvet Underground & Nico

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0000

In case you missed it, Beck has started what he refers to as a "Record Club" where he gets together a group of his friends and covers a classic/famous album from start to finish. For the first album, he joined with a series of folks including producer Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Holmes, and from Iceland, special guest Thorunn Magnusdottir. Some of the tracks are better than others, but it sure sounds like they had fun recording the stuff!

Check out musicalpairings.blogspot.com where you can download MP3s from the set.

Check out this cool series of bikes by our partners from KiBiSi...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:13:19 +0000

KiBiSI meets Puma! They've worked with them before, but this time it's a complete series of really cool looking bikes, based on their previous Puma x Biomage project with that brilliant integrated cable lock. For this project they've come up with another prolific feature in merging the basket, carrier and handlebar in one. For a further look click on the pic below.

Tracks are finally available on our webshop...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:13:19 +0000

We've just uploaded all new Tracks Headphones and Headsets to our webshop. More pidtures will follow. Click on the picture below to explore further.

We just created our own little T-shirt Label...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:13:19 +0000

We just created a little T-shirt Label at AIAIAI LAB. The idea is to release a new line of tees every once in a while. It could be resembling one of our partnerships, it could be an artist doing a cool print or just some kind of statement we would like to share. The print on the tees below are all created by MIX - our creative head at AIAIAI. They are now available in our webshop and will also be sold at selected stores throughout the world. Check them out by clicking on the picture below.