Related Posts

1. Föreläsning workshop och SvD
2. Ta chansen och var med på två fula events under Stockholm design week

Related Posts

1. Det kom ett mejl
2. Fula hjältar

Related Posts

1. (Svenska) Mingel på Nordiska museet
2. (Svenska) Modemakt med Fuldesign

Related Posts

1. Miss Juniversum tar över Malmö och cyberspace
2. Det händer saker i fulshoppen

3 December – Ocean balls at home

This is the ultimate at home craft. We didn’t need to buy anything to make the balls. And Ocean of balls is great, its fun to do, easy and hard to stop. And the great thin is that a lot of them is a good thing. We think that this craft way back when was supposed to be a Christmas ornament. But we like the balls all year around. They are great as party decorations. Hang all of them over your table and get in instant party. They are also great as containers, you can put candy in them or use them as gift wrappers.

1. You need paper, photos, old magazines or really anything. You need round things, scissors, glue (we prefer glue sticks, but take whatever you have at home)

2. Draw circles on your paper, you need ten circles to make the most common kind of ball. It takes 5 circles to make each half of the ball.

3. Cut out your circles

4. Glue along the edges

5. Glue the edges together to make two halves. Each half is made up of five circles.

6. A finished half of a ball.

7. Glue the halves together to make your ball.

8. Pull a thread through your ball and fasten small beads in it hang it.

9. You can also make star balls. A star ball consists of six squares where you glue the corners together. Picture in your mind that you first make four walls and last a floor and a ceiling. D

10. It’s really nice to use photographs, the balls get really personal and fun.

11. Party in Fuldesign’s studio Fulhålet.

Related Posts

1. Fulkalender part 9 – 7 Dec
2. Fulkalender part 10 – 8 Dec

1 December – Word!

Putting words to your thoughts is good but we believe putting words on your surronding is even better. You can word your home, town and your self. Today you get tools to make sentences. And meaning to your life.

Here you can find the stencils we’ve used: Skapa Mening.

1. Here you can find a gallery where we’ve put words to our lives: Bildspel för Skapa Mening

2 You need spray cans, protective gloves, breathing protection, something to spray on and the stencils. You need plastic or cardboard to make your stencils and a knife and also a printer so you can print your stencils. You can find the stencils here: Skapa Mening.

3. Start buy selecting which words you want to use and print and cut them out of either plastic or cardboard. If you use plastic put the printed word under the plastic an carefully follow the lies with your knife. If you use cardboard glue the printed word onto the cardboard and cut thru both the printed paper and the plastic. Then put your finished stencil on whatever you want to spray on. We’ve used pages we’ve torn out of magazines we had in our studio. Spray an even amount of color on to the paper.

4. Carefully lift the stencil from the paper and let dry.

5. Get outside and create sentences out of the words.

6. A Swedish sentence, it reads: Man seeking panic.

7. You can also put words on to a painting.

8. Instead of spray colors you can choose a more environmentally friendly alternative and print on fabric with textile colors. Pour some textile color on a plate and dab a sponge in the color. Use some tape to properly fasten your stencil on the pillowcase. And carefully dab a small amount of color on the pillowcase.

9. Words on a smaller painting.

Related Posts

1. Fulkalender part 21 – 19 Dec
2. Fulkalender part 23 – 21 dec

30 November – Get a  super star

We got ourselves a plain white paper star. We wanted a tough and cool star so we also went to a second hand comic store and got some superhero comics. We bought superhero comics with bright colors and the rough vintage like paper. When we flipped through our comics we really loved The incredible Hulks look and color so we decided to make a green super star.

What kind of star you make all depend on what kind of comics you choose. Maybe you like horses or girl comics. Are you a fan of Archie or Garfield? Do you have a book case filled with old Donald Duck comics or do you have a lot of Manga you want to put to better use? Make a star!

1. You need a star, scissors, a brush, ordinary cheap paper glue the kind that dries white, a container for your glue, and a small glass of water.

2.Start with cutting out a whole bunch of images from your comics. You will need images in all sizes and shapes. A tip is tor sort them in to different colors and make the points of your star into different colors. We wanted three points hulk green and two points to contrast in a red brown colors.

3. Poor glue into the container.

4. Dip your brush slightly into the water only to make it a little wet, not dripping with water.

5. Dip your wet brush in the glue so  until you get a  light easy to apply glue on your brush.

6. Apply the glue on your star where you want to put your first image.

7. Attach your image to your star.

8. Continue to stroke out some glue and attaching images to the star you can also apply a little glue on top of the images while you are working. But be careful and don’t get the star too wet, it can make it hard to work with. But don’t worry if it gets a little out of shapes it dries straight.

9. Continue around all the points of your star. You can work together with the star in the center of the table.

10. We’ve almost covered the whole star now.

11. Finish off by applying a coat of glue all over the star. Let i dry before you flip it and apply glue on the  other side.

12. When the glue has dried it leaves a shiny surface. If you want it even shinier apply a second coat of glue.

13. A super star finished and in the window. It brightens a dull grey November 30th.

14. With a lamp inside. Please send us pictuers of your stars to info@fuldesign.se!

Related Posts

1. Fulkalender part 23 – 21 dec
2. Fulkalender del 5 – 3 Dec

1:a advent 29 November 2009 – Pimp your advent candle-holder.

We bought the cheapest and simplest advent candle-holder we could find and pondered a while. We wanted to pimp it but how? We tried to think about how people usually decorated their advent candle-holders and got images of red stars, glitter and Santas. A traditional decoration according to a formula Christmas X Christmas.

But an advent candle-holder screams Christmas on it’s own it doesn’t need more Christmas added on. So we went to our big jar filled with Lego and got out our glue gun and got started.

This is a theme you can vary any way you like. Take what you have lying around your house and make your own special advent candle-holder.

Here are some ideas of what else you can glue on:

Small scary toy bugs.

Nuts and bolts kinda butch.

Buttons in fun colors.

Kinder egg toys.

Pez dispensers, one for each candle.

Do you have more ideas? Please comment below and share your idéas!

1. You need a glue gun an advent candle-holder and Lego.

2. Hands up, warm up your glue gun and press out a big dollop of glue.

3. This is about the right amount.

4. Press hard and hold on for a while so it sticks.

5.  He is throwing snowballs.

6. We added a guy with a chainsaw right over him. He lookl like he is going to take down one of the candles.

7. A Santa and a guy playing with his remote controlled cars.

8. A Christmas tree and a guy on skates.

Happy first advent to all of you!

Related Posts

1. Fulkalender part 13 – 11 Dec
2. Fulkalender part 20 – 18 Dec

Rica Hotels gav oss i uppdrag att ta fram en grafisk symbol som skulle funka liten som stor i tryck och på textil. Vi funderade och kom fram till att den mest underskattade men viktigaste funktionen på ett hotell är husfrun. Det är hon som ser till att man trivs, det blir städat, man får nya handdukar, och som är trevlig i receptionen. Det var den mest positiva symbol vi kunde komma på som var kopplat till ett hotell.

Vi ville att hon skulle vara lite som en kulturtant, bambatant och mamma på en och samma gång. Formen blev det viktiga, sen kunde hon ha flera skepnader olika hår- och hudfärg, men alltid med samma frisyr och glasögon.

För att visa symbolens breda möjligheter gjorde vi flera grafiska förslag där husfrun används på olika sätt.

Fyra olika förslag på nya filtar där mönstret från hufrun går igen, subtilt men lätt att känna igen i Ricas färger.

Förslag på örngott med hög 70-talskänsla.

Förslag på grafik för brevpapper och korrenspondens

Skiss som visar att symbolen funkar även med helt annat innhåll och kan anpassas efter kampanjer eller event.

Related Posts

1. Mismo – symbolen
2. the (Royal) Wedding Game

År 2007 tillverkade vi under Stockholm Pride världens största trasdocka för Rica hotels, BRIS och Stockholms kulturfestival . I projektet med världsrekord i trasdocka ingick också att skapa en symbol som skulle fungera som logga och ikon för projektet.

Ursprungstanken var att trasdockan skulle bli 550 cm hög, och för att illustrera hur stort detta var gjorde vi bilden ovan.

Vi prövade många olika färgställningar och varianter. Att dockan skulle ha kramfunktion bestämdes tidigt, och den kunde därför också sitta och krama sig själv. Eftersom det skulle vara just en trasdocka var det vissa krav på material och konstruktion. Rent hypotetiskt skulle dockan kunna tvättas i en tvättmaskin. Samtidigt försökte vi att inte få den alltför tung eftersom det skulle vara fysiskt möjligt att förflytta den, samt att den inte skulle kollapsa under sin egen tyngd. Dessutom ville vi att den skulle vara både könsneutral och etniskt neutral.

Den färdiga dockan blev hela 640 cm med grön hud och rosa hår. Den fick även ett par rutiga hängselbyxor som barnen på Stockholm Pride hjälpte till att dekorera. Genom en namntävling på kulturfestivalen kom man fram till att trasdockan skulle heta Mismo.

Så här blev den färdiga symbolen, som senare fick namnet Mismo!

Hur gör man en symbol som går att översätta i en docka som ska vara över 6 meter? Hur gör man en lätt igenkännbar symbol som funkar ett par cm stor och som sedan ska kunna översättas i en docka som är över sexmeter stor?

Vi prövade många olika färgställningar och varianter. Att dockan skulle ha kramfunktion bestämdes tidigt, och den kunde därför också sitta och krama sig själv.

Related Posts

1. Husfrun