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Email address: thorunna@gmail.com.
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About Thorunn:
Thorunn Arnadottir is a London based designer, from Iceland.
She graduated with MA in Design Products at Royal College of Arts in London 2011. Before that she finished BA in Product Design at Listaháskóli Íslands (Iceland Academy of the Arts) in Reykjavik in 2007.
Since graduating she has been working on various commissions, freelance projects and her own work. Clients include: Swarovski, Camron PR, The Architecture Foundation and the V&A museum. She was also a visiting lecturer at Platform 10 at Royal College of Art in March 2012, running a workshop in Iceland in collaboration with Nelly Ben Hayoun, Make by Thorpid and Glamour The Concept Boutique.
Exhibitions:
2012
April - September 2012, Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead, UK: "Journeys in Beadwork: Dialogues in Contemporary Style".
April 2012, 3 products for Destes exhibited at Designersblock at MOST Salone in Milan.
March 2012, Design March in Reykjavik.
2011
November 2011, Tallin in Estonia: "ÖÖ-Was it a Dream?".
Oct 2011 - Jan 2012, Milan: "O'Clock" at Triennale Design Museum.
September, London: "Travelling exhibition" of beaded QR jewellery specially made for Camron PR for London Design Festival events.
Sept 2011 - Jan 2012, London: 10 year anniversary of B&B Italia in London, commemorative piece.
September, London: "The Power of Making" at V&A.
July, London: SHOW RCA, MA graduation show at Royal College of Art.
April, Milan: "RCA InTent" at Milan Furniture Fair. Exhibition with fellow students of Products Design at Royal College of Art.
2010
November, Stockholm: “ÖÖ – Was it dream?”, pop-up gallery with Nordic Avant Garde art, design and photography. Galleri Duerr.
September, London: “ÖÖ – Was it dream?, pop-up gallery with Nordic Avant Garde art, design and photography. London Design Festival. Berwick Street in Soho.
September, Shanghai: "Icelandic Contemporary Design" at Nordic Lighthouse.
August, New York: “NY International Gift Fair” – Jacob Javits Center
January, Copenhagen: “Icelandic Contemporary Design” – Dansk Design Center.
Apríl, Milan: "Hotel RCA" at Milan Furniture Fair. Exhibition with fellow students of Product Design at Royal College of Art.
March, Reykjavik: “Bongó blíða”, a collaboration with Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir and Hreinn Bernhardsson exhibited at Design March in Reykjavik.
2009
May – August, Reykjavik: “Icelandic Contemporary Design” – Kjarvalsstadir Museum of Art.
March, Reykjavik: “Design March”, Laugarvegur.
March, Geneva: The Nissan Cube “Slow Gallery”, Geneva Motor Show.
2008
September, London: “100% Futures” in Earls Court.
September, Tallin: Tallin Design Night, “Made in Iceland”.
October, Helsinki: Helsinki Design Week, “Made in Iceland”.
2007
May – August, Reykjavik: “Magma” – Icelandic Contemporary Design, Kjarvalsstadir, Art Museum.
May, Reykjavik: Graduation Exhibition of the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
2006
June-August, Reykjavik: “Stigvel Design duo”, Gallery Gyllinhaed, Laugarvegur and performances on the streets of Reykjavik.
Awards and recognitions:
Reykjavik Grapevine "Product of the Year" = runner up: Sasa Clock.
Nominated for the Conran Awards for graduation project at RCA, 2011.
Landsbankinn - Scholarship Award 2011
Design Sponge Scholarship Award 2010.
Winner of “Best Product” in “Accent on Design” at NY International Gift Fair, August, for Sasa Clock.
“Hitchhiker" was one of 6 runner-ups in the Man Made Reformulate competition for the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2010.
Nominated as “one of the ten most promising final-year students from the Nordic countries foremost design and architecture schools” by Forum AID magazine in 2007.
Featured in an article in a special section on interesting design graduates in Frame magazine in 2007.
Grant from Art Festival and support to make a prototype of my design: “Arterior” radiator, for "Magma" ("Kvika"), an exhibition on selected Icelandic designers in may 2007.
“Stígvél Design Duo” project. Grant from Reykjavik city through Hitt Húsið (a cultural center for young people in Reykajvík), 2006.
"Special Honorable Mention" for Skuggar (team work) in Icelandair competition on new ideas for the tourism industry in Iceland, 2006.
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