Meet The Designer
Sigurjon Palsson
Icelandic designer Sigurjon Palsson studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has built his practice around simplicity and reduction. His work removes unnecessary detail while retaining the features that give a design its identity, an approach clearly expressed in his distinctive Shorebird series for Normann Copenhagen.
Sigurjon Palsson: Capturing Nature in Simple Form
Sigurjon Palsson is an Icelandic designer and graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Simplicity is central to his approach, with Pálsson seeking to reduce a design to its essential elements while balancing shape, function and material.
His Shorebird series for Normann Copenhagen demonstrates this approach through simplified interpretations of birds found along the shoreline. Inspired by the curlew, redshank and sandpiper, the designs use differences in proportion, posture and beak length to capture the recognisable characteristics of each bird without relying on decorative detail.
Sigurjon Palsson is an Icelandic designer and graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Simplicity is central to his approach, with Pálsson seeking to reduce a design to its essential elements while balancing shape, function and material.
His Shorebird series for Normann Copenhagen demonstrates this approach through simplified interpretations of birds found along the shoreline. Inspired by the curlew, redshank and sandpiper, the designs use differences in proportion, posture and beak length to capture the recognisable characteristics of each bird without relying on decorative detail.