About - Manga
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Manga Street
“make yourself a dancer on this earth”.
The company
Manga Street is a Danish company founded by industrial designer Julie Storm Christensen and Kurt Christensen. Since its beginnings as Storm Design in 2003, the company has received much recognition for its designs and products, and has received many international design awards.
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Why Manga
Manga Street's products have references to Manga comics: Soft expressive lines - quirky, soft and colorful. Manga Street’s goal is to create objects in the public space where there is room for the offbeat and the subtle, to create spaces for the playful, improvising meeting and hereby create welcoming spaces for good encounters.
Manga CSR
At Manga, everything is turned upside down when it comes to our CSR work. When we founded Manga, we started by analysing how we could become responsible manufacturers as far as possible. In relation to the environment and with regard to our partners and people on the planet, which came before the idea of the positive bottom line. Our business model must, as far as possible, be holistic and circular.
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Manga In's practical and colorful products will certainly adorn home and can facilitate cooking and create joy in daily use in the kitchen. The products are also very useful at the dining table for serving both daily and on special occasions. Manga In's target market is national as well as international companies that want to offer something special to their customers. We strive to be as sustainable as possible in our solutions and as such the Triangle bowls are made of reused bio-based oil in accordance with the mass balance principle.
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At Manga, everything is turned upside
down when it comes to our CSR work.
When we founded Manga, we started by
analysing how we could become responsible
manufacturers as far as possible.
In relation to the environment and with
regard to our partners and people on the
planet, which came before the idea of the
positive bottom line. Our business model
must, as far as possible, be holistic and
circular, and we have a strong desire to do
it properly, but we are also aware that it is
virtually impossible. Therefore, we strive
to do it as best we can.
About - the designer
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Founder of Manga Street
"If you can dream it, you can do it"
Julie Storm, the designer and owner of the Danish design company Manga Street, is a trained industrial designer from The Danish Design School. She has won many international design awards such as Red Dot Design Award and Green Good Design Award. This award is given to companies that are doing the best work in sustainable design for the environment.
Julie is deeply passionate about the interaction between material and shape: ”It is the whole story in a shape that makes good design.
My designs must move people and have something universal and honest about them. And I must also always create a balance between the aesthetic and the function of the object and make it practical for everyday use.
A shape that I need to make approaches me like a person or a friend that I need to get to know better and then I just cannot stop finding the right form until it is finished.
When the design rests in itself, I know that it is finished and ready to live its own life. When it is no longer private to me but steps out and becomes a story of its own.”
A bit of humor is often seen in my work. This is mostly seen in the little pouf Scoopi where I have tried to give room for being “a little crooked and subtle” and still be okay for the public to see – “I guess also to make public spaces more human to take up residence in,” Julie says.
In her work she also tries to make as eco-conscious choices as possible for her products.
Most recently Julie Storm has, in cooperation with two international plastic factories, taken the lead in circular thinking around plastics. As such, Scoop and Scoopi Ocean are now made of 50% recycled fish net. Her most recent prize for this work is the Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting Award 2022.
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Product awards
2022 Prize Designs for Modern Furniture and Lighting 2022 - “Scoop Ocean”
2021 German Design Award Nominee “Squid Table Small”
2019 Good Design Award, “Squid Table Small”
2013 Green Good Design Award, “Scoop Light”
2011 The Engineer's Product Award Nominee, “Scoop Light”
2010 Designpreis Deutschland Nominee, the cutting board “Kite”
2010 Designpreis Deutschland Nominee Gold, the cutting board “Kite”
2009 IF Product Design Award, the cutting board “Kite”
2008 Red Dot Design Award, the cutting board “Kite”
2008 Design PLUS Award, the cutting board “Kite”
2008 IDEA – International Design Excellence Award ´08 Bronze
2007 Red Dot Design Award, the flowerpot “Storm”
2007 Grand Award nominee, the flowerpot “Storm”
2006 IF Award nominee, the flowerpot “Storm”
2006 Exhibition Design and Craft Biennial, Trapholt Denmark, the flowerpot “Storm”
2005 Formland Award nominee, the flowerpot “Storm”
About - all the small print
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For Manga Street terms of sale and delivery please touch the picture above and a pdf will open.
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For Manga Street GDPR - privacy policy please touch the picture above and a pdf will open.
