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DesignMarch 2012: studio tours
Last month Dezeen visited a selection of Icelandic design studios as part of DesignMarch in Reykjavik. Here are some photos from the tour taken with the Pentax K-01 camera designed by Marc Newson, which was kindly given to us by Pentax for the trip.
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The visit included a tour of Reykjavik Letterpress, a printing studio in the centre of Reykjavik.
![DesignMarch_Letterpress_7](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Letterpress_7.jpg)
The studio is run by graphic designers Hildur Sigurdardottir and Olof Birna Garðarsdóttir.
![DesignMarch_Letterpress_10](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Letterpress_10.jpg)
Both designers left their jobs in advertising to learn the skills of letterpress printing.
![DesignMarch_Letterpress_13](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Letterpress_13.jpg)
Reykjavik Letterpress use traditional methods and letterpress machines to produce their designs.
![DesignMarch_Letterpress_11](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Letterpress_11.jpg)
Their studio contains drawers full of original movable type...
![DesignMarch_Letterpress_12](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Letterpress_12.jpg)
...as well as more familiar letterpress machines such the classic type writer.
![DesignMarch_Toppstodin_4](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Toppstodin_4.jpg)
The second studio visited on the trip was Toppstodin, a disused power station that has been converted into artists' studios.
![DesignMarch_Toppstodin_8](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Toppstodin_8.jpg)
Toppstodin houses studios for a variety of creatives, including fashion designers, architects and industrial designers.
![DesignMarch_Toppstodin_9](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Toppstodin_9.jpg)
All the original machines and equipment of the power station remain in the building amongst the studio spaces.
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The final stop on the visit was a lunch and tour of Grettisborg Studios & Apartments run by designers Róshildur Jónsdóttir and Snæbjörn Stefánsson of Hugdetta.
![DesignMarch_Grettisborg_6](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Grettisborg_6.jpg)
Jónsdóttir's collection of birch furniture was on display at the studio along with her toy construction kit made of fish bones that we previously published on Dezeen.
![DesignMarch_Grettisborg_8](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Grettisborg_8.jpg)
There are five designers who share the space at Grettisborg Studios, including Gardar Eyjolfsson who showed his Icelandic larch chair.
![DesignMarch_Grettisborg_5](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/DesignMarch_Grettisborg_5.jpg)
Read more about design in Iceland here and watch Marc Newson talk about his design for the Pentax K-01 on Dezeen Screen.