After having been in the brick-and-mortar retail business for 1 year, we’ve decided to shake things up a bit. We’ve closed our Brand Store #1 in Oehlenschlægersgade 12, CPH, Denmark and have moved all our products, tools, materials, books and pirate ships to an underground (literally) workshop/storage space. Here we’ll stay for a while and just as a crouching tiger, we’ll leap as soon as we we’ve found a suitable target.
Besides launching our upcoming Bike Crate product series (June 2012) we’re currently toying with a few rather large concepts: a) building an educational and entrepreneurial physical work space, b) changing the game of sales and distribution forever, and c) riding the pop-up store concept wave in central Copenhagen.

We will keep you tightly updated!

And as always and forever, you can find us, our products and our thoughts online @ bymaik.com

Rune & Andreas

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“Build & Destroy” is our reinvention of the ever brilliant, but traditional building block: 
Our blocks are not noisy, they are very light and they are soft so no one gets hurt. And, as an alert parent noted, they hurt less when stepped on…!


Colors and material combines into a nice looking trendy designed toy.

Price: €40

Available in our web store.

Contents:
Each set contains 14 building blocks measuring 5x5x5 cm, all in same color.
Available colors are pink, teal, blue-grey, green, red and blue.
Materials: 100% CE-approved EVA-foam, no toxins or phthalates. Non-absorbent and dish washer safe.

The Bike Crate Steel version is being prototyped, modified and tested by Richards engineering team. Soon it will be ready for production- we can’t wait!

6.000 new BUILD & DESTROY cubes are on their way to Copenhagen and this time in new colors:

We still have the Rock’n'roll Mittens gloves for sale at the store- only available for a limited period! 1=100DKK

The test was made to find weaknesses in the construction – and so far it seems extremely sturdy!
Both new bike crates could easily manage the 20 kg of fine organic vegetables, but we are probably going to set our recommended maximum at about 15 kg. That should be more than enough for you to commute your daily belongings and grocery shopping.

I like that function- we (or someone else!) should look into this!

//RR

Iphone 5-YES- anyone??


The canton fair is HUGE- I walked for 30 mins trying to find what was interesting to me!!!

Clown bikes are not only big at Vesterbro;) These ones were electricity driven though..

//Rune

We took advantage of the rain yesterday and shot this video riding with THE BIKE CRATE through the rainy streets of Copenhagen.
Our upcoming RAIN COVER kept our belongings safe and dry despite the nasty rain getting us soaked (we forgot our raincoats).

The rain cover will be ready for sale next month from our webshop and in our store.

Thanks for the thoughts, ideas, feedback, critics, time and chat- we love meeting the people who actually are in need of our products and implementing needs in our development stages of the design.

Can’t really match the size if this crate…:

Here’s an integrated crate that I haven’t seen before:

The majority of crates/racks are mounted at the steering bar + front wheel, but some are frame mounted instead. I’ve seen two different solutions so far.

YES- this is what I like- cortado in glasses. Now, I would love to see a cortado in a MAIK glass from our coffee series. Dear gods – please provide us with a positive cash flow so we can realize this ASAP! //Rune

Just received the lightweight The Drill bike back from this years Formland along with a black bike crate.
Thanks to Pernille at Echmann Studios for making the House of Happiness exhibition awesomely cool!!! OMG- and great thanks to Cykelbanditten for representing Danish cycle culture with us!

Also here’s some links about the exhibition:

Eckmann Studio Blog
Retail Blog
The Sweet Spot
Danish interior decor blog

Mathias Ambus Studio did it again! Mathias completely and utterly keeps amazing us! Now with having the MAIK logo showcased in Logology 2- the wonderland of logo design. Mathias – you truly deserve to have great things happen to your studio- with your profession we just know you’ll take it far!!

Please help us understand this big mystery – it makes no sense at all – we thought Copenhagen was the biggest baddest bike city of them all with the nicest bikes – but these pictures are taken in Malmø last week. They are beauties on wheels…Well kept, new looking, retro looking- how did they get there?- and why don’t we have them in Denmark?

Also it turns out most of the bikes have a handle for carrying it up stairs etc. – who/why/when did they decide that Malmø needs these handles…

WE WONDER…

The other colors are our brand new EVA rubber sheets! They now come in blue-grey, turquoise, pink, black and army. Get down to the shop next time you’re in the neighborhood and pimp your bike for 50DKK:)

Also we got new shopping bags made from recycle PET bottles.  (YES- it turns out they are more sustainable then organic cotton bags)

All sizes and colors cost 20DKK

The static Brand is dead

A brand vision is a complex issue. The world changes, people change. Because people drive MAIK, it is in flux and can only be defined as what it is in a given moment. It is fluid and constantly changing.

Therefore MAIK does not have a vision that is set in stone. We don’t think it’s neither possible nor relevant to define a brand within one sentence or 3 words.

We believe this is too simplistic and fails to address the many nuances of living organisms and the dynamics of our society. MAIK is alive too.

We think people will understand, relate and appreciate because they change all the time too.

The static brand is deemed to fall behind.

Instead of a static brand vision we use an ever-changing list of slogans that express our thinking, mood and outlook in a given period to express what MAIK is and where MAIK is.

We believe this is the way to keep pace with the world and the people around us.

Right now MAIK is -

Turning Polaroid Ideas Real

In Alpha or Beta

We Reserve the Right to Change!