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So, here’s a few photos from the ongoing street art exhibition at AG as mentioned here earlier. Didn’t get any good photos from the Mode2 mirror painting, which was awesome. The exhibition is on until October 23 – don’t miss it.
Pixelsurgeon has an interview with D*Face here.
Terminal 4 at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport has been rebuilt. As part of the new interior, Alexander Fernàndez designed a comfy easy chair/workstation named COD intended for business travellers and their laptops. More images here and a pressrelease in Swedish. The chair is produced by Miljöexpo.
The Feber family continues to grow. The latest addition is reklamfeber.se which means it’s time for advertising news.
The other ones are;
macfeber.se (Mac) prylfeber.se (Gadgets)
spelfeber.se (Games) bilfeber.se (Cars). All sites posting news in Swedish only.
Need a square metre of crispbread? Jean-Louise von Dardel is the guy to call if you need theatrical props and models. Here’s his bag of mixed goodies.
Call for scholarship applications:
”Västra Götalandsregionen fortsätter sina satsningar på Design med Omtanke. Som ett led i detta kommer Kulturnämnden i Västra Götalandsregionen i månadsskiftet september/oktober att utlysa 2 st stipendier á 100 000 kr. Stipendierna kan sökas av yrkesverksamma arkitekter och designer som antigen varit ansvariga för att förändra en miljö eller produkt i Design med Omtanke, eller har gått kursen Design för hållbar utveckling, 5 p på HDK.”
More info (in Swedish) here.
Sorry for not translating that, but here’s a PDF about the project in general in English.
PSP Flaunt is a collection of bags for PSP, designed by Nakkna, WE, Lovisa Burfitt, Stray Boys and Bea Szenfeld. Each designer has made a bag in a numbered, limited edition of 100. Available at c/o Stockholm and other selected stores in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.
The only images of the bags found is from the releaseparty at this (ridiculous site alert) site.
Guidelines updates their online store.
A big collection of Swedish consert posters on display at sweconpos.com
Via Martin Klasch.
Victionary has published a book called ”It’s a Matter of Packaging” featuring work from almost sixty designers/agencies. Sweden is represented by; BankerWessel, Sweden Graphics, Gabor Palotai Design, Teresa & David, Zion Graphics and Bark Design.
Swedish pop band The Cardigans has a slick new site to promote their upcoming album ”Super Extra Gravity”.
DesignTorget is a market place selling handpicked products by established as well as unknown designers, with seven shops in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. They’ve just redesigned their site and it is now available in English.
Dairy company Milko has redesigned their milk cartons and put up a site to explain the new deal step-by-step. Still consumers seems to get confuzed though, mixing up the different products, according to Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet.
How long before the cartons turns up here?
The first issue of iCity Magazine, a new free magazine in A4-format, is now available for free in the central parts of Stockholm. Here’s the iCitys site.
The magazine is art directed by veteran graffiti artist Danne ”Puppet” Blomqvist, be sure to visit his site; puppetindustries.
Illustrator Nils-Petter Ekwall shows a wide range of styles and products at his portfolio site, which is featured in the new issue of CAP & Design.
The first issue of the new Swedish DVD magazine UZI is called ”Tokyo Brainstorm” and features 13 Tokyo artists and creators. More info at this website.
Popcorn – the eighth annual music film festival will take place at Södra Teatern, Stockholm on October 7–9. The info site has just been launched and was produced by Great Works in cooperation with Dallas Sthlm DDG (who are currently looking for designers on a freelance basis).
Comics magazine Katusch will participate in the Malmö gallery night event with an exhibition at Kazoom this Saturday, September 24 at 18–21.
All previous issues are available as PDF-files here.
byhanna.com shows the great work by Swedish designer Hanna Werning. She was educated at St. Martins College of Art & Design in London and currently she is running her own company Spring Street Studio, in Stockholm.
Check out the portfolio site of photographer Lars Dahlström. The site is produced by Cubic Graphics.
Portafolio – an photo and memorabilia exhibition of Swedish hip hop act The Latin Kings, celebrating their 10 years anniversary as a group, will take place at Nitty Gritty. The exhibition opens on Saturday September 24 at 11–16 and will be going on until October 29.
Full size flyer here.
French Touch – an exhibition of French design taking place at Konstfack on September 27–October 1. It is aimed at companies and professionals within design, media, institutions but is also open to the public. The purpose of the exhibition is to highlight French design in Sweden, but also to make French-Swedish business contacts. Images and programme in Swedish and in French.
”The symbolic signs of dreams are astonishingly general. A lot of people recognise their own dreams when they see my work.” Check out the sculptural artwork by Backa Carin Ivarsdotter here.
Design from down under up north: ”The objective of australianstylevibes.se is to give the fashion and design industry, press, consumers, and others interested in design in Sweden, a source of information about Australian fashion and design.” See also the design portal: Australian Infront.
Stocktown is a site broadcasting independent music, film and displaying underground art, with a main focus on hip hop, DJing and graffiti. Lots of Quicktime clips to watch. Don’t miss the adoreable animation Fonky Monky.
There’s some info dated 2002 at Apple.com about Stocktown (in Swedish).
The nominees of the juried design competition Kolla! can now be seen at an exhibition at Form/Designcenter in Malmö, September16–October 16. The exhibition will continue to HDK in Gothenburg, November 14–26.
Illustrator Linn Olofsdotter has added a couple of fashion illustrations for Bon Magazine at her portfolio site. Some of her prints and original artwork is available for purchase at Lard & Joy.
Swede Karin van der Kwast is a design student at Central St Martins in London. The portfolio site mainly consists of school assignments, so far. The site was designed by Stefan Gissberg (portfolio)
Graphic/interactive designer Oscar Asmoarp has an impressive, interesting and good looking portfolio site.
The BraunPrize for 2005 has been awarded to Jens Andersson from Sweden for his design ”Rescue Buoy” – a swimming robot in the form of a lifebuoy. Read the full story at Gizmag.
Via Prylfeber.
Here’s Jens Andersson’s portfolio site.
”By selecting brands with roots in the Californian laidback streetwear culture Cali Roots opt in providing Scandinavian and international customers with the best mix of streetwear humanly possible!” Visit the online store for some handpicked streetwear, books and toys. Site available in English and Swedish.
The showcase site of industrial designer Olle Gyllang includes work for IKEA, Playsam and Polarn O. Pyret.
DN På Stan has an article (in Swedish) on the upcoming streetart exhibition as reported here at Swedesres on September 8.
By the way, check out Veckans Streetartfunderingar, a photoblog on Swedish street art.
Clothes brand The Stray Boys launches the autumn 2005 collection at their site.
Brand new gadgets and design news site: Prylfreak, only available in Swedish.
Via u2d.se
Swedes Please is a blog posting mp3’s from Swedish bands ”mostly singing in English and mostly better than what you hear on the radio in the US.”
Slackers Delight are illustrators Viktor Tell and Lowe Steiner and here’s their portfolio site.
Ocean Observations are specialized in Graphic User Interface Design, hence the clean, user friendly site. Don’t miss the R&D themes page if you have a SonyEricsson phone.
Huge collection of Swedish cigarette brand John Silver-products at this gallery site. Ashtrays, adverts, packages etc from the start of production 1947.
Please note: cigarettes are bad for you – cool brand names and package design isn’t.
The creative collective Special People Club have some refreshing pen-and-paper stuff at their portfolio site. Well, pen-and-wall too...
Clothes retailer Polarn O. Pyret launches a new site designed by Great Works.
Via Resumé.
In September 2005, designers from all over the world will be coming to the Nordic countries to take part in the Era 05 World Design Congress. 900 delegates from around the world are expected to take part in the congress; industrialists, academia and politicians in addition to members of the international design community.
Pre-Congresses on September 22-24, 2005 Oslo: Design without Borders, Helsinki: Joining Forces, Gothenburg: Design in Everyday Life
Joint Congress on September 25-28, 2005 Era 05 World Design Congress in Copenhagen
More info on the congress here and info on the Gothenburg event here.
The Swedish design collective Front has been invited to Amsterdam by Droog Design for an exhibition, they brought a chainsaw and a piece of solid wood. Images and more info at 
Konstbolaget claims to be Swedens largest art dealer, selling original art through auctions on their 
The portfolio site of character designer Linda Leow comes in two versions; 
”We are Pee and Poo. Escapees from the bathroom, we are entering the world on a journey filled with new adventures. Maybe we can stay with you for a while?” Site available in 
The four persons behind HE! just launched a new 
Hem 2005 (Home 2005) is a public interior decoration and design fair in Sweden, taking place at Stockholmsmässan (Stockholm International Fairs) in Älvsjö on October 6–9. Get more info 
Design studio Io Design from Gothenburg got a wide range of finger-licking-good design at their 
