Have a look at Joppe.se, the portfolio site of designer/illustrator Johan Dahlin.
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beckmans window shopping
Beckmans College of Design goes Window Shopping at Gallerian, Stockholm November 10–13. Grand opening (by invitation only) on November 9 at 20–01 hrs, with fashion show, presentation of the ”Gallerian Fashion Schollarship” and performance by Jay-Jay Johansson. As usual there’s no info at Beckmans’ site.
stockholm film festival
Tickets for the 16th international Stockholm Film Festival, November 17–27, are now available at the site.
access all areas
Access All Areas is Sweden’s annual showcase and networking event for the international music industry. The event is back for the third year at Kulturhuset, November 9–10. More info here. AAA is a co-operative venture between Export Music Sweden and The British Council.
madonna’s ”hung up” by johan renck
Here’s a clip with Swedish director Johan Renck chewing gum and talking about the work of the new Madonna video ”Hung Up”. Watch the video here: Quicktime or Windows Media.
fashionstreet at street market
Street Market is Stockholms first permanent art, music and design market á la Spitalfields in London. Today at 16—21 hrs, there’s a special event called Fashionstreet, showcasing unestablished fashion designers. The event will recur on November 25 and is arranged by fashion designer Camilla Wellton. If you’re a design student, you might also be interested in Street Springboard. The Street Market is located at Hornstull, Stockholm, unfortunately the site is only available in Swedish.
3jorn
Another ”thank you”-post goes out to 3jorn.com. Björn Fagerholm is the guy behind the site Your normal day, mentioned here before.
frank form
Frank Form is a small but nice shop in Stockholm, filled with interior accesories and other things. They’re celebrating their one year anniversary tomorrow, October 28, so swing by Kungsholmsgatan 20 this weekend. ”Grattis” from Swedesres!
Swedesres says ”Tack så mycket, 100% design tokyo
”For the first time in Tokyo, 100% DESIGN opens its doors to what promises to be a very exciting design show. This presents a unique opportunity for the Japanese public to experience some of the best in contemporary Swedish design.” At this event in the heart of Tokyo, some 13 Swedish companies are exhibiting jointly. The event will take place November 2–6 in Jingu Gaien, Aoyama, Japan and is part of Tokyo Designer’s Week and Swedish Style in Tokyo (see previous post). More info on the 100%-event here.
The Swedish participants are: Asplund, Blå Station, Juup of Sweden, Karl Andersson & Söner, Källemo, Mateus, Mimou, Mingla Design, Pappelina, Sanden Textiles, Skandiform and Swedese. Read the company profiles in this summary PDF.
stella mccartney collection for h&m
Fashion designer Stella McCartney has designed a collection for Swedish clothes retailer H&M. The campaign site is now up and running in a sneak preview mode. Full site will be available tomorrow, Octorber 27. The clothes will be available in selected H&M-stores worldwide from November 10. More info on the project in the pressrelease and the image archive.
we recommend
We Recommend is a design agency with a slick flash based portfolio site.
Based in Malmö and founded by designers Martin Fredricson, Sweden and Nikolaj Knop, Denmark.
Via Styleboost.
quote issue 2
Swedish hip hop magazine Quote throws a party tonight at Marie Laveau (Hornsgatan 66, Stockholm) to celebrate the release of issue 2, which will be available in stores October 28. Art director: Jakob Eklund, cover illustration by Yanina Casanova.
hans arnold retrospective
Art Gallery + Art.se will host a retrospective exhibition with the works of illustrator Hans Arnold this weekend, October 28–30. Location: Hornsgatan 64, Stockholm.
Check out Hans’ portfolio site. and get the book if you don’t have it already.
threadless
Vikings are just Swedish Pirates according to Threadless.
amore
Design agency Amore has made it to the finals of LIA – London International Awards. Congratulations and good luck! Check out the nominated work and lots more at the portfolio site. The award ceremony will be held in London, November 7. Last year Swedish design agency Happy F&B was awarded the grand prize.
made by noemi
Noemi Ivanova is a young independent fashion designer in Stockholm with a winter collection ready for launch. Check out the new designs at the Made by Noemi-showroom today, October 22 at 14–18 hours or swing by madebynoemi.com
Showroom address: Love Almqvistväg 6, Kristineberg, Stockholm.
meanwhile in nowhere
Meanwhile in Nowhere was mentioned here before. The site has just been updated with some stylish photos wrapped in a nice flash interface. Check out the site and also the related photoblog.
waytion
Waytion is a production company with a couple of fine music videos and television graphics at their portfolio site as well as some illustrations, print and web graphics. Check out the Henry Miller inspired promo for Infrasound, great work.
new prints at t-shirtbutiken
T-shirtbutiken has four new prints available at their online store, con cow and Fröken Fisk for ladies, Herrarna Älg and af Apa for men.
Related post.
stockholmsnatt
The new, spot-on comic strip Stockholmsnatt by Pelle Forshed and Stefan Thungren, is now available online.
string exhibition
The classic shelf system String, designed by Nisse Strinning in 1949, has been taken back into production by String Furniture AB. The relaunch is introduced with an exhibition, ”STRING — Modern since 1949” at Form/Design Center in Malmö on October 14–November 20.
beloved telephone
The ”Cobra” and other classic telephones in new design exhibition; ”Beloved Telephone – a Design Story” opens on 22 October at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology. Unique items from the museum collections will be on display together with new acquisitions, shown in Sweden for the first time. The exhibition is first in a series of exhibitions on communications called .KOM that opens in year 2006.
paregos
New flash based showcase site for the Swedish web agency Paregos.
Via Styleboost.
The Swedish TV program for kids ”Bolibompa” has launched a house industries: show & tell
Swedesres’ favourite type foundry House Industries recently started a blog called Show & Tell. Their typography director Ken Barber visited Scandinavia recently, and posted this about the Swedish candybar Plopp:
”Maybe it’s just me, but a candy bar named Plopp featuring a discharging scatologic dugget on its wrapper is just not terribly appetizing. Nevertheless, the Swedish kids can’t get enough of ‘em. One of the many gems uncovered during my recent trip to Scandinavia for the 2005 ATypI conference in Helsinki.”
patrik mollwing/soutee
Patrik is the name, graphics is the game! Soutee is the showcase of Hyper Island student Patrik Mollwing. Currently in Singapore doing his first internship period and on the lookout for a new designstudio for the second internship period from December–March.
kaskelot
Kaskelot is a newly founded cultural association. On October 15 they will arrange an event called Klubb Kaskelot at Nalen with a lineup of artists like Eric Malmberg, (mp3) Hans Appelqvist, (mp3) Lasse Fabel, (mp3) and Tender Souvenirs (mp3). Konstfack student Malin Petterson-Öberg will display a collection of 350 flyers from 1998–2005, from different events in Sweden and Europe. More info at Kaskelot.net
fashion futures
Fashion Futures (Concours International des Jeunes Créateurs de Mode) is a fashion design competition for students. Some forty students from Konstfack, Beckmans and Textilhögskolan Borås participated in the prestigious competition and ten of them has been chosen to represent Sweden in the finals in Paris on December 15. Their work will be shown in an exhibition at Nationalmuseum October 12–October 30. Vernissage October 12 at 11–17.
Here’s images and the finalists’ own descriptions (in Swedish) of their creations.
we danced to the wrong song
Megan Lundbäck will arrange the event We Danced to the Wrong Song featuring young unestablished designers and artists. Saturday October 22 at Lava, Kulturhuset in Stockholm with fashion shows at 16.00 and 19.30, art exhibition and a shop.
Special guest for the evening will be Swedish fashion designer Gunilla Pontén.
myfonts heads north
Online font retailer myfonts.com just sent out their October newsletter ”highlighting the remarkable number of new type designs coming from Scandinavia.”
svt open archive
SVT (Swedish Television) launched the project ”Open Archive” in March this year, making clips and programs from the past available online.
On account of the Bob Dylan documentary by Scorsese airing tonight, they’ve added two amusing clips of his arrival in Sweden 1978. Clip 1 and Clip 2.
Also check out this clip (in Swedish) from the opening of Ikea in Stockholm 1965 and this bunch of clips on Ingmar Bergman.
average life
AverageLife.org is a, so far, an unpublished web comic produced by Malin Grön and Petur Valdimarsson. The comic tells the story of the average life of a girl with a head, shaped like a melon and the world that surrounds her. In English.
New campaign site for the Ikea PS series. Click 
Swedish street art by Hop Louie at the updated nike sq by trollbäck+co
”No one quite knows what they’ve seen on the greens of Long Island, New York.” Check out Trollbäck + Co.’s latest live-action project for Nike.
svensk form 160th anniversary
Svenska Slöjdföreningen (Swedish Handicraft Society), now Svensk Form – the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design – is the oldest design association in the world. Since 2000, Svensk Form has had the Government’s remit to be Sweden’s national venue in the field of design.
Founded on October 6 in 1845, they’re now celebrating their 160th anniversary. Here’s a summary of the first 160 years (in Swedish). Congratulations from Swedesres!
magazine stand exhibition
The second year Form students at Beckmans CoD will exhibit magazine stands in cooperation with Swedish Magazine Publishers Association at Volvo Showroom, Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, October 6–22. Vernissage this Thursday, October 6 at 17–19.
Aslo check out the SMPA’s ”Magazine Cover of the Year” competition here (opens out of frame) and vote for your favourite. Here’s the Swedesres top three out of the 41 nominees: one, two and three. The criterion for being nominated isn’t specified on the page, but this cover sure makes one wonder...
underground productions #31/32
Underground Productions is a Swedish hip-hop magazine written in English, with a main focus on the graffiti scene. Issue 31/32 will be released this Friday, October 7 at Lava, Kulturhuset and in stores later on.
Visit Underground Productions for further information.
linda bergkvist
Nothing but enchanting digital paintings by Linda Bergkvist at her site furiae.com
CG Society has published a step-by-step tutorial by Linda here.
Via Pixelsurgeon.
swedish style tokyo 2005
Swedish Style is an annual event presenting contemporary Swedish lifestyle and culture to Japan and has been arranged six times since 1999. ”The aim is to promote cultural and commercial exchange between Sweden and Japan, and to create value for Swedish Style participants and partners.” This year, more than 75 Swedish creators and companies present their works at 50 events in 25 locations around Tokyo, November 2–12. More info at the Swedish Style site.
stefan wendin
Fashion and advertising photography by Stefan Wendin here, nice and clean.
mikael kangas
Fashion oriented illustrations to be found at Mikael Kangas (MA 2005, Konstfack) portfolio site (.tk-domain).
john eriksson
Are you up for some vertical scrolling? Then go check out the showcase site of John Eriksson.
ingmar bergman face to face
The brand new Ingmar Bergman site has already been mentioned in a lot of places, but in case you missed it; here it is. The site was designed by Futurniture. ”English version to be launched in January 2006. Meanwhile, browse the site anyway! Even if you don't understand Swedish, it'll be fun. There are pictures, for example.”
The Sven Ranelf site was produced and designed by the Swedish web production agency Femton16, who’s showing some great work samples at their own 
Sven Ranelf is a cinematographer based in Stockholm, Sweden who currently resides in New York. There’s a lot to see at his 
Print and flash designer Stefan Gissberg was mentioned matti klenell
Furniture- and interior designer Matti Klenell has a lot of nice works at his portfolio site, like the lamp Mushroom for Örsjö, the easy chair/seating system Beamon for Miljöexpo, the smart bookshelf lamp Enlightenment and lots more.
