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Allmänna Galleriet 925 is seeking proposals for digitally produced, low budget films between 1 and 10 minutes in length.
3–5 films will be commissioned. The budget range is 5.000–50.000 sek depending on the nature of the project. Application Deadline: 5 pm, January 13, 2006. Go to the site for more information.
Exclusively semi-nude-seventies-style girls at illustrator Magnus Blomster’s portfolio site.
As part of the ongoing war-poster exhibition at The Royal Library in Stockholm (October14—January 31), a series of lectures is held on Thursdays at 18.00 hrs. This Thursday its about Anders Beckman, Swedish advertising pioneer and founder of Beckmans College of Design.
The Royal Library has a collection of ca 500.000 posters in their vaults, a small fraction of the collection is available online.
Design agency Blidholm Vagnemark Design has updated their portfolio site with the traditional package design for this years ”Blossa Glögg”-bottle (hot wine punch). Also some good looking work for Shapy Gainer Fuel.
Related link: blossa.se
Joakim Jansson released an updated version of his portfolio site Dirty Deluxe today.
Related post.
All I want for Christmas... well, the classic Streamliner car by Playsam has been marked as a Swedish Design Classic by the Swedish National Museum for its inventive style and sleek surface. Now available as special edition iCar in white, available at Scandinavia Online.
Two alcohol related links; the Swedish alcohol monopoly Systembolaget has a brand new campaign site up, produced by ForsmanBodenfors. This advert explains the thoughts behind it.
And GreatWorks produced this winter season site for Absolut Vodka. Via Reklamfeber.
You might also want to re-visit this previous post on the subject.
Multi-talented design agency New showcase a bunch of great works at their portfolio site, like the Cardigans video ”I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer” and the titles for Swedish TV-award Kristallen.
Swedens Best DJ-Bar is about to be appointed at events arranged by Les Enfants Terribles. Finals will be held at Café Opera on December 4. More info and dates here. In Swedish.
Jonas Strandberg-Ringh has updated his portfolio site Cubadust with various projects — including a new set of high-res screen shots from the Alphabet Flower movie, a new MTV Load animation, TDC cabel TV screens and much more.
The graphic novel V for Vendetta (wiki) has been translated to Swedish. The books’ illustrator David Lloyd will visit Serieteket on November 19 at 16.00 hrs to talk about the project. More info on the event here (in Swedish). The story was recently transfered to the silverscreen.
Swedish publisher En bok för alla (A Book for Everyone) has redesigned their site. In Swedish.
Husmusen is a new blog focused on interior design. It has only been up since September this year, but is already filled with interesting postings. Aftonbladet wrote about it yesterday. In Swedish.
More great motion graphics; Filmtecknarna (founded in 1981) have a collection of music videos and commercials worth browsing through at their site. The image is from the video ”Shot You Down” by Audiobullys. In English.
Illustratörcentrum is a service organization for illustrators and graphic designers based in Sweden. They just launched a major redesign of their site, containing about 4000 images. Available in English.
The Swedish advertising newspaper Resumé has added a new category called Design of the Month to their regular ”Campaign of the Month”-competition. Deadline for the first round is November 30. In Swedish.
La Ninja has a great selection of handpicked objects and accessories available at their shop at Kungsholmen, Stockholm and also through their online store. In Swedish.
Sweden’s finest motion graphics designers Stylewar updates their portfolio site with seven new commercials. If you haven’t seen this site before, take your time and look through the different sections, lots of nice work.
Nice collection of African themed photos at softish.nu
Singer/songwriter David Urwitz launched a new site today, produced by Pierre Bremell, with illustrations by Christina Skårud.
Farfar and TBWA produced a new campaign site called Festmetoden for Alkoholkommitten. The site describes what happens to your body when drinking alcohol, and the purpose is to get young adults to drink less. In Swedish only.
Check out the campaign site for Toyota’s Aygo. The intro animation explains the new concept – car subscription. Site designed and developed by North Kingdom, mentioned here earlier.
Time for Tempo – Documentary film festival in Stockholm, November 9–13. Site in Swedish only.
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