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Here are a couple of recommended sites during the Swedesres Christmas break:
In English
3jorn
Styleboost
Pixelsurgeon
Fosfor Gadgets
Karins Style Blog
Martin Klash
Smartstuff
In Swedish
Up2Date
Reklamfeber
Macfeber
Prylfeber
Prylfreak
Researcher
Groupies
Smidigt
Streetartfunderingar
Gatukonst
Smartstuff
Fashion designer Noemi Ivanova launched her new website today. It is now possible to purchase the Winter 05/06 collection online. The site was produced by Oskar Karlin.
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The Swedish Post office is trying new ways to get people to send postcards for Christmas. At this campaign site you can write or draw a postcard online, choose a front, pay the postage via SMS and a printed version of the card will be sent off to the addressee. In Swedish.
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Stockholm DesignLab has updated their site with the Astoria project previously mentioned here.
And the Astoria site is now up and running.
Animated music video featuring vikings – hence the connection to Sweden... Here’s a radio feature with the artist Jason Forrest aka Donna Summer made by the Swedish radio show Musikjournalen.
New issue of the design magazine Form out now, with a great cover by Rodrigo Gutierrez Benavente.
New site for production company Mulufilm, who are currently ”making a skateboard film from a skateboard summercamp in Sweden 1985. Rare footage showing Tony Hawk doing his first ’720’ Rodney Mullen doing his first ’Impossible’ and Mike McGill doing his first ’McTwist’. Skateboard history written in Sweden.”
The Swedish design portal Up2Date gets even better. The site has undergone an extreme makeover and launched the face lifted version with a couple of new sections today. They’re looking for contributing editors, so send them an e-mail if you’re interested.
Great work, keep it Up! In Swedish, related post here.
The Swedish Post office have three new, animated commercials out now, promoting the sending of Christmas cards. They’re in Swedish, but have a look anyway:
Bilen (The Car)
Mor och Dotter (Mother and Daughter)
Paret (The Couple)
Created by ÅkestamHolst and StyleWar.
Via Kollor
Sticker street art gallery at Art of Kongo.
Swedens second largest cinema operator Sandrews was recently bought by Triangelfilm and renamed ”Astoria”.
Stockholm DesignLab created not only a new logo but website, interior design, displays etc. As always, Stockholm DesignLab delivers top of the line-work. Check out the excellent new title sequence here (highres .mov) or here (lowres .mpg) Logo, webscreenshot and other press material here. More info at CAP&Design
Illustrator Karin Mårtensson updates her portfolio site with some recent projects, like ”the mural at Mellanbaren, Sturehof restaurant in Stockholm and my contribution to the book BOM BOM published by Rabén & Sjögren, amongst others...”
Check out JulIgen/Christmas Again, a site about Swedish Christmas records, written in English. According to the author of the site, a book is in the pipeline, hopefully ready for release next Christmas. The records can be heard at Club Sunkit Christmas Party in Stockholm on December 19.
Via Martin Klash
Not much content at Kristian Sällbergs’ portfolio site purestyle, but the nice flower metaphor navigation makes it worth a visit.
So, here it is... the new logo for the Swedish advertising award Guldägget, created by ForsmanBodenfors’ design division HappyF&B. More info at Reklamförbundet, in Swedish.
By the way, ”Guldägget” is ”The Golden Egg” in English...
Electronics store Pause, located at the ground floor, cleverly transformed the skyscrape building into a speaker. More pictures here. Scroll down for some of the award winning adverts by their advertising agency ÅkestamHolst.
Via Reklamfeber
Fashion photography by Helene Sandberg at her portfolio site.
Forsbergs Design School has launched a redesign of their site. In Swedish.
Check out the campaign site for insurance company If, and see if you have bad luck. The site is made by ForsmanBodenfors.
Via 3jorn.
Furniture producer Swedese open the doors to its new shop and showroom in Stockholm, Sweden on December 9. The showroom will display the entire Swedese furniture collection, accompanied by a selective range of design carpets, lighting and accessories.
The interior was made by Claesson Koivisto Rune. Also be sure to check the great graphics by Stockholm Design Lab.
Club Yes will arrange a screening of the sneaker documentary ”Just For Kicks” this Thursday, Deceber 8 at Berns in Stockholm. DJ-ing at the after party will be none other than the great DJ Premier (Gangstarr).
aya.nu is a Swedish retailer of Japanese designer toys with a large collection available online. Or get a closer look at their stand at Street Christmas Market December 10–11 and 17–18.
An updated version of Andreas Pihlström’s portfolio site Uniform Sweden is up and running. Nice work!
SHOWROOM Magazine ”Celebrating the brightest of advertising and design” Read Issue No.1 online at theshowroom.se
”Featuring breathtaking prints from agencies like Wieden + Kennedy, Saatchi & Saatchi, TBWA\Paris, Sagmeister and JWT Portugal, Videos from The Campaign Palace and Sounds from StrawberryFrog. Among many others. As if that wasn't enough we asked nice chaps like Scott Goodson/StrawberryFrog, John Carver/Cunning, William Easton/Berghs School of Comunication and Sebastian Smedberg/Garbergs to give us their view of alternative marketing.”
Time for the annual Christmas market at 
Advertising agency 
Some Flash-stuff going on at 
NY based agency Trollbäck are at it again with two new product films for Nike Japan 
The Swedish photo magazine 
