The new site for Beckmans College of Design is up and running. Very nice...(and about time): beckmans.se
wesc travelguide
The clothes brand WESC has launched an online travel guide.
crew 11 site released
"First you spend 7 hours on a detailed full- resoluted A3 illustration,
then you take another 5 hours, creating a unique box, and after that you
place the first illustration in a little box with a window that pretty much
hides the contents. – It’s so stupid.
And on top of it all, you repeat this 70 times. - Isn’t that stupid!!!
– That’s why we did it!"
babian issue #2
Online comics magazine Babian.se released issue #2 today.
lattjolajban
TV4's childrens show Lattjolajban has released a new site.
cardiac
Cardiac is a new Swedish t-shirt site selling limited editions of printed t-shirts.
knitted fashion at beckmans
Knitted fashion shown at Beckmans this weekend.
crew 11
The site for Crew 11 of Hyper Island is due March 2. Have a peak here.
Update: also check out Story of 11. (Thanks Karl)
beckmans+defyra
The design students at Beckmans College of Design have, togeteher with Defyra, been working with silkscreen. The result is shown as a Hotel concept at Stockholm Furniture Fair Februari 8-12. More info here.
cap & (re-)design
The Swedish design magazine CAP & Design launched their new and redesigned site today. In Swedish.
odd at large
Odd at Large is a new bi-monthly magazine from the guys behind Odd Magazine covering subjects like design, film, music, art and fashion. The magazine will be available in Stockholm, Gothenburg och Malmoe on January 30.
daddy.se
Swedish web agency Daddy has a new site up. Via Reklamfeber.
lobby design
Have a look at Swedish design agency Lobby Design, nice work presented in a pretty cool way. Via Styleboost.
more package design
It’s not only McDonald’s that wants their customers to help out with the package design. Two more Swedish companies are on the same bandwagon with these campaign sites: Kalles Kaviar and Felix Ketchup.
andreas wennerstedt
Check out these animated graphics by Andreas Wennerstedt.
tastelabs
Sweet motion graphics for a fruit flavoured nicotine gum by North Kingdom, who did the Aygo site a while ago.
Related post.
fridas form
The work of Frida Ottemo Källström is best described as shining junk, lamps created with old industrial leftovers. Check them out at the portfolio site, made by Femton16.
design competition
McDonalds, Svensk Form and Gustavsberg has teamed up to present a design competition that sounds quite exiting; create new patterns for McDonalds coffee cups. Three winners will be selected by a jury and have their patterns printed on all McDonalds’ coffee cups this summer plus a scholarship of 20.000 kr. One of the patterns will also be printed by Gustavsberg on real porcelain cups in a limited edition.
The competition opens tomorrow, January 10th, when more information will be available at the campaign site.
The campaign and site was created by Ottoboni
Group. Illustration by Anton Nordstierna and Josefin Thor.
recommended sites
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
real postcards online
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.
Related post
more astoria
Stockholm DesignLab has updated their site with the Astoria project previously mentioned here.
And the Astoria site is now up and running.
form magazine issue 6
New issue of the design magazine Form out now, with a great cover by Rodrigo Gutierrez Benavente.
Time for the annual Christmas market at up2date updated
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.
post office commercials
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
new logo for astoria
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
swedish christmas records
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
purestyle
Not much content at Kristian Sällbergs’ portfolio site purestyle, but the nice flower metaphor navigation makes it worth a visit.
new guldägget logo
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...
Some Flash-stuff going on at forsbergs, new site
Forsbergs Design School has launched a redesign of their site. In Swedish.
new swedese shop & showroom
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.
japanese designer toys
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.
uniform sweden
An updated version of Andreas Pihlström’s portfolio site Uniform Sweden is up and running. Nice work!
showroom issue no 1
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.”
Malmö-based digital type foundry poster exhibition
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.
blidholm vagnemark design
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
dirty deluxe
Joakim Jansson released an updated version of his portfolio site Dirty Deluxe today.
Related post.
streamliner car special edition
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.
alcohol related links
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.
design agency new
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.
cubadust
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.
en bok för alla
Swedish publisher En bok för alla (A Book for Everyone) has redesigned their site. In Swedish.
new blog: husmusen
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.
filmtecknarna
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.
