Stockholm City invites all foreign conference participants and an equal number of Swedish counterparts to a formal reception in Stadshuset (the City Hall). This is the same hall as used for the Nobel Prize dinners. It will include a buffet and a guided tour of the city hall.
Time: 18:00-20:00, Sunday May 18
After the ceremony all participants are invited to the official Winners Party at the Sodra Bar. The event is organized by Corbis, Scanpix and European Design
Stockholm City invites all foreign conference participants and an equal number of Swedish counterparts to a formal reception in Stadshuset (the City Hall). This is the same hall as used for the Nobel Prize dinners. It will include a buffet and a guided tour of the city hall.
Time: 18:00-20:00, Sunday May 18
The European Design Week is a common name for all graphic design events taking place in Stockholm 15-19 May 2008.
This includes several exhibitions, a 3-day conference, an award ceremony, a formal reception, two design walks to 7 agencies and open houses. The events are organized by different companies and organizations but coordinated to those 5 days, enabling guests from all over Europe to see the best of Stockholm’s graphic design scene during their visit. It will be a smörgåsbord (buffet) of graphic design events from dawn till dusk (and dusk comes very late in Sweden in May). Bon appetite!
Thursday May 15th
Friday May 16th
Saturday May 17th
Sunday May 18th
Monday May 19th
Corbis, Scanpix and European Design are proud to celebrate photography with the European creative industry. The Creatives Behind the Lens contest is open till May 5th; submit up to 3 photographs and compete for a little bit of fame within the creative industry in Europe.
A panel of professionals from European leading creative publications will judge your work.
There is no brief so you can shoot what you like, just make it brilliant! If you work in the creative industries (but don’t take pictures for a living) and like a challenge then enter our unique competition. Deadline for submissions has been extended to May 5th.
For more details and to enter, please visit the
Creatives Behind the Lens competition page!
Exhibition in Stockholm 16-18 May
The short list will be exhibited at Södra teatern in Stockholm during the European Design Conference and taken afterwards on a road show to further countries.
Opening hours:
Friday May 16: 12:00-13:00 and 17:00-18:30
Saturday May 17: 12:00-13:00 and 17:00-18:30
Sunday May 18: 12:00-13:00
ED-Conference participants may visit the exhibition during conference hours. It will also be open for participants during the ED-Awards ceremony and during the ED/Corbis party on Sunday evening May 18.
Fabrico Próprio means “Own Production”, an expression used by most Portuguese cafés and patisseries in their shop signs, windows and packaging. It is a warrant of freshness and quality, but also of uniqueness and prestige of the baked goods they sell – most of them sweet, one-portion cakes.
“Fabrico Próprio – The Design of Semi-Industrial Confectionery” is a 292-page book dedicated to Portuguese confectionery and its relation to design. An encyclopaedic record of 92 Portuguese daily confectionery cakes, it also includes perspectives from 23 Portuguese and foreign professionals, which can be found along its pages in the form of three essays and several sections.
Photographers, illustrators, architecture and food critics, a chef and an art curator take Portuguese semi-industrial confectionery as a source of inspiration, offering unexpected approaches to this surprising world.
“Fabrico Próprio” is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to Portuguese semi-industrial confectionery and its relation to design, authored by Pedrita (Rita João, Pedro Ferreira) and Frederico Duarte. It is composed of this book, a workshop, the fabricoproprio.net website and a series of launches in Portugal and abroad.
Time & place
Saturday May 17th 17:30-18:30
Södra teatern
Free entry
Nationalmuseum
Website: www.nationalmuseum.se
The exhibition devoted to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm is the first comprehensive presentation of the French artist in Sweden for forty years. The exhibition will include some 200 items: drawings, posters and oil paintings.
We meet a small but highly imposing artist who abandoned a life in aristocratic circles to spend his days among the bohemian pleasures of Montmartre, portraying the people he met there. His works will be on view at the Nationalmuseum from 21 February to 25 May 2008.
The entire Parisian entertainment world of the late 19th century seems to have been preserved in Toulouse-Lautrec’s pictures from the restaurants and cafés, dance halls and theatres. He is particularly associated with the famous Moulin Rouge nightclub where, for a number of years around 1890, he spent almost every evening recording individuals and events in his sketchbook.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec also recorded the lives of women working as prostitutes – how they spent their days and their nights. In his art he seems to vacillate between compassion and detachment. The spring exhibition of his work at the Nationalmuseum will shed light on the economic and social causes of the widespread prostitution during the late 19th century. A further question will also be asked:
What would a contemporary Toulouse-Lautrec have portrayed in Stockholm today? A group of students from Konstfack – University College of Arts, Crafts and Design – have been invited to contribute their personal answers to this question in the form of their own works of art. These works will be shown in the ground-floor gallery, displayed under the name “To use Lautrec”.
A great deal of space is devoted to Toulouse-Lautrec in his capacity as a designer of posters. The emergent entertainment industry of the late 19th century needed marketing and the greater part of Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters were made to advertise. In his posters the artist developed a medium of expression using simple lines and bold colours; an artistic language that points to the future.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s life describes an unusual social progress from the aristocracy to the darker side of society. He was born into a notably aristocratic family in southern France. It has been claimed that his poor health was the result of inbreeding. In his teens he broke his legs so severely that they stopped growing. He moved to Paris with his mother to study art but was soon drawn to the city’s bohemian neighbourhoods. And it was in the bohemian ambience of Montmartre that his creative talent began to flourish, leading on to a very substantial body of work. But his life was a brief one. Marked by an excess of alcohol and in poor physical condition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died in 1901, scarcely 37 years old. At the end of February we shall be able to acquaint ourselves with him once again at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
Exhibition curator: Per Hedström, Phone: +46 (0)8-5195 43 56, e-mail: phm@nationalmuseum.se
Designer: Henrik Widenheim
For further information please contact Anne-Marie Gustafsson, Head of Information, Phone. +46 (0)88-5195 43 90, E-mail: amg@nationalmuseum.se
Opening hours
21 February – 25 May 2008
Mondays: closed
Tuesdays: 11:00-20:00
Wednesdays: 11:00-17:00
Thursdays: 11:00-20:00
Fridays: 11:00-17:00
Saturdays: 11:00-17:00
Sundays: 11:00-17:00
Guided tours: Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri at 13:00
Address
Södra Blasieholmshamnen
Box 161 76
103 24 Stockholm
The art and design bookshop konst-ig has invited Marcus Gärde from BachGarde for a talk and an exhibition.
Talk
Marcus Gärde will give a talk about proportions and geometry in graphic design and typography and their relationship to grid systems. Gärde is the author of “Typografins väg” and heads the department of typography at Berghs School of Communication.
Time: 17:00-19:00, Friday May 16
Exhibition in the window
Geometry can fool the eye – and blow the mind. Marcus Gärde uses geometry and colored paper to create squares with hidden messages.
Exhibition: 15-19/5
at Nordic Light Hotel, May 15
Program
17.30 Registration and refreshments
18.00 FutureDesignDays Retail Session
S H O P T A L K
How digital movements merge to the physical world
and engage dialogue instead of monologue.
20.00 Dinner
Sign-up
Post your interest at futuredesigndays.com
Address
Nordic Light Hotel
Vasaplan 7, Box 884
101 37 Stockholm
Sweden
www.nordiclighthotel.se
by CAP&Design
Welcome to a seminar on the subject where Swedish agencies are the best in the World: web design and web development. Meet some of Sweden’s most prominent web creators and share some of their philosophies and experiences.
Why do Swedish web agencies get all those awards for their work? What is the base for the achievements they are prized for?
Get all the answers and a lot of inspiration on this seminar!
Kolla! Graphic Design and Illustration exhibition
in cooperation with Svensk Form
Kolla! is presenting the winners of their Swedish graphic design and illustration award in the facilities of Svensk Form.
Kolla!
Kolla! is an annual competition for graphic design and illustration organized by Föreningen Svenska Tecknare, the Swedish Association of Illustrators and Grapich Designers.
Kolla! was held for the first time in 2003. The competition is judged by an expert jury and comprises three main classes: graphic design, illustration and screen-based graphic design and illustration. Eligible to take part in Kolla! are professional graphic designers and illustrators and students at the Swedish design colleges.
Kolla! aims to create a platform for discussion as well as to promote Swedish graphic design and illustration. The competition ends with a special Kolla! day: a seminar involving Swedish and international speakers followed by the awards ceremony and a reception. The award winners are presented at a Kolla! exhibition and in a Kolla! catalogue.
Föreningen Svenska Tecknare is an organization for Sweden’s professional illustrators and graphic designers. Its task is to promote the legal, financial and other interests of the members.
Address: kolla! Föreningen Svenska Tecknare, Götgatan 48, SE-118 26 Stockholm, Sweden
Contact: + 46 8 556 029 10, kolla@svenskatecknare.seThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
Websites: www.kolla.se , www.svenskatecknare.se & www.svenskform.se
Opening hours
Wednesday May 14: 17:00-20:00
Thursday May 15: 12:00-17:00
Friday May 16: 12:00-17:00
Saturday May 17: 12:00-16:00
Sunday May 18: 12:00-16:00
Entrence fee: 30 SEK
The exhibition is also opened between April 28 and May 11:
Wednesdays 17:00-20:00
Thursdays: 12:00-20:00
Fridays: 12:00-20:00
Saturdays: 12:00-17:00
Sundays: 12:00-17:00
Adress to the exhibition
Svensk Form Stockholm, Holmamiralens väg 2, Skeppsholmen.
Final exhibition, 15-19 May
Website: www.forsbergsskola.se
Forsberg School of Graphic Design
The school was established in the Autumn of 1993 by Pia Forsberg and Pelle Lindberg. Both have long vocational experience within the industry. The Forsberg School is a 2-year vocational training course in Graphic Design, Advertising, Copywriting, Fashion Design and Motion Graphic Design.
The training gives the students the opportunity to discover their own distinctive character and individual aptitude in an environment which offers freedom with responsibility. Less theory and more practical creation. Students will test different ways of expression and thinking through exciting projects. “Learning by doing.”
Final exhibition
Grand Opening: Thursday 15th May
Open: Friday 16th May, Saturday 17th May, Sunday 18th May and Monday 19th May, 12pm to 6pm.
Graduates of Forsberg have held their final exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The students have also carried out final exhibition projects in Soho, New York. The 2001 exhibition was based on a film project where the students traveled to different destinations around the world, such as Las Vegas, New York, Istanbul, Mexico City and Tokyo. In Stockholm, the students have created exhibitions, besides at the School itself, at the department store NK, at Humlegården Park, at the Hotel Strand and at the Royal Stables. Our ambition is to allow the students to show the creative innovation and free artistic expression that will characterize the industry in the future.
Address
Forsbergs Skola, Skinnarviksringen 6, 117 27 Stockholm.
Metro station (T-bana) Zinkensdamm.
This design walk starts outside Södra Teatern and let you visit three interesting design agencies in the city center. Each of them has promised to welcome you into their office, answer your questions and exhibit some previous work. This is a chance to meet great designers eye-to-eye on their home ground.
The first walk will start on Friday May 16th around 17:00 outside the Södra Teatern and take the subway to the city center. Each stop at an agency is about 20 minutes and you will be back at Södra Teatern or Slussen metro station two hours later. The second walk to the same four agencies starts around 17:00 on Saturday May 17th.
We will split the participants in smaller groups (by language) and the groups will visit the agencies in different order. The small size of the groups and the bi-lingual guide that accompanies each group will allow you to better interact and discuss with the agencies designers.
You don’t have to be part of this guided tour to visit those agencies. Some of them will be opened to everyone during those hours. The guided tour is merely a service.
Sign-up for this design walk via our web shop. The fee is 5 euro per person, incl. VAT. This includes the subway ticket.
Fantasy Interactive
Fi, a world-leading interactive design and development company, has grown substantially since it was founded in 1999. Our story has been marked by successful advances throughout; esteemed new clients, innovative projects, the development of our own proprietary products and the expansion of Fi into the US are all part of our organic evolution. Fi is committed to delivering an exceptionally high-quality, beautifully designed, easy-to-use internet experience to audiences worldwide.
Read more about Fi at www.f–i.com
Address:
Birger Jarlsgatan 4
14 34 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 8 402 17 40
E-mail: interact@fantasy-interactive.com
Stockholm Design Lab
Website: www.stockholmdesignlab.se
Address:
Sturegatan 11
111 35 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46-8-555 519 00
E-mail: mail@stockholmdesignlab.se
dolhem design
We create, refine and clarify our clients’ brands, products and services through a mixture of quality, creativity, charisma and economical thinking (in the order preferred by the client). Even if we use different models depending on client need and objectives, design management is always the common denominator.
Feel free to order our case stories or to book a meeting with us so that we can explain in detail how we work and look upon branding as well as how design management can be seen as an investment rather than only as an expense.
We have built up a broad client base that spans a large range of different businesses in both the public and private sectors since 1998. As a result of belonging to INAREA, an international design network, we have access to expertise in different markets and an inexhaustible source of information that can be used on behalf of our clients. Dolhem Design’s international character can also be seen in the fact that five languages are fluently spoken at the company (Swedish, English, French, and Czech).
Website: www.dolhemdesign.se
Address:
Nybrogatan 3
114 54 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46-8-661 50 47
E-mail: info@dolhemdesign.se
This design walk starts outside Södra Teatern and let you visit four interesting design agencies at Södermalm and Gamla Stan. Each of them has promised to welcome you into their office, answer your questions and exhibit some previous work. This is a chance to meet great designers eye-to-eye on their home ground.
The first walk will start on Friday May 16th around 17:00 outside the Södra Teatern. Each stop at an agency is about 20 minutes and you will be back at Södra Teatern or Slussen metro station two hours later. The second walk to the same four agencies starts around 17:00 on Saturday May 17th.
We will split the participants in smaller groups (by language) and the groups will visit the agencies in different order. The small size of the groups and the bi-lingual guide that accompanies each group will allow you to better interact and discuss with the agencies designers.
You don’t have to be part of this guided tour to visit those agencies. Some of them will be opened to everyone during those hours. The guided tour is merely a service.
Sign-up for this design walk via our web-shop. The fee is 5 euro per person, incl. VAT.
ACNE
Acne is a multi-disciplinary collective in the intersection of art and industry. Our ambition is to create amazing brands – own brands as well as other peoples brands. Acne’s creative expertize ranges from design, advertising and web to television and film. Our own brands are Acne Jeans (fashion), Acne Jr (toys) and Acne Paper (magazine). For a detailed presentation of Acne’s products and brands and a portfolio of recent client work, please visit www.acne.se.
Address:
Lilla Nygatan 23
Box 2327
103 18 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 8 555 799 00
E-mail: info@acne.se
Fellow Designers
Website: www.fellowdesigners.se
Address:
Högbergsgatan 28
11620 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46-8 – 33 22 00
E-mail: paul@fellowdesigners.com
North Kingdom
North Kingdom is a digital boutique agency from the north of Sweden that was founded in 2003. North Kingdom specializes in developing unique solutions within interactive media for big brands all over the world.North Kingdom has developed award winning online projects for clients such as Toyota, Coca Cola Zero, Vodafone, Absolut, Canal Digital, Starwood Hotels, and BBC and collaborated with some of the worlds leading Ad agencies such as, Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Fransisco, A.O.I. + Dentsu, Japan, and Crispin Porter + Bogusky Miami.
Website: www.northkingdom.com
Address:
Skeppsbron 36
11130 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46-8-4401970
E-mail: info@northkingdom.com
Pangea Design
Pangea design is a design studio focused on corporate identities. During the Design Walks, we will give you a presentation of our latest cases, including corporate typefaces. We will also show you our office with a splendid panorama view of Stockholm.
Pangea design was founded in 1997 and the studio is situated in the centre of Stockholm. We are today 14 employees; graphic designers and project managers.
Our presentation will contain our work with corporate identity for SL, Stockholm’s public transport system. We will show you examples from the ten different design manuals developed for SL. For PTS (The National Post- and Telecom Agency) we have recently developed a new logotype and corporate identity in order to change their image towards more modern and high-tech. Finally, we will give you some examples from the new corporate identity for Stockholm University which is Sweden’s largest with over 52,000 students.
Pangea design is also well known for our great experience and high quality in corporate typeface assignments. In this field, we have customers as Dagens Nyheter (Sweden’s largest daily newspaper) and LO (The Swedish Trade Union Confederation).
Welcome to visit our design studio where you also have a fantastic panorama view over Stockholm’s Old Town and City, as well as the sea.
Website: www.pangeadesign.se
Address:
Stadsgården 6, 8 tr
11645 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46-8-714 36 50
E-mail: info@pangeadesign.se
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Erik Spiekermann
Location: Berlin, Germany
Website: www.spiekermann.com
Background
Erik Spiekermann, born 1947, studied History of Art and English in Berlin. He is information architect, type designer (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk and many corporate typefaces) and author of books and articles on type and typography.
He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign, Germany’s largest design firm with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. Projects included corporate design programmes for Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen, Lexus, Heidelberg Printing and way-finding projects like Berlin Transit, Duesseldorf Airport and many others. In 1988 he started FontShop, a company for production and distribution of electronic fonts. He is board member of ATypI and the German Design Council and Past President of the ISTD, International Society of Typographic Designers, as well as the IIID. In 2001 he left MetaDesign and now runs SpiekermannPartners with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco.
In 2001 he redesigned The Economist magazine in London. His book for Adobe Press,“Stop Stealing Sheep” has recently appeared in a second edition and a German and a Russian version. His corporate font family for Nokia was released in 2002. In 2003 he received the Gerrit Noordzij Award from the Royal Academy in Den Haag. His type system DB Type for Deutsche Bahn was awarded the Federal German Design Prize in gold for 2006. In May 2007 he was the first designer to be elected into the Hall of Fame by the European Design Awards for Communication Design.
Erik is Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen and in 2006 received an honorary doctorship from Pasadena Art Center. He has just been elected an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA in Britain.
Speakers: Teemu Suviala, founder
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Website: www.kokoromoi.com
Case
Change of identity, from Syrup Helsinki to Kokoro & Moi.
“Kokoro” is japanese for Heart/Mind, “Moi” french for Me and finnish for Hello/Bye. The name reflects our philosophy in design: when you connect ideas that haven´t been seen together before you can create something unique and new. You have also a pattern for this which is 1+1=3. Usually it´s even more.
Background
The design agency Kokoro & Moi specialises in brand, corporate and product identities, creative direction, art direction, graphic design and consultancy. Their innovative expertise covers both traditional and digital channels. The agency’s large international clientele represents commercial players from multinationals to start-ups, as well as various cultural and public institutions. Amos Anderson Art Museum, Blyk, City of Helsinki, Design Forum Finland, Jaiku, Lycra, New York Magazine, Nokia and Toyota are just a few examples of Kokoro & Moi clients.
Kokoro & Moi is known for innovative approach, passion for excellence and dedication to the success of their clients with whom they have been working on a broad range of projects, from designing identities to orchestrating complex design projects for print, screen, products and environments. The agency believes in originality, innovation and the power of great design in brand strategies.
Kokoro & Moi was founded in 2001 by Teemu Suviala and Antti Hinkula.
Speakers: Lizá Defossez Ramalho and Artur Rebelo, founders
Location: Porto, Portugal
Website: www.r2design.pt
Case
Unfinished Trajectories
Graphic Instalation in Casa da Música, Porto
Reflection based on visitors’ emotions and other viewpoints, suggested by the spaces of the Casa da Música. ⁄ The objective is to list, classify, contextualise, build relations and map the respective content. ⁄ Experiences represented in various forms that in turn generate a series of unfinished “scores” based on a wide array of details. ⁄ This project aims to question standard trajectories and propose new possibilities. New forms of discovering spaces thereby emerge, organised in alphabetical order, by scale, capacity or other criteria… ⁄ This is an unfinished project, delivering improbable and sometimes absurd itineraries.
Client: Casa da Música, Porto
Background
Lizá Defossez Ramalho (Troyes, 1971) and Artur Rebelo (Porto, 1971) graduated in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Oporto University (Portugal) and have Masters in Design Research from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Barcelona University (Spain). In 1995, they founded R2 design, a studio based in Oporto (Portugal), where they have since undertaken projects in the field of visual communication design.
Since 1996, their work has included: teaching design in various Portuguese colleges, particularly Oporto Polytechnic; coordinating workshops in many universities and colleges, amongst them the Faculty of Letters at the University of Oporto; and leading workshops, such as in l’Intuit Lab (Paris), and design biennials like ‘Moi du Graphisme’ (Échirroles, 2004). Lizá and Artur have served on various juries, with a special mention to the international jury for the Chaumont Poster Festival in 2007, while Lizá took part, in 2004, in the jury for ESAG Penninghen (Paris) evaluating the final examinations for students there; they have also participated in conferences at many faculties, major schools and institutes: the Coimbra University School of Arts (Portugal, 2003), the Faculty of Fine Arts at Barcelona University (Spain, 2005) and Oporto Polytechnic (Portugal, 2006); the Faculty of Fine Arts at Oporto University (Portugal, 2007); Rencontres de Lure (France, 2007).
Client: Cultural Center DOM
Location: Moscow, Russia
Websites: www.ostengruppe.com, www.ostengruppe.com/mobile
Case: DOM: Full art directorship
It is an on-going project of visual support for cultural center DOM. The project has been art-directed for the last 5 years and covers logo development, catalogs, posters (more than 200 for the period), CD-covers, DOM’s souvenirs and calendars etc.
Project: Complex art directorship. The ‘look’ of the cultura; center projects: concerts, festivals, cultural events.
Creative concept: Graphic expansion and identification of dom’s style. Very aggressive and bold. Only two colours used (red and black). Daring and experimental. Well oiled production mechanism (texts, illustrations, design and print). End product – original art work.
Results: DOM brand and style recognition, graphic recognition. Over 200 posters, nearly 50 cd covers. numerous calendars, books and photo albums.
Background
OSTENGRUPPE design bureau was founded in 2002 by Eric Beloussov, Igor Gurovich, and Anna Naumova. Dmitry Kavko joined the group in 2003 and became the fourth member of OSTENGRUPPE. The company’s projects, which can be seen at www.ostengruppe.com, focus on functional contemporary design in a range of areas, including graphics, TV, Internet projects, video, interiors, furniture, fashion, and stage settings for events.
OSTENGRUPPE posters have been selected for the International Triennial of Posters in Toyama 2000 and 2006; the International Poster Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno 1998; the International Poster Biennial in Warsaw, 2005; the International Biennial in the Poster in Mexico in 2006, and the International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont in 2001, 2005 and 2006. In 2003 and 2006 OSTENGRUPPE was a Design Innovation Award (DIA) winner in the Graphic Design category, receiving the award for a series of posters for DOM cultural center and creating an experimental Olympic 2008 uniform for the Russian national team. In 2005, OSTENGRUPPE’s Plate&Play lighting collection won the SalonSatellite 2005 designer competition at Milan ISaloni Worldwide, a furnishings and interiors exhibition held in Moscow. In 2006, HOME COMFORTS ON THE GO Collezione Mobile was shown at Salone Satellite in Milan
Speakers: Magnus Voll Mathiassen & Magnus Helgesen
Location: Bergen, Norway
Website: www.grandpeople.org
Case: Beast per music
The case: Powerblytt Myths
Product: 12″ vinyl series, compilations
Music Type: Electronic pop music, remixes
Short about the case:
Powerblytt Records is a newly started small Norwegian label for electronic pop music. Grandpeople is involved as art director, with full creative control on every level, except the music. Powerblytt Myths is a music compilation series with various remixes. The design concept is a mix of combining the awkward music compilation aesthetics from the 70/80s with Norwegian fairy tales/myths. The idea is to create a strong visual look based on traditional designs with even older traditions to create a product that is strange, and that gives shelf impact directed to curious persons. It is the “face-on-the-cover” tactic, done differently.
Media: ink illustrations, logo, typography, photography
Client: Powerblytt Records
Background
Magnus Voll Mathiassen, Magnus Helgesen and Christian Strand Bergheim has been working together since they met at art school in 2000. In 2005 they put up the studio Grandpeople.
The studio’s name can to a certain point reflect the approach they have to the material they create: put opposites or dissimilarities together to get a third element.
Hailing from a country associated with a type of Scandinavian modernism that conflicts their perception of true Norwegian culture and mindset, the focus on contrasts and nature occupies much of their work.
Grandpeople work with everything from small local clients to big international brands, often as both illustrators and graphic designers, in the fields of advertising, culture and identity design.
Speaker: Henrik Nygren
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: www.henriknygrendesign.se
Background
Henrik Nygren was active in Stockholm design and advertising agencies from 1983-1991, and subsequently launched own company. Henrik Nygren Design mainly deals with analysing the client’s market potential, with strategy in accordance with this potential and the design and production of books, magazines, packaging, corporate identities, advertising campaigns, exhibitions, etc.
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