Swedish Illustration 3

Swedish Illustration 3 collects 123 of the country’s top illustrators and agencies. A broad selection of work is included – childrens books, book covers, fashion illustrations, technical drawings and text book illustration are mixed with the illustrators’ own projects. The book also consist of texts on illustration today and about the nominees and winner of the Swedish Illustration Award 2011. The book shows is an in-depth collection which is broad in content and is a must for those working with or as illustrators, but also for anyone just interested in Swedish illustration today.

Facts
Language: English
Art direction: Gabor Palotai Design
Graphic design: Sanna Sporrong Form
No. of pages: ca 320
Format: 165x215 mm
Binding: Flexi cover
Published in 2012
ISBN 987-91-85689-43-9

NORDIC GRAPHIC DESIGNERS

Nordic Graphic Designers is the third volume in Arvinius’ series on Nordic architecture and design. The book demonstrates the diversity among graphic designers from the five Nordic countries, but also tracks a distinctly Nordic identity shared by a great variety of designers. The book serves as both an encyclopedia of contemporary expression and a catalogue of leading designers, with established titans and rising stars side by side. Among other things, we learn what inspires the creativity of Kari Piippo, Acne, and Bleed. An introduction gives the reader a diagnosis for today’s Nordic graphic design. Each of the following chapters is devoted to a single designer, beginning with a brief interview. One of the questions illuminates how environmental consideration can be incorporated into the graphic process. The interviews also pinpoint whether graphic design in the Nordic countries should now be considered artistic handicraft rather than a tool in the service of commercial interests.

Facts
Language: English
Graphic design: Sandra Praun
No. of pages: 368
Format: 210x260 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2011
ISBN 987-91-85689-22-4

KJELLANDER + SJÖBERG

Kjellander + Sjöberg considered a part of the renewed Swedish architecture. During more than ten years, they have created an architecture far from the obvious, that instead last over time after a long daily use. It is an architecture where housing, social issues about how we live our lives and our need to participate in public life is central. Architecture should come close. It should be practical and beautiful everyday. “Kjellander + Sjöberg let architecture be what it should be,” says Hans Ibelings in one of the book's essays. The book Kjellander + Sjöberg is part of a series of books on Nordic architecture.

Facts
Language: English
Authors: Tomas Lauri, H. Ibelings, O. Namias
Graphic design: Nille Svensson
No. of pages: 224
Format: 220x240 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2011
ISBN 987-91-85689-35-4

Scandinavian Design in the Doll’s House

Scandinavian Design in the Doll’s House takes the reader through the changing trends in Scandinavian interior design, from 1950–2000.
It was in Scandinavia that modernist design came to interest toy makers on a considerable scale and this unique production of dolls houses and dolls house furniture in modern style is prized both by collectors and by children at play.
The book captures the Nordic way of life that has influ¬enced interior design throughout the world. Childlike in some ways, perversely voyeuristic in others, this book is a must for mid-century lovers and has the potential to be a cult classic.

Facts
Language: Swedish, English
Author: Yvette Wadsted, Ulf Beckman
Fotographer: Michel Hjorth
Graphic design: Gabor Palotai Design
Published in 2011

ISBN 978-91-85213-17-7
 

Design by Nature

In spring 2011 Norwegian Snøhetta was chosen as the world’s
most innovative architect office by the American magazine Fast
Company. The interest for architects and designers from Norway
continues to grow. Exhibition projects such as 100% Norway
have consolidated the country’s position as a design nation that
is making great progress. In this book, Design By Nature — a
sequel to Norway Calling (2008) — Staffan Bengtsson considers
the Norwegian design world’s new and different relation to
landscape and nature. Today mountains and fjords are not purely
magnificent visual scenery but also part of a design process
that perhaps ultimately is concerned with man’s future on the planet.
Staffan Bengtsson is a well-known Swedish TV producer,
author and editor-in-chief of the magazine BRUNO.

Language: English, Swedish
Author: Staffan Bengtsson, co-author Jelena Zetterström
Graphic design: Sebastian Wadsted
No. of pages: 160
Published in 2011
ISBN 978-91-85689-29-3

NORDIC DESIGNERS

The companion book to Nordic Architects highlights the contemporary talents working in a region that has been famous for product, furniture, and industrial design. In design as in architecture, recent progress has been defined by a clean aesthetic, craftsmanship, and empathy for the human experience. These traditions have prefigured the latest trends in Western design, such as universal access and the burgeoning of eco-friendly design. But other recent movements, like the emphasis of intellectual conceit over form-making, have perhaps caught designers off guard. In informal interviews with 60 of the region's best-known designers, such as Peter Opsvik, Front, and Ilkka Suppanen, writer and editor David Sokol explores the once and future Nordic identity, the exigencies of local manufacturing, and the competitive global marketplace..

Facts
Language: English
Authors: David Sokol
Graphic design: Sandra Praun
No. of pages: 380
Format: 210x260 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2011
ISBN 978-91-85689-02-6

THOMAS SANDELL SandellSandberg

Thomas Sandell is one of Sweden’s internationally most widely noticed architects and designers. Blessed with a powerful, idiosyncratic sense of form, he has worked on most scales and in most genres. He combines the furniture designer who has created some of IKEA’s major classics with the product designer who has fashioned exclusive watches and bags, the architect behind some of the most controversial Swedish projects of recent years, and the planner with social pathos who addresses the problems of underprivileged suburban communities.

Facts
Language: English
Authors: Tomas Lauri (editor), Mark Isitt, Kieran Long
Graphic design: Peter Danroth
No. of pages: 320
Format: 220x240 mm
Binding: Soft cover
Published in 2010
ISBN 987-91-85689-36-1

OFFECCT Voices: Furniture, passion and entrepreneurs

Swedish furniture producer Offecct has always placed the needs of people at the centre of its product development and worked with the world’s leading designers in order to materialise this vision. Their vision has paid off. Since its start in 1990, the entrepreneurial founders Kurt Tingdal and Anders Englund have grown their company from a small Swedish enterprise to an international brand selling across 50 countries. In this book, Tingdal and Englund, as well as their col-leagues and collaborators, tell the story of Offecct’s road to success. The duo speak very honestly about the ups and downs of the past 20 years and consider their current stand-ing within the Swedish design culture whilst contemplating the future direction of their business.

Facts
Language: English
Author: Max Fraser
Graphic design: Markus Moström
No. of pages 252
Format: 170x240 mm
Hard cover
Published in 2011
ISBN 978-91-85689-37-8

IKEA the book. Designers, products and other stuff

Along with Volvo and ABBA, IKEA is Sweden’s most internationally
successful brand. In recent years, furniture pieces from IKEA have
occasionally turned up at international design auctions. These inexpensive,
owner-assembled, everyday products have become collectors’
items. Meanwhile, the designers behind the furniture at IKEA
have long been unknown to most of us. IKEA THE BOOK brings
them into the light to describe their creative and successful, celebrated
world of Scandinavian design. What ideals are IKEA’s
designs based on? What makes the KLIPPAN sofa and the BILLY
book case as sought-after in Basel and New York as in Stockholm?
How did Ingvar Kamprad get world-famous designers like Verner
Panton and Hella Jongerius to create original pieces for mass production
in IKEA’s factories? IKEA THE BOOK is more than a walk
through the fantastic history of The Great Furniture Factory; it holds
something for anyone with an interest in design processes and stylistic
ideals.

Facts
Language: English, Swedish
Author: Staffan Bengtsson
Graphic design: Elisabeth Björkbom
Cover photo: Jörgen Reimer
No. of pages: 448
Format: 175x230 mm
Binding: Flexible cover
Published in 2010
ISBN 987-91-85689-06-4 (English)
ISBN 987-91-85689-24-8 (Swedish)

ULRICA HYDMAN VALLIEN. Paradise Attack

Style sometimes turns into a trademark.
For half a century now Ulrica Hydman Vallien has been supplying us with her images and symbols. Serpents have wriggled over paintings, glass and textile fabrics. Eyes have gazed out from dishes and vases. Fantasy beasts and human figures have been united in a longing for Paradise. Uniquely among Swedish designers and artists, Ulrica Hydman Vallien has prospered by her supremely personal style. Her commercial success is enormous. In the book Ulrica Hydman Vallien A Paradise Attack we step into this idiosyncratic pictorial world through the medium of the ceramics, the painting and the glass.

Facts
Language: English, Swedish
Author: Jelena Zetterström, Staffan Bengtsson, Björn Boode
Graphic design: Helena Shutrick
No. of pages: 160
Format: 170x220 mm
Binding: Soft cover
Published in 2010