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The designer duo Gripner & Hägglund and their CUSHY won the furniture category in Design S - Swedish Design Awards 2018. The award ceremony took place yesterday at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. Form Magazine’s editor-in-chief Bo Madestrand was a jury member of the furniture category. Congratulations Sanna Gripner and Märta Hägglund!

As usual, the Skåne region’s architecture and design educational programmes are combining forces and gathering at Form/Design Center to present this year’s graduation projects at the bachelor’s and master’s levels. Form Magazine took a closer look at some industrial design projects.

The HDK Degree Exhibition is on display between 18 and 27 May in Frihamnen in Gothenburg. Students from Ceramic Art, Jewellery Art, Metal Art, Textile-Body-Space, Textile-Art, Furniture Design, Applied Art & Design and Crafts show their degree projects and below you can have a look at two of them!

Join Stockholm based Form Us With Love for the second installment of Prototypa in London during Clerkenwell Design Week as a part of Shaw Contract week long series Design Sense. Prototypa is an articulation of where design is headed, an evolving initiative by Form Us With Love, moderated by design strategist Lia Forslund.

Röhsska Museum’s award committee for the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, funded by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, has decided to award Brynjar Sigurðarson year’s prize of SEK 1 million.

Soon it's time for Clerkenwell Design Week, more specifically May 22-24. Bolon is one of the Swedish companies that participate this year. See their new floor collection Elements here, designed by Shanghai based Neri & Hu.

A museum as a meeting place, literally speaking, is a vision that was first tried and tested in art contexts in the nineties. The lounge-like installations popped up here and there, embodying a high level, albeit with low thresholds. This apparent openness has since spread. The Nordic Museum's new theatre is an offshoot of the concept. It is meant as a venue for events like concerts and debates, as well as socialising in line with Artur Hazelius's vision of parties, people and packedness in true Nordic style. Responsible for the interior is Halleroed. A deep blue floor, natural linen and light coloured walls, but the furniture series Meden is the icing on the cake. Made of radially sawn pine in collaboration with the joinery Tre Sekel.

For the past three years, Norway’s annual appearance at Milan Design Week has been showcasing the work of a selection of the most talented Norwegian designers and craft artists, and bringing thousands of visitors face to face with the country’s thriving community-driven, mutually supportive and cross-disciplinary design culture. This year’s exhibition, Norwegian Presence, marks the beginning of a new chapter for Norway in Milan, as the show makes its debut appearance in a new location – the city’s rapidly evolving creative hotspot, Zona Tortona.

In the exhibition VIA PALERMO 1, Lund University School of Industrial Design displays everything from space efficient sheet metal furniture to the bathroom of the future, from radical musical instruments to unexpected applications for Indonesian coco-husk fiber and much more.

Ditte Hammerstrøm is this year’s curator of MINDCRAFT18, the Danish exhibition in Milan, April 17-22. The chosen focus of MINDCRAFT18 is on the essence of the work with design and craft.