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Gradshow favourites – Konstfack

Konstfack's grad students 2017 can be the strongest we've seen in a long time. We look closer into Hanna Hansdotter's graduation project Avtryck.

Gradshow favourites – HDK

It's spring and the gradshows are open. Here's a favourite from HDK (Academy of Design and Crafts) in western Sweden. This is furniture designer Sophie Hardy and her project Object of Value.

The Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize 2017 goes to the Norwegian light and furniture designer Daniel Rybakken

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

Meet Form’s new guestagrammer Lisa Wallert

From May 15th to May 31st, Form's Instagram account @formmagazine will be hosted by designer Lisa Wallert. After graduating from Konstfack in 2016, she now works at the G-studio in Gustavsberg both with exhibitions and assignments. Her weeks as guestagrammer will contain ongoing works, finished works, everyday life and inspiration.

Konstfack’s Degree Exhibition is on

Amanda Hultman, bachelor student at Konstfack in Stockholm, is tired of today’s consumerist society and the social and environmental downsides of the fashion industry. Her degree project shows just that.

100 Objects from Finland – exhibition celebrates 100 years of independence

What objects describe best the story of Finland and Finnish identity during the country’s 100 years of independence?

New cultural centre in Bergsjön – competition won by Sweco Architects

Kulturkorgen is the winning proposal, and Sweco Architects are the architects behind it. The winner was announced a couple of weeks ago at Rymdtorget in Bergsjön, where the cultural centre will be built. Construction start is scheduled for 2018.

The Great Graphic Boom

The atomic bomb, movie stars, abstract expressionism. Consumerism and pop culture. Jazz, beat poetry, and soul. TVs and washing machines in every home. Kennedy and King. The Vietnam War and protest movements, hippies and Watergate.

10-gruppen + Ikea = Avsiktlig

Next week Ikea will release their new collection Avsiktlig, by themselves described as "a collection of 14 fabulous patterns that fuses the past and the present."

Fashion Revolution Week

This week it's Fashion Revolution Week. The hashtags #whomademyclothes and #imadeyourclothes will demonstrate transparency in fashion brand's supply chains. Wanna give it a try yourself?

The Solar egg – amazing egg shaped sauna in Kiruna

Kiruna's residents and visitors can now experience the warmth from the egg shaped sauna – the Solar egg – signed the award-winning artist duo Bigert & Bergström.

Hide & Seek – things are not what they seem

Swedish jewellery designer Märta Mattsson and artist Anna Forsberg exhibit together at Galleri Sebastian Schildt, Stockholm.

Snøhetta celebrates opening of Times Square redesign

Yesterday Snøhetta celebrated the completion of a reinvented Times Square, where the pedestrian areas are almost doubled.

Gustaf Nordenskiöld’s Site no. 16 Finds

Gustaf Nordenskiöld's Site no. 16 Finds is soon to be seen at Galerie NeC in Paris. Here's a sneak peek for you!

Marianne Bernadotte – a style icon

Throughout the years Marianne Bernadotte, actor, philanthropist and the widow of the designer Sigvard Bernadotte, has appeared in apparel from some of the major French fashion houses, including Chanel, Balmain and Dior. Now some of her outfits are exhibited at Millesgården in Stockholm.

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