Design as assistance
Kerstin Wickman, writer and professor of Design & Crafts History, explores the national and international success of the A&E DESIGN studio, from its start in the…
100 Swedish design classics
ill du veta mer om dolda skatter i barndomens köksskåp eller i sommarstugan? Läs om 100 av våra mest älskade vardagsföremål och…
Transatlantic relationships: a look at the extensive design exchanges between the United States and the Nordic countries
This edition differs itself from the DelMonico – American edition; there…
What can brain research teach us about design and architecture? How do we design homes, offices, schools, healthcare clinics and cities in harmony with our basic biological behaviours, emotions,…
An international journal dedicated to a broad range of fields within design.
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Disegno is an international journal dedicated to long-form writing and photography around design. The journal covers…
Charting the work and creative processes of one of Scandinavia's most important design agency - SDL! From the publisher: "Stockholm Design Lab: 1998–2025" celebrates the work of one of…
This comprehensive and generous book offers a wide range of perspectives and reflections on design. From the publisher: What is design and what difference can it make…
This book is a two-decade review of Sweden's most internationally renowned designer for art and photography books, Henrik Nygren. His clients include Birkhäuser, Phaidon Press, Gagosian, Serpentine Galleries and…
A different kind of retrospective
There's no summery. There's no chronology and there are no finished projects to look at. Instead Henrik Nygren -- one of Scandinavia's leading…
Selected authors and acclaimed landscape architects from around the Nordic Region came together to critically discuss the role of planning and design of public greenspace, both for today…
Visual standards and manuals, trademarks and signage for leading Swedish industrial companies like ESAB, Volvo Trucks, Mölnlycke and SKF. From the publisher: 1964 startade grafiska formgivaren Curt…
Unique design lab
Design Lab S is a collective design studio that started in Skärholmen, a Stockholm suburb with a diverse ethnic mix. Since the start in 2013 Design…
“My ideas are always clear“
»If you can design one thing, you can design everything.« The Italian architect and designer Lella Vignelli has turned her hand to every kind of…
Power and empowerment
Omforma is an association within the Swedish design field, founded as a result of an analysis of the the professional conditions for designers. Omforma concluded that…
A nice little book on the Swedish industrial designer and glass artist Matti Klenell and his work for Offecct. This is the first volume in a series featuring Offecct's…
Interior design by Mats Theselius This publication documents the transformation of a former school into an apartment building in 2015-17. It focuses on Mats Theselius' interior design together…
Meet Scandinavian artisans and crafts people! Rigetta Klint's wonderful publication that explores various aspects and trends in contemporary Scandinavian craft and design. And: it has no ads! This issue of…
Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro, a modernists in Finish furniture design, designed classics like lounge chair Karuselli From the publisher: Yrjö Kukkapuro is one of the great modernists in…
A pioneer and innovator of modern Swedish jewelry and the designer behind Georg Jensen's most famous designs: This is the story about Torun – her life and work.…
Nationalmuseum is Sweden's museum of art and design.
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How do designs evolve? How do designers and producers work? Nationalmuseum´s restaurant in Stockholm is a new…
“A designer’s designer. An architect in paper. “
The Japanese-American designer Tomoko Miho was a dedicated modernist. Influenced by her Japanese background she applied spatial solutions to printed matter. Nothing…
By Heart for Earth is the first monograph on the designer Marie-Louise Hellgren. Marie-Louise Hellgren is considered a pioneer in circular design and upcycling and in 2020 she…
AWARDED SVENSKT BOKKONST 2023 - Best Swedish book design The Production Novellas is an artistic investigation of material and place, revealing a decade of research by Anna Holmquist, co-founder of…
A book about the Claesson Koivisto Rune designed Hotel Zander K in Bergen, Norway.
Today a designer hotel. Before: A 1930s parking garage. A 1920s bike shop. An empty space between…
“On Yellow” was published on the occasion of the exhibition at Skandium in 2011, the renowned Scandinavian design mecca in London. Rather than documenting the objects in photos, all items…
Expressions of vagueness and the beauty of forms This catalogue consists of the 7 c-prints made in conjuction with Bukowski's ”Claesson Koivisto Rune: In Japan” an exhibition of the studio's…
AWARDED SVENSK BOKKONST 2021
Five Swedish designers challenged one another to abandon their routines for one year in order to find new forms and new working methods.
Through experiments, “design therapy”…
“Bokstavligt/Lettered descibes in a clear and engaging way a professional career as a typeface designer and graphic designer. It showcases the wide range of Örjan Nordling's career and is a…
New edition in a slightly different format! Designer monographs can be so incredibly dull. But here comes Shane Schneck's inhouse produced book "Objects in Dialog": Detailed, generous, insightful and…
Accompanies the exhibition “Form för alla sinnen” at Orrefors Museum 2018. Glas designer and professor Erika Lagerbielke is a highly successful designer of glass tableware. Her…
Four of Sweden's best-known fashion designer – Sandra Backlund, Martin Bergström, Helena Hörstedt and Diana Orving – in dialogue with the art collection at Göteborgs konstmusem
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Exhibition catalogue of the show curated by the Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune in collaboration with the auction house Jackson Design in February—March, 2025. The exhibition Aiiro draws inspiration…
Mats Theselius is hard to pinpoint, his curiosity and creativity takes him everywhere. Mats Theselius is one of our most acclaimed designers. He is an singular artist,…
Joining forces: Finland meets Sweden; art meets design; techology meets crafts. The groundbreaking design company Snowcrash produced 49 products – from Teppo Asikainen and Ilkka Terho's office…
A book on the life of Annika Heijkenskjöld, the Swedish design pioneer and founder of Form/Design Center in Malmö. From the publisher: Under Annika Heijkenskjölds 25 år…
Not ten but nine years: A selction of work by the Stockholm-based creative director Christian Altmann, founder of Ateljé Altmann. From preface: The structure, grace, simplicity and intelligence of…
Typography and lettering
This publication presents Polyline is a typewriter font family. A monospaced 3×5 vector typeface designed in October 2014 and finalised in May 2018 by Mårten Nettelbladt.
AWARDED SVENSK BOKKONST 2025 - Best Swedish book design
Lindahl's brilliant bachelor's project in graphic design from Konstfack — University of Arts, Crafts and Design [Swedish only] From…
Monumental graphics Barbara Stauffacher Solomon was a pioneer of what came to be known as Supergraphics: monumental graphics designed in harmony with architecture. Best known for her interior Supergraphics…
Masters of craft, furniture and interior design from the 1960s
The HI-group was a collective of craftsmen and designers working across different fields and in different materials. At…
A perfect partnership During 50 years, John and Ulla Kandell created three homes together. For the couple, working within architecture, design, painting, textile, interiors and gardening,…
A new comprehensive book on the Swedish office - from early residential projects and furniture to a Tokyo hotel (K5) to the new lamp, Nebula from the Czech firm Lasvit…
12 posters by Hans Neuburg, Josef Müller—Brockmann, Wim Crouwel, Otl Aicher, Roland Gubler, Fridolin Müller, Markus Bruggisserv – from the Ateljé Altmann collection.
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The period between 1950 and…
Known for his chairs for Offect and lamps for Atelje Lyktan among other things. This book revolves around his design sketches but also drawings from his travels.
Olle Anderson…
AWARDED SVENSK BOKKONST 2021
Restrained and minimal; functional and always beautiful. "Work" is a photographic journey into the aesthetic world of acclaimed designer Carina Seth Andersson
The highly regarded interior…
Reprint of the 2018 edition
The birth of Swedish modernism
An extensive reference on the beginning and development of modernism in Sweden. The Stockholm exhibition in 1930 was an important…