Creative wedding in Hagaparken

Den sista soliga sommarhelgen i augusti var jag bjuden på bröllop i Hagaparken. Min medarbetare Richard Prime - som jobbar med att bygga upp vår nya engelska designdatabas samt webb och katalog inför Swedish Design Goes London - gifte sig med sin Frida Jeppsson. Ceremonin ägde rum mitt i parken med familj och vänner, Fridas syster var vigselförättare. På det glada 70-talet när man hade alternativa och konstnärliga bröllop var alla barfota, skäggiga och likadant klädda. Nu klär alla upp sig, men på sitt eget sätt och ingen verkar rädd att sticka ut. Noterade särskilt kreativiteten i de olika hattarna. Varmt, glatt och kärleksfullt. Grattis Frida och Richard!

Many playful hats and creative outfits were spotted in Hagaparken when Richard Prime, my collaborator at Svensk Form, married Frida Jeppsson, editor of Rum, on Saturday August 27. The version of a free marriage style 2011, far from the alternative weddings of the 70's when I grew up, where everyone had to look the same, barefoot and in sweaters and long dresses. Today you are allowed to dress up, but in your own way. Liberating and fun. Congratulations Frida and Richard

Workshop på Nacka Strand om ny webbplats för samtida design

Härligt att ta båten ut till Nacka Strand i försommarvärmen för en heldagsworkshop. (Jag tog visserligen svettiga bussen ut, men åtminstone båten tillbaka). 6 personer mixat Svensk Form och Centrum för Näringslivshistoria, tillsammans en hel dag kring ett enda projekt. Vilken lyx! Fruktbart och angeläget nu inför starten av vår nya webb i december, som ska ge en bred och öppen genomlysning av samtida svensk design; designer, företag, produkter, tjänster, koncept... Får anledning att snart komma tillbaka till detta.

What we really feel is still missing, is a good overview in English over contemporary Swedish Design. That is why we are now about to create a new open source web site featuring current Swedish designers, companies and products. It is a collaboration between Svensk Form and Centrum för Näringslivshistoria, and thus will not only a tool for the present users and readers, but also available for future references and research. The first page is planned for launch in December this year. Richard Prime, already an initiated blogger / writer within the design, fashion and trend field. His passion for contemporary Swedish design will come in handy for this project and we are very happy to work with Richard. Who, by the way, is one of the few English natives who has learnt to speak Swedish in only two years here, despite all of us automatically addressing him in English with him. 

Key Persons for the new web site over contemporary Swedish Design: Annika Grome Aschberg, project manager of Centrum för Näringslivshistoria and Richard Prime, editor for the web site from Svensk Form

Krister Hillerud vice president of Centrum för Näringslivshistoria explains the technical platform of the digital archive at CfN to our editor Richard Prime and the rest of us

Welcome to Nacka Strand

Meetings during the week

Dagtid blir det många möten. Skrivjobb och epost får skötas på helger och i arla morgonstund. Jag älskar att gå upp riktigt tidigt och sätta mig med en kopp te och min dator när alla andra sover. Det jag får gjort på ett par morgontimmar kan motsvara en hel dag på jobbet. E-posten är däremot mera problematiskt. Det finns tyvärr inte en chans att svara på alla, hur gärna jag än skulle vilja. Jag tror många delar detta dilemma? Nu blir det SMS i stället när det brådskar. Vad kommer härnäst? Men möten på dagar och kvällar är också viktiga delar av jobbet, både med medarbetare och andra. 

Days and evenings are filled with meetings related to work, and usually very rewarding. Time for writing and answering mails I keep to early mornings and weekends. And yet I cannot manage them all. Frustrating. This week was as full as ever. Here are some of the meetings:

 

Visit by talented glass designers Jeanette Lennartsdotter and Anna-Linda Gabriel, presenting their new initiative Glass Room, a proposed shared Nordic studio, production center and showroom in Småland, which would benefit the designers, the researchers and the companies. Go girls! I like your drive and determination! I also like your own glass work, which you can read about in last issue of Form.

Fredagsfika. Like in the good old days with Inger Dahlander and Elisabeth Blomdin at the office. Both have worked for many many years for Svensk Form. Inger is now retired but pays a visit now and then. Lisa takes care of our members and subscribers - today on a consultant basis.

I brought my collaborators Richard Prime and Josefin Hååg to visit the amazing Stockholm Business Center, CfN, here with the director Alexander Husebye and Krister Hillerud. The purpose of the meeting was how we will proceed with our new collaboration project to build up an open source web site over contemporary Swedish Design, thanks to a generous donation by the Söderbergs Foundations. Richard Prime will be the editor. Josefin is doing a short internship at Svensk Form and enjoyed thoroughly to see the gigantic archives.

Richard Prime, our newly appointed English speaking editor for the new web site, discussed with Kerstin Sylwan, our blogger and editor of www.Savingtheplanetinstyle.se how to continue and syncronize the various web sites. Josefin listens and learns.