Archive for the ‘Sweden’ Category

Blending time in promo spot

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

How do you tackle a huge subject in less than a minute? The question is not how fast can the narrator read, but rather how can the visuals carry the story and what common thread …

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Greek & Turk, take 2

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

The saga of the face on the yoghurt container continues. It is also an interesting insight into the often convoluted path an image can take from the initial exposure to print, a path ripe for …

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Greek ≠ Turk

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Here is a legal nightmare. Let’s say you have a dairy that makes yoghurt. Turkish yoghurt. Well, since you are not in Turkey we can discuss the “Turkish” part (maybe you got the recipe from …

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Nov. 6, 1632

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Time: Nov. 6, 1632. Location: Lützen, Germany. On a foggy battlefield, the Protestant armies under Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus again clash with the Imperial armies under General Wallenstein. The battle raged back and forth. In …

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Scandinavian Design

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

One way I would characterize myself is: a Swedish Designer, transplanted into the mid-south of the U.S.
Scandinavian Design is sometimes used almost as a marketing ploy, as if a design is automatically better just because …

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Clogs and design

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Clogs were a fashion item in the US in the 1970’s, but for anyone growing up in Sweden, especially in Skåne, it was never so much about fashion, as practical, everyday wear, for men and …

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