How to Write
BY JONAS FREDÉN
@ VOL 62
ON MAR 07, 2018
Jonas Fredén, journalist, teaches us how to write. To summarize his PK: keep it simple!
The Courage Report
BY JANE RUFFINO
@ VOL 62
ON MAR 07, 2018
Jane Ruffino, Content designer and content manager at the digital agency Daresay, talks about courage and what differs courage from bravery and recklessness. Also, her point is that pizza is an essential ingredient for success!
Proximity Value
BY JESPER ÅSTRÖM
@ VOL 62
ON MAR 07, 2018
Digital worker Jesper Åström on how distance actually matter when we value things. The same goes for ideas. The further away you are from an idea, the less you need to know to find it interesting. Perhaps that's why we have such troubles loving the thing which is the closest to us - ourselves.
Death Riders in India
BY CARL HJELTE
@ VOL 51
ON JUN 02, 2015
Swedish photographer Carl Hjelte takes us on a journey in India. Motorcycles, death riders & snakes!
Brutal Charm in Stockholm
BY MARTIN RÖRBY
@ VOL 56
ON APR 21, 2016
Architectural historian Martin Rörby shows the best the city of Stockholm has got in terms of brutalism! Get to know another side of Stockholm, and it's definitely charming.
From Ingrid to Alicia
BY PIA LUNDBERG
@ VOL 56
ON APR 21, 2016
Pia Lundberg & Andrea Reuter from The Swedish Film Institute give a film history lesson, taking the audience from Ingrid Bergman to Alicia Wikander, who won an Oscar 2016 for her Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Gerda in The Danish Girl.
Disturbing Objects
BY SARA SJOBACK
@ VOL 59
ON MAY 18, 2017
Sara Sjöbäck, designer, tells her story from her childhood in Sjöbo to her current life. She recently graduated from Beckmans College of Design and was in Milan in April, during the design week there, to participate in the Prototypa workshops arranged by For Us with love.
Sveriges Formhus
BY FANNY JISEBORN & LOVISA ROEGIND
@ VOL 59
ON MAY 18, 2017
Fanny Jiseborn & Lovisa Roegind, architecture students, present their grad project from Lund University. It's about a design center in Stockholm and it's beautiful. Their ideas will inspire many!
Inspiring Meeting Places
BY EWA KUMLIN
@ VOL 59
ON MAY 18, 2017
Ewa Kumlin, Managing Director at Svensk Form has a long history of both PechaKucha and inspiring meeting places. She has lived in many parts of the world and her 20 slides show some of the places she finds the most interesting and creative. Let's go to Tokyo, Helsinki, London and many more!
Design and Public Life
BY KIERAN LONG
@ VOL 59
ON MAY 18, 2017
Kieran Long just started his new job as the Director of ArkDes (April 2017) and his PechaKucha is all about design and public life. His 20 slides portrait his idea of what public life is. ArkDes is Sweden's national center for architecture and design
Button Masala
BY ANUJ SHARMA
@ VOL 59
ON MAY 18, 2017
"It's been nice to see how powerful design can be."
Anuj Sharma is the fashion designer who invented the technique Button Masala. Button masala is a simple joinery system designed for clothing. The technique uses only buttons and rubber bands. His PechaKucha shows many examples of this innovative technique – enjoy the ride!
This was "Presentation of the Day" on July 5th, 2017.
Sweden's first design museum
BY SVANTE HELMBAEK TIRÉN
@ VOL 59
ON MAY 18, 2017
Today Stockholm is unique in not having an independent design museum. In the late 19th century however, there was a museum project intended to become something like a Swedish V&A. It was the Applied Arts Museum of Svenska Slöjdföreningen (today known as Svensk Form), started in 1872. Art historian / curator Svante Helmbaek Tirén takes us through the history with 20 slides…