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Silver egg for Spritmuseum

SDL was awarded with a Silver egg in the Swedish Advertising Awards. We were awarded for our work for Spritmuseum.

See our work here.

Ränder sökes!

Ränder, Rytm, Riktning är en stor utställning som öppnar på Nordiska museet i höst. Till boken som utkommer samtidigt söker vi nu allmänhetens bilder av sina allra käraste ränder som finns överallt. Ute, inne, i mode, arkitektur, grafisk form, inredning, på prylar, kroppar. Maila din bild, gärna så högupplöst som möjligt till rander@nordiskamuseet.sesenast den 14 april 2013, tillsammans med ditt namn, adress och kort uppgift om motivet. Skickar du in ger du oss rättigheten att både göra ett urval och kostnadsfritt använda bilden. Tack!

Läs mer här.

Månadens Design!

SDL came in first place in Månadens Design for the design of Magnusson Fine Wine. We recently launched a new improved website for MFW, with the possibility of having your own digital wine cellar.

See our work here.
Read the article in Resumé.

New project, Sav Snaps

Art direction and design of the 500ml bottle Sav Snaps. The product  is a further development of Sav Sparkling – the sparkling birch wine. From a recipe found in archives from the 1700s, Peter Mosten harvest the spring sap from specially selected birch trees. This is a procedure prior to Peter reading of the vegetation around the birches to ensure that the sap contains the right minerals and the right ingredients. The sap is tapped and refined into snaps.

See the project here.

SDL contributes to the ”The changing faces of Bowie” poster

Over a hundred artists and designers have contributed to a typographic screenprint created exclusively forthe V&A as part of its activity around its imminent David Bowie Is exhibition (March 23-July 28).

The print’s designer, Blam (aka Mark Blamire of Print-Process), approached dozensof designers inviting each of them to produce the word ‘Bowie’ in a favourite or bespoke typeface of their choice or creation. The final print showcases 101 responses from contributors that include Ian Anderson, Pentagram, Anthony Burrill, Matt Cook Intro, Crispin Finn, Angus Hyland, Trevor Jackson, Michael C Place, Emmi Salonen, Spin and Stockholm Design Lab.

Each artwork comes with a certificate and an insert with insights from the contributors on their submissions.

SDL awarded in Årets byrå

Thank you to all our clients! We are happy to announce that SDL came on second place in the competition “Årets byrå” and in the category Design agency. The award is based on a vast independent client research done by Regi in cooperation with Dagens Industri.  We would like to thank all our clients for your support and inspirational cooperations.

SDL features in Design 360° with Vårdapoteket

SDL has a feature with our work for Vårdapoteket in the concept and design magazine Design 360°, n° 42.

Download a pdf with the article here.

SDL feature in Bracket vol. 05

Bracket is conceived as a publication that features everything in between. Ideas, voices and processes that are overlooked. Every issue Bracket invites 16 individuals around the world to be interviewed. The title of the current issue is “Hustle” and is looking into the challenges faced by creatives as well as tricks of the trade they’ve employed to make things happen.

We were free to doodle, sketch or change the format of the interview. Björn answers the interview questions via photographs he took over the past years.

Read more about Bracket here.

Big story on Spritmuseum in latest issue of Cap&Design

SDL has a big feature on our work for Spritmuseum in the latest issue of the swedish magazine Cap&Design.

Read the article here.

See our work for Spritmuseum here.

SDL feature in Bloomberg Businessweek/Design Issue

31 designers on how to reimagine your product, your business and your way of thinking.

SDL featured with our Ikea Food case.

Read it here.

New project, Eco!

Eco is the first and only optical and sunglass collection made with 95% recycled materials. By combining the worlds of sustainability and fashion we redesigned the identity (including the logotype, communication and point-of-sales material). Eco is all about fun and we love working with them!

See our work.

Read more about Eco here.

SDL welcomes Nevs/Saab

SDL has been appointed by Nevs as Design Agency in developing the visual identity for the company and its Saab branded products and services. The new owner National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (Nevs) will continue to explore the brand of Saab cars together with Stockholm Design Lab. The Scandinavian heritage will be present both in the design-development and visual identity.

Read more about Nevs/Saab here.

StockholmDesignLabBelgrade

Björn Kusoffsky main speaker at Packtivity 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia.

SDL honored European Design Leader

The European Design Leaders is an exclusive club. Its purpose is to provide a valid and comprehensive index of the most creative studios and agencies of the continent. Defining who qualifies to become a member is based on results from D&AD, the Design Lions, the European Design Awards, iF communication design award and the Red Dot Awards: communication design.

Read more about European Design Leaders here.

SDL at European Design Leaders.

SDL featuring exhibition in Tokyo

Swedish design at IKI-BA and Midori.so
October 28-November 4, 2012

Contemporary Collected, is an exhibition that aspires to give you an insight of how Swedish design looks like today. At two different venues in Tokyo we are showing a variety of selected items representing different design disciplines. The exhibition is curated by Katrin Greiling and Gustaf Kjellin for Svensk Form, the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design.

For more info click here.

SDL awarded in Core77 Design Awards

SDL is awarded in Core77 Design Awards for our work for IKEA Food, Skarpsill.

Read more about Core77.

Explosion! Painting as Action.

SDL has been working with the exhibition “Explosion! Painting as Action.”, at Moderna Museet.

See our work here.
Read about the exhibition.

New packaging design for Helly Hansen

SDL has designed new packaging for Helly Hansen. The assignment was to create an innovative and sustainable new packaging solution for the four base layer products: Warm, Dry, Wool and One.

Click here to see the project.

SDL is awarded a Red Dot

Stockholm Design Lab has once again been rewarded in a major international design competition. Last week, SDL celebrated that both its submissions (and only) were awarded a Golden Lion (for IKEA Skarpsill) and a Bronze Lion (for Vårdapoteket). Now it is time for SDL to win a prestigious Red Dot for the IKEA Skarpsill. Red Dot Award is one of the largest and most prestigious international competitionsin design, where IKEA Skarpsill was chosen among 6823 contributions from 43 countries.

Download english press release.
Download swedish press release.

SDL wins gold and bronze in Cannes Design Lions

The most prestigious award – Cannes Gold Lion in Design – was given to Stockholm Design Lab for the packaging design of the shiny silver and white tin can with herrings for IKEA. IKEA Skarpsill was selected amongst 2200 entries in the design category and is considered being affordable, smart, beautiful and very, very much IKEA.

Stockholm Design Lab was also awarded a Bronze Lion for the design of the Swedish pharmacy, Vårdapoteket.

Download english press release.
Download swedish press release.

SDL featured in the press

Lately some of our work has been featured in some international magazines. Among them Japanese Brain, which we also did the latest cover for.

Download the pdf if you want to read the articles.

Spritmuseum – Grand Opening May 24th

Museum, art gallery, tasting room, meeting-place, bar, restaurant and open-air café. On May 24, Spritmuseum opens at Galärskjulen on Djurgården in Stockholm, with three exhibitions intended to entertain and provoke.

Stockholm Design Lab has been working with the project since 2009 and started by developing a whole brand platform for the new musuem. The ambition is to create a new smart cultural institution on the same level as the most prominent ones in Stockholm. The project consists of naming, brand identity including everything from signage program, restaurant menues and books to physical environments and communication. The identity is based on the content in the museum – transparency, liquid, history – spirit. The shape of the building forms the symbol of the museum – a cocktail glass. Cheers!

See our work here.

Download press release.

Gold in Guldbladet 2012 Awards

Guldbladet is promoting inspiring, relevant and creative content marketing in all media channels such as publications, magazines, web-tv, web- and mobile communication.

In the category Best design SDL was awarded gold with DA Daylight & Architecture magazine by Velux.

The jury’s motivation: An elegant balance between strong headlines and long demanding texts for a branch that has high expectations on sustainability and to see the big picture. A tight layout focusing on the content with exquisive typography, combined with an interesting picture language.

Click here for more information.

Design for Japanese Brain

The Japanese Magazine Brain invited SDL to design the cover for June 2012 issue.

The theme Cherry Pink was interpreted by a photograph of a sample neon sign made for Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The unique typeface is called MM Gridnik and is a special version of Wim Crouwells original typeface from the 1960s. It consists of two words JA (yes) and NEJ (no). We stare at these words everyday and believe its what design boils down to. To make decisions. For yourself and for your clients.

Björn Kusoffsky speaks at Beckmans Academy

Welcome to attend Björn Kusoffsky’s lecture at Beckmans Academy, Brahegatan 10. The doors will open 17.30 and the lecture will start around 18.00.

OSA: www.beckmans.se/akademin/osabjorn

Sweden’s most awarded design agency

Björn Kusoffsky is nominated as one of Sweden’s best agency leaders in issue 13-14 in Resumé. SDL is the only Design agency on the list and came on 12th place. The list is based on the most awarded agencies/creatives and the most prestigious prices during 2011. SDL was awarded with an Silver egg for Hemtex and Modern Museum in Malmö and the winner of the campaign of the month for the design category in 2011.

Proposal for New Money

The Swedish National Bank (Riksbanken) has completed the final stage of the competition to design the new Swedish banknotes. Out of 46 contestors SDL was selected among 8 designers. SDL reached the final stage of the competion but unfortunately did not win.

Download our proposal here.

This is what the future’s money will look like.

Exhibition opens 4th of may at
National Museum of Economy
Slottbacken 6, Gamla Stan, Stockholm

New Velux D&A, Issue 16

Buildings and their occupants pass through a common, continuous cycle of learning, planning, building, refurbishing and living. Accordingly, this issue of D/A is divided into three sections addressing the topics Learning from Life, Sustainable Living and Planning for Life.

Contributors issue 16:Text by Juhani Pallasmaa, Adam Sharr and Adrian Forty, Anneke Bokern, Karine Dana, Amelie Osterloh, Jasper van Zwol, Günter Pfeifer, Fionn Stevenson and Bill Bordass. Images and photography by Lars Arrhenius, Michael Wesely, Andreas Gefeller, anothermountainman, Lars Tunbjörk and Jacob Hertzell.

See more images.

SDL designs for Japans biggest mobile company au by KDDI

KDDI provides mobile cellular services using the “au by KDDI” brand. Stockholm Design Lab was asked to design original covers for their Smartphones (Android and iPhone). 20 different designs, one for each model was based on the the concept “Soundwaves”. Each model varies in shapes, size and camera location, hence we created a unique pattern for each phone.

See all the covers.

The Great Lion, Suicide, Customized Serif and Villa Savoye

The iconic Tv-show Studio POP for the Swedish Television is relaunched tonight as Studio PSL. Per Sinding Larsen will guide you through the pop culture. We are introducing a new title sequence and graphics. A composition of a wild lion walking in Le Corbusiers Villa Savoye to the tune ”Sweetheart” by Suicide.

SDL awarded in Design for Asia Award

SDL is awarded with silver in Design for Asia Award, for our work for Ohmine.

Stockholm Design Lab wins gold in Eurobest

Europe’s leading awards and annual event for advertising and creative communications Eurobest is held in Lisbon, Portugal. With over 200 entries, competing with Johnny Walker, Chivas, Kroneburg amongst others small Sake manufacturer Ohmine Shuzou wins Gold. The unique bottle and brand designed by Stockholm Design Lab has once again shown the power of simplicity.
Takeshi Akiyama CEO of Ohmine Shuzou says ”We wanted to design and brew a sake that overthrows conventions and weaves in an international perspective,gathered together. Although at a small-scale production level of 5,000 liters a year, we were able to perfect a sake that brings out the blessings of nature. While preserving the traditions inherited from our predecessors, we will aim to present cutting edge ideas without being bound by customs. And, from Mine City, Yamaguchi, we will transmit the ”Ohmine” brand to the world”.

Best website 2011

Linnaeus University has been awarded best educational website by Internetworld. Here’s the motivation: “We get impressed by Linnaeus University, who has managed to do their website so focused, clear and clean without being boring, as so many other universities. A modern website for a modern university”.

SDL is proud to have been a part of this.

SDL designing money

The Swedish National Bank (Riksbanken) has completed the first stage of the competition to design the new swedish banknotes and coins. Out of 46 contestors SDL is still in the competition and will next year present a proposal on how the future´s money will look like.

Read more here.

New product for IKEA FOOD

We are happy to announce that our packaging design for the product Skarpsill for IKEA FOOD has just been rewarded with “The design of the month” in the magazine Resumé: “A swedish design classic”. See more IKEA FOOD products here.

New Velux Daylight & Architecture

This issue of D/A explores which conditions, or combination of conditions, will promote human health and well-being indoors. It also raises the question of how the necessary bridges between daylight research and architectural design can be built, thus making a real difference to future buildings. Read more here.

Identity for Copenhagens new landmark

Today Bella Sky (part of Comwell) opens and will be Scandinavia’s largest hotel. It creates a distinct new profile on the Copenhagen skyline with the architecture of 3XN. The two towers reach up to 76,5 meters, and lean out 15 degrees. See the new identity here.

Download pressrelease.

New identity for Royal College of Music

KMH is one of the oldest and most prestigious music colleges in Sweden. We are very proud of the new visual identity which has been developed by Stockholm Design Lab and was launched on May 5 at their current premises. The new visual identity will be matched in a couple of years with a complete re-make of the college, including a new main building. This surely makes out a clear and exciting take-off for KMH’s journey ahead.

Unibail Rodamco, Täby Centrum

Täby Centrum, one of the largest shopping centers in Sweden, will become even larger! A big reconstruction project has started, including a new exterior and interior look and feel to the establishment, expanding vending space, new parking facilities etc. The new center will be completed by 2015. Stockholm Design Lab are very proud to be taking part in this exciting project, creating a new visual identity for the new Täby Centrum.

Vårdapoteket

Vårdapoteket is a new Swedish pharmacy chain always placed in care-related locations. Stockholm Design Lab was appointed as their design agency and are now finalising a project including a new visual identity and retail concept which will start to roll out summer/fall 2011.

Silver egg x 2

SDL was awarded with 2 Silver eggs in the Swedish Advertising awards last night. We were awarded for our work for Hemtex and Moderna Museet Malmö.

Read more.

Identity for Vin och Sprithistoriska Museet

Spritmuseum is the new name for Vin- och Sprithistoriska Museet who is currently constructing its new home in a beautiful location in Kungl. Djurgården, Stockholm. The moving-in date is set to spring 2012. In addition to the new name, we are developing a visual identity platform for the new museum.

Designers for Japan

Designers for Japan is a collective of imagemakers from around the world who were spurred on by the catastrophe of March 11th to do something, anything to help and to express our love for our friends and colleagues in Japan.

In association with Creative Review. All profits from the D4J print sales will be equally split between The Red Cross / Shelterbox. Please make any donation on the links above if you would prefer to fund the charities directly.

Read more here & here.

SDL is nominated in Guldägget

We got nominated for the new identity for Hemtex.

SVT K-Special

We have done a series of title sequences for the SVT-program K-Special.

Åhléns

It has been 13 years since Stockholm Design Lab developed the current visual identity for Åhléns. We are now very excited to having re-bonded with Åhléns. Our work focuses on revitalizing the visual identity, creating a consistent expression for their range of private label products and in-store communication plus developing a distinct and direct identity for Åhléns Klubb. In addition to this we are also working on a new retail project in cooperation with TEA.

Marble 4420

For the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011, Monica Förster and Björn Kusoffsky have been invited to make their personal interpretation of Svenskt Tenn.

Using the pattern Marble 4420 by Josef Frank as a starting point. The Marble 4420 pattern, which is radically different from the typical Frank flowery patterns, is said to have been sketched when Josef Frank had encountered the art of Jackson Pollock, during this stay in New York in the 1940s. Designer Monica Förster and creative director Björn Kusoffsky have been inspired by the pattern to create a 3D installation with handmade artifacts and a film which explores the depths of Josef Frank’s world of patterns.

Read more.

Bella Sky

Bella Sky is a new hotel opening in Copenhagen in may 2011. We are working with the total identity from signage to amenities.

Read more about the hotel here.

SDL welcomes SAAB

SDL has been appointed as SAABs new design agency.
An exciting journey starts right now!

SDL is part of Tokyo Graphic Passport

New identity for Hemtex

On August 26th 2010, Hemtex launched a new flagship store at Götgatan in Stockholm. Stockholm Design Lab together with TEA have developed a whole new visual identity, webb and an updated retail concept for the brand and have also been deeply involved in the new assortment strategy. After vast research with the customers, Hemtex is now focusing on a younger target group with a modern, inspiring and praiseworthy concept. Hemtex history, Swedish textile heritage together with knowledge and creativity have been important inspiration in the extensive work. The new concept supported by an advertising campaign will be rolled out from now on.

See the new identity here.

Gold in Cannes Design Lions!

SDL is awarded with gold in Cannes Design Lions, for the visual identity for Biennale di Venezia.

New identity for the Swedish institute

Today the new identity for the Swedish institute is launched. Look at it here.

Awarded in Guldägget 2010

For the second year in a row SDL is awarded with gold in the Swedish Advertising awards, this year for the visual identity for Biennale di Venezia. We are also happy about the Silver Egg for Ohmine Sake, and for employee Nina Granath who got the scholarship for young talented creatives. Read more.

Thanks to our great clients!

We welcome the Swedish Institute

The Swedish Institute is a Swedish government agency with the responsibility to spread information about Sweden abroad, to promote Swedish interests, and to organise exchanges with other countries in different areas of public life, in particular in the spheres of culture, education, and research. SDL has been assigned to do a comprehensive identity to be launched during the autumn 2009.

Askul awarded a Gold at Kolla!

We are honored to have received a Gold in the category “Packaging Design” for Askul at the Kolla! Awards. Read more about Kolla! (in Swedish).

HKDA Asia Design Awards

SDL’s Björn Kusoffsky is in the jury for Graphics in HKDA Awards – the most prestigious design award in Asia. Read more about the awards.

Golden Egg for Askul

At this year’s Swedish Advertising awards, Stockholm Design Lab was the proud winner of a prestigious Guldägget in the Design category for its outstanding work for Japanese brand Askul.

Helvetica Forever

SDL is a part of the exhibition “Helvetica Forever – Story of a Typeface” at Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo, February 5 to February 28. SDL will also be represented in both “Helvetica Forever” books (Japanese and English version).

SDL/TEA featured in Wall Street Journal

In an article in The Wall Street Journal TEA/SDL is featured, naming Thomas Eriksson and Björn Kusoffsky, “Scandinavia’s Corporate Branding Gurus”. Read the article here.