Design: Sweden
I wonder to what extent a non-Swede can identify these symbols...
Via This Isn't Happiness
As understand it, it was made by Andreas Pihlström Suprb and/or Rasmus Andersson Hunch
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Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts
December 2, 2009
September 20, 2009
September 8, 2009
Gif Animations: Sweden: Heaven and Hell
Gif animation made by myself from Svezia, inferno e paradiso AKA Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968)
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my other gif animations
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July 21, 2009
Vintage Postcards: Hotell Arkaden
The back of a folded postcard from hotel Arkaden in Malmö, Sweden. I guess it's from the 50s. See the front and the middle at Stationsvakt.
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GIF Animations: Drinking with Max
GIF animation made by myself.
"How to skoal with style. Swedish film star Max von Sydow engages his drinking partner's gaze. Tipping his glass backward, von Sydow drains the chilled aquavit in one deceptively cool gulp. Lowering the glass to the level from which he raised it, von Sydow again meets his companion's eyes."
Cooking Issues: "The photos appeared in “The Cooking of Scandinavia” one of the books in the amazing Time Life series Foods of the World. The shooter was none other than Richard A. Meek, one of the original roster of Sports Illustrated photographers."
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The photo I used was found at Pin Pals.
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By the way: "slut" ="the end".
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my other gif animations
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July 15, 2009
Sport: Ingemar Stenmark
If you are a sports fan you have probably heard of Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg - at least if you are about my age (40). Before Sampras and that Swiss guy many considered him to be the best player ever. He is also said to be the first "rockstar" of tennis.
So you know Bjorn, but do you know the guy in the picture above? If you are a Swede you know. If you are a sports fan from a country where alpine sports are big and if you are about my age you might know.
He is the second Swedish sports superstar of the same era (roughly the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s). He is Ingemar Stenmark - winner in 86 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, three times winner of the Overall World Cup title, 8 times winner of the Giant Slalom Cup, 8 times winner of the Slalom Cup, five times Olympic gold medalist... and he didn't do downhill, combined or Super-G. It is said that World Cup rules were changed and Super-G added as a discipline because of Stenmarks dominance. True? Maybe, maybe not.
Unlike Borg Ingemar wasn't the "rockstar" type of sportsman, he was - and I guess is - a shy man who didn't like the media attention. We all got used to his taciturn interviews on the telly. He didn't want to talk about the sport, he wanted to ski and ski well. The Swedes loved him even more for his ways and his northern characteristic dialect.
Many races took place on work/schooldays, with the first run in the morning and the second in the afternoons and in workplaces and schools everything came to a halt. TV sets were rolled into the classrooms and in tense expectation we all followed Ingemar's runs, cheering him on.
And then, in the schoolyards, the kids wore the specially knitted Stenmark-cap talking about Ingemar. We all knew the names of his fiercest competitors; the Mahre brothers, Thöni, Gros, Girardelli, Wenzel, Heidegger, Hemmi, Popangelov, Zurbriggen...
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This list says something: List of Alpine skiing World Cup race winners - Men
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May 30, 2009
May 11, 2009
Vintage Hotels: Gyllene Uttern
Gyllene Uttern - "The Golden Otter" - in southern Sweden was originally built as a roadside café in 1932 but the castle-like building was added within a few years. It is now mainly a hotel and restaurant. I haven't passed it in many years but it is supposed to look very much the same as when the German Nazi flag was up for German visitors (4th image).
Gyllene Uttern (Swedish Wikipedia)
Wild Strawberries
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Thanks to Johnny and SVT for image #1
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March 11, 2009
Vintage Comics: Tintin in Sweden!
"He was in Dalarna and visited Mora-Nisse..."
Sekvenskonst: Tintin!
Via The Ephemerist
March 2, 2009
Illustration: Olle Eksell, part 1
Slussen, 1939 by Olle Eksell
"Slussen ("the lock" in Swedish) is an area of central Stockholm, named after the locks between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea, in Sweden."
Stureplan, Stockholm by Olle Eksell 1939
The royal Castle in Stockholm by Olle Eksell 1939
A short bio:
Olle Eksell: a diverse career
Book:
Olle Eksell: Swedish Graphic Designer (buy)
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February 18, 2009
Movie: Dirty Fingers
VHS coverSmutsiga fingrar, 1973,
Dir: Arne Mattsson
Cover artist: ?
"...is a mix of police thriller-filmnoir-sleaze-(unintentional comedy)."/"...may fail to be taken seriously as a drama/thriller, yet it is the most entertaining film of its kind I've seen. Suspense, drugs, murder, sex, abuse, nudity, torture,car chases and badly staged fist fights. Also see if you can spot sex starlet Marie Ekorre who appears briefly in a bordello scene."
February 12, 2009
January 31, 2009
January 16, 2009
Swedish Actresses: Ingrid Bergman, part 3
This playlist contains the documentary "Great Romances--Ingrid Bergman & Roberto Rosselini" in three parts.
Videos uploaded by meladorimagpie
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Related: The Swedish Actresses series
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Swedish Actresses: Ingrid Bergman, part 2
Ingrid Bergman as Joan of Arc (1948). Photo: LIFE
Via This isn't happiness
"a horrible example of womanhood and a powerful influence for evil."
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Related: The Swedish Actresses series
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January 13, 2009
November 21, 2008
Vintage Photos: Heja Sverige!
Photographer: Co Rentmeester, 1972, LIFE
I don't exactly know what this photo was supposed to illustrate but searching the LIFE photos for "polaroid" this was one of the results. A beautiful woman, probably Swedish, wearing a t-shirt with an image clearly Swedish. The typical red-painted Swedish cottage, the flagpole, the blue-and-yellow, trees...
This is also an image of Sweden...
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November 16, 2008
Sports: BP is back!
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| From Martin Klasch |
IF Brommapojkarna (BP) is back in the Swedish premiere football (soccer) league! I know this interests all of you and that you are taking notes ;)
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