Iaspis together with graphic designers and small-scale publishers Matilda Plöjel (Sailor Press) and Mattias Jakobsson & Peter Ström (Konst & Teknik / Andperseand) would like to invite you to a seminar on independent publishing:

Over the last few years, a wide range of new publishing initiatives have developed within the arts and design fields. New book fairs are emerging in major cities, small publishing houses and independent presses are frequently initiated and the alternative bookshop seems to recurrently be reborn in new forms. Something that seems to tie these activities together, is that they are run by practitioners themselves — photographers, artists, authors and graphic designers — often with a visionary idea of how to redefine the world of publishing.

On May 25th 2012, a few of these interesting and inspiring practitioners have been invited to Stockholm to take part in the seminar ‘Publishing as (part-time) Practice’. Confirmed participating publishers are: Elin Maria Olaussen / Karen Christine Tandberg from Torpedo Books and Press (NO), Georg Rutishauser from Edition Fink (CH), Matthew Stadler from Publication Studio (US), Anna Gerber / Britt Iversen from Visual Editions (UK), Nille Svensson from Nilleditions (SE), Jacob Grønbech Jensen / Rikard Heberling / Emi-Simone Zawall from Drucksache (SE) and more to be announced. Andrew Blauvelt from Walker Art Center (US) will introduce the event as well as provide a concluding reflection at the end of the evening.

• What: Publishing as (part-time) Practice — a seminar on independent publishing
• Where: Iaspis, Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm
• When: May 25th, 15:00–20:00
• How: RSVP to info@iaspis.com before May 16th 2012

A more detailed programme and information about the participants will be announced on the Iaspis web page.

Hope to see you there!
Matilda, Mattias & Peter

Järvaprojektet is an artistic research project that investigates different stories with the starting point in Järva area north of Stockholm; Rinkeby, Tensta, Hjulsta and Kista, Husby, Akalla. The project was initiated as a collaboration in 2009 between Fredrik Ehlin, Patrick Kretschek and Erik Rosshagen.

The website — conceptualized and designed by Konst & Teknik — presents the collected research material of the group, stretching from their work with the book ‘Att ingen någonsin visste exakt vad de talade om’, to the current and ongoing film project ‘Fish’. All material, old and new, is published on the website with the help of the Stacey CMS connected to a shared Dropbox folder. The content on the site is a direct mirroring of the groups’ archive in real time, regardless of whether the material is considered as public or private. The ambition and aim is to invite others to share their research material through the site and to make an expanding archive and map over the Järva area. More on the project in Swedish here.

A HUGE thanks to Anthony Kolber for not only programming the Stacey CMS but also tirelessly supporting us with the Dropbox connection!

Join us for the launch of the website and the book ‘Att ingen någonsin visste exakt vad de talade om’ (designed by Mathew Newton) on Rutger Fuchsgatan 9 in Stockholm on May 4 between 16.00 and 21.00.

The city of Stockholm is currently building a huge new hospital, estimated to be finished in the year 2016. It’s one of the biggest constructions in the city at the moment, and will result in a ~13 million Euro (118.000.000 SEK) art acquisition and commission before 2017, thanks to a rule introduced in 1965;

‘One percent of the total cost for constructions, conversions and extensions shall be devoted to artistic decoration.’
— About the one percent rule

We strongly believe that public space these days extends beyond the physical. As people socialize, hang out, shop, and play both online and offline, many websites too should be considered public spaces. And with many artists working with the Internet as their only medium, why not translate the idea of public art from the physical space to the web? 

Konst & Teknik would like to propose that 1% of development costs of new websites shall be devoted to the acquisition or commission of Internet art works, to be installed on those very websites, so that ‘all the people of Stockholm, regardless of who they are or how they live, should have the opportunity to experience art in their immediate environment.’

A few mockup proposals

Rafael Rozendaahls ‘Aesthetic Echo’ in the background of the Karolinska Institutet front page.

Olia Lialinas self-portrait gif animations on the 404 (not found) pages of the city of Stockholm.

Oliver Larics ‘50 50’ placed in the footer of the Swedish Arts Council website.

In opposite to physical art, Internet based art works usually don’t exist in a fixed place; they get copied, shared and re-distributed, most times without any control of the artist. This is part of what makes Internet art unique, and we would never want to propose something that changes that idea. This proposal is not about a work being showed exclusively on these websites, but rather about them being showed there too.

Interested in discussing this proposal further? Don’t hesitate to get in touch.

This Saturday ‘That Which Follows’ opens at Konsthall C in Stockholm, a solo exhibition by our collaborator and friend, Emanuel Almborg. The exhibition includes works from a two-part project: ‘The Rest is Silence’ (2009) and ‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ (2011), which investigates the relationship between community and communication. ‘The Rest is Silence’ is focusing on the experimental community project in Hackney in the 1970s, while ‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ was performed as a social experiment. At Konsthall C the project will be presented in photography, film and text.

The book Nothing is Left to Tell, designed by us and published by Andperseand, will be released as a part of the exhibition, as well as a poster/catalogue specifically designed for the show. 

More info: Konsthall C, Show & Tell or Facebook.

The exhibition runs between March 24 and May 6 and opens on Friday March 23, 17.00–21.00 — hope to see you there.

hen we read about the letter W being included as an official member of the Swedish alphabet a few years back, we thought such a special occasion deserved proper recognition. We contacted Svenska Akademien — the institution responsible — to see if we could find out the exact date when the decision was made, to organize a yearly celebration. And we did: March 3rd — which is soon, so lets celebrate!

March 3rd, 13:00–16:00, at Rönnells in Stockholm

• Confirmed presentations, from 13:00:
• Anders Djerf, artist
• Jörgen Gassilewski, poet
• Henrik Nilsson, terminologist
• Martin Högström, poet / graphic designer
• Mattias Heldner, phonetic expert
• Nina Ulmaja, graphic designer
• Örjan Nordling, type designer

There will of course be cake and coffee too. More information (in Swedish) can be found at Wdagen.se.

Wälkommen to come celebrate with us!

On a rainy October night, Konst & Teknik & (mainly) Martin finally added the last pieces of code and together hit the deploy-button (over iChat screen sharing) of the long awaited, too long taken, new version of CopyPasteCharacter.com — the one website for copying and pasting all those characters we never knew where to find in the computer.

Here is a rundown of all the new features:

• Tons of new characters; from ~100 on the old version, to 3894 on the new one!
• Because of ⇧, we have introduced a new feature: sets. In nine carefully sorted — and one messier — categories, the characters can easily be found and copied.

• An option to sign up for an account, or use Facebook to sign in, to save and edit your own character sets, for easy access of the letters and symbols most often needed.
• Easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere, using the new, shorter URL char.nu.
• A handy resize bar in the bottom right corner of the site.

More new features and sets will be added over the coming months.

We will host a small release party and presentation in Stockholm at some point over the coming weeks; keep an eye on our Twitter feed and/or newsletter for further info.

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We truly hope and believe that this is the last update on this old website of ours… in fact, we won’t do another update here even if it takes us years finishing the new one. So see you on our new, shiny — and probably quite awesome — website over the coming months.

PℰƮ⊏☈ & ♏⏏✞ⓣ▒ª$

After a nice and interesting spring working on a few really nice projects, we are off on a summer break, enjoying the few weeks of sunshine we (hopefully) get here in the north. This fall it’s also five years since we started the studio (!), something that askes for a bit of contemplation over the summer. But before we go, we would like to share a few links, images and snippets of text:

Over the last couple of months we’ve had the privilege to work on a catalogue together with and for super cool artist Fia Backström and her participation in the Scandinavian pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Fias work is titled Borderless Bastards (multi-culti abc) and consists of ten sculptures spread out over the Giardini, an audio guide and the catalogue, all dealing with nationality and national representation. The catalogue naturally features the lion of Gripsholms slott on the cover (stuffed by a taxidermist who had never seen a lion in 1731) and is published by Moderna Museet and Sternberg Press. It can be ordered here, and a few spreads can be seen here. The exhibition shows all the way until November, so don’t miss out if in the area.

And, and, and, and, and, and & and:

• We just got our hands on the first copies of R U International?, a report we designed for Riksutställningar, printed and published by Publit. We don’t know how or even if it’s possible to order the printed books, but there should be a digital version published on Issuu pretty soon…
• The new, fifth, book in the Excerpt series, Konsten att handla – konsten att tänka: Hannah Arendt om det politiska edited by Ulrika Björk and Anders Burman, features the typeface Extencil by Göran Söderström for its cover typography and will be published by AXL Books later this summer.
• A new book, still a bit secret, published on our Andperseand publisher is at the printers’ too! More about that in September.
• Here is a little video we made when asked to make a 5 minute presentation of ourselves for AIGA Chicagos International Small Talkseries a while back.
• We collaborated with artist Tris Vonna-Michell on a stereogram print for the exhibition Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Taro, on show between 4 July to 27 August 2011 at Focal Point Gallery in South Essex, the UK.
• Last but not least, we (well, actually Martin) are putting the last pieces of code into the new, updated version of our Copypastecharacter.com website, to be launched over the coming weeks. Keep an eye on it or its Twitter feed to find out the latest news on that.
• Speaking of Martin, here’s a tote bag we designed for his WWDC visit a few weeks back, featuring 26 abbreviations of programming related… things… we have no idea what most of them mean, and the original WWW logotype turned upside down:

Have a great summer!
Peter & Mattias

Ps. We have an intern position open from September 1st and for 2–4 months; drop us an email with the subject ‘Praktikant september 2011’ if interested.

It’s been a very busy start of 2011 and we already have no less than 4 projects debuting today…!

We Have the Technology is a project initiated by our long term collaborator, the awesome New York based curator Laurel Ptak, and is a residency program and platform for communication, research, and knowledge production online. We have been involved in the project for almost a year, and finally some things start to take shape… a simple website is online but way more is to come — don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter and be notified when the complete site is launched: www.wehavethetechnology.org

48 timmar (Konsten att hålla öppet), a 48 hour workshop starting today at the Museum of Architecture in Stockholm;

‘Fifty invited practitioners and critics in the fields of architecture, crafts and design, transform the museum into a 48-hour workshop and forum for investigations and discussions of the contemporary roles of professional practices and institutions. 48 Hours: A museum about a museum inside a museum.’

The workshop takes place during the same week as the Stockholm Furniture Fair and is part of a seven week program titled Arkitekturmuseet Live. We have designed the website and identity for 48 timmar, based on a paper version of the commonly used ‘kioskflagga’ (kiosk flag). The kiosk flag is a sort of flag that more or less every small tobacco store uses to show that they are open (‘öppet’) for business — and a flag that actually looks more like an icon of a flag with its slanted top, rather than a ‘normal’ flag. Our flags — made out of paper but using the original plastic poles — are partially used as signage system for the workshop and partially as a way for the participants (both invited and the audience) to interact and inform on what is going on in the space. The plastic poles are mounted on a wood contruction designed by splendid furniture designer Fredrik Paulsen. All info can be found at www.arkitekturmuseetlive.se/48t and all the lectures and events have been added to www.showandtell.se.Don’t miss out if in Stockholm this week!

The very same Fredrik brings us to the next project; A folded down poster, showing many of his projects, designed for his booth V01:19 at the Stockholm Furniture Fair that opens today! The poster also functions as a wallpaper for the booth and contains more or less no text at all (we know, we can’t believe it either) — and can be picked up for free at the fair.

And yet another project can be found at the fair; a catalogue for Småland based lighting manufacturer Örsjö Belysning, that we designed a few months back. As we don’t have any proper photos of it, we encourage everyone to check it out at the fair instead, as it looks quite stunning… Örsjö can be found at booth A07:21.

All these projects and everything else we’ve been busy with the last year will of course be shown and explained better on our new — soon to be launched — website, featuring so—much—new—stuff—! Sign up for our newsletter to find out when that happens.

December 5th, 11:30–24:00
@ Rutger Fuchsgatan 9 in Stockholm

Welcome to the 12 hour film screening FREE KEVIN

Curated by Pirateturk, organized by Laurel Ptak and hosted by Konst & Teknik & Martin

FREE KEVIN is an ongoing and roving screening series from a collection of 15.4 GB of downloaded films and documentaries depicting hackers and related computer culture from the 1980s–2000s. A range of material including blockbuster films, educational television programming, and documentaries produced within the hacking community will be presented in various cities worldwide over the next year in order to stimulate dialogue around issues of intellectual property and open culture.

The title FREE KEVIN is an appropriated slogan that was originally used by the hacker community in the 1990s to protest the arrest of Kevin Mitnick, a legendary hacker who at the time was the most wanted computer criminal in United States history. Mitnick’s story is of interest (and depicted in several films in the screening series) for its fascinating particularities concerning hacker culture, intellectual property, and media representation historically, but at the same time it also functions as a contemporary symbol. If anything, the struggle over intellectual property has only intensified in the last decade and FREE KEVIN can be read as the embodiment of resistance in an ongoing struggle for rights and freedoms from corporate and state control in an information age and economy.

Read more

PROGRAM

11:30 — Doors open

12:00 — INTRODUCTION BY LAUREL PTAK (OVER SKYPE) (0:08) + WARRIORS OF THE NET, 1999 (0:12)

12:20 — PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY, 1999 (1:36)
A 1999 film based on the book ‘Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer’ by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. It […] documents the rise of the home computer (personal computer) through the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft.

14:00 — THE HISTORY OF HACKING, 2006 (0:50)
A quality documentary about hacking from the 1960s to date. Takes a historical approach, looking at the role of the hacker during this time.

15:00 — ANTITRUST, 1:49 (2001)
Antitrust portrays young idealistic programmers and a large corporation (NURV) that offers significant money, a low-keyed working environment, and creative opportunities for those talented programmers willing to work for them. The charismatic CEO of NURV seems to be good natured, but recent employee and protagonist Milo Hoffman begins to unravel the terrible hidden truth of NURV’s operation.

16:55 — FREEDOM DOWNTIME (ABOUT KEVIN MITNICK) (2:01) 2001
Freedom Downtime is a 2001 documentary film sympathetic to the convicted computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, directed by Emmanuel Goldstein and produced by 2600 Films.

19:00 — WAR GAMES, 1983 (1:48)
The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game. The simulation causes a national nuclear missile scare and nearly starts World War III.

21:00 — OUTLAWS & ANGELS, 2002 (0:49)
Documentary about the current issues surrounding Hackers/Crackers! What is Illegal should be called Crackers not Hackers!!

22:00 — HACKERS, 1995 (1:45)
Hackers is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Renoly Santiago and Matthew Lillard. The film follows the exploits of a group of gifted high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy.

All descriptions downloaded from Wikipedia and Google Video

Bring your own device and headphones (optional)!

All 29 films from the Pirateturk created torrent file — including the ones not beamed — will be streamed to Macs/iPads/iPods/iPhones over WiFi during the event. Bring your own device and headphones and hang out in a corner with your film of choice!
The complete list of films can be found at www.freekevin.info

Good to know

• Drinks and (junk) food will be for sale (cash only)
• Limited amount of seats (first come, first served)
• You will have to take off your shoes because of sensitive carpets (!) — but indoor shoes can of course be brought
• Feel free to come and go as you please
• Extra thanks to Daniel Eskils

FREE KEVIN

When: Sunday December 5th 2010, 11:30–24:00

Where: Rutger Fuchsgatan 9, 11667 Stockholm, Sweden
(Subway: Skanstull)

Program: Download as PDF

Cost: For Free!

More info: www.FREEKEVIN.info, www.konst-teknik.se/news/freekevin, Show & Tell, Facebook

Best wishes: Pirateturk, Laurel Ptak, and Konst & Teknik & Martin

Konst & Teknik has invited fellow Swedish designers and publishers to contribute ‘left over’ books and publications, to a one day temporary book store in Stockholm, titled Show & Sell.

Confirmed contributors:

Andperseand, Andreas & Fredrika, Aron Kullander-Östling, AXL Books, Bergen, Christopher West, Europa, Frida Jeppsson, Hanna Nilsson & Rasmus Svensson, Hjärta Smärta, Jenny Eneqvist, Johan Thermænius, Jonas Williamsson, Konst & Teknik, Libraryman, Labyrint Press, Matilda Plöjel, Museum Studio, Rikard Heberling, Stefania Malmsten, Studio S&M

(+ more TBA)

Please note: Cash only!

When: Saturday August 28, 2010, 12:00–20:00

Where: Rutger Fuchsgatan 9, 11667 Stockholm, Sweden

More info: www.konst-teknik.se/news/showandsell
Facebook: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149068378452196
Show & Tell event: showtell.se/sepI

Press contact:
Peter Ström
information (at) konst-teknik.se
+46706531175

Hope to see you there!
Konst & Teknik

It would be easy to say that we’ve been too busy to update this space, but that is not really the truth. Busy, always, but the fact is that we prefer the 140 character limitation of our Twitter stream than the endless possibilities of this one. Needless to say, we are way more about reducing the amount of options in our everyday life than adding more, so Twitter just works perfectly for us. But we still love to have the option of using this space when needed, since it gives us the opportunity to sum things up. So here we go — 2010 so far:

• We started off the year with a needed update of our portfolio, adding six new projects. All can be found here underneath, so we won’t say much more about them right now.
• We finally found a new studio space! After almost a year of looking, a failed deal and temporary studios in Brooklyn and ℅ Uglycute, we now have our own space on Södermalm in Stockholm together with Martin, Ruben and Hanne. The last couple of weeks we have been busy renovating, building walls and furniture, in an (extended) workshop with Uglycute; a follow up to last years’ website workshop. Words can’t describe how amazing it looks and feels, but this might give you a hint:

• We will start organizing events and lectures in the space later this year, so keep an eye on our Twitter feed for details on when things happen.
• We launched a new website called Show & Tell, in collaboration with Martin Ström. Show & Tell is basically a shared online Google calendar, between us and a bunch of friends within the Stockholm cultural world, featuring events of our interest that contain some sort of showing and telling (lectures, book releases etc). There just wasn’t anything like that around, so we figured we had to do it ourselves. Since the launch, interest from other cities have popped up and there are already a Show & Tells in Brussels — hosted by the awesome guys at PLMD — and one in Olso coming over the next weeks, by the just as awesome Your Friends.
• We designed a new double issue of SITE (29–30), about Georges Didi-Hübermann, that we celebrated with a release party at Riche a while ago back.
• We worked intensly on ‘In Depencence. Crowds, Gestures’, the artist book/monograph/crowds book we designed for artist Anna Ådahl. It looks great and we will launch it at Index on Wednesday March 24 — come around if in town.
• On March 3rd, we celebrated the 5 year anniversary of the letter W as the 29th member of the Swedish alphabet with a small website: wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwWwwwwww.se
• Martin made an amazing iPhone app (our first!) of our collaborative copypastecharacter.com project, which — basically — rules. Get it over here!
  
  That’s it for now!

We are organizing a book release and presentation of the project ‘The Rest is Silence’ by artist Emanuel Almborg this coming Thursday, December 3. The book is designed by Konst & Teknik and published by Andperseand, a publisher we’ve set up together with Emanuel and theorist Jeff Kinkle.

When: Dec 3, 19:00–22:00
Where: Kvarngatan 14, Stockholm
Facebook event: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204276351712

More on the project: www.andperseand.se/02
More on Andperseand: www.andperseand.se

As you might have noticed, we’ve refurbished this site a bit (thanks to Martin). The ‘Latest News’ note is gone and this section — previously ‘Blog’ — is where we’ll post news (and some projects) from now on.

North by Northeast* *(And South)

We are participating in the conference ‘North by Northeast* *(And South)’ at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht on February 20. Except us, the very awesome designers Nina Støttrup Larsen, Indrek Sirkel, Kristjan Mändmaa, Kasia Korczak, Ajdin Basic, Petra Cerne Oven and Ziga Testen are participating, so make sure to come by if you are in the area. More info can (as usual) be found at ManyStuff.

Poster by Ziga Testen

Pluxemburg.com

The new website for Swedish record label Pluxemburg is finally up and running (as usual in collaboration with Martin Ström). It’s been almost one year of work with something that might look like just one single page (well, it actually is just one single page). But the site is a bit more than just that — it’s a website that aggregates all kinds of info on Pluxemburg and its artists from different social networks (tour dates from last.fm, discography from discogs.com, videos from youtube, links from delicious etc) and automaticly presents that info on www.pluxemburg.com. Check it out here and read a bit more about the background here.

In Real Life

We are once again collaborating with our friend, curator Laurel Ptak on an exhibition identity, this time for an exhibition titled ‘In Real Life’ at the Capricious gallery in Brooklyn. More on that in a couple of weeks.

Rick Poynor review

A while ago, critic and Eye Magazine founder Rick Poynor wrote an interesting review on the issue of Mono.Kultur we designed over at the Architechts’ Journal.

Twitter

We polished our Twitter account to make it more useful and better, so make sure to follow us there if you are a Twitter user.

December 12 2008

Thanks to everyone who showed up at the Berlin releaseparty for Trace a Face, Site and Mono.Kultur on Tuesday, it was loads of fun! If you missed out, Trace a Face is now available for online ordering from this very site.

December 5 2008

We are celebrating the release of Trace a Face with a party in Berlin on Tuesday, together with two other great publications: mono.kultur #18 and SITE Magazine #24 (all three totally coincidentally designed by us). If you are in Berlin, please come join us! More info here.

November 3 2008

• This Thursday, November the 6th, we are arranging a lecture with designer and programmer Jonathan Puckey + a release party for the collaborative publication Trace a Face. More info about the event here.
• The last couple of weeks we been busy designing the next issue of Mono.Kultur about Dutch architects MVRDV. Get yourself a subscription or find the latest issue at your local bookshop.
• We have just started working together with Risto Kalmre on the identity for the 5th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial. First out is an online open call for work.

August 25 2008

We’re back from a month of vacation with some fresh news:

• In between August the 13th and September the 6th we’re taking part in the exhibition Young Curators, Fresh Ideas at Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn NY. Be sure to drop by if you’re in the area.
• The catalogue we designed for the New Jersey exhibition is featured in this months showcase in Grafik Magazine. Get a copy at you local book/magazine store.
• On August the 29th Dutch designers Metahaven are giving a lecture at the IASPIS Open Studio day in Stockholm. We highly recommend you a visit—not only to hear about Metahavens work but also to get a copy of the programme leaflet designed by us.

June 17 2008

Some quick notes before the summer:

• We just finished a new issue of SITE Magazine — issue 22–23 — and are celebrating that with a release party tomorrow at Spy Bar in Stockholm.
• A while ago, our two nominations for the Kolla award resulted in two diplomas: a gold for our Sandviken exhibition in the open category and a silver in the editorial design for the Site redesign.
• Some work of ours is featured in ‘Fully Booked’ — a book on book design, published by die Gestalten Verlag in Berlin.
• Solid State — the cd by Pluxus, for whom we designed the cd-cover 1.5 years ago — has been licenced and re-released internationally by Kompakt Records. The cover actually looks even better this time. Because of the release we and Martin Ström also re-designed the Pluxemburg website — the record label Pluxus and their friends run.

April 21 2008

We’ve updated this site with two new projects: The identity for A Photo of New Jersey and the book series Excerpt, as well as a new blog. On the blog we plan to post smaller ideas and projects that don’t fit in elsewhere.
We have also been nominated again for the Kolla award; this time for the Site redesign (editorial design) and our ‘Att Välja’ publication (open category).

And be sure to check out:

• In New Jersey: The exhibition ‘Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?’ at the Pierro Gallery, New Jersey, until May 25, 2008.
• In Berlin: Our long-term collaborator, the artist Erik Blinderman, shows some new work at Souterrain in Berlin until May 4.
• In Stockholm: The current Magasin 3 exhibition ‘Fredrik Söderberg & Carl Larsson’, for whom (Fredrik, not Carl) we’ve made the website in collaboration with Hanne Lindberg.

February 28 2008

The first proper book designed by us was delivered today — ‘Deleuze och mångfaldens veck’ — first in the new Excerpt series on AXL Books. On Tuesday, March 4, a release party is being thrown at Uglycute here in Stockholm. We won’t make it to the party as we will be in Estonia, giving ‘A Really Boring Workshop’ at the Estonian Academy of the Arts at the same time — something we look very much forward to.

January 28 2008

We are working with an exhibition curated by our friend Laurel Ptak titled ‘Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?’. The website was launched a few days ago and more is to come — check out aphotographofnewjersey.com.

January 16 2008

We just updated two projects on this site:

• Site Magazine: SITE #21.
• Bonniers Konsthall: We made a small, but very needed, update of the background camera and site design a while back.

January 8 2008

Hello 2008! We are sure it will be a great one.
To start things off in the best way possible, we invite everyone to come to the artist — and our very good friend — Daniel Hoflund’s opening of his exhibition ‘DET DUNKLA / DET KLARA’ at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm on Saturday the 12th at 13.00.
By the way, SITE #21—the second issue we’ve designed so far—should be in the stores soon.

November 22 2007

Martin just updated this site with some new, fresh tech:

‘Updates!
Prototype 1.6.0!
Pre/edge Rails 2.0!
Capistrano 2.1.0!
A lot of cleaning and performance fixes mostly because many of my old local optimizations now live in Prototype.
I made the sorter down at the bottom work for multi sort orders, so it sorts first by value A then by next value (if A and B are identical). JavaScripts Array#sort doesn’t support this native so I came up with my own recursive method, that handles this for us. Works nice and looks good.’

Thank you!

October 2 2007

It’s fall, we just finished the redesign of SITE Magazine and will temporary move the studio to Berlin until the 10th. If you’re there, let us know.

May 29 2007

We just updated all the »« on this site to “”. We had totally forgotten that the English language doesn’t use those. Extremely embarrassing.

(Thanks for everyone who showed up at the Ljusslingan24 party on Saturday by the way!)

May 14 2007

Solid State was awarded the gold in ‘CD/DVD packaging’ and Zeitgeist silver in ‘Editorial design’ at the Kolla award the other week. Hurray!

April 13 2007

On April 21–May 13 Konsthallen i Sandviken (Exhibition space in Sandviken) shows an exhibition by Konst & Teknik. A publication and a series of posters on the subject of ‘Decision making in graphic design’ will be shown. www.sandviken.se/konsthallen

March 23 2007

Solid State and Zeitgeist are nominated for the Kolla award.

February 28 2007

Finally our new website is up and running! 10000000 thanks to Martin for programming the site for us! (If you find any errors, let us know at webmaster@konst-teknik.se.)

December 8 2006

Konst & Teknik is interviewed about the Pluxus record cover at capdesign.se (in Swedish).