Artisanal Action

For the first time in the history of the Form +1 Award, a textile designer won - Isa Glink; creative director at Kinnasand.

"Slowly a huge, yellow ponsse harvester descends from the wood, cutting the trees out of its way..." Ida Kukkapuri reports from the Northernmost design week in the world.

Art and architecture will breathe life into on of the most ghostly locations in Stockholm city.

Saana Hellsten got tired of the Barbie look and invented the gender-neutral razor.

Front presents a rocking horse, Jens Fager experiments with bamboo and Claesson Koivisto Rune will bring a puzzle chair. It all happens at the Salone del mobile in Milan.

How do you relaunch a 400-year old porcelain city? An unusual project will be shown at the fair in Milan. Ten Japanese companies have been paired with the locomotive force of 16 international designers – among them Ingegerd Råman.

From Kalmar to the world, from hubris to humility. Bo Madestrand tells the story of FUWL, the cocky smalltown students who founded one of Sweden’s leading design companies.

What’s going on at the Aalto University? Selina Vienola explains why there suddenly are so many fashion talents emerging from the Helsinki academy. AKINO

Copper objects inspired by a home distilling machine and a new form of plaited baskets. Swedish Studio Glimpt’s collaboration with Roma craftsmen in Transylvania highlights the beauty of local creativity.

She was a radical thinker, a brilliant writer, a jazz enthusiast, an interior architect and one of the masterminds behind the Swedish model. Salka Hallström Bornold tells the story of Lena Larsson.

Basic geometric shapes have long been taboo in architecture. But now, the circle makes a comeback. Rasmus Graakjær examines the raw foodism of architecture. shapes have long been taboo in architecture. But now, the circle makes a comeback. Rasmus Graakjær examines the raw foodism of architecture.