Konst & Teknik is a graphic/design studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, dealing with art, technology and things in between. Konst & Teknik works with ideas applied on printed matter, screen, sound and objects, both commissioned and self-initiated.
Konst & Teknik
information@konst-teknik.se
Tel: +46 (0)8 46 290 06
Studio: Ljusslingan 20, 12031 Stockholm
Mail: Lumaparksvägen 7, Box 38, S-12031 Stockholm
Del.icio.us: del.icio.us/konst_teknik
Mattias Jakobsson
mattias@konst-teknik.se
+46(0)702 644 238
Peter Ström
peter@konst-teknik.se
+46(0)706 531 175
www.konst-teknik.se is programmed in Ruby on Rails by our hero Martin Ström. Thank you × 1000000!
– 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!)
Solid State was awarded the gold in “CD/DVD packaging” and Zeitgeist silver in “Editorial design” at the “Kolla” award the other week. Hurray!
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
Solid State and Zeitgeist are nominated for the “Kolla” award.
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.)
Konst & Teknik is interviewed about the Pluxus record cover at capdesign.se (in Swedish).
Albin Karlsson, Eskils Junker, Experimental Jetset Filip Tydén, Fountain, Fredrik Söderberg, Fröken Sterner, Great Works, Hanne Lindberg, Jonathan Puckey Karin Mårtensson, Kokokaka, Kongotec, Kristina Brusa, Lisa Olausson, Luna Maurer, Maja Sten, Martin Frostner, Mia Frostner, Martin Ström, OneDayNation, Paul Barnes, Pluxemburg, Rebel Pet Set, Research and Development, Roel Wouters, Sakerna, Site, Smoothmachines, Stefan Narancic, Stefan Zschernitz, Sweet Metal & Teatron
