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Behind the Scenes gives you an inside look at today's design industry and the challenges it faces, the commercial undercurrents that shape and define it and a glimpse of those in power. The book includes subjects such as design media and PR and the relationship between the two, payment methods in the design industry, the escalating speed of the new and the effect it has on the products, as well as the importance of pricing. Behind the Scenes is a book debating the issues around design that rarely is spoken about.

Qualis artifex pereo ? translated What an artist the world loses in me, was the dying words of the infamous Roman emperor Nero. The phrase here marks what Bo I Cavefors and Martin Bladh through their performance-series The Theatre of the Decadence of Cruelty for several years have manifested: the close proximity between staged debauchery and oppressive violence transformed through artistic self-exploration; how humiliation can be handled when converted into enjoyment, sexual absolutism and a strict acceptation of its most profound consequences: sperm, blood and the crack of the whip; and in the end, the question: what is sensation in itself? One answer that is presented in this work is that sensation is a violent physical overload, an attack on the nervous system best handled completely naked, when one is bleeding and disappearing into sexual ecstasy. STYX förlag presents QUALIS ARTIFEX PEREO - a book and a DVD. The book includes: ? a manifesto ? essays by the artists ? in-depth interviews: Cavefors on Cavefors by Johannes Flink Bladh on Bladh by Peter Sotos discussing the nature of their art and their drives ? 9 color collages by M.Bladh ? a poem by M.Bladh intersected by a text amalgam based on works of Georges Bataille ? original action scores for the performance pieces ? the work INJURY The DVD includes two performance pieces: QUALIS ARTIFEX PEREO (40 min) performed and filmed in Malmö, 8th of June 2008. Actors: Bo I. Cavefors, Martin Bladh, Erica Li Lundqvist, Johanna Rosenqvist. Film: Aryan Kaganof. African Noise Foundation in association with Grymhetens Teater Dekadens Music: Martin Bladh Sound engineer: Mikael Oretoft QUALIS ARTIFEX PEREO ? FINIS (27 min) performed and filmed in Norrköping, 12th of June 2009. Actors: Bo I. Cavefors, Martin Bladh, Johan Adolphi, Mikael Oretoft. Film: Peter Andersson, Lars Bosma Music: Martin Bladh plus the extra feature INSULT - a video work by Martin Bladh (15 min)

Through experiments, "design therapy" and alternative methods, this book tells the story about the experimental design project The Kinship Method, that took place 2018 to 2019. <br/><br/>It s a story and example of how a practice based project can grow knowledge and contribute to change the designer role. As well as questioning the ideas of how design should be done and why we should make a "fun revolution". <br/><br/>Five designers are challenged to break patterns in order to find new styles and methods.It starts individually with the designing of a chair each, only to be infiltrated by each other s shapes in the following two stages. Each chair moves on to the next designer, who in turn must use 20-40% of the chair s form elements for a new chair. Consequently, fragments, pieces and artistic expressions are inherited from the previous generation. Everything is done under time pressure and with no insight into what the others are doing. There are now three generations with a total of fifteen chairs that are related to each other. Each generation of chairs is followed by a group discussion where they reflect on: What happens to the style and design? What happens within us? What can we learn? Does it create diversity, development or conformity? <br/><br/>The purpose of the project is not to make the best chairs or the best design. After following the project one might assume that it is about processing any possible design traumas, challenging authorship, finding new ways to collaborate. But for the initiator  Margot Barolo, those three are just ingredients, or means, for developing new ideas on alternative designer roles and design production. All that she will reveal in this book. <br/><br/>It can be seen as an instruction, as well as a debate post, or an inspiration. For all of you who are interested in processes, artistic work, design and its place within production and goods this book are of interest. The participating designers are Margot Barolo, Andreas Nobel, Erik Björk, Mia Cullin and Fredrik Paulsen. 

[English description below] I<i> Portraying Unease</i> argumenterar Ellen Suneson för att det finns en tendens bland forskare att tillskriva konstverk egenskaper av subversion och politisk produktivitet. Konstverk som skildrar strukturell diskriminering, så som heterosexism, rasism eller ableism, beskrivs ofta som att de besitter förmågan att utmana orättvisa system eller initiera politisk förändring. Den som vänder sig till konsten på jakt efter dess potentiella politiska effekt riskerar, hävdar författaren, att använda ett ramverk där representationer av vissa typer av svagheter, misslyckanden eller institutionella anknytningar blir förknippade med obehag eller pinsamhet. Avhandlingen undersöker fem konstnärskap: Laura Aguilar, T. J. Dedeaux-Norris, Sands Murray-Wassink, Jenny Grönvall och Xandra Ibarra.<br/><br/>Ellen Suneson arbetar som forskare i konsthistoria och visuella studier med särskilt fokus på feministiska och queerfeministiska perspektiv. Hon är anställd vid Lunds universitet och frilansar som curator. <i>Portraying Unease </i>är hennes doktorsavhandling. <br/><br/><i></i><br/><br/><i>Portraying Unease</i> critically discusses a tendency amongst politicized scholars to endow artworks with traits of subversion and political productivity. Artworks that address structural discrimination, such as heterosexism, racism, or ableism, are often described as possessing qualities that can challenge unjust systems or initiate political change. This thesis considers hope and belief in the political utility of visual art in terms of an emotional attachment: an anticipatory emotional bond to a set of promises concerning art s abilities. It follows the work of five artists: Laura Aguilar (US), T.J. Dedeaux-Norris (US), Sands Murray-Wassink (NL), Jenny Grönvall (SE), and Xandra Ibarra (US), for whom the act of attributing hopes of social or political change to art is portrayed as a source of depression, insecurity, self-doubt, embarrassment, and a sense of being stuck. When one turns to art in search of its potential political efficacy one risks, the author argues, using a framework wherein representations of specific kinds of weaknesses, failures, or institutional attachments become associated with scholarly discomfort or embarrassment.   <br/><br/>Ellen Suneson is an art historian and visual studies scholar working on contemporary art and scholarly methodologies, with a particular focus on feminist and queer feminist perspectives. She is a researcher at Lund University and a freelancing curator. <i>Portraying Unease</i> is her doctoral dissertation.  

The first title from Null & Void is "It Girl" by the Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev (b.1979). "It Girl" is a celebration of Tærtitta, a dog who belonged to Fredrik and his mother and who passed away last year. For many years Anne Britt Værslev designed and created outfits for the dog, and the outfits eventually became a collaborative project that Anne Britt and Fredrik shared. The exhibition "It Girl" shows four new paintings in the Terrazzo series as a backdrop to eight different dog costumes, two for each season. Tærtitta used to sit and wait for Fredrik and Anne Britt on a table that resembles a catwalk. The table, with its fake marble top, is a part of the exhibition, but in an abstract form. The marble pattern recurs in the book as a stage for art and fashion, kitsch and conceptualism. "It Girl" is a coloring book that invites a playful cooperation between Værslev and the readers. The book shows reproductions of Fredrik's terrazzo paintings, together with Anne Britt's drawings of Tærtitta. The cover has two sides. The back depicts a terrazzo painting that Fredrik has given to his mother. The front shows the same painting with an addition by Anne Britt - a portrait of Tærtitta. There are 700 copies printed, 18 of which will be reworked by the artist. Graphic design by Jonas Williamsson. ISBN 978-91-981854-0-9

Illustratörcentrum är Sveriges största förmedlare av illustratörer, grafiska formgivare, serietecknare och animatörer. Vår flerfaldigt prisbelönta katalog Swedish Illustrators & Graphic Designers ges ut årligen och 2024 års upplaga och presenterar verk från 236 kreatörer. Årets omslag är skapat av Martin Ander och välkomnar dig till en kreativ djungel. Oavsett om du vill ta en kort promenad i eller ge dig ut på en lång expedition, är den här katalogen din guide till en myllrande mångfald av stilar.

Illustratörcentrum Sveriges största förmedlare av illustratörer, grafiska formgivare, serietecknare och animatörer. Vår flerfaldigt prisbelönta katalog Swedish Illustrators & Graphic Designers ges ut årligen och 2025 års upplaga och presenterar verk från 173 kreatörer. Årets omslagsformgivare är Hanna Fideli Nordqvist. Hon låter en festlig parad marschera över katalogen och in i dess mångfald av uttrycksfulla och kreativa stilar. Följ med in i en inspirerande värld av visuell kommunikation!