Konst & Teknik

NO. 35 - Linkli.st, Website, 2009

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:38:00 +0000

Linkli.st is a website for sharing lists with links. An ongoing collaboration with Martin Ström.

NO. 34 - BAC, Identity, 2009

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:28:00 +0000

BAC is the abbreviation of Baltic Art Center, a Swedish art institution based on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. During the last years the organization has undergone a transformation from a traditional exhibition space to a flexible and dynamic production office and work place for artists and curators. To visualize this change a redesign was commissioned.

Based on BAC’s former typographical framework — a typeface inspired by an old sign on the facade of the previous exhibition space — we extended the identity with three new weights and a treatment playing with the idea of a dynamic institution in constant change.

Thanks to Aron Kullander for type design assistance.

www.balticartcenter.com

NO. 36 - Sol&Luna, Book, 2009

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:41:00 +0000

A book for our friends at Libraryman and Our Legacy with Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen.

NO. 33 - Know How, Identity, 2009

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:45:00 +0000

The Fifth Tallinn Applied Art Triennial was aiming to challenge participants to cast aside artist-, designer- and producer-centred approaches by offering exhibition visitors an opportunity to (re-) create the exhibited work themselves. The artists were requested to submit a (sample) work as well as instructions on how to make it, both were then put on display in the exhibition.

Together with Risto Kalmre we designed the visual identity for the triennial. The exhibition runs until February 21st, 2010. More info: www.trtr.ee

NO. 37 - The Rest is Silence, book, 2009

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:31:00 +0000

In the late 1970s a group of people living in the borough of Hackney in East London began building a structure on a derelict lot in their neighborhood. They continued building until last January. The story of the project’s origins are a mystery. All that is known is that because the residents couldn’t decide on what they wanted to build, they made three rules. One: they would build without discussion, plan or blueprint. Two, when they were on the building site, no one was allowed to speak. And three, the building would never be completed, in that anyone at any point could decide to take it in a new direction. So the structure was built for thirty years, until last year when the council sold the land to a developer who tore it down in January.

The Rest is Silence is an artist book by Emanuel Almborg, designed by Konst & Teknik and published by our recently set up publisher Andperseand. Get your own copy at www.andperseand.se.

Blog: The Rest is Silence — book release and presentation in Stockholm

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:25:06 +0000

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: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204276351712

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

Hope to see you there!

Blog: Konst & Teknik in New York

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:28:53 +0000

Fall 2009

We have currently relocated to Brooklyn/NY for the fall. You’ll find us at Point B in Williamsburg, just 6 hours behind our standard schedule, from September 15 to October 23. All contact info can as usual be found under about.

We are also very proud to announce the release of the first book published by our newly set up publisher Andperseand:
‘The Rest is Silence’ is a book made together with artist Emanuel Almborg, that deals with the history and legends around an experimental building project in Hackney/London. A book presentation is taking place at FormContent in London on September 26 (which we unfortunatley won’t be able to attend) — don’t miss out if in the area.

More info can be found at www.formcontent.org and www.andperseand.se.

PS: We are of course very greatful for any NY related tip, by e-mail or by adding links to our linklist. Thanks.

Blog: Summer update

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:32:29 +0000

We finally got around to upload a bunch of projects we’ve been busy with this year: copypastecharacter.com, pluxemburg.com, the In Real Life exhibition identity, the Uglycute website and the Future Exhibitions publication.
We are also working (in collaboration with Martin Ström of course) on a new web application called linkli.st, which is a super simple site for collecting, collaborating and sharing lists with links: http://linkli.st.

NO. 32 - Future Exhibitions, Publication, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Future Exhibitions is the first in a series of bilingual, yearly publications published by Riksutställningar (Swedish Travelling Exhibitions), highlighting new tendencies and trends within the exhibition world. The publication is designed as a hybrid of book, magazine and report with all headline typefaces taken from the online collaborative font creation tool and community FontStruct—a response to recurring discussions in the publication about amateurism, participation and open source in the context of the museum.

NO. 31 - Uglycute, website, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:59:00 +0000

When asked to design and produce the website for Swedish design and architecture office Uglycute, we proposed to ignore the traditional relationship between commissioner and designer, and turn the entire process into one collaborative workshop. During two days in April, we worked together with Uglycute themselves, Martin Ström (programming) and Ola Bergengren (photography) on the new Uglycute homepage in their studio. We will later reverse this workshop, building interior to our new studio during two days in the summer.

www.uglycute.com

NO. 30 - In Real Life, Identity, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:48:00 +0000

In Real Life was an exhibition curated by Laurel Ptak at Capricious Space in Brooklyn, that invited innovative online art initiatives to each come and do a 4-hour residency inside the space of the gallery. The event attempted to explore how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture rapidly are evolving in an online context.
Inspired by the ambiguous nature of the exhibition, and its aim to explore the blurred border between the physical and the digital world, we designed the webpage and the catalogue as one and the same thing, using CSS technology only. The website was designed to fit the format of the newsprint catalogue and the catalogue was simply created by generating a printer file straight from the web browser.

www.letsmeetinreallife.com

NO. 29 - Pluxemburg, Website, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:47:00 +0000

For the independent Swedish record label Pluxemburg we designed a website that works as an aggregator, automatically gathering all its content from different social networks where the label is present, thus giving the label time to participate in communities rather than making sure the official webpage is up to date. In collaboration with Martin Ström.

www.pluxemburg.com

NO. 28 - Copypastecharacter, Website, 2008

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Copypastecharacter.com is an online tool that gives people easy access to a selection of useful (and useless) typographic characters. In collaboration with Martin Ström.

www.copypastecharacter.com

Blog: In Real Life

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:53:42 +0000

If you are in New York this weekend, or the next one, or the one after that, or even the one after that—do not miss out on the exhibition “In Real Life” at the Capricious Space in Brooklyn, for which we designed the website/newsprint (it’s the same thing).

www.letsmeetinreallife.com

Blog: Hello 2009!

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:32:41 +0000

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.

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.

NO. 01 - About, Information, 2010

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:30:00 +0000

Konst & Teknik is a graphic design office based in Stockholm, Sweden dealing with art, technology and things in between. Konst & Teknik works with commissioned and self-initiated projects, in both cultural and commercial contexts. The work is mainly applied on printed matter or the Internet, often in close collaboration with programmer Martin Ström.

Konst & Teknik
information@konst-teknik.se
Twitter: www.twitter.com/konst_teknik
linkli.st: linkli.st/konst-teknik

Mattias Jakobsson
BA Graphic Design, Beckmans College of Design, 2006
mattias@konst-teknik.se
+46(0)702 644 238

Peter Ström
BA Graphic Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2006
peter@konst-teknik.se
+46(0)706 531 175

Address:
Konst & Teknik
Rutger Fuchsgatan 9
11667 Stockholm
Sweden

Blog: Archived News 2006–2008

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:17:42 +0000

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).

Blog: “One (Two, Three, Four)” by Konst & Teknik and Martin Ström, 2009

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:27:15 +0000

NO. 26 - Trace a Face, Publication, 2008

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:03:00 +0000

Trace a Face is a collaboration between Konst & Teknik and Jonathan Puckey. 13 fellow artist and designers were asked to trace a face using the Delaunay Raster, a custom-written Scriptographer image vectorization tool for Adobe Illustrator by Jonathan Puckey. The tool combines the intuitive and motion based character of a brush or a pencil with the distortive and manipulating characteristics of a filter.
The publication aims to encourage and discuss the development and usage of modern tools in contemporary graphic design practice. It was released in connection with a lecture given by Jonathan Puckey in Stockholm, November 2008, and is the first in an ongoing series of collaborative publications initiated by Konst & Teknik.

Info on stores carrying Trace a Face and online ordering can be found at www.andperseand.se

NO. 20 - Klubb:Europa, Identity, 2007

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:39:26 +0000

Identity for Klubb:Europa, a club tour traveling through Sweden with DJs from six different european countries, initiated by Goethe-Institut Schweden and the German Embassy in Stockholm.
The identity is based on onomatopoeic descriptions for sounds in club environments, collected through an online survey with people from the participating countries.