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Stockholm Design Week 2012: Never Mind the Object

More excellent work from unstoppable Swedish illustrator Sara Andreasson

Illustration: Swedish illustrator Klara Persson has charm in no small dose

Bright, polished and inventive graphic design from Swedish agency Ritator

Product Design: Swedish student's system to pay at shops by using vein scanning!

Swedish design studio Amanda & Erik avoid the tropes of minimalist, Scandinavian design in their practice

Museum of Radio, Pereslavl-Zalessky - Regentone Twin-Tone radio with record player, Sweden (18813350901)

Diplôme d'honneur. Golikoff (USSR). 1925

Soviet pocket watch (2)

Soviet pocket watch (1)

Soviet pocket watch

Gold Chaika Pocket Watch made in the USSR

Stockholm Design week 2012: Form us With Love

Photographer Maja Daniels explores the ancient language and culture of an isolated Swedish community

A fresh, Swedish graphic design studio for y'all to be inspired by

Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City

Perfect type and considered visual flourishes in Stockholm-based Studio Parasto Backman's graphics

The photographer archiving South Africa’s black lesbian community

Karabo Mooki celebrates South Africa’s first Black show jumper

Scandanavia. Norway. Finland. Sweden.

A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union

Stockholm Design Lab create smashing new Ikea food packaging

Stockholm Design Week 2012

Text: ЖЕНЩИНЫ В СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ СОЮЗА ССР [Women in Socialist Construction of the Soviet Union].

Central and South Africa. Madagascar.

“Brotherhood, community and togetherness”: Nick van Tiem documents a community of skaters in Cape Town

Swedish studio PJADAD kick food photography up a gear for new campaign

Things 2013 #8: professional wrestling, Swedish design, youthful shots, 180 shots and the future of illustration.

Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada

How do you advertise a Swedish bank? With Snoop Dogg and Afghan hounds

30. Рост числа детей в дошколь- ных учреждениях по СССР (1924-1932 rr.).(Growth in the number of children in preschool institutions in the USSR (1924-1932 rr.).)

Stockholm Design Week 2012: Clemence Seilles

Position of the U.S.S.R. in the world and in Europe in reference to amount of industrial output in 1913 and 1937

Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia

Stockholm Design Week 2012: DeisgNu

Dan Wieden Is... We spend a week stalking the advertising mogul around a conference in Cape Town

Pipe smoking gets a fresh new look courtesy of Swedish designers Stiff

Lynnie Zulu decorates her exotic characters in punchy hues and patterns

Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”

Design talks will never be the same again thanks to this pavilion in Sweden

Dillon Marsh visualises how much copper was produced in South African mines

U.S.S.R. Europe.

Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig

South African photographer Johno Mellish creates incredible images

U.S.S.R. U.S.S.R. Western Asia.

Stockholm Design Week 2012: Katrin Greiling

Pass-the-illustration and an hour of Swedish Progg. It's time for Things!

The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia

Understated and beautiful Vitra packaging by Swedish studio BVD

Swedish studio Snask's brilliant handmade letters for Washington Post

Opinion: Why it's the perfect time to explore Cape Town's creative community

A chat with Nikita Teryoshin about his time spent with the Boxing Grannies of Johannesburg

Work in Progress: the DIY zine from Swedish Studio Reko

Another treasure trove of work from Swedish creative Martin Nicolausson

Our pick of the talks from 2014's Design Indaba event in Cape Town

Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.

Katrin Greiling: Stockholm Furniture Fair

Eclectic graphic skills from Stockholm studio Research and Development

Cool South African school kids photographed by Anastasia Korosteleva

Ikea in Swedish shows how to pronounce the names of your favourite furnishings

U.S.S.R. Central and Eastern Asia.

Karabo Mooki documents South Africa’s punk rock movement, debunking stereotypes of the genre

Swedish artist Ekta reconsiders simple geometric shapes

Opinion: Away from Design Indaba, South Africa's graphics tell a tense story

Here's mysterious, Swedish magic carpet makers Oyyo and their beautiful rugs. Thanks Wednesday!

Introducing...The ultra-bold African supergraphics of illustrator Lynnie Zulu

Through portraiture, photographer Justin Keene sets up a dialogue with South Africa

Photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman captures the characters of Johannesburg's creative scene

Our highlights from the first day of the Design Indaba event in Cape Town

“Skateboarding feels a lot like therapy”: Karabo Mooki shares stories of South Africa’s all-female skate group, Island Gals

The Hayward shines a light on South Africa’s born-free generation

“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)

1. Участие женщин в выборах горсоветов СССР (1926 1931 г.). (Participation of women in elections 15 city ​​councils of the USSR (1926 1931).)

Discover South Africa’s rich culinary heritage with Hannerie Visser’s 100+ Flavours project

Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings

Composite Text: О ВТОРОМ ПЯТИЛЕТНЕМ ПЛАНЕ РАЗВИТИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР (1933-1937 гг.).

Contents: ЖЕНЩИНЫ В СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ СОЮЗА ССР [Women in Socialist Construction of the Soviet Union].

Excellently gauged info-heavy illustration from Swedish illustrator Nils-Petter Ekwall

Sweden's money gets a beautiful redesign by graphic designer Göran Österlund

Covers: ЖЕНЩИНЫ В СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ СОЮЗА ССР [Women in Socialist Construction of the Soviet Union].

1. Участие женщин в выборах горсоветов СССР (1926 1931 г.). (Participation of women in elections 15 city councils of the USSR (1926 1931).)