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Tomas Rajnai, 30 years old

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Tomas Rajnai is an independent curator working with visual arts, fashion and the new media culture in the public realm, including curating a number of various fashion shows, exhibitions and events in Stockholm. Recently, he was certified for production at Dramatiska Institutet Radio. His current project is called Havanna, a pop-up gallery showcasing emerging talents in more established venues. www.tomasrajnai.se

Lina Öhman, 25 years old

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Lina used to work at electro/house clubs in various countries, but has decided to live in Stockholm to focus on her own music together with her bands The Touch and Blänk. They do house music and recently sold a song to the Playstation game Whipeout Fury. Currently, they are working on some new material. Blänk, playing at Eurotrash, has just returned from Atlanta, US, where they recorded their second album.

David Sundberg, 32 years old

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

David is a luthier running his own workshop in Stockholm, in the charming area of Södermalm. At the moment, David is building a guitar for Mark Olson of the Jayhawks. Other known artists that play Sundberg Guitars are Ryan Adams, Ulf Wakenius, Ane Brun, The Hives, Lars Winnerbäck, etc.

Form Us With Love

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Form Us With Love is a design house operating from Stockholm founded in 2005 by Jonas Pettersson, John Löfgren and Petrus Palmér. By their design initiatives, Form Us With Love wants to challenge the conventional art forms. FUWL partners with companies involved in the development and production of everyday objects, furniture and lighting.

Igor Zimmermann, 25 years old

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Igor is a film maker. In 2008 he was awarded “Young Creative of the Year” by the Swedish Advertising Association. His work has been exhibited at different art venues and museums around the globe, including Tokyo, Milan, São Paulo, London, Paris, Seoul, etc. He likes mixing commercial projects (Whyred, Philips, Filippa K) with experimental ones, and recently shot a 12-minute short film in Western Sahara.

Fontän

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Fontän is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. They recorded and released their album “Winterhwila” in 2009. Since then, Jesper Jarold and Johan Melin have been busy travelling Sweden and many other countries with their music. http://myspace.com/fntn

Ulrika Hägglund, 43 years old

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ulrika works at the Liljevalchs konsthall as a guide and an art teacher since 2001. She enjoys helping people to get acquainted with the art shown in the various exhibitions at the Stockholmers’ own public art venue. When not at work, Ulrika loves spending time with her four children—all girls!

Finsta, 33 years old

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Finsta is an artist hired by big companies whenever they want to do something cool. It could be an animation, a wall painting, a T-shirt graphic or an advertising campaign. He grew up in the south of Sweden, but moved to Stockholm in 1999 for studies at Konstfack. From time to time, he also teaches in stop motion animation at Beckmans College of Design.

Andreas Fryklund, 36 years old

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Andreas is co-owner of Papercut, a beautiful DVD shop and bookstore in the charming area of Södermalm, Stockholm. He opened the store, first a small shop, in 2008, but within months he moved to a larger store located next to the clothing stores Nitty Gritty, Our Legacy and A.P.C. Andreas aims for an even larger store, as his dream has always been to have a store with escalators! http://www.papercutshop.se/

Ida Larsson, 29 years old

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ida just finished the first year of her Master’s degree in Urban Planning and Design at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. She is really excited about her latest project on sustainable design and sees Sweden as really cutting the edge in this field.

Ivar Berglin, 29 years old

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ivar works for the Scandinavian edition of Vice Magazine. He began as an intern six years ago when the Swedish branch had just been started, and has since been involved in everything from making coffee and distributing the magazine to traveling the world as a host/producer of shows for VBS.TV, the IPTV channel of VICE Magazine. http://viceland.se/

Linus Lutti, 27 years old

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Linus used to be one half of the duo Idiot Kid, whose electro-acoustic minimalism got rave reviews both in Sweden and abroad. Little Children is Linus’ new music project and he has already performed a few concerts. Linus’ music has been compared both to Palace Brothers and Talk Talk.

Karl Grandin and Björn Atldax, 33 and 35 years old

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Karl Grandin and Björn Atldax are two artists based in Stockholm. As a designer duo they call themselves “Vår”. Grandin and Atldax are two of the founders of the clothing label Cheap Monday and have been accountable for the brand’s graphic expression for four years. Today, they split their time between freelance commissions and autonomous work, encompassing everything from drawings to the very essence of their graphic work. One of the coming projects of Vår will be to open a pizza parlour at Upplandsgatan.

Madelene Ericsson, 32 years old

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Madelene is also known as Madde and works as an environmental coordinator at the CSR department of H&M. She has worked there for about 4 years and her main goal is to make H&M more environmentally sustainable. According to her, finding sustainable fashion in Sweden is quite easy. Just go for the organic or recycled materials or even better, check out all the great second hand shops!

Josefin Lindberg, 32 years old

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Josefin just got back from a business trip to Beirut, where she has established an international project focused on a childrens’ theatre and the Palestinian refugee camps. Her passion lies in performing arts and circus, but mainly how you can use these two areas as a tool for change. She is the founder of an alternative peace prize—"Rebels’ Peace Prize"—and a passionate lobbyist with a special love for South Africa, Banksy’s art and Japanese toys.

Anna Stenvi, 32 years old

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Anna works at the purchase division of the H&M head office in Stockholm. She has studied at the London College of Fashion and holds a degree in Fashion Marketing. In 2005, she founded the Swedish sneaker brand Gram, sold at selected independent stores around the world.

Anton Sandqvist, 39 years old

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Anton is the founder of the Swedish bag brand Sandqvist, with more than 80 retailers over the world, mainly in Sweden but also in Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Tokyo. Anton is a self-taught designer, designing all of Sandqvist’s men’s bags on his own. His hobbies are veteran cars and bikes and all kinds of outdoor life. http://www.sandqvist.net/

Fredrik Skyllbäck, 33 years old

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Fredrik just graduated from Beckmans College of Design, where he majored in Graphic Design and Visual Communication. Currently, he is working with the animation studio Mad Crew and is also about to initiate a creative art group together with other illustrators, musicians, animators, designers and photographers. “I do like the idea of the Factory. You know, a place where creative people meet and feed each other with thoughts,” he says. http://tankeflanoren.blogspot.com/

Sara Överengen, 27 years old

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sara is a graduate of Arts at Stockholm University, and loves nail polish and animals. Mostly, she combines history of art conferences with current art exhibitions. She works with exhibitions at the Liljevalchs Art Gallery, and once in a while she helps out with tour booking in the Royal Palaces of Stockholm. She also writes articles on art and fashion.

Susan Larsen, 34 years old

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Susan works as a freelance graphic designer and holds a Master’s degree in Graphic Design & Illustration from Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design. She is interested in street art and poster design, typefaces and graphic profiles.

Johan Angergård, 36 years old

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Johan is the head of the world’s finest purveyor of Swedish pop music, Labrador Records, releasing bands like The Radio Dept., The Mary Onettes, Sambassadeur and Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. He is also a member of the bands Acid House Kings, Pallers, The Legends and Club 8. The latter just released the album “The People's Record”, mixing tropicalia and afrobeats with melancholic Swedish pop music. His upcoming projects are a fifth album by the classic guitar pop band Acid House Kings and the debut album by Sweden’s most blissed-out duo: Pallers. For more info and free MP3’s, please visit www.labrador.se

Tomas Rajnai, 30 years old

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Tomas is a co-owner of ODD projects and a very well-known entrepreneur in Sweden. Over the years, Tomas has founded various fashion publications, initiated many PR events and for a few years also run a prestigious award within Scandinavian progressive fashion: the +46 Fashion Award. This concept has now been transformed into a large fashion boutique: Aplace. http://www.aplace.com/

Jonas Kleerup, 35 years old

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jonas Kleerup runs a contemporary art gallery in his own name. He moved back to Stockholm in 2005 after several years in London and Milano. He felt Stockholm was lacking a lot of things offered in those two cities, and since then he has opened a gallery, been DJ’ing and running clubs all over town, as well as worked as a creative consultant for Tranans Bar. Furthermore, he tours around the world with his brother, Andreas Kleerup. Later in 2010, he will launch some new projects (secret to this date) in central Stockholm.

Johan Graffner , 37 years old

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Johan Graffner is a fashion entrepreneur based in Stockholm. With a strong international vision, he founded the Cheapo brand and is now also the CEO of the Tshirt Store, where the goal is to become the world's top trendsetter in printed T-shirts. “It’s a fantastic challenge and we’re only just getting the ball rolling!” Stores have opened across Sweden as well as in Oslo, Tarifa, Hong Kong and Moscow.

Hanna Brandén, 23 years old

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Hanna is a musician and DJ. She is Name the Pet and has hit the Scandinavian market with her single “Get on the Bus”. Her style is pop music emerging from the scene of the Stockholm club kids. http://www.myspace.com/namethepet

Zara Arrehed, 27 years old

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Zara runs the antique store Söderklenoden in Stockholm where she sells jewellery and art. She likes to travel regularly and in her spare time plays football.

Camilla Hägerbäck, 26 years old

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Camilla works as a hairdresser at Sure Baby Yes in Hornstull in Stockholm. The Salong has its own club, Jukebox Baby that currently runs in the cellar of Morfar Ginko in Stockholm. Camilla is also a member of the DJ collective "Chicks with Discs"

Viktoria Dalborg, 36 years old

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Victoria is a circus artist and does air acrobatics. She is the producer of Stockholm’s only night varieté, Salong Giraffe and teaches at Stockholm’s Circus collage.

Tony Cederteg, 28 years old

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Tony is a man of many trades. He runs the company Libraryman Co that publishes Photo books. He is behind the club Fukt, runs a record label called F. Directs short films and music videos. Hold lectures about graphic design and photography. Tonys next project is to open an interactive studio with Libraryman in Stockholm.

Kalle Tollmar, 31 years old

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Kalle runs the clothes store APLACE together with Kristian Rajnai and has done so since September 2007. They have also started a magazine with the same name as the store and the first issue was released in March.

Sepidar Hosseini, 24 years old

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sepidar always has a lot going but for the time being she is trying to focus on her studies of graphic design and illustration at the art school Konstfack. Sepidar is also a dancer in the dance group, ”Dom dugliga” och ”Rhodondendron”. They dance Slapdance that is a blend of lapdance and slapstick.

Knut Larsson, 37 years old

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Knut is an artist and also draws cartoons. Knut has published 5 cartoon books and is currently working on ideas for new books. He also writes scripts and has a film background.

Emma Nylén, 33 years old

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Emma is a member of and the songwriter in the band Paris that was founded 10 years ago. She also runs the electronic music project Emmon. Not only does she hold a full time job within trend monitoring but also she is studying at Berghs evening school to become an Art Director.

Andreas Jönsson, 36 years old

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Andreas is one of the owners of T-shirt Store. The first T-shirt Store opened in 2005 and now there are 17 stores, in Sweden, Copenhagen and Hong Kong. Andreas designs the stores. He is a trained carpenter and has taught carpentry for 9 years.

Anders Johansson and Martin Sundberg, 36 years old

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Anders and Martin are the men behind the Grandpa stores. They run two stores in Stockholm and one store in Gothenburg. Their goal is to expand, open more stores and to ensure that their Grandpa family is happy.

Amir Zaino, 26 years old

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Amir works at Friends Agenda as a PR consultant. He has worked there for 4 months, prior to that he freelanced for 3 years. He is in the electronic pop band DW together with Kilian Eng. Amir has been making music since he was 14 years old and is soon off on a tour to promote DW's next album.

Per Nyström, 36 years old

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Per is a musician and plays in three bands — The Concretes, Mackaper and Diagnos. Together with Elias Krantz, Per has written the music for the play "Alla älskar Bernie Madoff", which will be staged at the Royal Dramatatic Theatre in Stockholm this summer.

Alida Ivanov, 25 years old

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Alida runs her own gallery, which opened in October 2009. She has worked as gallery assistant and studies art science. Her goal has always been to open her own gallery and 6 months ago her dream came true. Her next goal is to be part of an exhibition and to keep on displaying art.

Camilla Svensk, 30 years old

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Camilla has worked as a freelance photographer for the last 10 years. She takes mainly portraits and pictures for adverts. At the moment she is working on a catalogue for Boob design and for Karolinska Institutet.

Klara Granberg, 31 years old

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Klara has worked as a freelance photographer for the last 9 years and does mainly pictures for adverts and magazine shots. She went to photo school in Gamleby and has worked as a photographer at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theathre. Right now she is retouching her own Beauty project.

Cissi Wallin, 25 years old

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Cissi Wallin is the presenter of the radio show P3 Star. She also runs a media company called Blackneon together with her boyfriend.

Jenny Boström, 29 years old

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jenny works as a tattoo artist in Stockholm and has been tattooing for over 6 years. She used to perform burlesque dancing but that has been put on ice for the time being.

Fredrik Wikholm, 28 years old

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Fredrik is co-founder of Uniforms of the dedicated, an art collective consisting of 15 people that work with fashion, art, music and film.

Aida Chehregosa, 30 years old

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

If Aida would give herself a title it would be Master of Many Trades. She is both a photographer and a director. At the moment she works at Liljevalchs art gallery.

Linda Essen Möller, 27 years old

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Linda has worked as a product manager at the digital production company B-reel for 3,5 years but has now quit her job to move to London to freelance in digital production.

Devi Brunson, 24 years old

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

24-year-old Devi Brunson has worked at major Swedish magazines and newspapers, arranged clubs at Fredsgatan 12 and studied at Berghs School of Communication. Devi now works at Prime PR, one of Sweden’s largest and most prize-winning PR firms.

Payman Dehdezi, 41 years old

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Payman Dehdezi runs night club Berns in Stockholm together with Martin Kling. He used to own a boutique and has recently launched his own label called Le Shop Sweden, a small collection consisting of three T-shirts.

Christian Quaglia, 32 years old

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Christian Quaglia has opened a vintage store that sells furniture and accessories in 100-year-old premises behind a fire station. He travels a lot, both through work and in his spare time.

Ninos Dankha, 31 years old

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ninos Dankha used to run his own dance school. He traded dance for music and nowadays music is a full-time occupation for Ninos. Work and leisure often melt into one as he handles all aspects of his music by himself.

Lina Thomsgård, 31 years old

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Lina Thomsgård is a communication and project manager. Founder of PR bureau Frau, she has previously worked at the MySpace Nordic office. Lina often works from home. She says she is disciplined, something that is essential to get the work done.