Karin's Style Blog

I’ve found so many inspiring books and magazines I’d like from You work for them. And they also have these wonderful posters. This one is from their limited edition poster collection. I’m attracted to the colours and the sharpness in the image, am also keen on the thin lines versus the more blobby bits…

I went to the private view of Formbart at Liljevalchs on Thursday. Liljevalchs is a museum that every spring hosts an art exhibition to which everyone is invited to apply - whether they’ve got ten years of art school behind them or just resently started an evening course in life drawing. For 2005 however, art has stepped aside to let design in. The same rules apply - it doesn’t matter whether you’re a professional or just has design as a hobby.

While I was rubbing shoulders with everyone who is anyone in the swedish design world, I asked myself, and my friend Eva who went with me, what the selection criteria had been for the jury? Why was the Barbapapa-shaped thing made out of plastic rope considered design? And is the “happy aborted foetus earring” - that so far has received the most press coverage - design or is it just the makings of someone wanting attention?

The floating boundaries between design, applied arts and art interests me and I think the curators idea to mix the three together is great. But the mix would have worked so much better if the objects selected would have been less alike. Then they could have become comments on each other rather than killing each other.

Dom här utställningarna vill jag gå och se och det är gratis! Made in China på Östasiatiska Museet och Do Redo på Nordiska Museet, bägge håller på fram till 28 mars 2005.

Isn’t it a beauty with the width in the skirt and all those marvelous roses? From YSA.