Bøger udgivet af Arvinius Forlag

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, the escalating speed of the new and the effect it has on products. Behind the Scenes is a book debating the issues around design that rarely is spoken about.

For half a century now Ulrica Hydman Vallien has been supplying us with her images and symbols. Fantasy beasts and human figures have been united in a longing for Paradise. Ulrica Hydman Vallien has prospered by her supremely personal style. In Ulrica Hydman Vallien A Paradise Attack we step into this idiosyncratic pictorial world through the medium of the ceramics, the painting and the glass.

Med stark och egensinnig formkänsla har Thomas Sandell jobbat i de flesta skalor och genrer. Han förenar möbelformgivaren som har ritat några av IKEA:s klassiker, produktdesignern som har formgivit exklusiva klockor och väskor, arkitekten som står bakom några av de senaste årens mest kontroversiella svenska projekt och planeraren som med socialt patos tar sig an problemen i utsatta förortsområden.

Static! explores design as a basic for increasing awareness of energy. Familiar furnishings and products have been reinterpreted to materialize electricity. The book presents the Static! design examples and perspectives on issues in design today. Grounded in passion and humor, as well as research, the book asks all of us to rethink the form, and future, of electricity in the world around us.

The interest for architects and designers from Norway continues to grow. In this sequel to Norway Calling (2008) Staffan Bengtsson considers the Norwegian design world's new and different relation to landscape and nature. Today mountains and fjords are not purely magnificent visual scenery but also part of a design process that perhaps ultimately is concerned with man's future on the planet.

Swedish furniture producer Offecct has worked with the world's leading designers. Since its start in 1990, the entrepreneurial founders Kurt Tingdal and Anders Englund have grown their company from a small Swedish enterprise to an international brand selling across 50 countries. In this book, Tingdal and Englund, their colleagues and collaborators tell the story of Offect's road to success.

Norway Calling, the book of contemporary Norwegian design, is the first book to mirror the exciting northern trend, introducing some of the principal figures and some of their most important projects - an excellent opportunity for design lovers to acquaint themselves with the vigorous development of Norwegian design.

Swedish Illustration 3 is a compilation of 123 top illustrators and agencies. It covers a wide range of styles. There is an overview of illustration today and the nominees and winner of the Swedish Illustration Award 2011 are presented. This book is a must for illustrators or anyone working with images as well as for those who are simply interested in contemporary Swedish illustration.

Although the collection of designers presented in this book displays some general features, the flood of graphic productstoday have made individuality in style and conceptindispensable. This is the fascinating paradox of globalism. In interviews with the participating designers, similarities and diversities become clear.

The book surveys trends and styles of 247 of the leading craftsmen in Sweden today. A wide selection of craft and artistry from Skåne in the south to the Arctic Circle in the north. The latest work by the craftsmen displays a wide-ranging creativity in their own words, with colourful photos, maps and with numerous different categories. This is both a guide book and a celebration of Swedish craft.