Jury’s motivation: In partnership with producer Lammhults, the designer has managed to capture the lightness and strength of the material alumi- nium in an elegant manner that harmonises with the laws of nature, providing it with stability and safety. The elaborate use of both extruded profi- les and cast aluminium enables user flexibility. Recycling is facilitated by a simple disassembly without the materials being negatively affected.
Jury’s motivation: Impressive in its pragmatic clarity, informed by the simplest of material decisions where factory dimensions facilitate both recycling and reuse. The City of Stockholm is the proud client behind this temporary building that, despite its pragmatic expression, has become a place that locals have taken to heart. The hall is clear in its tangible presence: as an indoor market, as a shortcut, lunch place, nightlight, reflective surface, walkway and place for commerce. An extreme utility building defined by the idea of “just enough” and on loan for a few years: A guest that brightens the party, but has the sense to not overstay its welcome.
Jury’s motivation: This private villa hurls us into a timeless space, where both Pompeian house architecture and contemporary element construction are present. The project appears to have travelled along a straight line, without deviating from the basic ideas. Its archaic character gives the building a degree of detail and tectonic intelligibility. The house holds conflicting qualities; it is monumental and modest, grand and smallscale, heavy and light, pedagogical and complex. The building plays part in powerful interaction with its surroundings.
This year, the public had a chance to choose their favourite among the 42 nominated projects. Design S aims to illustrate the width of creation in Swedish design in 2016, as well as the importance of design and its presence in our everyday lives. For that reason, it was natural to involve the public in the assessment process.
Voting took place at the exhibition at ArkDes and via the Design S website between 11 October and 16 November 2016.
At the time of this catalogue going to print, voting was in full swing and the results still unknown. The winner is therefore not published here.
The People’s Choice Award were announced along with all other S’s during the awards ceremony in Stockholm on 23 November 2016.
Jury’s motivation: With Overbridge, the producer has managed to introduce digital possibilities for analogue instruments through design, without compromising on feel or quality. The service brings with it the benefits of a physical analogue interface with those of the digital possibilities. The result is a graphically intriguing and intuitive interface that goes hand in hand with the function of the product. Overbridge is the ultimate hub that unites the best of the digital and analogue worlds of sound.
Jury’s motivation: Spotify Business takes established consumer behaviour into the commercial world. Spotify Business makes it easier to charge for commercially used music and an opportunity to provide companies, brands and settings with a tailor made emotional dimension through music and sound. The interface is admirably neutral, allowing it to fit into any environment. User-friendly and easy in all steps, from planning and playback to updates. Spotify Business is a new, clever and stylish way to give brands their own beat.
Jury’s motivation: With objective intuition, the visual identity interacts and strengthens a spatial context and makes the site’s various features available. The signage system utilises the surfaces of the rooms, which along with the interior architecture creates a dynamic entity. A design that illustrates the communicative ability in the encounter between graphic design and architecture.
Jury’s motivation: The graphic profile eagerly and joyfully holds a dialogue with its present day. A never stagnant design in which the individual craftsmanship is a fundamental part of the whole. A typography that paves the way for a spatial and future experience makes the design significant in both expression and intention.
Jury’s motivation: Experio Lab have created an integrating structure that provides a longterm approach in finding new solutions to old problems within healthcare. Custom environments for design development are established in partnership with design companies, academia and county councils with focus on patients and their journey through the healthcare system. The design process provides new values that give better and more cost-effective care.
Jury’s motivation: The courage to take on young designers to together develop a visionary work is a display of extraordinary commitment by the municipality of Östersund. It gives the municipality a unique position within innovative social development. The use of such power in the design process yields co-creation and communication that reaches out and touches.
Jury’s motivation: A fine contemporary example of an innovative process that is based on the need rather than the production. A sympathetic alternative that makes diagnosis available to all – around the world.
Jury’s motivation: Full pot! Well thought through and understandable at first glance. A design that provides security and clarity when most needed. Has the potential to become a future classic.
Jury’s motivation: With the project Design Lab S in Skärholmen, designer Samir Alj Fält has created a local meeting place where youngsters can use design as a tool for self-realisation. Their pop-up shop challenges the consumer society’s implied rules by selling products that are really not available for purchase, such as emotions and abstract phenomena. As payment, customers can use such things as secrets or ideas, but not money. By questioning the benefit aspects of design, the youngsters explore the possibilities and limitations of the design profession.
Jury’s motivation: Johanna Törnqvist uses crafts and her craftsmanship as a platform to create public opinion on issues that have to do with major social challenges. With heart and soul, she transforms rubbish into pure gold. The friction between the material and craftsmanship leads to an inclusive encounter with the viewer. Crafts as politics.
Jury’s motivation: In her objects, Kajsa Lindberg explores the classic grammar of jewellery. They are disrespectful and respectful at the same time. Everyday objects are broken down to their atoms and are reassembled in new ways. An understated dry humour and ingenuity invites the viewer.
Motivation of Lauritz.com: With astuteness for the material, Anna Elzer Oscarson creates ceramics with personality that spark curiosity, fascination and a desire to touch. Anna masters the span between the refined, yet functional and rustic, more artistic, and combines great craftsmanship with a strong belief in quality and beauty, objects created for a beautiful everyday life. Retrospective, yet most contemporary and futural. A contemporary and future classic on the auction market. A major step in time that brings hope for the future.
Jury’s motivation: Through a design that is characterised by inherent precision in combination with excellent materials, Reschia has distinguished itself as a brand with a high degree of fashion. The shoes also communicate through innovative partnerships, which places the brand in unexpected but welcome contexts. By investigating the relationship between fashion and design within the area of shoe production, Reschia has clearly contributed to the expansion of the field for Swedish shoe design, which is evident not least in their work within “wearables”.
Jury’s motivation: With a high regard for function and quality, POC’s cycle products are both well thought out and fashionable. The result is a collection of hybrid products, where fashion meets sports. Functionally, the pieces are innovative and creative, based on extensive research with the aim of producing clothes that make life easier for the urban cyclist. In this way, POC simultaneously explores the limits of what can be defined as fashion, a highly relevant issue in the world of contemporary fashion.
Jury’s motivation: With organically billowing walls and natural materials like wood, brass and leather, the architects at In Praise of Shadows have created an interior that is in absolute harmony with the shop’s range. Inspiration came equally from Gunnar Asplund’s work at the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm and architects Backström & Reinius’s teak facade of the building that houses the shop. The result is an interior with absolute pitch in terms of materials and aesthetics.
Jury’s motivation: In his work, designer Sami Kallio combines traditional carpentry methods with innovative techniques. Wood is his primary material and shows his dedication to environmentally sustainable design. His chair Y5 has origins in the history of Scandinavian design, but Kallio flips the backrest in Hans Wegner’s well-known Y-chair and multiplies it into an intricately woven pattern with structural strength and honourable design.
Jury’s motivation: Simple and affordable utensils made with a solid and meticulous choice of material. A tactility and infallible sense of colour and design in a product and award category where a high level of design is rare. The collection proves that materiality need not be marble and brass to feel real. The mix of various plastics – polypropylene, melamine and silicone – is used in the right places and for the right feature. The clever features, such as the tatami-like pot coaster with a magnetic fastener, or the olive dish with a slot for stones, show that the designer has had fun in the process.
Jury’s motivation: Despite the sacred design, the candleholder does not feel traditional, but rather uncompromisingly modern, bordering on radical. The main design is simple, but the complexity lies in the ingenious use of a classic technique. Minimalistic in concept, however with an execution that is anything but minimal – raw, untreated aluminium moulded with a pattern reminiscent of hand pulled clay where the joint becomes part of the decor.
Jury’s motivation: Like their modernist predecessors, the windows represent the architectural idea of this building, a requirement for the seamless connection between the water and the floor, between the woods and the walls. The building’s large windows function as picture frames. The little summerhouse takes its clear place in the landscape, the private section leaning against the ruins of an old outbuilding in the back, and with views directed in three aspects towards the water and greenery. A dainty project with a good level of detail, optimal layout, low profile and high experiential factor.
Jury’s motivation: Being in control of one’s own finances is fundamental for one’s sense of security. With a clear regard for customer needs, Länsförsäkringar have developed a service with excellent accessibility. The service encourages saving, aids in the provision of consumption overviews and considerably simplifies everyday life. Länsförsäkringar customers can now do their banking anywhere, and through any medium and channel.
Jury’s motivation: What should long have been a matter of course is now reality through a genuine work of design based on customer insight. The new booking system helps respect the time and competence of both the job seeker and the agent. The quality of registration meetings has increased and, as a result, 9 out of 10 are very satisfied! Finally, booking an initial meeting at the Arbetsförmedlingen is as simple as should be expected.