The summer issue of Form is out now – design, art and everything in between What can designers learn from artists – and vice versa? In the new issue of Form, we meet several designers who thrive in the creative space between the two disciplines. Among others we met with Isa Andersson, who has made…

She planned to be a criminologist. But instead, she’s a jack of all trades, busy piecing together the elements of everyday life into new patterns. “It’s my natural force to accomplish something elegant in the combination,” says Cilla Ramnek to Form’s Elin Seittu. We meet in her relatively new apart- ment in Södermalm, Stockholm. Or…

Åke Axelsson has been a furniture designer and interior architect for eighty years. With jobs for the UN, the Royal Palace and major furniture producers under his belt, Åke Axelsson is one of Sweden’s most successful designers. Yet, he doesn’t have the household name of predecessors like Bruno Mathsson or Carl Malmsten.  Form paid a…

How can waste material from the furniture industry be reintegrated into production? Industrial designer Kajsa Willner has explored this question. Through the project Craf ted Potential, she has developed a small-scale series of design objects entirely based on waste material from Fogia’s furniture factory in Poland.  – The objects themselves are like a backdrop, while…