04 October 2006

Stockholm 1956



The Stockholm City Museum:

Photo exhibition about Stockholm in the year 1956.
The museum displays photos from one of the big newspapers in Sweden - Svenska Dagbladet - taken by their photographers during their work in the capital.
Hamngatan
Many similarities with the current situation: A great number of unemployed people, the winter of 1956 was unusually cold and the ice was so thick that, sometimes, boat traffic in Stockholm came to a standstill.
Stureplan

Motor traffic was one of the big questions. Forecasts suggested that traffic in Stockholm would increase almost astronomically. There were serious parking problems and a municipal tax on cars was discussed!
The housing queue comprised 280.000 people (today 250 000?), with priority given to families with children.


After this:

'Svensk Form' and the exhibition 'Design S'.
The Advertising Association of Sweden, the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation and Svensk Form (the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design) have jointly created Swedish Design Award to reward Sweden's best design solutions with a 'Design S'.

Swedish Design Award aims to demonstrate that good design can lead to better communication, better business, better functionality and better sustainability.

Some of it interesting, some of it makes you wonder why they have been rewarded. But this is natural when the concern is not always the best design but the designer you know and like.

After this a lecture about design in different areas and how one shall protect it - the question about immaterial rights, copyrights and so forth.

Interesting and a good lecturing from Albihns International IP & Law Offices - Sara Pers-Krause.




(Photo 1956 taken from: https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/skblobs/bb/bb3c5d09-8d2a-4a3e-9821-9de8455e741a.jpg?preset=pp-432)
(Photo, Hamngatan taken from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Hamngatan_1956a.jpg/360px-Hamngatan_1956a.jpg)
(Photo Stureplan taken from: http://www.fastighetsvarlden.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/sturekvarteren-old.jpg)

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