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Swedish Art & Design Extended - Presentations of artists
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Date added: 10/17/2008 |
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Media notes with presentations of artists and products showcased in the exhibition Swedish Art Design Extended at AUT St Paul Street Gallery Two |
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Rosemary Barnes - Pianist
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Date added: 10/07/2008 |
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Rosemary Barnes is one of New Zealand's most respected resident pianists and she will be performing during Swedish Style New Zealand. |
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Dr Hans Lundberg - Guest speaker
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Date added: 10/07/2008 |
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Dr Hans Lundberg, International Director at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute Ltd, will be a keynote speaker at the symposium Achieving Sustainability through Collaboration on Tuesday 21 October. |
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Marcus Forss - Clarinetist
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Date added: 10/03/2008 |
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Swedish clarinetist Marcus Forss will be performing at concerts during Swedish Style New Zealand. |
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Kristina "Kikki" Karlsson - kikki.K workshops
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Date added: 09/23/2008 |
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Kristina Karlsson will visit Auckland during Swedish Style New Zealand. |
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Ingar Skaug - Guest Speaker
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Date added: 09/23/2008 |
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Ingar Skaug, Group chief executive officer, Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA will participate as Guest Speaker during Swedish Style New Zealand. |
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Anders Breitholtz - Guest speaker at the Design Symposium
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Date added: 09/05/2008 |
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Strategist and Designer - Materializing ideas.
Award winning designer Anders Breitholtz has a background in Business Management as well as Industrial Design. Anders has held a number of lectures, both nationally and internationally on creativity and innovation. He participated as keynote speaker in Swedish Style in Australia in Melbourne and Sydney in 2005, where he presented his award-winning project of Future Meeting Rooms, giving his ideas on how designers can help making the office a more human friendly and creative place to be in.
Since then Anders Breitholtz has been part of creating Raavara / Raw which acts as a platform between the industry and creators: Mixing art, design, architecture with industry and business. With offices in Gothenburg and Amsterdam the five employees work with 120 companies from 14 countries stretching from automotive to medicine. They see their company as an art-project hoping to create the best workplace ever, a place where ideas materialize.
They have been renowned in a numerous international medias such as Wallpaper, ID-magazine, DI-EGO to name a few and taken part in over 30 exhibitions in Sweden and abroad.
www.ravara.se (http://www.ravara.se) |
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Bjoern Rietz - Guest speaker at the Design Symposium
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Date added: 09/05/2008 |
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Copywriter and Creative Director.
Bjoern Rietz is regarded as one of the top advertising creatives in Scandinavia and one of the most highly awarded creatives in the world.
He founded the advertising agency Paradiset in Stockholm in 1990, and won the worldwide account for Diesel Jeans, which involved advertising for 78 countries. A year later Paradiset joined the world wide advertising network of DDB. The Diesel Jeans campaigns ran for more than a decade and helped move Diesel from a $50 million per year to a $500 million per
year company and winning more awards than any other fashion brand ever.
In Sweden, Paradiset DDB was voted Agency of the Year several times and they have won the Grand Prix at Cannes Lions twice, as well as a large number of other international and national awards.
Bjoern was Executive Creative Director of DDB Melbourne and Vice Chairman of DDB Australia between 2003-2005. Since 2005 he is linked to DDB Stockholm as an advisor to the Management on a consulting basis.
Recently Bjoern Rietz has taken on a few assignments helping performing and recording artists designing their brand strategy bringing his skills into the world of music. |
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Hjoerdis Agustsdottir Wallin - Designer
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Designer - Exhibition Sweden in Ten Visions
Hjoerdis Agustsdottir Wallin, Designer MFA, has a Masters Degree in Textile from Konstfack and from Beckmans School of Design (fashion).
She has participated in fashion shows for Vond and in a range of exhibitions in Sweden and abroad, among them Sweden in Ten Visions in Stockholm, Rome and Washington. |
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Ingrid Giertz-Maartenson - Curator
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Curator - Exhibition Sweden in Ten Visions.
Ingrid Giertz-Maartenson, an MA in ethnology, Stockholm University, has a long professional background in fashion.
She was CEO of the Swedish Fashion Council for many years, has held positions in French Haute Couture houses and in international fashion organizations and has curated several design exhibitions.
Today she is CEO of Swedish Vision. Being the initiator of the new Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University she is actively involved in building the new program.
Ingrid Giertz-Maartenson is currently lecturing and doing research on the fashion industry and international fashion market in Sweden as well as abroad.
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