One radical solution to the boost excitement within the fashion world and introduce an edgy element into retail is Ann Sofie Back’s “hostage store”.

In Sweden, one company has created T-post, which claims to be “the world’s first wearable magazine”.

Sweden.se (the official Sweden tourism website) is holding their first ever web film festival, which will be live streamed through the site.

IKEA and WWF are galvanizing Swedish school kids in the ages 6-9 to collect the aluminum shells from tea lights.

The Expressen newspaper reports that a school nurse in Gothenburg, Sweden has stopped giving pain killers to students. Instead, she puts them to bed and let them listen to a relaxation CD.

Swedish Insurance company Länsförsäkringar encourage people to be cautious with fire extinguishers in black and white and easily installed optical fire alarms.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

“Can we get more people to choose the stairs by making it fun to do?” This is the question posed by a group in Stockholm, Sweden who converted the stairs of a subway exit into a giant piano.

The Electrolux Design Lab is a global design competition for graduate and undergraduate industrial design students to showcase innovative ideas in household appliances.

Architectural firm Visiondivision have designed a stylish and imaginative storage facility around a power plant in Gothenburg, Sweden. The storage area presented a unique design challenge because of the large industrial supplies that need to be quickly accessible by a crane truck at all times. Their solution was to create a modular wall that protects the equipment inside, improves the visual look of the facility and permits easy access.
The exterior facade is made out of perforated steel plates, which minimize wind loads, and permit interior views while maintaining a consistent, clean look. Visiondivision has also added a clever narrative illustration [...]

Swedish fashion brand Elvine has partnered with design firm Next Century Modern on a new hotel-in-hotel project called Creators Inn. The team have taken the idea of a shop-in-shop and transformed a series of rooms at the Scandic Malmen Hotel in Stockholm Sweden. Successful cities have a vibrant culture and established creative scene. Hoping to lure creatives to come to the city and check the area out, the Creators Inn offers free short term accommodation for creative individuals. To become eligible for a room, all that’s required is going online to the Creators Inn site and explaining why you deserve [...]

Despite a general downturn for most retailers this year, affordable Swedish denim purveyors Cheap Monday have seen dramatic rises in not just their sales, but also in an overall interest in their brand. Rumored to have been bought by H&M, Cheap Mondays were orginally a capsule collection for Stockholm based counter-culture fashion mecca Weekdays and it hasn’t been until recently that they’ve started invested their resources into their beloved cult- women’s line- which  in NYC is almost impossible to find except at Urban Outfitters and Greenpoint- boutique Alter. In order to expand their collection, Cheap Monday has recruited proto-goth designer [...]

A few days ago The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, announced that it has been sold to the Swedish software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB for almost 8 million dollars.  According to a Pirate Bay blog post, the surprisingly influential owners of the piracy site will be passing the reigns to the new owners without altering the core policies of mocking legal threats and carrying out the most expansive piracy sites on the net.  Last month, the so-called “Pirate Party” even captured a Swedish seat in the European Union’s Parliament which points to the power of Pirate [...]

This past week Scandinavians and Scandophiles across the world helped bring in the season with local Summer Solstice Celebrations…

Design firm Next Century Modern, creative collective LAT and clothing brand Elvine have started a program that allows “starving” artists, designers, musicians and the like to stay for free at a capsule hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden. Creative professionals visiting the city can apply to occupy this unique space, named The Creators Inn when they are in town. The Inn will then open as a hotel-in-hotel at Scandic Malmen in Stockholm on August 1st.
The Inn explains who is eligible:
We have a very wide definition of creators. The reason for coming to town is more important than the title on your business [...]