Nordic Designers

Popular understanding associates Nordic interiors and product designs with clean aesthetics, high craftsmanship, and empathy for human factors. Nordic designers both reinforces traditions and blasts stereotypes. In informal conversations with 59 of the best-known designers working in the Scandinavian region today – including llkka Suppanen, Claesson Koivisto Rune, and Monica Forster – author David Sokol examines current interpretations of democratic design and ecological conciousness, as well as new trends in conceptualization and form-making. Sokol’s engaging interviews also uncover these talents’ personal histories, motives, and aspirations. Nordic Designers paints a colorful picture of the contemporary creative scent, and makes a case for the increasing importance of sustainability, global awareness, and Nordic identity in the design disciplines.