The word design comes from the Latin designo = point out, image, produce. But the term is English with the original meaning of plan, sketch, drawing with the aim to design for interaction, which adds features to your customer’s personality. Or to use the top-designer Paul Rand’s words: “Design is …
An updated version of “The French Revolution and today’s Digital REvolution” Listen to the story: The power of words, both their aesthetics, spirit, and influence are often mentioned. To borrow a few words from the short story collection Bordertraveller Stories by LarsGoran Bostrom (that will be published within the coming …
Stockholm in September 1844, an author, a traveller, with a half year to his free disposal, enters the city with the steamship Swithiod. On the journey to the Swedish capital, he has visited both Ystad and Kalmar in the southern part of Sweden. Now he finally has arrived with great …
Albert Camus is one of the greatest storytellers of all times with penetrating eyes he both perceives the collective conscious and individual mindset, and how these from time to time collide. In “The Plague” he actually with a wealth of words describes what is happening today in the shadow of …
An involuntary return is the prelude to Breaths which is included in Bordertraveller stories by LarsGöran Boström. When Emmy, 26 years old, with a high-speed career, returns to her hometown, it leads to problems on several levels. The clash of cultures is obvious, but beneath the surface, there is a …
Listen to the story: They were eight in total. Eight intrusive stories, seven that tackle timeless social phenomena. In which the injustice of history has been so strong that once it has been knocked out, it takes on a new shape, and comes back in all its fustiness. Therefore, in …
The Bordertravellers, who in a humanistic spirit show the injustices in the old society but also work as the architects for the new, in both small and bigger contexts. They are opponents of nostalgia, while new solutions for the better, sometimes as it turns out for the worse, are their …
Safety first is the common response of the authorities in most parts of the world to combat the corona pandemic. As the light in the tunnel is approaching after the Corona lockdown and the restrictions will be locked up, it will be time for the society to genuinely open up …
This is an updated version after Donald Trump’s departure of a post on the Swedish edition of the Bordertraveller blog from 2018. Listen to the story: Demagogues mean agitators or people seducers; their business model is aimed at personal gains in terms of power and wealth by building physical and …
At the birth of freedom of expression in the 19th Century, Europe was a rather peaceful place. A traveller, a Frenchman, an unknown author, who had finished his duties in Hamburg decides to enter a steamboat in order to visit Sweden and its capital. The year is 1844 and the …
