Need a new ad agency? Why not use the best. Go to CP+B Europe » Sweden's leading Travel Magazine: Go to Vagabond website » Amazing photography: Carl Kleiner » Creativity Theory's grand old man Edward de Bono talks about the "Six thinking hats" YouTube » Power Shop 2 by Frame Publishers and Gestalten Verlag Gestalten Verlag » The Independent Design Guide Amazon »		Smånsk was contacted by the editorial office of Vagabond travel magazine, who were in urgent need of a new look for their travel bookshop in Stockholm. With a monthly readership of 188,000, Vagabond is Sweden’s leading travel magazine, and their travel bookshop is well established and provides inspiration and highly specialised information for travellers. The design was based around the concepts of proximity, distance and multidimensionality. A map is the lowest common denominator of all types of travel, and in the eyes of a designer, its street patterns bear resemblance to a bookshelf. The idea was to bring the outside world into the shop. A map of the local area provided the basis for the floor pattern, which continues up the walls in the form of a shelving system. Segments corresponding to parks on the map are elevated from the floor, acting as units for displaying merchandise. Written on the wall are the words of Saint Augustine, which summarise the company’s idea: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” Competing with best in Nordic architecture, interior and design Vagabond Travel Bookshop received a diploma in the Forum Awards 2009.		“Sweden-based designers Smånsk have completed the interior of a bookshop for travel magazine Vagabond in Stockholm” Dezeen » “Custom yellow bookcases” Apartment Therapy » “Smansk Design Studio is working on a new concept that will change the future of furniture designing in a dramatic way” The Design Blog » “Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Smånsk showed a prototype of their Skew bookcase" Dezeen » “Neo Rococo Pixel Furniture by Smansk" Cubeme » “Oh my God, this makes me want to gnaw my own arm off” Some serious reactions to Skew Bookcase in the US! Apartment Therapy » “Watch them slide towards your “alternative lifestyle” collection of severed heads and tingle at the possibility of a serious paper cut” Yanko Design on Skew Bookcase Yanko Design » “A big hit at the recent Stockholm Furniture Fair, their prototype for Skew Bookcase features magnified identical Lego pieces that stack up and interlock one top of one another" Prouduct » ”Resemagasinet Vagabonds resebokhandel på Södermalm har fått en rejäl makeover signerade designbyrån Smånsk.” Belowtheclouds » ”Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Smånsk showed a prototype of their Skew bookcase” Dezeen » See other peoples pictures of Smånsk on Flickr. DeZona » “Within Smansk we gain space to develop the creative process” Online profile for Smånsk at DeZona. The Design Blog » Skew bookcase // Smånsk ArchiCentral » “The walls were covered in business cards, which made the appearance change as visitors picked them” See more of us from Salone Satellite in Milan on YouTube. YouTube » "Skew - nepravilne police za knjige" Metro-portal.hr »