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August 17, 2009
A day at Bygget & The Elvine booklet
On a hot summer day Elvine invited some friends, including some previous Creators Inn by Elvine guests, to spray paint the cover of 5000 Elvine brand booklets. The booklet includes a section about Creators Inn and some interviews with previous guests (pages 42-51). It will soon be up for grabs in a clothing store near you. Until then, feel free to check out The Making of-video above and browse through the online version below.
August 17, 2009
Jojo & Malou (SE/UK)
Jojo & Malou stayed in the Creators Inn by Elvine room at Hotel Scandic Malmen while preparing their exhibition “Peace out, Miss World” at Urban Outfitters in Stockholm. They also managed to pimp the Dala horse in the toilet.
Who are you and what do you do?
Jojo&Malou, Swedish fashion designers based in London.
Do you consider yourself creative and if so, in what way?
We are very creative people, we have both got crazy amounts of imagination and we are good at drawing and seeing how something can develop into 3D.
August 14, 2009
Christopher Green (UK)
British artist Christopher Green was invited to Stockholm by Tony Cederteg and stayed at Creators Inn by Elvine at Hotel Scandic Malmen in Stockholm.
Who are you and what do you do?
I’m a British artist living and working in London. For the past year and a half I’ve focused mostly on painting. I’m currently working on a large series of paintings titled ‘Between together and afar’ which began in January this year.
August 11, 2009
Yvan Rodic (CH/YU)
Yvan Rodic aka Facehunter was our first guest at the hotel-in-hotel version of Creators Inn by Elvine located at Hotel Scandic Malmen in Stockholm.
Who are you and what do you do?
I’m a 32 year old guy. I’m half Swiss Half Serbian and I’m travelling the world. I’m running two blogs, one streetstyle: facehunter.org and a visual diary: yvanrodic.blogspot.com. I’m also producing a web TV show that features emerging talents in different cities, it’s called The Facehunter Show.
August 4, 2009
Creators Inn by Elvine, Stockholm. Now open.
On August 1th we opened the first hotel-in-hotel version of Creators Inn by Elvine at Hotel Scandic Malmen in Stockholm. Located in the heart of the SoFo area, this offers a stay in direct proximity to culture, shopping and within walking distance to some of Stockholm’s best live music venues, including Lilla Hotellbaren located on the ground floor of the hotel. Basically an ideal hub for any creator visiting the Swedish capital.
The room have been re-designed based on answers to the questions below:
- What are the most important needs of a traveling creator? How do they differ from “regular” guests?
- What would your ultimate room for creators look like? What kind functions, products and services would be provided for the visiting creators?
Answers which we kindly received from creators and previous guests through email, our Facebook discussion board, via Twitter and from people commenting here on the web page. The result is presented after the jump together with a floor plan, lots of pictures, descriptions and comments. …continue reading this post
August 3, 2009
PMKFA (SE/JPN)
Multi-talented and Tokyo based Swede, Michael Thorsby aka PMKFA, stayed at the capsule version of Creators Inn by Elvine at LAT, while in Gothenburg to play records and showcase some animations at club Colors, Nefertiti. More pictures and a previously recorded video interview found after the jump.
Who is PMKFA and what do you do?
I’m a graphic designer and also co-founder of the graphic clothing label It’s Our Thing that operates out of Tokyo and Osaka.
You are based in Tokyo, but this was your first time staying in a “capsule hotel”. How was it, and what do you think about the Creators Inn by Elvine concept?
Yeah that felt funny, like crossing the river for water right, haha. I’ve always liked small spaces, more or less lived in small rooms all my life, in fact I always imagine how I would plan it when I enter a small space, like a toilet or storage etc. I draw up imaginary plans on where the sleeping area should be, office, cooking area etc, even when the place is 3-4 square meters. I can recommend it, at least it make visiting public toilets a bit more enjoyable.
The capsules at Creators Inn was first class! I was really impressed, clean, odd shapes (a plus) and enough space for everything needed to sleep well in there and I even managed to reach to work a bit from bed. The minus was that I was there so briefly, I only got to spend something like 5-6 hours there because of my rather tight schedule, very unfortunate. I was stoked though to stay where Scottie B had stayed just a week or to prior to my arrival, I could feel it in the walls, I felt that Bmore gutter feeling.
July 7, 2009
Rikard Jönsson (SE)
Rikard Jönsson (SE) is a DJ, artist, Pecha Kucha Ambassador (for the city of Malmö) and also a Product Development Coordinator at Spotify. He stayed at Creators Inn @ LAT while in Gothenburg to give a 6 minutes and 40 second long speech at Pecha Kucha GBG.
Do you consider yourself creative and if so, in what way? …continue reading this post
For me, a spoiled young man from the northern part of europe, creativity and joy goes hand in hand. Since I do consider myself a very happy and confident person – I believe I can have a greater potential in unleashing my creativity. I have also yet again been reminded of how much more fun creativity is when your are more than one person, holism is really beautiful. Oh, and in what way? Well, my main area of interest is music and, for the moment, how to enhance a performance by implementing solutions that hopefully have not been done before. It’s not the means itself but rather to make an impression that last for both me and the audience that’s interesting. Until now I have been within many classical areas of culture but I tend to always come back to auditive creations.
July 7, 2009
DJ Scottie B (US)
Legendary DJ Scottie B (US) from Baltimore is usually credited for inventing the Baltimore Club Music (also called Bmore) sound. He stayed one night at Creators Inn @ LAT while in Gothenburg to play a DJ-set at summer club Colors. You can find some snaps from the evening on Colors Flickr page and also watch a video interview with Scottie from Karma Loop below.
…continue reading this post
June 29, 2009
Audrey Fondecave Tsujimura (FR/JPN)
Seen above is Audrey’s daughter Liliyo looking out from the sleeping pod at Creators Inn by Elvine at LAT
French artist Audrey Fondecave Tsujimura (FR/JPN) is based in Tokyo but decided to take a trip around Europe with her daughter Liliyo. During their stay at Creators Inn in Gothenburg they manage to visit their brother who studies architecture at Chalmers, record a radio show with Mattias Nilsson from Kning Disk and José Gonzales, experience The Gothenburg String Theory project, visit the cultural building Röda Sten and brilliantly illustrate a Swedish midsummer dinner, among other things.
June 29, 2009
KLARA (SE)
KLARA is a Swedish dance group who stayed at Creators Inn by Elvine at LAT in Gothenburg while rehearsing a dance piece. We spoke to Lena Kimming, one of the dancers.
Describe yourselves and what you do? …continue reading this post
We are working with improvisation in dance and as a group we call ourselves KLARA. Individually we go by the names Ina, Rebecka, Alexandra and Lena.
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