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ABBA nominerat till Svenska Designpriset

Varje år koras Sveriges mest väldesignade kommunikationslösningar i Svenska Designpriset. I årets jury sitter bl.a Andrea Rosengren (designchef på Spotify), Malin Ströman (SVT) och Johan Ronnestam. Vinnaren presenteras den 8 oktober under den festliga prisutdelningen på Gothia Towers i Göteborg.

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Bokförlaget Max Ström och Polar Music släppte Abbas biografi som e-bok tillsammans med producenten Monterosa. Nu har den blivit nominerad till Svenska Designpriset. Mer information om e-boken finns nedan:

Max Ström Publishers together with Polar Music launches the first-ever official e-book photo biography of ABBA and it will be available worldwide. An authorised e-book on the entire career of ABBA has never been done. The e-book charts the band members’ early years; the formation and rise in popularity of ABBA; the group’s international breakthrough performance at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton; subsequent global superstardom; and eventual break-up – after just 10 years together – in 1982. ABBA – The Official Photo e-Book also features photographs that provide insight into the four band members’ subsequent careers, including the international success of the musicals Chess and Mamma Mia! (which, in 2008, was turned into the award-winning movie starring Meryl Streep). ABBA’s story is a saga of hard work and success. Two young musicians become friends and start to play together. They fall in love with two girl singers – and together create extraordinary vocal harmony. The group played together for only ten years, but to date have sold more than 380 million records. Their music stunned the world – but only the pictures gave us the longed-for intimacy with the group. Many pictures are now classics, others have never been seen before, not even by ABBA themselves. “We discovered so many unseen images when doing the research. It’s been a treasure trove,” says picture editor Bengt Wanselius. Wanselius made his selection sifting through almost a quarter of a million images. “The time with ABBA was so intense that it's hard to remember everything,” says Björn Ulvaeus. Writer Jan Gradvall, an award-winning Swedish music journalist, says that the pictures worked as keys to unlock the past. “At the outset, Björn and Benny said they had forgotten so much. But when I showed them the pictures they started to recall,” says Jan Gradvall. Gradvall interviewed ABBA and transcribed their delighted comments on the pictures. “I thought I knew everything about ABBA but many of these stories are new to me — for example the story of when Björn lost the engagement ring immediately after proposing to Agnetha,” says Gradvall. The story of ABBA traces the rise to global stardom of four dedicated musicians, faced overnight with almost unprecedented adulation. The e-book captures the joy and hysteria of one of pop history’s greatest episodes. All four members of ABBA are commenting on the pictures in the e-book, and have also written a joint preface. The e-book contains more than 600 images, snippets of music, the ABBA time line, as well as a selection of ABBAs music videos.

Credits:

Author: Jan Gradvall and Petter Karlsson

Picture Editor: Bengt Wanselius

Preface & commentary: Agnetha Fältskog Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus Frida Reuss

Design: Patric Leo

E-book design: Monterosa

Language: English

Format: Apple iPad and Kindle Fire

Ämnen

  • Musik

Kategorier

  • polar music
  • max ström
  • frida reuss
  • björn ulvaeus
  • benny andersson
  • agnetha fältskog
  • monterosa
  • svenska designpriset
  • abba

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