The winner of the design award, Formex Nova – Nordic Designer of the Year, will be announced on August 24. The award was established six years ago to promote high-quality Nordic design. The award goes to a young designer who is working in the Nordic region and has been selected by an expert jury.
The architectural firm Codesign has been given the assignment to create the Theme Exhibition at the interior design fair Formex, based on this autumns trend theme Nordic Me. With its concept Breaking Through Convention, Codesign interprets the theme by looking at stereotypical preconceptions about the Nordic region.
The International Wood Biorefining Week is the leading international event for the woodbased biorefining industries. The event will be held at Stockholmsmässan on May 24 - 26, 2016. For more information www.iwbweek.com
GastroNord & Vinordic at Stockholmsmässan came to a close on Friday last week. These fairs gather together the whole industry for hotels, restaurants, catering, fast food and drink, in order to meet and do business. A total of 360 exhibitors from 21 countries participated, and the fairs attracted more than 20,000 visitors.
Wood based products and fuels are becoming very important in order to meet the future requirements regarding sustainable and solve the climate issue. The forest industry will play an important role in this change. International Wood Biorefining Week takes place at Stockholmsmässan May 24-26.
For the fourth year, Stockholmsmässan is arranging Digital Health Days, a two-day conference that focuses on how health care services can become even better at using digital solutions for both patients and personnel. The conference attracts many international guests and delegates to Stockholm, but there is also widespread online participation.
GastroNord & Vinordic, northern Europe's most important trade fairs for hotels, restaurants, catering and fast food, will open its doors on April 26. For four days, Stockholmsmässan will be packed with exhibitors, world-class chefs, competitions and seminars. There will be plenty of activities and discussions when the industry gathers to do business and develop its future together.
A genuine industry expo with knowledge-intensive seminars. Networking and meetings that resulted in many deals being agreed right on the event floor. That, according to the results of the quality survey conducted for the event, is the broad strokes picture painted of Nordbygg 2016.
Several national championships and other competitions will be held at the GastroNord and Vinordic trade fairs. Awards include Sweden's Best Pizza, Student Chef of the Year and Sweden's Best Value Wines. In addition, the first official national championships for Food Trucks and Ice Cream will be held at the exhibition. There will also be a Burger Battle.
It will soon be time once again to award the Nordbygg Gold Medal for Product Innovation of the Year. The winner is set to be announed at Nordbygg on Thursday 7 April. Nordbygg will be held 5-8 April at Stockholmsmässan.
One of the many engaging themes at Nordbygg 2016 is renovations. Several seminars address actors the interface between construction and building services, where coordination is essential. Nordbygg will be held 5-8 of April at Stockholmsmässan.
This year's GastroNord is focusing on restaurant students by giving them their own day - Friday, April 29. On this day, students will be able to meet representatives from the entire industry and the Student Chef of the Year will be announced.
Reserve 5-8 April in your calendar for Nordbygg at Stockholmsmässan. Over 800 exhibitors from 30 countries will be there. Equality, the latest architecture and materials - not to mention developments in energy efficiency are hot issues at northern Europe's biggest trade fair for the construction, building services installations and real estate industries.
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which came to a triumphant conclusion last weekend, continues to consolidate its position as the world’s largest meeting place for Scandinavian design. Many people commented on the vibrant international atmosphere they felt in the exhibition halls. Out of a total of nearly 40,000 visits made to Stockholmsmässan, more than 10,000 were made by visitors from abroad.
Scandinavia’s largest exhibition and congress center can add another successful year to the books. With a turnover of more than SEK 500 million and a profit in 2015, Stockholmsmässan is strengthening its leading position as both a meeting venue and an exhibition organizer. The business generated more than 2,000 employment opportunities during the year in the Stockholm area.
Winners of Editors’ Choice 2016 – Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair´s new award
February 9–13 are the dates for this year’s Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, the world's largest meeting place for Scandinavian design. During the five days, the furniture and lighting industry will gather at Stockholmsmässan to meet and see the latest innovations for the home and public spaces.
For this year’s Fair, of Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair introduced a new award – Editors' Choice. The award includes three categories: Rising Star, Best Stand and Best Product. The Jury consists of the editors-in-chief from some of Europe’s most influential design forums.
It is soon once again time for Week 6, which has become synonymous with Stockholm Design Week. The entire global elite in design and architecture will be in Stockholm to gather and see the latest in furniture and lighting at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. With the trade fair at the middle of it all, the entire city will be buzzing with around 80 events, installations and parties.
Nordic design is growing in popularity and demand. This was clearly evident at Formex, an interior design and gifts fair, which closed its doors this past weekend. It was the largest spring-Formex yet in terms of surface area.
