A travelling exhibition commissioned by The Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic Cultural Projects Abroad. www.norden.org

Chief curator: Widar Halén, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Exhibition architects: Linge Hansen, Copenhagen; Steffen Schmelling, Copenhagen, Henriette Willerup, Copenhagen.
Exhbition graphic design: Gabor Palotai Design, Stockholm
Exhibition secretary: Leena Mannila
Concept: Widar Halén, Harri Kalha, Kerstin Wickman
Planning committee: Henrik Most, Denmark; Anne Stenros, Finland; Adalsteinn Ingólfsson, Iceland; Widar Halén, Norway; Kerstin Wickman, Sweden
Virtual exhibition: Dr.philos Britt Kroepelien, University of Bergen, Norway
Virtual exhibition concept and ideas: Britt Kroepelien
Virtual exhibition programming: Jan Storenes, Yngve Solheim
Virtual exhibition photographies and image processing: Alf E. Andresen
Virtual exhibition 3D-modelling: Bjřrn Kĺre Nilssen
Virtual exhibition graphic design: Kitty Ensby

Cooperating partners: Danish Design Centre, Coopenhagen, www.ddc.dk Design Forum Finland, Helsinki, www.designforum.fi Hönnunarsafn Íslands, The Museum of Design and Decorative Arts, Gardabaer, www.natmus.is Konstfack, The National College of Arts, Crafts and Design, www.konstfack.se Kunstindustrimuseet, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Copenhagen www.kunstindustrimuseet.dk Kunstindustrimuseet, The National Museum of Art/ The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Oslo, www.kunstindustrimuseet.no Svensk Form, The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, Stockholm, www.svenskform.se

Exhibition area: 400 sq. m.
No. of exhibits: 200 – 40 from each of the five Nordic countries.

Extracts from Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino published by Jonathan Cape. Used by permission of The Random House Group Lmtd.

Public Relations
Peppe Bergström (PB), creative manager peppe@hesselboms.se
Ted Hesselbom (TH), creative director ted@hesselboms.se
Hesselboms Universum
Stortorget 1
S - 111 29, Stockholm, Sweden
Tel.: +46-8-440 53 70
Fax: +46-8-678 05 08
Mobile: +46-708-440 797 (PB)
Exhibition curator
Widar Halén, Prof. Dr.philos widar.halen@nasjonalmuseet.no
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
P.box 7014, St. Olavs plass
N - 0130, Oslo, Norway
Tel. +47-21982116
Fax: +47-22111769
Mobile: +47-41 29 18 49

For the exhibition the Nordic Council of Ministers also commissioned a book/catalogue containing, for the first time in one volume, the latest research on the Scandinavian Design concept, its origins, history and myths. Seventeen design researchers and scholars from the five Nordic countries, Germany, Great Britain and U.S.A. give the picture of how this post world war II design success was launched with the help of industry, marketing and media in Europe and North America, making the book a new tool for studies of design theory and history.
Italo Calvino's six memorandums on qualities we should bring with us into the new millennium – lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency – are not only a parameter for the exhibition’s selection of objects and for its structure. They are also the subject for a colloquium on their bearing on contemporary Scandinavian design, accounted in the book.
The volume is published in English and richly illustrated, partly with black and white photographs from the archives of several museums and institutions, but also with recent colour pictures of objects represented in the exhibition.
The book can be bought in the museum shops along the tour. See Exhibition tour for details. It is available from well assorted book-stores as well, and it can be bought directly from the publishers at www.arvinius.se
Editors: Widar Halén and Kerstin Wickman
Publishing editor: Ulf Beckman
Published by: Arvinius Förlag/Form Förlag
Address: Box 6040, SE-102 31 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46-(0)8-32 00 15, Fax: +46-(0)8-32 00 95
E-mail: info@arvinius.se