Konstandteknik

Work / Graphic Design

Konst & Teknik

Words by Alex Bec, Thursday 19 March 2009

Originally guest posted by Karl Grandin

Stockholm-based Peter Ström and Mattias Jakobsson run the graphic design studio Konst & Teknik. They keep themselves busy with activities such as coming up with long domain names, fooling Google, copy/pasting characters, ligaturing Futura and designing gems such as the Jonathan Puckey collabo Trace a Face.

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