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Frank Etc. AB is a Swedish design company specialized in industrial design and graphic design. It was founded in Stockholm in 1994 by the industrial designer Nikolaus Frank and the graphic designer Cecilia Frank.
Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund Strait. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. The capital city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.3 million of which 2.5 million have a foreign background. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi) and the highest urban concentration is in the central and southern half of the country.
Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production. Its key characteristic is that design is separated from manufacture: the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features takes place in advance of the physical act of making a product, which consists purely of repeated, often automated, replication. This distinguishes industrial design from craft-based design, where the form of the product is determined by the product's creator at the time of its creation.
Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography, and illustration. The field is considered a subset of visual communication and communication design, but sometimes the term "graphic design" is used synonymously. Graphic designers create and combine symbols, images and text to form visual representations of ideas and messages. They use typography, visual arts, and page layout techniques to create visual compositions. Common uses of graphic design include corporate design, editorial design, wayfinding or environmental design, advertising, web design, communication design, product packaging, and signage.
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Products designed by Frank Etc. often have a high technological content and a clear design. The company has been active both in Sweden and internationally, for instance in cooperation with the design company IDEO and with companies in Asia, especially Hong Kong.
IDEO is an international design and consulting firm founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1991. The company has locations in Cambridge (Massachusetts), Chicago, London, Munich, New York City, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo. IDEO's managing directors are distributed globally and it has no formal headquarters. The company uses the design thinking approach to design products, services, environments, and digital experiences. Additionally, the company has become increasingly involved in management consulting and organizational design.
Over the years, Frank Etc. has received a number of awards and recognitions, such as several Good Design Awards, [1] several Excellent Swedish Design-awards, the international design prices Industrial Design Excellence Award IDEA [2] and the iF Award for Good Industrial Design. [3] Awards and recognitions have also been received in a number of international design competitions, such as the LG Electronics, the Design The Future International Competition and the Yamaha Audio System International Design Competition (Yamaha Pro Audio).
Excellent Swedish Design was a design award handed out by the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design 1983-2002
LG Electronics Inc. is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
Yamaha Pro Audio, Inc. is a company which is part of the Yamaha Corporation group. It offers a complete line of beginner professional audio products for the live sound and sound reinforcement markets. It has a long history of introducing significant products for the professional audio market such as the PM-1000 modular mixing console, the REV1 and SPX90 digital signal processors, and the 01, 02R, PM1D, PM5D, QL5, and M7CL V2(or called the CL5) digital mixing consoles.
Frank Etc. is represented in the permanent collection of the Swedish National Art Museum (Nationalmuseum), represented with several products in the exhibition Design: Stockholm at the Stockholms Stadsmuseum has also had a separate exhibition at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology) in Stockholm.
Nationalmuseum is the national gallery of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm.
The Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology is a Swedish museum in Stockholm. It is Sweden’s largest museum of technology, and has a national charter to be responsible for preserving the Swedish cultural heritage related to technological and industrial history. Its galleries comprise around 10,000 square meters, and the museum attracts annually about 350,000 visitors. The collections consist of more than 55,000 objects and artifacts, 1 200 shelf metres of archival records and documents, 200,000 drawings, 800,000 images and about 40,000 books. The National Museum of Science and Technology also documents technologies, processes, stories and memoirs in order to preserve them for generations to come.
