Featuring a paired back aesthetic with a sculptural grounding, the work of Alice Delsenne ranges from furniture and interior design, to art and illustration. Now based in Bordeax, France, she was formerly based in Copenhagen for six years where she co-founded Nue Studio – a creative practice centered around furniture and interior design. Now with a greater focus on her artistic practice, her work is bold and abstract – with a tactile hands-on quality.

Alice Delsenne

All The Way To Paris (ATWTP) is one of our favorite Scandinavian graphic design studios. Through their strong graphics and soft, elegant touches, they have long been the preferred partner of a range of top lifestyle and fashion brands. The last few years their graphic design products in paper and textile have been sold through the world’s best design shops through successful collaborations with producers such as HAY and &Tradition.

All The Way To Paris

Amelie Hegardt’s artistic and commercial work is a balance between explicit emotion and style. Her contextual interest are focused on the ideas and ideal around the subject of power and seduction. On how we use beauty, where we find it and what we sacrifice in the process for getting it.

Amelie Hegardt

Cloaked in a shroud of mystery, speckled with a dash of charm and wit, Andreas Smaaland (1972, Norway) is an upcoming force to be reckoned with in Norwegian photographic circles. A relative newcomer to the profession, it took sudden unemployment, and a series of coincidences, to lead him to purchase a camera, hit the streets, and begin shooting.

Andreas Smaaland

Swedish based artist Anna Mörner’s work extends across painting and illustration, ceramics and installations. Her unique approach to colour and linework can be seen in her pieces, from figurative to more abstract forms. Creating work with a bold sense of purpose and character, she has collaborated with companies including Frama and Marimekko.



Anna Mörner

Creating work with a feminine energy and power, the paintings of Anne Olde Kalter balance the strength of bold forms with the use of vulnerable line work. Inspired and grounded by the Dutch nature surrounding her home north of Amsterdam, her work takes the organic forms and soft tones of her environment, translating them through richly textured compositions. Abstract yet familiar, her work balances notions of fragility and power to create a captivating catalogue. 

Anne Olde Kalter

Born in Los Angeles, Anthony Acosta has spent the better part of this century combining his love of photography and skateboarding. Skating since the early 90’s, he discovered photography in 2004 and since that time has photographed some of skating’s biggest names. Constantly scanning his surroundings for moments that combine sport and sculpture, his work speaks to a dedication in combining both his passions in an honest and artistic way. 

Anthony Acosta

Paris based artist, Arnaud Pfeffer has a background as an industrial designer, but his passion is his art. Pfeffer weaves links between human and automated gestures. In his work he combines the delicateness of hand drawings with machine precision and the endless possibilities of different brushes, inks and tools. Through his experimentations Pfeffer explores the link between the unexpected of the matter and the precision of code to expose the materiality of mechanical drawing.

Arnaud Pfeffer

Trend forecaster Sara Ingemann and art director Mandy Rep joined forces in 2012 and started the Copenhagen based Quote the Future, a multidisciplinary creative design studio focusing on future trends. Recently renamed to Atelier, Copenhagen the studio explores the world of images, dives into creative minds and detect trends based on detailed research. Atelier Copenhagen travels through time, reinterprets history and shapes the future.

Atelier Copenhagen

Bec Kilpatrick is a freelance photographer and illustrator from the sugarcane fields of Byron Bay, Australia.

Bec Kilpatrick

Located between the cooler mountains and suffocating desert heat of Monterrey in the north of Mexico, the studio of Berenice Hernandez takes inspiration from her surroundings to produce artwork with vibrancy and colour. With a background in art direction and graphic design, she combines her knowledge with subjects taken from her Mexican heritage. Botany contributes the focus of her work, brought to life through a mix of illustration, engraving, painting and textile techniques. The result is abstracted, bold plants and flowers, presented with a graphic touch.

Berenice Hernandez

Berit Mogensen Lopez is a Danish textile and pattern designer who works in the space between art and design. Her work is mainly based on her colourful and unique collages, as seen in her collections of hand-tufted carpets, prints and posters.

Berit Mogensen Lopez

Norwegian Artist Børge Bredenbekk (1975) grew up in Stavanger and studied for a BA (Hons) Art and Design in England 1993 to 1997 and started out working with design and illustration for large clients in Switzerland and New York. He then worked from his home in Oslo and Fredrikstad with a focus on drawing and printmaking. Børge’s work combines different technical skills with a keen eye for storytelling, carefully considered compositions and bold visuals. His work is divided in two styles and embraces craft and execution. His drawings are usually pencil and charcoal based and his graphic work inspired by 1930s aestethics and social realism.

Børge Bredenbekk

Denis Boudart is a French eclectic artist and graphic designer, based in Paris. Denis Boudart designs reflect the balance of different inspirations between nature, travels and music. He imagines compositions of objects, shapes and colours creating unexpected associations that can appeal to everyone’s imagination. Denis Boudart is influenced by a minimal and modern artistic approach.

Denis Boudart

Doyoumindart is the alter ego of Danish artist Katrine Engman. Her artworks come to life through a detailed process of dying, cutting and assembling paper elements. The final work is then scanned and digitally finished for a crisp and graphic look. The four works for Paper Collective are tied together by a red and golden colour palette and the shared ability to draw in the viewer with visual stories told through shapes and form.


Doyoumindart

Eitil Due is a Stockholm based art project founded by the designer and illustrator Eitil Thorén Due. His work reflects a graffiti-like spontaneity with focus on fashion illustrations and urban portraits.

Eitil Due

Enok Holsegaard is a Danish/American photographer. His work captures the extraordinary in the ordinary and finds meaning and importance in moments that are not always considered important, but perhaps should be.

Enok Holsegaard

Erik Olovsson is the man behind Studio E.O. The Stockholm based studio was founded in 2013 and works within the fields of product, furniture and graphic design. Studio E.O has a focus on methods and creating systems when designing. The studio aims at having an intuitive and experimental starting point in the projects and works in a mix of self initiated projects and commissions. Studio E.O strives to stay out of comfort zones and encourages work in various fields and techniques.

Erik Olovsson

Fatamorgana, The Danish Photographic School of Visual Arts, works with photographic imagery through stills as well as moving pictures. The school prioritizes every student’s individual artistic voice. The students of Fatamorgana have put together an impactful exhibition of artworks which works great together under the theme solar storm but at the same time they are strong enough to stand alone.

Fatamorgana

Form Us With Love is an internationally acclaimed design studio from Stockholm working with brands like ateljé Lyktan, FontanaArte, Cappellini, DePadova, Muuto, Design House Sthlm and One Nordic Furniture Company. FUWL was started in 2005 by the trio of Jonas Pettersson, John Löfgren and Petrus Palmér, the studio aims to challenge the conventional through design initiatives.

If there is one word that sums up Swedish design studio FORM US WITH LOVE it is ‘dedication’. Never keen on hanging around for things to happen, it has always used its own initiative to get to where it wants to be. FUWL have always had a very broad scope as designers, they aren’t simply designing products but everything surrounding it too.

FUWL was started in 2005 by John Löfgren, Jonas Pettersson, and Petrus Palmér. They met studying Product Design at Kalmar University, in deepest, darkest Småland, a county in southern Sweden known to be the heartland of Swedish furniture manufacturing..

Form Us With Love

George Kroustallis is a Berlin-based image director and photographer whose work traverses form, interesting light and femininity via concepts of architecture, fashion, still-life and body.
Working across various projects, George’s defining attention to detail is a result of his unique eye for light and composition with a big emphasis on minimalism and neutral color palettes.

”I am driven by a desire to produce great work that reflects my deep interest in design, people, and the abundant powerful stories around us.
I work with businesses and publications to create efficient high-end content that frames their narratives, celebrates their work and drives their businesses forward.
I was born in Greece, studied Social Anthropology, and spent years working as a music producer and audio engineer before being absorbed by the visual arts and now live in vibrant Berlin, Germany.” – minorstep.com

George Kroustallis

Greg Eason is a UK-based artist whose work deals with a formal and conceptual dissection of space. His work is often built with a pencil and strong narrative elements.

Greg Eason

Guilherme da Rosa was born in Lisbon where he studied Architecture. At the age of 25 he moves to Vienna to pursue a career in architecture which he now splits with photography. Guilherme da Rosa is a registered member of the Chamber of Architects in Portugal since 2010 and has published photography in various magazines throughout Europe.

Guilherme da Rosa

Helena Ravenne Langer is a German illustrator and graphic designer. She studied Design and Illustration at the Institue of Technology in Nuremberg. Her work is colourful, minimalistic, graphic and geometric with an affinity for a playful feel and a touch of Scandinavian simplicity.

Helena Ravenne Langer

Henrik Bülow is a Danish Photographic institution in and of himself. His work is to be found in all the vanguard danish fashion bibles, and in nearly all of their issues. He’s a prolific framer – his shots rolling off the printing presses are usually the first snap of every set-up – his index finger knows what he wants, and Bülow’s command of a set is as effective as it is captive.

Henrik Bülow

Danish photographer Ingrid Bugge uses the human body as her main source of inspiration. Referencing the techniques of the refined renaissance painters, she is able to manipulate light and darkness to produce work with a sensual, dream-like feeling.

Ingrid Bugge

JUDiTH+ROLFE is a design studio focused on elevating the medium of paper. Various techniques such as quilling, cutting, folding and layering are used to meticulously create bespoke works of art. To see more, visit their


JUDiTH+ROLFE

Spanish artist-designer Jaime Hayon was born in Madrid in 1974 and since founding Hayon Studio in 2001 he has become a creative force at the forefront of a new wave of artists and designers that have blurred the lines between art, decoration and design. His art and design have been exhibited at museums and galleries all over the world while his commercial product and furniture designs reside with leading global brands such as Fritz Hansen, Swarovski, Cassina, &Tradition, Magis and Baccarat.

We asked Jaime to contribute to the world of MADO with some of these personalities, all special creatures evoking the imagination. They are all made with ink and it’s a mix of fantastic dreamy animals and ancient vases come in alive through a blink of an eye, a tongue or a beak. All The Way To Paris gave them colours all inspired by the colourful world of Jaime Hayon.



Jaime Hayon

London-based printmaker Jazmine Joye creates limited edition, hand pressed linocut prints from her home studio. Her work is inspired by the female form, human hands, and nature.

Jazmine studied graphic design at University but is mainly self-taught in linocut printing. Her work usually begins as an idea which is then designed on illustrator, before being traced and carved out of lino, and eventually hand pressed using a Baren. Jazmine is influenced by the shapes and colours of Matisse and takes inspiration from the form of Rodin’s sculptures. Through her work, she wants to make people feel confident and proud in their own skin, and she aims to represent all body types through her various abstracted nude prints.



Jazmine Joye

Joakim Heltne is a 28 years old Norwegian photographer and self-taught illustrator, currently living in Copenhagen. Joakim Heltne studied Fashion Photography at the University of the Arts in London and before that, he studied Art Photography in Oslo, at Oslo Photographic Arts School (Oslo Fotokunstskole).

Joakim Heltne

Jonas Wagell is a Swedish architect and designer. Wagell’s architecture work is perhaps most known for the prefab house concept Mini House (2007-2012), early recognized by Wallpaper* Magazine which named him one of the “world’s 50 hottest young architects” shortly after graduation in 2008. Today the work is primarily focused on product and furniture design, but occasionally the studio also consults with art and design direction. Jonas Wagell was introduced to design through an interest in graphics, print and typography and perhaps this has influenced today’s work with simplistic and clear, but expressive design language.
Jonas Wagell has been working with Scandinavian design brands such as Menu, Normann Copenhagen and Muuto, but also Tacchini in Italy, Design Within Reach in USA and Zaozuo in China, to name a few.

Jonas Wagell

Julie Pike is a Norwegian photographer who is most known for her work in fashion photography. Julie’s work has a subtle poetic touch and strong narratives. From her base in Oslo Norway she works with major names in the Scandinavian and International fashion and lifestyle industries.

Julie Pike

The trio of stylist Susanna Vento, photographer Riikka Kantinkoski and writer Pinja Forsman published the 2016 book “Green Home Book” – an encyclopedia to decorating and living with green plants.

Kantinkoski, Vento & Forsman

Born (1986) and bred in the northern part of Denmark, Kasper Nyman always had the desire to be creative. Kasper describes his process of a constant exploration of various crafts and just trying to have a blast in the process. He works within the fields of motion graphics art direction with a global mind-set and an aim to create something extraordinary in an ordinary world.

Kasper Nyman

Kit Agar graduated from University of the Arts London in 2017 with a BA (Hons) degree in Illustration. She has since worked with leading brands such as Anthropologie, MADE, & Madewell, as well as a variety of independent & upcoming brands. Her work is inspired by yoga and the connection between the mind and the body.

Kit Agar

Kristian Holm is a danish photographer who mainly works with portraits and lifestyle commercial images. Also very often on the road and always capturing moments around the globe. He is part of a danish collective called Yellows.dk and works out of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kristian Holm

Lemon is a multi-disciplinary design studio specializing in the fields of product and graphic design. Our team, which consists of illustrators, artists, photographers and designers, focuses on continuous experimentation with concepts and materials, which is underpinned by a considered approach to our craft. We have a particular interest and fascination with furniture, print and wallpaper design.

Lemon

Stockholm based artist and fashion designer Liat Greenberg channels her love of colours and spontaneous forms through her work across still life and figurative paintings and drawings. Her practice is based on an almost meditative approach, utilizing her favorite medium – watercolor’s, as a way to capture her spontaneity and creativity. Full of movement, life and vibrant colours, her work approaches her subjects with a mix of abstract chaos and more deliberate representations. 

Liat Greenberg

Behind LouLou Avenue is Liv Ann van der Laan, a Dutch visual artist inspired by human expression, music, streetstyle & vintage portrait photography. Liv has been drawing and painting since she was born. After Art school in Italy and the academy for fine art in Amsterdam she worked in the fashion and styling industry. Her work, mostly with ink or charcoal is dreamy, sketchy pure and refined with some raw edges. -loulouavenue.com.



LouLou Avenue

George Kroustallis is a London-based image director and photographer whose work traverses form, interesting light and femininity via concepts of architecture, fashion, still-life and body.
Working across various projects, George’s defining attention to detail is a result of his unique eye for light and composition with a big emphasis on minimalism and neutral color palettes.

”I am driven by a desire to produce great work that reflects my deep interest in design, people, and the abundant powerful stories around us.
I work with businesses and publications to create efficient high-end content that frames their narratives, celebrates their work and drives their businesses forward.
I was born in Greece, studied Social Anthropology, and spent years working as a music producer and audio engineer before being absorbed by the visual arts and now live in London.” – minorstep.com

MINORSTEP

Amsterdam based Mae Studio expresses a world of motion and emotion through a minimal use of form and colour. Working on canvas and paper, her works feature organic forms mixed with muted tones to create striking compositions that reflect human emotions. Soft yet bold, flowing forms come together to create work that is organic and familiar, yet presents her unique vision of the world around her.

Mae Studio

Maia Flore is a French photographer. Maia Flore graduated from Ecole des Gobelins in 2010 and in 2015 she won the price Le prix HSBC pour la photographie. We are drawn by Maia Flore universe and her approach to reality and her own imagination.

Maia Flore

Born in Helsinki in 1978, Mikael Siirilä approaches photography as a slow-paced and reflective practice. He collects observations from his life and works in the darkroom to give them meaning. His visual style can be recognised by the pronounced film grain, dominating black elements and image edges as a source of mystery and meaning. The majority of his works observe themes such as outsider hood, absence and presence. 

Mikael Siirilä works exclusively with black & white film and the silver gelatin process. The darkroom allows him to approach the photograph as a handmade object.  

Mikael Siirilä

Mikal Strøm is an Art Director & Photographer from Oslo, Norway. Mikal works with layout, editorial, print and digital publications.

Mikal Strøm

Minh T

Naja Munthe has been a part of the Danish Fashion industry the past 25 years and today she is known for being the creative driving force behind the brand MUNTHE. You can recognize Naja Munthe’s unique designs because of its artistic and liberal expression and you sense the inspiration from her travels and her roots in the north.

Naja Munthe

Nina Bruun is based in Copenhagen and holds a Master's degree in Furniture and Spatial Design from the Royal Danish Academy of Design. As a designer gone industry professional, Nina has carved out a niche on the Nordic design scene as a leading source on interior trends, color knowledge and design forecasting as evidenced in several features including Wallpaper, Design Milk, Herald Tribune and Le Figaro.

Prior to forming her independent consultancy, Nina worked with the revered Danish design company, Muuto. Here, she was responsible for colors, trends, textiles and design management, effectively involving Nina in every aspect of the interior design business from product briefs to photo shoots and digital media campaigns.

Also an accomplished designer, Nina has received a Red Dot Design Award and has work accepted in the permanent collection at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Nina Bruun

Norm Architects is a multidisciplinary design studio focusing on residential architecture, commercial interiors and industrial design. Norm Architects were recently named Danish designers of the year, and have impressed worldwide with their soft minimalism furniture, lighting and accessories designed for companies such as Menu, Design Within Reach and many more. The studio was founded in 2008 by architects Kasper Rønn and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen by their vocation to create timeless architecture and meaningful design products.

“Our home and the things we surround ourselves with, should provide a refuge from the daily chaos, which seems to dominate our world. By understanding minimalism as an aesthetic, and simplicity as a philosophy of life, NORM aims at providing structures which gives a feeling of freedom.

The justification of a product lies in its ability to differentiate; aesthetically and in functionality. With a determined focus on the good idea, right materials and fine craftsmanship, Norm Architects primary endeavour is to create useful products, appealing design, and architecture that captures and inspire life.”

Norm Architects

Note is a Stockholm-based design studio founded in 2008 working within the fields of architecture, interiors, products, graphic design and design strategy.
Note was named Swedish designers of the year 2015 and 2016.

“To note something, to get noted: we are named after what we try to achieve. We like to pay attention to our surroundings, and try to create things that make others do the same. By looking at what is unique in every project and emphasizing that, we transform non-material values into tactile objects and spaces.”

Note Design Studio

Born in Hamburg - of German and Syrian descent, the studio of Nura Saina Saker works across borders to produce artwork in touch with emotion and the subconscious. Now based in Barcelona, her work combines colour and texture within an artistic expression that steers towards the emotional, and away from the purely intellectual. The result is a portfolio of drawings and paintings that are bold in their use of colour and form, with an intensely personal origin.

Nura Saina Saker

Paper Collective

Pia Winther is a photographer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work is poetic and sensuous and she mainly works with interior, portraits and editorial.

Pia Winther

Danish fashion and beauty photographer who used her love of Copenhagen to create a project called Waters around Copenhagen. The fascination with manmade construction in juxtaposition to mother nature is present all around the Capitol.

RIKKE HASS CHRISTENSEN

Robin Ahlgren is a Swedish artist and interior architect. His interest for art awoke from a young age as his grandfather was a well known artist and inspiration for Robin. His work reflects simplicity, sophistication and a minimalistic flow of soft lines.

Robin Ahlgren

The narratives of South African artist Ronelle Pienaar Jenkin center around psychology – human thoughts, behaviors, ways of being in the world and the congruence between these things. Her work across the mediums of ink, watercolour and oils deal with themes such as humour, pride, sanctimony, obscenity and irreverence.

Jenkin’s collection for Paper Collective has been curated by long time collaborators, South African multi-disciplinary studio Lemon.



Ronelle Pienaar Jenkin x Lemon

Søren Thuesen is a Danish photographer who is most known under his alias s1000. Søren’s work is architectural and graphic and always with an eye on the small detail that can make the big difference.

S1000

Soft Gallery

Stan Desjeux is a French photographer based out of Bordeaux. Self-taught in his chosen medium, his portfolio includes commercial projects for advertising agencies and luxury brands, alongside a growing focus on his freelance photography and filmmaking projects. Channeling his love for travel and the natural environment, Desjeux’s images are rich with texture and warmth. Natural tones and soft light mix to create a portfolio of tactile and layered images. 

Stan Desjeux

Tenna Elisabeth Studio is the Copenhagen based workshop of graphic designer and artist Tenna Elisabeth Jacobsen. Her design process springs from a love for handcrafted printing techniques and a curiosity towards digital possibilities, manifesting itself through creative improvisations and experiments with new techniques, approaches, materials and media.

Tenna’s artwork is characterized by a tactile graphic universe inspired by the intensity of a color and the meeting between different materials and textures.

Tenna Elisabeth Studio

Uffe Buchard is one of the most well know personalities within Danish Fashion. For more than 20 years he has been communicating news from the world of fashion and style to the Danes. Uffe Buchard is currently the Editor in Chief of DANSK Magazine, Creative Director at Darling Creative Studio and the Curator of the Fashion on Print Collection by Paper Collective.

Uffe Buchard

Uffe Buchard is one of the most well know personalities within Danish Fashion. For more than 20 years he has been communicating news from the world of fashion and style to the Danes. Uffe Buchard is currently the Editor in Chief of DANSK Magazine, Creative Director at Darling Creative Studio and the Curator of the Fashion on Print Collection by Paper Collective.

Chris Calmer is a Danish photographer and visual artist working in the intersection between art, fashion, and commercial photography – connecting the dots in a sometimes hyperrealistic, other times dreamy and otherworldly manner. In 2017 he moved to Paris to assist and work as a freelance retoucher on jobs for Galleries Lafayette, Liberty London, Dior, and V magazine. His studio is now based in Copenhagen.

Uffe and Chris have collaborated on our Bloom collection – Uffe as art director and Chris as photographer.

Uffe Buchard & Chris Calmer

French-American artist Virginia Isbell operates between mediums, cultures, and continents. With studios in France and Uruguay, her work mixes landscapes with more intimate subjects in mediums from painting to printmaking. A former writer, her work contains a sense of poetry through her use of tone, colour, and texture to create deep and emotive works.



Virginia Isbell

Wrong Studio is a Copenhagen-based graphic design agency.

Wrong Studio

Archidreamer is the London based studio of Yanyi Ha. Born in South Korea and trained as an interior designer, Archidreamer provides Ha with a platform to express architecture in a more playful and poetic manner. Highlighting the inherent beauty in man-made forms, her screen-printed arrangements create environments filled with memories, moments and experiences. Rather than viewing architecture as simply structure, her use of graphic lines and vibrant colour combinations capture a sense of movement and life within each

Yanyi Ha

In 2004, Yuna Yagi graduated from New York Parsons School of Architecture. after working for Shigeru Ban Architects New York, she moved to Berlin in 2007, and then moved to Kyoto in 2010. She pursues the truth of things through the experience of “seeing.” She makes use of the characteristics of photography and creates works and installations that use vision and phenomena.


Yuna Yagi

Yuto Yamada

Ästhet is the Hannover based studio of artist and designer Anne Schäfer. Inspired by natural forms and contemporary art, Ästhet creates contemporary compositions that are both minimal and expressive. Creating artwork on paper, the studio also experiments with clay, textiles, photography and etching with motifs that merge Scäfer’s training in communication design with a hands-on approach to process and form.

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