Samuel Nyholm

Barbar, tjuv, krigare, fyllo, slemhög. Han kom från de höga bergen i norr för att trampa civiliserade länders komockor under sina stövlar. En bukstinn bjässe med rödmosig blick och muskler såsom av gröt, förutbestämd att sälja Hormoniens juvelprydda krona. Hans dåd ingjöt fruktan i mäns hjärtan, och klåda i kvinnors underliv. Hans namn var Birger. Birger Barbaren tar standardbilden av barbarer muskulösa, trögtänkta och älskar att slåss och vänder den till sin raka motsats. Denne baksluge tjocksmock utför gärna hjältedåd, men helst med minsta möjliga hjältemod. Hans äventyr har varit ett stående inslag i speltidningen Fenix sedan starten 2004. Här hittar du en komplett samling av serier från de första åtta åren samt en mängd skisser, outgivna strippar, gästserier och en utförlig triviasektion. Åke Rosenius har mycket mer än Birger Barbaren på sitt samvete. Han har skrivit och illustrerat i svenska rollspel alltsedan tidigt 1990-tal (Birger kom ursprungligen till vid den tiden, som ett oanvänt utkast för speltidningen Rubicon) och i serieform skildrat spelhobbyn från insidan. År 2000 släpptes hans humoristiska rollspelsserier samlade i albumetThe Handbok Anthology.

Umbra Hominis Graphic Design: Jonas Williamsson. Print: Narayana Press. Edition: 300. Format: 21,5 x 28,5 cm. 200 pages. Offset. Framework: An archive holds an inherent duality. It organizes and categorizes to immortalize, at the same time as it internalizes and hides. A museum is dismantled and finds its terminal storage. A view of the world and its conventional figure is dissolved. The power over our history, and hence our future, lies in how we handle and make use of communal archive systems. An explosive force, created by rearrangements of these archive materials, can displace courses of events, unobtrusive as well as decisive. Consequently, certain collations are altering our collective memories and affecting the writing of history as well as power relations. Participants: Arno Böhler works at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria. Mattias Winslow is a librarian at the Nynäshamn Municipal Library, Sweden. Samuel Nyholm is a Swedish graphic designer and illustrator. Formerly part of the Swedish graphic design studio Reala. Selection of clients and collaborators include Tate Etc., Cornel Windlin, Kunsthalle St Gallen, Eric Steinbrecher, Svenska Filminstitute, Vitra, Absolut Vodka, Cneai, Tensta Konsthall, Svenska Dagbladet, Die Zeit, der Spiegel and others. As an illustrator, his works have been exhibited in Kunsthalle St Gallen, Kino Babylon in Berlin, Nieves/Corner College in Zürich, MoMA PS1 in New York, Art Basel, Copenhagen Art Fair and the Brno Biennale. In 2012 he was appointed Professor of Illustration in HfK, Bremen. He is a frequent guest tutor and critic at various art schools, such as Konstfack and The Royal University of Fine Arts in Stockholm, HDK in Gothenburg, ECAL in Lausanne, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem. Peo Olsson is a Swedish artist and photographer. With Malmö as a base he focuses his work on processes of change and the human condition. The archive or collection is often a point of departure in his works. Educated at ICP in New York, he also holds an MFA from School of Photography at the University of Gothenburg. He has participated in photo festivals in New York and Copenhagen and also exhibited his work at Skanbul Connection in Istanbul, Göteborgs Konsthall, Röda Sten Konsthall and Galleri Box in Gothenburg; Martin Bryder Gallery and Fotogalleriet Format in Lund and Malmö respectively. Fotografins Hus in Stockholm and Immigration Office in Bremen. He is also one of the founders of Null & Void.