Agga Anne Mette Stage
annemettestage@gmail.com


About
Selected Work
Body Soap Name Generator
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I’m a graphic designer and art director holding a MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts & Design and a BFA from Beckmans College of Design where I studied Visual Communication.


I am currently freelancing at H&M in Stockholm, while studying Western Colonialism and Imperialism part time. This summer, I attended Typography Summer School in both London and New York.
    My project Body Soap Name Generator won Young Swedish Design 2018 and was recently exhibited at Designart Festival 2018 in Tokyo.∙

Beatrice Eli, Showgirl
Graphic Design•2018

For the show at Dramaten in Stockholm, we created a graphic profile with inspiration from vintage showgirl cards.⋆



Art Direction and Production; Minda Jalling, Photo; Frida Vega, Hair/Make; Yenifer R. Sanchez, Styling; Ellen X, Styling Assistent; Amel Abdulazez 
In collaboration with Alexander Söder

Instaflyers, pre-party and after party at Dramaten


Recess 10th Anniversary
Graphic Design•Proposal Only•2018






Recess is a public gallery and artist workspace. Since 2009, Recess has produced more than hundred programs and exhibitions many of which deals with critical themes. This is a proposal and an assignment during TSS in New York.
  Inspired by the distribution and boldness by which social movements have expressed themselves historically, I created a design for Recess Gallery to use for there 10th Anniversary. Using colours to separate the four themes and high-lighting core words within the text, makes the subjects hard to overlook.∙

Texts might have undergone some editing. For full texts, go to Recess Gallery’s website.



Sensory Futures
Logo•2018

Sensory Futures–The Work to End All Labor, is an artistic platform and a series of seminars including gatherings, performances and workshops organized by curator Marianna Feher.∙ 



Beckmans Fashion Collaboration
Art Direction, Graphic Design & Set Design•2014


FASHION FROM TOP LEFT Patrik Guggenberger, Marika Ekblad, Caroline Brendov, Hanna Björklund Olsson, Hanna Poulsson, Johanna Dellenbrandt and Sanna Vogel. PHOTOGRAPHY BY Ninja Hanna

The third year fashion students were invited to create personal collections based on leading brands on the Swedish fashion scene—Carin Wester, Cheap Monday, House of Dagmar, Filippa K, Our Legacy, Whyred and Örjan Andersson—and show their work at Stockholm Fashion Week.∙











Fine Art Spring
Graphic Design•2016

Catalogue containing projects of MA and BA graduates from the Fine Art program at Konstfack. Each student had a spread to organise themselves within the framework we created.∙

In collaboration with Sigríður Hulda Sigurðardóttir


In Contrast
Art Direction, Graphic Design & Set Design•2014

Overall concept for Beckmans Product Design students at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2014. Including films, catalogue, website, invitations, music, business cards, art direction of photography and exhibition design. 
    The background for the project has its roots in the eastern philosophy of Yin and Yang, a term used to describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent, such as light and dark, life and death, logical and illogical, past and present. Dichotomies and dualities that are in contrast rather than in conflict.∙


In collaboration with Johanna Burai, Tobias Ohlström, Stephanie Abdallah and Oskar Pernefeldt



From top left; Tove Greitz CORPUS CALLOSUM, Minna Magnusson THE DESK, Gabriel Stuart ALMEGA, Camilla Frick Isberg MERIDIAN and Sofie Holt HEY. Photography by PATRIK THALÉN∙
Mark

Research•Ongoing


A generator made of words from my collection of body soap products sold in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.


Today most body soap advertisement and design operate on the principle of hedonism rather than practicality. It is no longer a necessity but an indulgence. This hedonism is the most dominant trope, but not the only one, when selling body soap hyper commercially today. Consumers are e.g. being sold the idea of “the other” by bringing us to places using soap names such as Asian Inspiration or Eastern Spirit.


Based on the English words from the front labels of over 200 body soap products collected in supermarkets in Sweden, Denmark and Norway 2016-now, Body Soap Name Generator explores how language, a combination of “glittering generalities” (emotionally appealing words) and value-laden particularity, is used to sell cleanliness on a massive scale.
    In simulating the constant repetition advertisement depends on, this generator creates more than 800,000,000 possible product names—more than a lifetime of body soap names.∙




“A Short History of Selling Soap consists of material covering the history of selling soap and how it goes hand in hand with the exposure of middle class values, heterosexuality, whiteness and ideas of civilization. Spoken by a woman frequently hired as a professional voice-over for advertising, it creates critical questions of recognition. Who is able to feel relaxed and at ease by a soft voice uncovering the darkness of European history?” Text by Johanna Lewengard


Music by www.meditationrelaxclub.com
Courtesy of Equilibrium Srl/Tobacco Music edition    

Education


Gothenburg University

Western Colonialism and Imperialism
Part-time Course
Sweden 2018-2019

Konstfack University

Master of Fine Arts
Visual Communication
Sweden 2015-2017

Beckmans College of Design

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Visual Communication 
Sweden 2012-2015


Work Experience


Weekday/H&M

Digital Designer
Stockholm 2017-2018

Selected Clients


H&M
Dramaten/
The Royal Theatre
Beatrice Eli
Weekday/H&M
Red Bull
Stureplans-
gruppen
RFSU Stockholm
Konstfack University
Bang
Ottar



Contact


Agga Anne Mette Stage
annemettestage@gmail.com
+ 46 076 417 55 76

Internship and courses 


Typography Summer School

New York, August 2018

Typography Summer School

London, June 2018

Intern at

HeyDays

Norway 2014

Scandinavian School of Design

6 month course
Graphic Design Program
Denmark 2011


Body Soap Name Generator Exhibitions 2017-2018


Tokyo Design/Art Festival

Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
19-29 Oct. 2018

YSD

Rian, Falkenberg
2 June-26 Aug. 2018

YSD

Form/Design Center, Malmö
23 March-13 May 2018

YSD

ArkDes, Stockholm
7 Feb-18 March 2018

Norm Form

ArkDes, Stockholm
6 Oct 2017-11 Feb. 2018

Konstfack

Graduation Exhibition
11 May–21 May 2017

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