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CITIx60 City Guide Stockholm
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CITIx60 City Guide Stockholm

I am honoured to have been the Contributing Editor for Viction:ary’s beautiful Stockholm city guide, my dream city! I contributed to final editing, proofreading, corrections, writing of chapter of introductions and additional research and copy editing.

‘Stockholm combines a unique atmosphere of natural, rugged beauty with a vibrant city life. Creativity is found in every corner: just step inside the countless museums, restaurants, cafés, shops and nightclubs and see for yourself. Whether it’s a one-day stopover or a longer trip, CITIx60 Stockholm is your inspirational guide to places that only insiders of the stunning Swedish capital know and go.

A unique collaboration with local creatives from selected cities, each CITIx60 City Guide points you to 60 hangouts loved by 60 stars of the cities’ creative scene, covering architecture, art spaces, shops and markets, eating and entertainment. All featured artists and designers are at the cutting edge of what’s on and when, and known for their accomplishments from film making and culinary innovations to advertising and design.’

You can order your copy here.

Trend Tablet
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Trend Tablet

Trend Tablet is an online tool explaining how trends grow, evolve and flow; to help better perceive and understand how trends interact with daily life. It is founded by Lidewij Edelkoort, a highly-influential trend forecaster providing design and lifestyle analysis for the world’s leading brands.

As contributing writer, I write about inspiring trends in Scandinavia, art and design, architecture, film and travel.

01 IKEA fika.jpg Credit Forsman & Bodenfors

Fika: Sweden’s gift to the world

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Stockholm Metro: The longest art gallery in the world

A-Mag Amsterdam Magazine
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A-Mag Amsterdam Magazine

The City of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Marketing asked me to create three issues of A-Mag especially for the Dutch EU Presidency, which is held in Amsterdam from January to June 2016. As editor-in-chief and writer, I created content for the mini magazines which featured EU-related projects, interviews, Q&As, as well as arts and cultural listings, events, exhibitions and eating and shopping pages.

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Issue #2

Issue #3 

 

Angel Magazine
Angel

Angel Magazine

Angel Magazine is a personal newsletter and online magazine where I feature the world’s most sparkling trends. It is a diary of the things I’ve seen, been to and dreamt of (whether online or in “real life”). Art and design, architecture, photography, current projects and collaborations, playlists, travels, and events in Amsterdam and beyond. Things that inspire me, and make my heart beat faster.

It comes out every other Wednesday, straight from my heart, directly to your inbox. Subscribe and read all issues here.

Holland Herald Magazine
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Holland Herald Magazine

Presenting a world worth travelling for

From 2014-2015, I was editor of KLM‘s monthly in-flight magazine Holland Herald, I was in charge of the Hello World pages which features the latest trends in art and design, architecture, music and going out, sports,fashion, gadgets, food, and events in Amsterdam and Holland. We present an inspiring world worth travelling for.

I also wrote, researched and produced content for the Best List pages, which presents the top locations in the world in different themes (Best design hotels, libraries, outdoor restaurants, winter destinations, etc.) with gorgeous visuals and unique, insider content.

I also wrote for the KLM Pages, which features the latest news and promotions of the airline.

The Green Gallery
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The Green Gallery

The Green Gallery is an online magazine celebrating the beauty of plants and flowers. The Flower Council of Holland commissioned me to create articles, interviews and features, curating art, design, interiors, fashion and trends that are inspired by flowers and plants.

Enter a lush world of beautiful plants and flowers:

Issue #2

Green Treasures

The Gathering

Issue #3

Floral Treasures: “The return of Art Nouveau” presents floral-inspired art, design, fashion, photography and even music; “Blooming Melodies” explores the most beautiful album covers featuring flowers.

Floral Fever: Our shopping page presents a selection of romantic blossoms and exquisite flowers to wear, relish and love.

Portfolio: Parker Fitzgerald: Inspired by the all-encompassing and magnificent aspects of beauty in nature, American photographer Parker Fitzgerald created his stunning work “Overgrowth”.
Interview: Local Milk’s Beth Kirby: Discover the golden light and shadows of Beth Kirby’s wonderful prosaic and floral world.
Arts Holland
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Arts Holland

Arts Holland

Discover the world’s arts district

Online editing, writing, blog concept and coordination, magazine, social media, translation, PR and communications

Website Magazine

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Arts Holland promotes Dutch arts and culture to an international audience and markets the cities of Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Rotterdam as the “world’s arts district”. Arts Holland wanders off the beaten path and guides travelers through the beautiful Dutch cultural landscape. We have selected the crème de la crème of cultural places and events, and are therefore the little black book when it comes to cultural travelling.

Arts Holland is a consortium of three leading players in the field of arts, culture, new media and tourism: the Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions, Netherlands Uitburo and Waag Society. Together with organizations in the field of arts, culture, communication, transport, creative industry and technology, Arts Holland develops a series of tools to help guide visitors through the high-brow cultural landscape of Holland.

 

Photo: Krista van der Niet (Arts Holland magazine)

MY ROLE

As editor for Arts Holland, I was in charge of developing, writing and publishing content to the Arts Holland magazine, website and blog. For almost two years, I developed content and wrote texts about museums, cultural institutions, venues and events for the Arts Holland website and magazine.

Moreover, I have developed the concept of the Arts Holland blog. I have developed the editorial guidelines and standards of the blog and was in charge with managing, coordinating, and linguistically editing the work of our bloggers. As web-editor, I plan content in line with the marketing and communications and social media calendars, which entails setting deadlines and coordinating the schedule with bloggers and the team.

Arts Holland is a consortium of several parties, so it is part of my job to network, alert and coordinate with press relations offices, bloggers, photographers, city marketeers and partners involved in the project with regard to content arrangements (follow-ups of articles, requests for photographs, etc.)

Editor’s Picks

 

From Sweden with Love
Angel

From Sweden with Love

FROM SWEDEN WITH LOVE

Swedish Indie music and the Nation Branding of Sweden

From Sweden with Love:

Swedish Indie music and the Nation Branding of Sweden

Master thesis – MA Euroculture
Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
Deusto University, Spain
2010

Abstract

Swedish contemporary music has been gaining popularity abroad. Sweden is the third biggest music exporter in the world, only second to the United States and the United Kingdom. Swedish Indie music, which refers to the contemporary type of music coming particularly from Sweden, is garnering a large number of loyal fans from different parts of the world. This could be tracked in the numerous music blogs solely devoted to Swedish Indie, clubs, commercials and advertisements on television, Hollywood movies and college radio. Perceptions of Sweden, of the country and its culture, then are becoming more and more widespread through Swedish music. The main objective of this study relates to this: to examine the role(s) of Swedish Indie Music in the way Sweden is portrayed and perceived as a nation.

The thesis aims to explore the phenomenon of contemporary Swedish Indie music and to find out how it contributes to the promotion of the image of Sweden as a nation. On one hand, it explores the success of Swedish music and on the other, it tries to grasp what this means for Sweden and how it influences the perception of Swedish culture and identity to the outside world. It intends to find out how Swedish music, particularly Swedish Indie music, plays a role in how Sweden is effectively and positively represented as a nation.

The study was done in cooperation with the Department of Analysis and Coordination of the Swedish Institute and includes a quantitative study of Swedish indie listeners’ perceptions of Swedish culture. It also includes interviews with the Shout Out Louds, Sound of Arrows and Speedmarket Avenue.

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