Harald Peter Ström

Conceptually strong and visually bold identity and design work for commissioners in art and commerce, often with a typographical framework at its core. Usually in the shape of identity systems, books, social media campaigns, websites and t-shirts.

Recent work include book design, merchandise and social media campaign for artist "CRIP" by Diktgymnasiet (2025), catalogue design for Gullringsbo konstsamling (2024), book design for the Aguiar-Lucander Collection (2023)book design for Iscensatta samtal" by Marcus Lindeen (2023), record cover and visual campaign for "The Abyss" by Malcolm Pardon (2024), and identity design for "Left" by Karl Nordin at ISSUES c/o Hudiksvallsgatan (2024).

Commisions for the web with my design studio Konst & Teknik, usually and hopefully with the starting point and end goal in establishing new ways of experiencing the medium.

Recent work include the conceptual framework, visual identity and design of The Community Garden academic digital festival at Linköping University (2022), the norm breaking fashion publication Critical Fashion Project with Maria Ben Saad (2020), and Robopoetics with artist Roger von Reybekiel (2018), the website for art film institution Film i samtidskonsten (2018), as well as the many small websites I keep for myself and constantly update.

Teaching and tutoring in (mainly) interactive design with a departure in the early personal web 1.0, via web 2.0 and even web 3, current tools and technical challanges to current alternatives, the poetic indie web and its resistance to the platformication of our screens, with publishing, (vibe) coding, and Internet culture and history at its core. That's a long sentence.

Recent work include the courses Interactive Design #2: Dataset.zip (2025), Interactive Design #1: Single Serving Sites (2024), Visual communication and the Exhibition: Visual Identity (2024) at Beckmans College of Design and the keynote lecture "Thoughts from 25 years of web designing (when no one is a web designer) ((myself included)) (((maybe)))" at Never Ready at HFKB in Hamburg (2022).

Visual, cultural and technical research, mainly within typography and the Internet. I am deeply fascinated by the stories behind our visual worlds, fonts and typographic fragrances, old and new, professional and amateur, digital and analogue. Most of my design work is rooted in heavy referencing of typographic histories, logotypes, and the collage as method.

Recent work include typographic research for Badin – den okände prinsen by Henrik Hellström (2025), the upcoming initiation of Svensk Webbkonst (2025), rooted in an ongoing deep dive into the technical possibilities of the archiving of the (Swedish) web.

Based in the periphery of Europe, initiating seminars, exhibitions, festivals and situations for lectures and workshops has always been important in order to invite the outside world to the inside of my Stockholm, Sweden.

Recent work include co-organizing design festivals New Platforms (2025) and New Identities (2023) and the Stockholm version of Post Design (2022) co-hosting the Stockholm Art Book Fair (2019), and Kolla on digital design (2016) as well as co-initiating the annual celebration of the letter W as part of the Swedish alphabet (2012–2025).

Both as part of commissions and as self-initiated projects, I initiate and produce physical objects like t-shirts, scarves, hats, and more for exhibitions, events, the internet and myself.

Recent work include the It's going to be a fine day today / It's going to be a fine night tonight football scarves (2025), Happy Hardcore Never Dies t-shirts (2024), and the 63 different artist t-shirts for Downtown #2 at ISSUES gallery (2023).