Four highlights in Gothenburg today:

1. Mikael Olsson's exhibition Södrakull Frösakull at the Hasselblad Foundation. Mikael gave a guided tour for a small group and it's a fine show. I am very much looking forward to the book.

2. Delicious lunch with generous printers Fälth & Hässler at the book fair.

3. Listening to Martina Lowden (above) interviewing Annelie Jordahl about the book telling the story of Ellen Key's love affairs. Lowden, of course, is the greatest genious of the three.

4. Buying the new Swedish Academy dictionnary of the Swedish language in two volumes.

I should possibly reverse the order here, placing #4 as #1 because of the much appreciated etymology included in the book of words..

Göteborg really makes me happy though. It's always refreshing, being from the Swedish eastcoast, to come to the westcoast and see all the different kinds of brick. Too few brick buildings in Stockholm if you ask me.

Eerie design hotels.

Here I am, a graphic designer at a design hotel, hating design.

Why is it that every time I walk down the corridor on my floor, at a certain spot, this ”sprinkling” kind of music is heard? The sound is triggered by people passing and it's like the sort of jingle that would be used inbetween the different entries of the Swedish heats of the Eurovision Song Contest, about when the artists stop and make funny faces to the camera, saying we-don't-really-take-this-so-seriously.

Also, for the first time ever I could use a desk in my room but it's been designed away and replaced by an unsteady round design table with three silly legs.