Scandinavian design beyond the myth fifty years of design from the nordic countries responsibility edited by widar halen and kerstin wickman imprint stockholm arvinius 2003 physical description 226 p ill some col 29 cm available online at the library . Scandinavian design beyond the myth book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers. The launching of this concept was a pan nordic campaign that included a number of big exhibitions that toured all over the world the result of which was a worldwide love and appreciation of scandinavian design that has never faded scandinavian design beyond the myth presents the fascinating story of how this graphic design campaign came to have such astonishing and long lasting effect on worldwide design ideals and aesthetics. This hardcover book is in new condition scandinavian design has become synonymous with the development of modernism in the 1950s and 1960s and it has been featured in numerous exhibitions trade shows and publications either as a commodity in international trade or as part of a cultural project official and unofficial it was to present scandinavia in this way scandinavian design . Scandinavian design beyond the myth makes two assumptions first that there is a myth regarding scandinavian design and second that there is now something beyond that myth assuming that is possible the myth about scandinavian design is presumably that it is homogeneous and democratic based upon a love of natural materials and an aversion to applied decoration with an ability to