Front

Front is a rarity: a design group composed entirely of women. The women—Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren and Katja Savstrom—met as industrial-design students at Stockholm's Konstfack, from which they graduated in 2004. The foursome's inventive, slightly offbeat projects are the results of vast curiosity. Animals, a recurring theme, have been used both collaboratively (rat-chewed wallpaper) and inspirationally (a horse-shaped lamp, below). More recently, the Sketch Furniture collection utilized motion-capture and rapid-prototyping technologies to turn freehand drawings into tangible objects. Next, Normal but Strange Things explores the potential of common objects.