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Scott Ritcher – Kentuckian in Sweden
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Ingmar Bergman’s grave

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Scott Ritcher 30 July 2012 Design / Pictures! / Quick Fix! / Sweden

Ingmar Bergmans begravningsplats

Doll theatre from “Fanny & Alexander”

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Scott Ritcher 30 July 2012 Architecture / Design / Pictures! / Quick Fix! / Sweden

Bergman Center

Mecca

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Scott Ritcher 29 July 2012 Design / Featured / Pictures! / Quick Fix! / Sweden

The Ingmar Bergman Center on Fårö

That’s better.

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Scott Ritcher 29 July 2012 Architecture / Design / How people act / Pictures! / Quick Fix! / Stoopid / Sweden

Some jackass thinks a church in historic Visby would look better with some unreadable scribbles on it.

Squeezed Up

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Scott Ritcher 16 April 2012 Design / Food+Drink / Pictures! / Quick Fix!

Stockholm-based juice and smoothie bar

Old light switch

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Scott Ritcher 4 April 2012 Architecture / Design / Pictures! / Quick Fix! / Sweden is different than America / Technology

A push-button lightswitch in the hallway of a Stockholm apartment building.

Sergels Torg

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Scott Ritcher 29 March 2012 Architecture / Design / Pictures! / Quick Fix! / Weather

Cup from the Muffin Bakery

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Scott Ritcher 27 March 2012 Design / Food+Drink / Pictures! / Quick Fix!

Have a nice day!

No parking between the signs

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Scott Ritcher 27 March 2012 Design / Pictures! / Quick Fix! / Sweden is different than America

An old parking sign on Södermalm. I love the shapes of the S and Y characters, and how […]

Stockholm Retromässan in 3D

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Scott Ritcher 10 March 2012 Design / Fashion / Featured / Pictures! / Sweden

Today I visited the Stockholm Retro Fair and took along the 3D camera.

Regular people are the new celebrities

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Scott Ritcher 29 October 2011 Apple / Design / Featured / How people act / Louisville / Sweden

The new incarnation of my magazine of interviews with my friends and other so-called “regular” people.

I want you in my REAL magazine

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Scott Ritcher 2 May 2011 Apple / Design / Louisville / Sweden / Technology

K Composite Magazine consists of interviews with my friends and non-celebrities. The next issue will be an amazing new edition on the iPad. I want you to be involved.

Things I’m listening to and watching

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Scott Ritcher 30 September 2010 Design / Music / Quick Fix! / Shop

Mad Men, A Camp, Säkert, Hello Saferide, Jerry Lee Lewis, Grammar Girl, Let the Right One In

Sigvard Bernadotte: Design Prince of Sweden

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Scott Ritcher 26 April 2010 Design / Featured / Sweden / Swedish Royal Family

Part 2 of 2 on the life of Sigvard Bernadotte. See the earlier story of his battle to […]

Malmö’s Turning Torso

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Scott Ritcher 1 February 2010 Architecture / Design / Featured / Sweden / Technology

For decades, Malmö was easily recognized by the image of a monstrous, seaside gantry crane. When plans were announced to remove it in the 1990’s, a movement began to establish a new icon for the city, resulting in this unique, twisting, 54-story skyscraper.

Alternate Reality Check

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Scott Ritcher 21 January 2010 Architecture / Design / Featured / Food+Drink / Immigration / Louisville / Sweden / Transit

Is this thing on? Can you hear me? Testing, testing… Today’s report is being broadcast to you all […]

The Would-Be King is Dead. God Save the Man Who Would Have Been King.

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Scott Ritcher 23 December 2009 Design / Featured / Sweden / Swedish Royal Family

To tantalize their readers, some writers would need to concoct an absurd and elaborate fictitious story about a […]

Street scenes

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Scott Ritcher 3 December 2009 Architecture / Design / Sweden / Transit

It’s another installment of pictures of regular, everyday things how they look in Sweden. This time it’s stuff […]

Grocery Store Items

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Scott Ritcher 16 November 2009 Design / Food+Drink / Language / Sweden

I’ve received a few requests from readers in America to show some images of simple, regular, everyday stuff […]

Karlaplan

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Scott Ritcher 9 November 2009 Architecture / Design / Featured / Sweden / Transit

Karlaplan is a picturesque area of Stockholm on the island of ֖stermalm where five major streets meet to […]

Fontroversy!

Eric Gill Sans controversy
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Scott Ritcher 15 October 2009 Design / Featured / How people act / Sweden / Sweden is different than America

It’s not every day that typography is in the news or that usage of a particular font can […]

Letters to Saint Clinton

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Scott Ritcher 2 October 2009 Design / Featured / Louisville / Magazines+Publishing / Shop

Letters to Saint Clinton Paperback by Scott Ritcher. Same day shipping from Amazon. Scott Ritcher guides you through […]

But I just learned the old one

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Scott Ritcher 4 September 2009 Design / Featured / How people act / Language / Louisville / Music / Sweden / Sweden is different than America

You may remember a story from back in June when I had just attended the music festival in […]

No more meaningless than anything else

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Scott Ritcher 30 August 2009 Design / Featured / How people act / Louisville / Sweden

The rumors are true. In less than a month I will be officially old. I’m not talking about […]

Axelsberg Station

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Scott Ritcher 26 August 2009 Architecture / Design / Sweden / Transit

The Tunnelbana Station in the Stockholm neighborhood of Axelsberg has the name of the area spelled out in […]

Doorbells and elevators

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Scott Ritcher 5 August 2009 Architecture / Design / Pictures! / Sweden / Sweden is different than America

One of my favorite reappearing signs in Sweden is this one that is posted near many elevators. Some […]

New Metroschifter record finally out

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Scott Ritcher 29 July 2009 Apple / Design / Louisville / Music / Sweden

The new record by the Metroschifter, featuring a blood-spattered cover image of our beloved Stockholm, is finally available! […]

Space Invaders at Thorildsplan

Thorildsplan - kcomposite.com
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Scott Ritcher 1 July 2009 Architecture / Design / Sweden / Sweden is different than America / Technology / Transit

As we’ve learned in several previous stories, Stockholm’s Tunnelbana (subway) system is often called “the world’s longest art […]

Personalized Metroschifter CDs: behind the scenes

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Scott Ritcher 30 June 2009 Design / Louisville / Music / Sweden

For about 90 days between January and April of this year, my band, The Metroschifter, was accepting online […]

iPhone and iPod Touch icons

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Scott Ritcher 23 June 2009 Apple / Design / Sweden / Technology

Over the weekend, I made custom iPhone icons for several of my websites. You can see them in […]

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