SUB: Scandic Utilitarian Brutalism
Finnish designer and bike builder Olli Erkkilä is creating some batsh*t rides…
I love how Olli is mashing up American Testosterone with Scandinavian Utilitarian Minimalism, along with an (un?)healthy dose of Eastern-European Brutalism…
Scandinavia is far more industrial, gritty, and rusty than I’d imagined…
I had pictured idealized lands of ultra-modern buildings, moving walkways, and sleek, quiet cars. But when I visited Stockholm and Helsinki a couple years ago, I found those cities reminded me uncannily of Seattle–replete with grungy, tattooed, middle-class hipsters–though tragically lacking good coffee.