Johannes Alm Architecture Portfolio
2020
Om mig Jag är en nyfiken och vetgirig person som brinner för arkitektur och dess potential att påverka vår livsmiljö. Hur vi som människor fungerar och agerar är något som länge fascinerat mig, av den anledningen inledde jag min universitetsutbildning inom psykologi. Efterhand insåg jag att ett arbete inom just psykologi inte var rätt för mig och bytte då bana mot arkitektur. Det var först en tid senare som jag fullt ut insåg kopplingen mellan de två fälten. Just den här kopplingen och mitt intresse för människor är något jag tror bidrar till en ökad förståelse och inlevelse i skapandet av de miljöer vi bor och vistas i.
Johannes Alm info@almjohannes.se +46 73 184 2830 www.almjohannes.se
Jag har alltid varit intresserad av arkitektur, utan att nödvändigtvis ha insett att det är arkitektur. Dels intresset av hur vi människor lever våra liv men också mer praktiskt i själva ritandet och uppförandet av byggnader. Under min uppväxt fick jag ta del av flertalet byggprojekt under guidning av släktingar. Att rita sitt hus och sen uppföra det var ingen dröm utan snarare något man arbetade på varje helg. Således har jag en del praktisk erfarenhet i just själva byggandet efter att ha spenderat en hel del tid på byggarbetsplatser. På sidan av arkitekturen arbetar jag en del med bildskapande, framförallt fotografering. Jag upplever arkitektur-fotografering som ett mycket givande komplement till designarbetet eftersom jag då spenderar och upplever arkitektur och rumslighet på ett väldigt uppmärksamt sätt. Den här kopplingen är något jag gärna arbetar vidare med i framtiden. I övrigt är jag en positiv och ansvarstagande person som ser fram emot att lära känna nya kollegor och samarbeta i kommande projekt. Jag trivs och frodas i dynamiska samarbeten där man arbetar mot ett gemensamt mål och på vägen utforskar dess gränser och potential. Jag är väl medveten om att jag har mycket kvar att lära men ser verkligen fram emot att fortsätta utvecklas. Jag tror på arkitekturens förmåga att förändra och påverka oss i vår vardag.
Education
Experience within the field
University
Architect Intern May 2016 Building Design Partnership, BDP - Birmingham Office
Architecture, Master | Fall 2018 - Summer 2020 Lund University Master degree, Advanced Architectural Design & Cultural Heritage Architecture, Bachelor | Fall 2014 - Spring 2017 Umeå University Bachelor of fine arts, main field of study: Architecture Architecture | Spring 2016 Birmingham City University Erasmus exchange term Art History | Fall 2017 Halmstad University 30 hp Graphic design introduction | Fall 2017 Linné University 7,5 hp Croquis | Fall 2015 Umeå University 7,5 hp Social-psychology | Spring 2013 Lund University 30 hp Rhetoric | Spring 2013 Malmö University 7,5 hp Upper Secondary School
Took part in visualising new distribution centre for mayor British electric company (Revit and Photoshop). Also in redesigning minor parts due to building permission issues. Layout of parking and circulation, with heavy traffic loading and offloading at the distribution centre. Participated in start-up of new development in Istanbul, including commercial, office, outdoor and private apartments. Dealing with initial program strategy and volumetric layout. Relevant Skills Photography Photo-manipulation Mapping Visual Communication Woodworking, carpentry Language Swedish, native English, fluent French, essential
Software Knowledge Adobe Creative Suite Sketchup Rhino VRay Autocad, outdated Revit, outdated
Website www.almjohannes.se
Technology & engineering | Fall 2008 – Spring 2012 Bergaskolan, Eslöv 3000 SE credits, extended program.
Reference Thomas Hellquist, Lund University, contact details on request
Work experience
Portfolio Contents
Photographer. April 2017TED, ICA, Lunds University, Kolla, Dreamingless, Visit Wales, etc Prints, event, architecture, travel, editorial.
Master thesis - Frostavallen artist residency ESS Visitor centre Odarslöv
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Facility Responsible, summer 2019 Lund University Renovation and maintenance of Architecture-building
Europan entry - Erosion of Magasin 405
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Facility Responsible, Receptionist. June 2014 - 2018 Friskis & Svettis - Eslöv Part/full-time Store employee. September 2013 - June 2014 Willys Cashier and inventory Mailman. June 2012 – October 2012 Posten Eslöv Extended after summer, cancelled due to injury Painter. Summer 2011 Jeppssons Måleri House painter, occasional more specific tasks. Responsible for a residential area during renovation
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Bachelor project - There is a time and place for spontaneity 26-33 Mapping, India - Gates as social gathering space
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Reflection by Design, Indian Pol typology
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Public bath Bölesholmarna
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Photography and design
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Frostavallen Artist Recidency
Fifth year Ma-project 20 weeks Höör, Sweden Public, exhibition, housing
Brief: Master Thesis project, map and research an area in mellanskåne and develop a project relevant to the findings. See Master thesis for research and more in-depth material. Based on mapping and research an artist residency is created where one as a visitor and artist have a good prospect of creating something within the unique character of mellanskåne. Inspiration has been found in local authors and poets but also very much from the area itself. Frostavallen has a rich and very interesting past as a popular ski-resort, one that is now somewhat forgotten and hidden under layers of rust and weeds. Through this project I hope to revitalise the area and possibly similar areas by highlighting its possibilities and history. The result is a place of dramatic character both in terms of its location and history but also in terms of its design.
1-Skislope & lift 2-Shelter 3-Vacation homes 4-Old sports-court
5-Shelter with wc 6-Abandoned house 7.Dwelling 8-Hostel
9-Auditorium 10-Barracks 11-Storstugan 12-Busstop
13-Conference complex 14-Bath 15-Property-boundary 16-SkĂĽneleden
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Light and the landscape has played a central role throughout this project, but also the meeting between artist and spectator. The proximity to SkĂĽneleden has been taken advantage of by gathering its services by the foot of the new project. As a result of this, a place, where people with different interests and incentives meet, is created. From this
Concept section. place a narrative upwards towards the central part of this project is then commenced, where you as you go get a insight in to the life here.
Roofplan Frosta. The lower volume is treated lika a wall, cathing the afternoon sun and creating a narrative upwards. Starting off from Sküneleden you are invited up in to the small village like setting and as you continue upwards you’re getting glimpses of what life here looks like.
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Plan 0. The different volumes adapts to the topography, resulting in different levels which acts as natural privacy indicators. Solid volumes are interesected by lighter ones resulting in new in-between volumes. The main exhibition space is intersected by a common kitchen leading on to the private areas and a common studio.
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Plan -1. On the lower levels the private units share bathrooms while on the opposite side studios are arranged around an open courtyard, all directed to ensure an even flow of north light. C
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Section A. The intersection of the lighter exhibition volume and the solid kitchen volume creates a balcony and a careful privacy change below. The angled skylight provides changing light conditions throughout the day while the gridded roof-windows ensures a diffues base-light
Section C. The volumes follows the landscape apart from the workshop that extends outwards instead, creating a inviting beginnin to the narrative upwards. Above the workshop a greenhouse is located that extends along with the workshop
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Section B. An elevator connects the exhibition level with the studios. The common area in the lower level can be opened up and extended outwards into the courtyard.
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Section C. The volumes follows the landscape apart from the workshop that extends outwards instead, creating a inviting beginnin to the narrative upwards. Above the workshop a greenhouse is located that extends along with the workshop
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Elevations A funicular along the backside of the workshop makes the different levels accessible and allows for easier materialtransportation to the exhibition and studios.
Along the ridge of the roof a path to the top of the volume allows visitors and hikers to get a new perspective of MellanskĂĽne as you can see above the treeline.
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Artist residence The concrete foundation follows the landscape and as a result every unit has unique solutions to storage and spacial configuration. A sleeping loft creates a small hallway underneath with storage. The wide foundation creates seating nad base for desk and personal belongings.
Artist studios, below. The studios are placed in pairs to enable them to combine into a bigger one. Above the foundation that again follows the landscape, wood panel creates a volume facing north.
Axo, next page. The heavy solid volumes are covered by the lighter timber volumes. The volumes are angled in such a way that ideal light-conditions are present indoors. Apart from visiting the project for the exhibition or courses etc it can also be visited as a detour from SkĂĽneleden since the path reconnects to the trail further down on the north slope. The lookout spot and shelters makes it a possible destination for hikers and people taking a field-day.
Opposite page. The area in front of the workshop acts as the intersection between skåneleden, its shelters and this project. The workshop can extend out into it or it can be used for outdoor theatre and play in general with shelters and their fireplaces by its side.
Above. The stairway to the lookout spot can be reached by making ones way through the studios. From up here you see far into mellanskåne in all directions. Below. A view from the opposing old ski-slope with skåneleden separating them.
ESS Visitor Centre
Fifth year 2 weeks Lund, Sweden Public, Exhibition
Brief: Design a visitor centre for European Spallation Source ESS. The project must include kitchen with accompanying seating, closed meeting rooms, exhibition space, blackbox and needed services. Tower must be accessible. No additional built footprints allowed. Religion and science has throughout history always had a complicated relation. The idea is to find a common ground for them to co-exist. Both science and religion deals with truth, and truth cannot contradict itself. This intersection and perhaps contradiction becomes the driving force in this project.
Up until the 19th century natural philosophy was the common way to study nature. It was an attempt to achieve a speculative unity of nature and spirit. Without going into the conflicts and in many ways outdated view on science with a modern perspective, this willingness to combine faith/religion and science/nature could still be relevant.
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1-Observatory. 2-Blackbox. 3-Sacred space. 4-Elevator. 5-Service, kitchen, restroom. 6-Exhibitionspace leading upwards. 7-Intersection vertical horizontal. 8-Auditorium towards main cross. 9-Balconies. 10-Secondary/back entrance. 11-Main intersection, cross, focus. 12-Main entrance.
Shapes for the additional volumes are found in the church’s original construction. To differentiate itself from the old structure new materials are used in contrast to the original. This new elevator-extension becomes a symbol of science intersecting religion.
Axo. To allow for the tower to be accessible with the new elevator certain elements needs to be removed from the original structure, marked in red. The new additions are marked in colour.
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The insert in the nave can be extended forward towards the apse while still maintaining the connection above. The balconies together with the auditorium insert creates stands for performances and speeches in the apse. Upwards the elevator connects into the old openings and end up in a observatory, a symbol of both faith and science. Plan 3
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Section A. In both transepts a small balcony with enclosed meeting rooms are located. The angle of their walls ensures plenty of daylight to make its way into the rest of the space. Section B, below. The elevator connects the levels in the tower by making use of old openings in the wall. The insert in the nave acts as a auditorium, a stairway upwards and hides a small kitchen and services within.
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Zinc window-ledge Bead of sealant Window frame, alu Passive cill Wood blocking Tower wall Mastic sealant Expanding foam Frame bracket suspension
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Erosion of Magasin 405
Fourth year 3 weeks, group Helsingborg, Sweden Europan 15 Rron Bexheti, Nicholas Hartman, Jenny Lee
Brief: Transform the old harbour warehouse and the crane to a productive new meeting place that bridges North with South and complements the city as a whole. The proposal components are to: 1. Utilise Magasin 405 and re-design the building for new, proposed content. 2. Utilise the crane and re-design it for new, proposed content. 3. Add housing units within the project site. 4. Provide parking solutions for residents and businesses within the project site. Visuals not done by me stated next to them. The magasin and crane are remnants from a different era when the harbour of Helsingborg was a busy and flourishing area. Today they are left to rust and decay. We choose to look to the sea and invite it into the area with a concept of land erosion.
Erosion. The ground level of the magasin sits 1,5m below the new minimum height above sea-level. Instead of opposing the sea we choose to invite it and collaborate with it. As the sea level rises and falls new configurations of space are revealed and hidden from public access. This brings the seafront back to the public with ever-changing scenarios
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1 Helsingborg Central Station 2 New Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge 3 Oceanhamnen Square 4 Varvsparken 5 Ocean bath
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Steel-and-glass extension of the crane’s original control room serves as a small-scale casual exhibition hall with a complementing café/bar. Removed mechanics inside the original control room. All-age Playground (Landscape) Similar landscape design to that of The Magasin is applied to unite the two sites. Additionally, the landscaping creates a connection between the park, the crane, and the pier, and serves as a family-friendly play area for all ages. Materiality
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The Workshops (North Wing) 1 Roof-top extension for more public spaces. A steel-and-glass structure independent of the original structure of the magasin creates flexible 2 spaces for physical and digital workshops, classrooms, offices, co-working spaces, and conference rooms. A piece of original brick-wall of Magasin 405, 3 insulated and “framed” by the independent steel and glass structure.
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The Exhibition Hall (South Wing) A self-supporting steel-and-glass structure 4 inside the original footprint of the magasin creates climatized exhibition spaces. An indoor, but un-climatized exhibition space 5 with landscape stairs & seating that enhances the visitors’ exposure to the waterfront. Landscape stairs & seating whose form follows 6 that of the waterfront serves as an access to the upper level. Materiality Original
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There is a time and place for Spontaneity
Third year Ba-project 10 weeks Ahmedabad, India Public space
Brief: Design a public space on one out of 5 sites visited in India. Base program on previous mapping carried out in Ahmedabad, see project “Gates as Social gathering Space� below. Meeting places in Ahmedabad are very scarce and often restricted for a certain religion, gender or class. This project strives to create a place where a wider audience is welcome. The program consists of a library with media-tech facilities and a sports court striving to mix people with different interests in a place where both of it can take place.
Gandhi road Manek Chowk Jama Mosque
Primary School Girls School Old Gov. building Secondary School Fire Station Municipal Centre
Highschool Islam Highschool
Existing configuration of site
Circulation
Ruins and old walls
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Marketplace
Previous page. View 1. From the big tree in the market area. The hectic everydaylife can extend into the project and make us of resuting shade.
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Above. Roof Plan w circulation. Below. Section A. An open shaft cutting through the library volume creates smaller volumes within the bigger library. This, makes room for shaded windows in the core which, together with the extruded roof on the northside allows indirect daylight from both south and north.
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Plan Ground level. The most western part of the library is raised so that a shaded and open ground level are created, opening up towards the governmental building acting like a small entrance plaza for both the library and the governmental building.
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Section D. In the east volume changing rooms creates the stands. The ground level also houses a media-lab and an auditorium with direct access to the resulting semi-enclosed garden towards the governmental building
Plan level 1. Opens up and extends outwards towards the court. People are encouraged to make their way through the project on the roofs that connects both volumes.
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Plan level 2. The tower has a double facade facing south, blocks the sun and creates a balcony where the activities can extend to. The library volume is a calm reading room.
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Previous page. Section D. Floors above the ground are arranged like a spectator stand would be, being raised the further away from the court you go.
Shading. By extending or adding a secondary facade, blocking the sun.
Ventilation. Small openings opposing the bigger ones allows easy cross ventilation.
As a bypasser I experienced India sort of like a common confusion. But I learned to appreciate it and begun to see it as a spontaneity rarely seen. So this project is to be seen as a celebration of spontaneity and the locals’ concept of meeting up and take things from there.
Gates as Social Gathering Space
Third year 3 weeks Ahmedabad, India Mapping
Brief: Choose a theme, within architectural frames, of mapping after initial site visits, spend 3 weeks on site investigating, mapping, discussing with locals etc. Illustrate your findings for later use in next project (above). An investigation of the gates in this Muslim pol and how they act as more than just entrances into the community. The three different gates leading into the pol all has their own characteristics, being it more official or hard to find, but they all in some way act as a gathering space for people, not just from within the pol, but also from the outside. They form natural meeting spaces and the shade offered by two of them attracts people looking for a place to rest in the heat during the day. Being in a Muslim pol it is almost solely used as a gathering space by men.
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This area is used by small shops and kiosks, it naturally acts as a small meeting place, however it is dependent on the shops and kiosks being open.
This area is purely casual in its nature, here people from both inside the pol and outside meet relaxing under the shaded gate area.
This area is almost explicitly used by the inhabitants of this pol for more personal conversations, however people from the outside may hang out here if they have a close friend from within.
1. Considered the main gate, mostly commercial traffic during daytime with deliveries. Houses two small shops which adds to the flow of people. After lunch it slowly transitions into a more casual gate. This transition is going on until the shops closes, then the gate acts solemnly as a gathering space.
2. Although the most official looking gate of the three this one is barely used commercially. It is offset from the street with space in front of the gate, creating a soft transition into the pol, also enables free passage of the traffic.
3. Squeezed in between two high buildings being very anonymous, even hard to find if not observant. Usually no commercial use, sometimes hosts a lady selling spicy potatoes from her cart. Almost like suddenly being in a private area when entering.
Reflection on Indian Pol typology
Third year 3 weeks Ahmedabad, India Housing
Brief: choose from three housing-typologies where 30% sq/m must be allocated to commercial activities. Specified site within a small pol (community). Fixed dimensions of walls and floors, with a maximum 30 % openings on the long sides. In groups of 8 develop a dwelling-pol and then individually develop each unit. Inhabitants: elderly couple, young couple with child and another couple. The project, a plant shop, was allocated a site between two tall buildings and a wall, overlooking the local gathering square. I decided to cooperate with the wall in order to not create a dead blind alley. Keeping a visual connection from the southern alley to the common square establishes a relation between the two, but still keeps a sense of protection from outside, to the pol, which the inhabitants share.
The ground level are allocated to the plant shop, keeping an area of untouched soil in the back underneath the open shaft and differentiating the levels establishes a notion of openness instead of the blind alley. The Indian notion of an “Otla� is clearly maintained by the plinth’s different levels, inviting the public and marking different kinds of privacy. An Otla is used as an entrance space and a transitional zone, it is both a solution to connecting the housing to the street but it is also full of social meanings symbolizing welcome, auspiciousness and status.
Second level. A common kitchen for all of the inhabitants of the house with visual connections to the square, the neighbour straight across and the alley in the south. Behind the kitchen the bedroom for the elderly couple is located with a close relation to the shaft providing both greenery and light. The outer circulation has space for temporary seating and meetings.
Third level. Leading on upwards by the stairs a small balcony overlooks the whole pol. Continuing inwards the level is divided into two small units with onsuite rest-rooms. Where, as in all of the building, the sink can be transformed into a shower. Between the two units sliding doors enables the units to extend outwards.
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Section-diagram, the housing-parts of the project can be seen as floating above the first floor, anchored to the two long outer-walls, creating a floating box hanging between the two adjacent tall buildings. In the shaft a duality is created where the greenery reaches upwards into the light and the light shines downwards into both the levels above but mainly the plant shop on the ground floor.
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Process models. Focusing on the gradient between public and private the entrance otla was always a key character of the project. This together with a semi transparent front facade invites people in from the street while maintaining a sense of privacy for the dwellers above.
References Light-shaft area, illuminating the plant shop from within. Open to the elements, rain will find its way down to the small open courtyard on the ground level. Making it possible to keep plants within the untouched area of the footprint.
By helping the plants make their way up along the wall the ground floor can take advantage of the softer properties of the plants, resulting in a more pleasant atmosphere to the otherwise harsh wall.
Bölesholmarn Bath house
First year 6 weeks Umeå, Sweden Public
Brief: “From the ancient times to nowadays, bathing has played a main role in human social life.” Develop a public bathhouse on Bölesholmarna Island in Umeälven. Consider the sensorial experience of bathing, in which views, texture, temperature, colour, smell, sound and taste would take place. Requirements, ~250m2 surface area, at least 3 functions, minimum 50% of the surface must be usable all year around. The Island itself is a local hotspot for jogging, walking and exercising with a track running along the shoreline. I based my program approach on the theory of Contrast Hydrotherapy, where you immerse yourself in hot/cold water to stimulate muscle recovery and rehabilitation.
Section A. A simple repeated shape, abstracted from a traditional barnshape, placed after each other with different heights creates a setting much like the forest itself that surrounds the bathhouse.
Walking along the path leading up to the bathhouse one is surrounded by dense forest that also surrounds the building. Although dense, there is always glimpses of the river and opposing waterfront through the trees, and this visual connection is kept when approaching the project.
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Previous page. Ground level plan. Large beams create a sheltered and protected space with big glass-partitions placing you in a universe of itself, observing the surroundings. Basic but spacious pools and saunas offer the visitors the very essence of contrast water therapy. The inserted boxes, inspired by old cottages and boathouses, containing changing rooms, saunas and administration space, create an enclosed inner area where the lounge-area and pools are placed, much like the inner yards of old farms and small villages. Section B. Changing rooms and saunas, enclosed within the wooden boxes, acts like condensations within the forest, obscuring and framing the views.
Circulation. Entering the bathhouse one is able to see straight through the building, without being able to go straight to the poolarea. This translucency along with the beams and two small courtyards creates a scenery much like one you’d come upon in the forest.
Entrance view. The untouched footprints within the project allows the forest to make its way into the artificial forest of beams, blurring the borders between the bath house and the forest.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. - Fitzgerald F. Scott
Portraits of the City
Personal project Photography, theory Sweden
A portrait interpretation of our built environment, how do the city relate to us? Through portraits and street photography from vastly different places I seek a relation between the two, a common imagery, or metaphorical language, an idiom in a way. In retrospect the portraits lends the built environment its personality, it allows us to relate to the city. But the portraits are created from the street photos, the built environment has given the portraits the expression that they in hindsight seems to project on the environment. Originally, “Porträtt av staden” Johannes Alm 2018.
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Brand identity. Next page: Photography print. Lp cover design.
Thank you
Johannes Alm info@almjohannes.se +46 73 184 2830 www.almjohannes.se