Life At Bonnier - Tuija Kuusela

Tuija Kuusela: The city of museums

By Tuija Kuusela on 2009-11-26
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Our Finnish GROW ambassador takes farewell of Stockholm with a great museum tour.

I can't stop admiring the museums here. The buildings themselves, the diverseness and uniqueness of collections, the exhibition architecture... Undoubtedly Drottningholms Slott (Drottningholm Palace), Nationalmuseum, Vasamuseet (Vasa Museum) and Moderna Museet (The Museum of Modern Art) are gorgeous, but my own favorites are smaller scale places with some curious specialities.

Tuija Kuusela: Exploring Stockholm without a dog

By Tuija Kuusela on 2009-11-12
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Tuija from Finland uses a guidebook for dog owners to explore the Swedish capital.

Stockholm's city centre (Innerstaden) is divided into five neighbourhoods: Gamla Stan, Norrmalm, Östermalm, Södermalm, Kungsholmen and Vasastan. While having tried to get a general view of the whole, I must say that Stockholm manages to be both cosmopolitan and maintain a small town feel. For being such a big city, the center area is surprisingly humane. It consists of a group of islands so you can see water almost everywhere. All the possible pieces of land are not developed — there is a lot of vast or smaller green areas and parks.

Tuija Kuusela: Princesses and princess cakes

By Tuija Kuusela on 2009-10-28
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Tuija from Finland looks forward to next year's wedding boom in Sweden – while working on Bonnier Fakta's wedding calendar.

The content of the work at Bonnierförlagen has been quite familiar to me, because it's very similar to the work I'm used to do at Tammi Publishers. From the very beginning I've been entrusted challenging and diverse tasks: cover designs for both fiction and non-fiction books, typografical inner layouts for non-fiction titles and even some illustrations (an area I almost had forgot in Finland because of the lack of time).

Tuija Kuusela: Trying to get along with the Swedish language

By Tuija Kuusela on 2009-10-15
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Tuija experiences the differences between Swedish spoken in Finland and in Sweden.

Bonnier Fakta has existed for one year. The amount editional staff is about 25 people, and they release about 65 new titles every year. Fakta is the result of a reorganization and merging of the lists of the illustrated non-fiction titles of the three publishing companies that belongs to Bonnierförlagen: Albert Bonniers Förlag, Forum and Wahlström & Widstrand.

Tuija Kuusela: Bonnier – here, there and everywhere

By Tuija Kuusela on 2009-10-01
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Tuija from Finland is impressed by Bonnier’s appearance in Stockholm – and visits an interesting art exhibition.  

17-year-old Albert Bonnier published his first book in 1837. He had come to Sweden from Danmark where his father was running a publishing house, a book shop and a library. Albert's first book was a little booklet, only 32 pages and about 7 x 11 cm (2.75 x 4.33 inches).

Tuija Kuusela: GROW is like a lottery win!

By Tuija Kuusela on 2009-09-17
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Our Finnish GROW ambassador looking forward to work with her passion.

Hejsan from Stockholm!