Playground #5
170 x 240 mm, 128 pages
Stockholm, Sweden (English-language)
Biannual
First published 2023
Editor-in-chief and creative director: Austė Skrupskytė Cullbrand
Art direction and design: Deimantė Saulytė and Mykolas Saulytis
‘The magazine that dares to explore, question, and re-envision the creative industries.’
Playground is a smartly produced biannual spotlighting and offering insights into Europe’s creative industries, minus the ‘prestige, gatekeeping and even competitive silliness.’
This latest edition for Spring 2026 opens with a report on ‘The importance of play’, showcasing research into the benefits of play in and beyond the workplace via colourful infographics and sharing musings on what play means to the Playground community—from gamified exercise to indulging in the occasional lunchtime margarita. Next, leaf to the centre of the issue for a detailed and creatively colour-coded week-long city guide to Helsinki, noted for its design-loving community, or hear from the likes of multi-disciplinary artist Oliviero Fiorenzi, founder and entrepreneur Carla Camilla Hjort—whose latest worldbuilding endeavour, ‘The Farm Residency’, marked a dramatic shift in pace for the polymath—and curator Anna Sandberg Falk, on her latest exhibition at Sweden’s Ikea Museum. Elsewhere, a new addition arrives in the form of a glossy fashion editorial in collaboration with Lithuanian workwear brand ‘OXOX Club’, alongside a piece on the joys of everyday workwear.
Plus, discover interactive games, from a Nonogram to Sudoku, at strategically placed intervals throughout the issue—encouraging readers to pause and engage.