studio esinam

About

studio esinam - creative studio - depicting architecture.

www.studioesinam.com

Story

studio esinam is a creative studio based in Sweden and was founded by art director and architect
duo Josefine Lilljegren and Sebastian Gokah in the spring of 2013.

We portray architecture with the ambition to convey its qualities to an audience with a genuine
interest for interior and exterior spaces. Whether the unique feeling of a city, the texture of a
façade or the balance of an interior space, our aim is to explore and communicate the deeper
qualities of architecture by looking at it from new angles and presenting it in fresh and engaging ways.

To us, architecture is so much more than just visual, it’s the smell of the bakery shop on the corner,
the feeling of a handle when entering a building, the sound of cars or birds forming the back drop
of a scene. It’s the memories and emotions that a place can preserve for decades and bring to life in
a second, the calming experience of your grand parents old cabin or the rush hour in a metropolis.

By covering aspects that may otherwise pass unnoticed we hope to let people discover new details
and ways to appreciate architecture, deepening the experience of the places and spaces we already
love as well as finding new ones to explore.

Our work is divided into three sections, stories, prints and space.

prints

In our first print series elevations, we seek to capture the unique feeling of various cities around
the world. Cities that most of us have some kind of relation to, but probably haven’t seen in the
format of the architectural drawing. By studying the façades, directing attention to details that mostly
pass unseen, we hope to touch upon qualities to the architecture that contribute to the specific
feeling the city imposes on you.

When working with this series we try to let the craftsmanship of the drawing itself be the creative drive,
allowing for new perspectives to arise along the way. Not so much working with intellectual concepts
of what we think about the city, but rather just freely exploring one aspect of it, in this case its façade.