Artist of the day, February 8: Simon Stålenhag, Swedish artist, video game developer and musician

Simon Stålenhag is a Swedish artist and designer specialising in futuristic artwork focused on stereotypical Swedish countryside environments. The settings of his work have been adapted into a range of art books and a tabletop game.

Most of Stålenhag's artwork was initially available online, but was later made available as prints. Since then, it has been turned into two narrative art books, Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood. Both focus on the construction of a supermassive particle accelerator called the Loop.

In 2015, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund a tabletop role-playing game also called Tales from the Loop, based off the book of the same name; multiple media outlets compared it to TV series Stranger Things. Set in the 1980s and either the United States or Sweden, players roleplay as a group of teenagers dealing with the aftermath of the Loop. Different classes of characters are equivalent to steretypical childhood roles.

More recently, Stålenhag has covered the western United States in a third artbook, The Electric State. The book's movie rights were sold to the Russo brothers in 2017, with It creator Andy Muschietti slated to be director.

Stålenhag also worked on the platformer video game Ripple Dot Zero. He has also been involved in a variety of commercials, films, and video gaming concepts. In conjunction with the crowdfunding of The Electric State, he produced and released an electronic music album with the same title as a backer goal.

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Astronomen

Invasive Species

Invasive Species

Invasive Species

Maskoten

From Summer Harvest

From Summer Harvest

From Tales from the Loop

From Terminal Condition

From The Amazing Magnetrine Disc 1

From The Electric State: Belltowers

From The Electric State: Billboards

From The Electric State: Burned

From The Electric State: Cablers

From The Electric State: Conception

From The Electric State: Crossing

From The Electric State: Ducks

From The Electric State: Ducks detail

From The Electric State: Gathering

From The Electric State: Hello

From The Electric State: Home

From The Electric State: Home

From The Electric State: Home

From The Electric State: Home

From The Electric State: Home arrival

From The Electric State: House visit

From The Electric State: Local servers

From The Electric State: Local servers

From The Electric State: Main servers detail

From The Electric State: Main servers

From The Electric State: Memorial

From The Electric State: Nesting cliffs

From The Electric State: On ramp.

From The Electric State: Procession

From The Electric State: Render Farm

From The Electric State: Roadwork

From The Electric State: Scavengers

From The Electric State: Sculptures

From The Electric State: The Mascot

From The Electric State: Upload

From The Electric State: Waiters

From The Electric State: War machines

From The Electric State: War machines

From The Electric State: War machines

From The Electric State: War machines

From The Electric State: War machines

From The Electric State: Wipers

The Hunch

The lan

From Things From The Flood: Gameboy

From Things From The Flood: Modem

From Things From The Flood: North

From Things From The Flood: Saab

From Things From The Flood: Stereo

From Things From The Flood: The host

From Things From The Flood: TV

Vagrant Crow

From vertikalstaderna: Ballonger

From vertikalstaderna: Offer