Marie Åhfeldt

Orange cover illustration for a recycling guide, showing a smiling person looking up at floating recyclable items. The text reads “Easy to sort out! – The student’s guide to recycling”.

Vector-based illustrations for a bilingual recycling guide, signage system and printed calendars for SSSB – Stockholm Student Housing Foundation. Originally created in 2011, the illustrations were designed to make recycling categories clear, accessible and easy to recognise in shared student housing environments.

Client: Stockholm Student Housing / SSSB
Year: 2011
Role: Illustration, signage illustrations
Use: Recycling guide, signs, calendar illustrations

Bilingual recycling sign for carton and corrugated cardboard packaging, illustrated with a carton, paper bag, pizza box and corrugated cardboard.
Bilingual recycling sign for metal packaging, illustrated with cans, lids, caps, foil packaging and metal tealight cups.
Bilingual recycling sign for plastic packaging, illustrated with plastic bottles, containers, caps, foam packaging and a plastic CP10-15,CP17-49,CP52-84,CP87-118,CP122-153,CP156-188,CP191-222,CP226-257,CP261-291,CP296-326,CP331-359,CP364-391,CP397-424,CP430-457,CP463-490,CP496-522,CP529-555,CP562-588,CP595-620,CP628-653,CP661-686,CP694-719,CP727-751,CP760-784,CP794-817
Bilingual recycling sign for coloured glass packaging, illustrated with green, brown and blue glass bottles.
Bilingual recycling sign for clear glass packaging, illustrated with clear bottles and glass jars.
Bilingual recycling sign for paper and newspapers, illustrated with stacks of newspapers, magazines, loose papers and flyers.
Bilingual recycling sign for electrical waste, illustrated with a laptop, television, kettle, cables, lamp and small electronics.
Bilingual recycling sign for household waste, illustrated with a black rubbish bag, food scraps, packaging, a toothbrush and other everyday waste.
Bilingual recycling sign for bulky waste, illustrated with items such as a chair, rolled mattress, broken mirror, books and household objects.

Selection of bilingual recycling signs from the main signage system.

Bilingual recycling sign for small batteries, illustrated with common household batteries.
Bilingual recycling sign for light bulbs, illustrated with different types of bulbs and small lamps.
Bilingual recycling sign for low-energy and fluorescent light bulbs, illustrated with different energy-saving light bulbs.

Smaller format signs were also created for batteries and different types of light bulbs.

Outdoor recycling stations with grey waste cabinets and orange illustrated signs for cardboard, metal, glass and plastic packaging.

Recycling signs installed across outdoor sorting stations at Stockholm Student Housing.

Bilingual wall calendar cover with Swedish and English recycling guide titles, floating recyclable items and a smiling person on an orange background.
Printed wall calendar page for February 2011 featuring a hazardous waste illustration above a bilingual monthly calendar layout.

The recycling illustrations were also used in a printed wall calendar, with one recycling category featured each month. Calendar layout by byBrick Interface.