Ann-Sophie Qvarnström | |
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Born | Ann-Sophie Linnéa Qvarnström 26 July 1958 |
Nationality | Swedish |
Education | Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm |
Known for |
Illustration Silversmith |
Ann-Sophie Qvarnström (born 26 July 1958) is a Swedish illustrator and silversmith best known for the maps she made for the Swedish role-playing ("RPG") community during the 1980s.
In 1984 she established the company Sophias Ateljé and opened a shop in Stockholm. About this time she came to the attentions of Äventyrsspel and Iron Crown Enterprises [1] and during the following years she made many illustrated maps for their board games and role-playing games. In 1986 she made one of the first Swedish RPG maps in colour, [2] the same year she co-wrote the town module Kandra together with her husband. [3] After that she drew maps for many of the games by Äventyrsspel. [4]
In 1993 she and her company moved to Visby, and she began to focus on jewellery design [5] but she still did some props, patterns [6] and garb for the Medieval Week on Gotland. In 2013 she was one of the winners in the Wiki Loves Monuments competition. [7]