Every design for Gävle

On the Gästrikland coast lies Gävle, a town where harbour life and an old sense of the urban meet in the same breath. As the residence town of Gävleborg County it is the county's largest place, and yet it keeps an unhurried everyday pulse that shows along the quays and the blocks.

Thoughts easily turn to Gävle slott watching over the town, and to the Swedish Railway Museum gathering steam locomotives and history under one roof. The Gävleborg county museum gives the town's stories a home, while the Joe Hill house recalls a son of the town whose name reached far beyond Gästrikland. At Rudsjön there is a stillness that balances the urban.

It is exactly that mixture – the history in the museums, the weight of the castle and the nearby waters – that makes Gävle a place you are glad to return to. With the Railway Museum marked on the map, the shirt becomes a small way of carrying the town that shaped your days, wherever the tracks lead next.