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>Two different Volvo activities; moderating conference on sustainable luxury in Sthlm + lecture at internal conference at Mindshare in London.
>Presentation and workshop for the BMW design team in Münich on the theme Naturally@one.
>Ongoing work as creative director for WallVision group - owner of brands like Boråstapeter, Cole & son, Mr Perswall and Eco.
>Development of hardware for the 100Koll project by Swedish energy company E.ON.
>Production and realization of event DesignBoost-NYC at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. In collaboration with Cooper-Hewitt, Swedish consulate, Material ConneXion and Prime PR. The event included workshops, lectures and different social activities.
>Keynote speaker at the Bienal de Diseño in Santiago de Chile, arranged by Minsitry of Economics and Facultad de Diseno de la Universidad del Desarrollo and Escuela de Diseno de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
>Chairman and moderator at the Industrial Design Summit in Montreaux arranged by marcus evans. With corporations like Audi, Nissan, Hershey, Scania, Sony Ericsson, Absolut, Campari, to mention a few.
>Planning, production and realization of the three day event DesignBoost Telefonplan in Stockholm in collaboration with City of Stockholm, Vasakronan and Konstfack.
>Editor and designer of the book ”Härligast i världen” for nature preservation organisation FNF.
>Planning and realisation of a two day ideation workshop for IKEA with Swedish design schools leading to an exhibition called TILLSAMMANS outside of the royal castle in Stockholm at the time for the wedding of crown princess Victoria.
>Responsible for the planning and execution of a trend trip to Paris with brand teams of Level Vodka, Plymouth Gin and Cruzan rum. The theme of the trip was to find and interesting convergence of luxury, design and retail.
>Creative direction for development of a new series of ABSOLUT glasses for hotels and restaurants around the world (production will exceed one million copies a year). Konstantin Grcic was chosen as designer for the project.
>Participation in round table discussions about the sustainable city with Swedish Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren and Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth among others.
>Trend article for Viewpoint magazine, one of the leading trend magazines in the world. Titled ”Closed minds, closed wallets”.
>Trend Report called “5 key design trends”. Trends that I believe in one way or another will change the future. I’m leaving the surface to instead go in depth and relate my five key design trends to social, economical and ecological patterns and phenomena's over the entire global - local scale.
>Chronicles in Plaza Magazine, article in Tidningen Konstnären (The Artist), DaMN°, Core Magazine and in Futu magazine among others.
Some recent work (assorted and not in any particular order:
>Presentation of future design trends plus ideation and conceptualization workshop with Absolut Vodka in search for the BIG idea.
>Different work with IKEA. Lectures, workshops etc. On sustainability and changing role of design.
>Production of three films for energy company E.ON based on sustainable energy solutions. Documentary film maker Stefan Berg was picked as director for the films.
>Development of Eco Driving concept in ten steps for Audi.
>Judge in the Design 21 competition WOOD, PAPER, CHECKMARK: design an awareness campaign for sustainable forestry.
>Production of an exhibition for City of Malmö showcasing 25 points that make Malmö holistically sustainable.
>Annually guided trend trips to the most prestigious design occasion in the world; Milan Design Week. My clients always experience the most inspirational shows and parties and meet up with interesting representatives from the global design community.
>Production of an exhibition with Iittala based on sustainable city thinking. Seven designers/design groups (Ilse Crawford, Ilkka Suppanen, Stephen Burks, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Apocalypse, Folkform and Satyendra Pakhale) did a personal interpretation of the brand.
>Workshop with Thule, the global market leader in Sports and Utility transportations, concerning development of new concepts and products for the future.
>Planning and realization of creative workshop with urban development company Gehl Architects.
>Full day workshop for communication department from City of Malmö on theme ”How to create better communication for the future”
>Moderator at conference called ”The Future of Shopping” in Gallerian Stockholm.
>Release of Trend report called ”Time to Rethink design”. We are facing a pandemic of ‘designed stuff’ and we have reached a contamination point, a crisis for Design. Why are we not more pertubed and disturbed, why are we so tolerant?
>Several lectures on old roses and my souldfoul relation to gardening in general and old roses in particular.
>Speaker at the Edit 2011 conference in Røros, Norway.
>Invited to a special program by the city of Barcelona program during Barcelona Design Week.
>Planning and production of the knowledge event Designboost - Design Intelligence in collaboration with Audi.
>Participant in workshop concerning urban regeneration of Taipei city, plus presentation at TEDx Taipei.
>Research collaboration with Design Academy Eindhoven. First mission was 30 filmed interviews during the 2010 Graduation show.
>Planning and production of the knowledge event DesignBoost - made in Arnhem. The event took place in Arnhem Holland Holland and consisted of Boost Chats (workshops), Boost Talks (lectures) and several social activities. In collaboration with Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten, Premsela and City of Arnhem.
>Production of workshop with Absolut vodka based on information, trends and inspiration around flavours. World famous perfumer Christophe Laudamiel was invited to present.
>Keynote speaker at ICCCD 2010, International conference on creative city development, in Taipei Taiwan. Theme for presentation was ”A wiser urban life”
>Trend Report on the notion of consumption called “I shop therefore I am”. We consume as leisure and a way to pass time but the power of consumption is being questioned and there’s a change in attitude and way of life. It is all about WHAT we buy and WHAT we choose to invest in.
>Lecture in Ljubljana at the Design conference around the 5 key design trends presented in the latest David Report bulletin.
>Lectures on future trends for different companies, organisations and institutions: Lund University/industrial design, Gothenburg School of design and crafts, Lund University/school of economics and management, SAJK, Star PR, The Oslo school of arkitecture and design, Danish Designers, DeCo, Systemtext, IC Companys, Centro Mexico City and numerous more.
>DJ with friend and film maker Stefan Berg at the club Debaser in Malmö. We played everything from Roxy Music to Babyshambles.
>Swedish representative of the jury at the CPH Vision fashion fair.
>Editor-in-chief and graphic design for biannual magazine “Natur i Sydväst”. The magazine is produced by the local society for the conversation of nature called FNF (I’m also the chairman). FNF runs the one-issue blog Strandhotellstomten (Swedish only).
>Workshop and presentation for IKEA based on future trends concerning Life at home.
>Full day workshop around branding and communication with Trivector, working with sustainable traffic solutions.
>Head of jury for a design competition arranged by colour retail chain Colorama (with 500 shops around the Nordic countries.
>In the jury for a design competition for fair trade cola Ubuntu.
>Panelist in debate at Rabih Hage gallery in London about the convergence of Design and Art.
>Production of three day event for Designboost on the theme ”Design for Life” with 40 BoostChat (workshops), 21 BoostTalk (lectures) and 1 BoostShow (exhibition).
>Conceptualization, production and management of a physical hub in Malmö called Sustainable Center. Commisioned by City of Malmö, Region Skåne, Skanska and E.ON.
>Naming workshop for a new ICT (information, communication; technology) cluster in the Øresund region.
>Lecture for housing co-operatives company HSB on the theme moving from the city to the countryside, and get the best from two different worlds.
>Brainstorming with real estate concern Profi concerning the future use of the now dechristianized church Caroli in Malmö.
>Concept development of exhibition at World Expo in Shanghai, China for energy company E.ON.
>Member of the jury for Greenhouse (student exhibitions) at Stockholm Furniture Fair.
>Co-auther of the book “Designboost 07” about sharing design knowledge and a holistic view on sustainable design.
>Lecture and part of creative workshop for cosmetic company Oriflame.
>Personal logotype for Swiss music designer Olivier Rohrbach.
>Production of event called MOLNET (the cloud) about the future media landscape at the book fair in Gothenburg Sweden.
>Production of the event Designboost-Dutch Design Beyond Design during the Dutch design week. With speakers like Tejo Remy, Ineke Hans and Forma Fantasma.
>Presentation and workshop with IKEA on the theme Make Design Matter
>Part of jury for the Danish international design award called Time to design.
>Lecture for Sodra Pulplabs on the theme Make Design Matter.
>Production of the event Design Intelligence;FASHION in New York. In collaboration with Swedish Institute, Parsons the New School for Design and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum among others.
>Participation in workshops concerning sustainable cities arranged by Planet 2050 and the
>Collaboration with US Cotton research and promotion company Cotton Inc. concerning planning of a presentation tour in Sweden. Among the involved companies were H&M, IKEA, Acne jeans and Filippa K.
>Inspirational trend trip to Mallorca for the ABSOLUT global brand team based on the theme ”Future Luxury”. The assignment included choice of hotel and restaurants, workshops, choice of lecturers, moderating discussions, visit to local entrepreneurs, field checks etc.
>Through my company Designboost we have developed a communication concept for the energy company E.ON based on thoughts around the sustainable city. The concept has been a base in a series of different exhibitions.
>Brand platform and naming workshops with some different companies; Mubito, Mustang, Picnic among others.
>Ongoing concept development of a Nordic design exhibition for Nordic Council that will end up at the World Expo in Shanghai 2010.
>A series of filmed interviews through MiniBoost at the Stockholm Milan and Copenhagen Design Weeks 2009. Among the the people we intervied were Alfredo Häberli, Tom Dixon, Ross Lovegrove, Konstantin Grcic, Bouroullec brothers, Patricia Urquiola, Michael Young, Ineke Hans, Inga Sempe, Monica Förster, Claesson Koivisto Rune and many more.
>Brand platform and naming work with med-tech company Human Care.
>Naming workshop for new service with online project network company Apricon.
>Production of exhibition for car brand Volkswagen on the theme “Climate smart for holistic sustainability”
>Editor-in-chief of a trend report from David Report called ’A checklist for sustainability’. In this issue we will not provide all of the answers, but we will on the other hand ask a lot of questions - one of the most important ways to acquire knowledge. You will also find thoughtful quotes and best practise examples.
>Exhibition for Malmö city called Mitt liv - Mitt Malmö (My Life - My Malmö). Filmed interviews with Malmö personalities telling their personal stories about Malmö.
>Exhibition concept including ten minute film, digital quiz and modular system for construction company Skanska.
>Production of exhibition called ”Cooperation for Change” at Rådhuset in Malmö during the event Road to Copenhagen.
>Workshops with energy company E.ON concerning e-mobility, a new system for loading electric cars, bikes etc in the future.
>Invited by Iceland Design Center to do a lecture in Reykjavik on the theme ”Sharing design knowledge”
>Realisation of ten filmed interviews on the theme Design for Life during the Milan Design Week 2010. Among the participants were Marcel Wanders, Christophe Pillet, Hella Jongerius, Marten Baas and Tokujin Yoshioka.
>>My company Designboost was chosen by Swedish government as one of the official activities during the Swedish EU presidency 2009.
>In discussion panel about soulful gardening during ”Den stora trädgårdsfesten” at Sofiero Castle.
>Planning and production of the Designboost event on the theme Long Live the City, consisting of Boost Chats (workshops), Boost Talks (lectures) and a 2000 m2 Boost Show (exhibition). Among the participants were Ilse Crawford, Michael Young, Jeffrey Inaba, Shari Swan, Jennifer Leonard, Gert Wingårdh and Bjarke Ingels.
>Planning, production and realization of the two day event DesignBoost at Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm with prominent participants like Karim Rashid, Ross Lovegrove, Ilse Crawford, James Irvine, Ineke Hans, Gert Wingårdh, Bjarke Ingels and many more.
>Jury member for the internationel design fair Blickfang.
>Chairman and moderator at the Industrial Design Summit in Cannes arranged by marcus evans. With corporations like Audi, Lego, Samsung, Volvo, Scania, Sony Ericsson, Absolut, Campari, Bentley, Carlsberg, 3M and Nokia to mention a few.
>Moderating and presentation at Innovative Sweden event at Stanford University in US.
>In the jury of the Just Mobile design competition.
>Lecture at Sofia Design Week in Bulgaria.
>Packaging design for a series of scented candles for Calming Park.
>Make Design Matter lecture and participation in workshop concerning the 100koll project by Swedish energy company E.on.
>Series of lectures and moderating of panel discussions in the Nordic capitals in collaboration with interior design company EFG.
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