Welcome to celebrate Design Sweden 60 Years with an evening of talks by some of Sweden's leading designers and creatives. As well as mingling and celebration!

22nd May 2017 @ A House

Our theme is Purpose.

Why do we do what we do?
Why are we designers?
How is this playing a part in our careers?

The event is FREE.

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Speakers

Jakob Trollbäck - Founder & Creative Director

Jakob Trollbäck is the Swedish mastermind behind the award-winning New York design group, Trollbäck+Company, founded in 1999, and The New Division, founded in 2016. ​

Clients include TV networks CBS, AMC, HBO, TNT, TV Land, Scripps Networks Interactive, Nickelodeon and ESPN; film companies HBO Films, Fox Searchlight and Miramax; and advertising clients such as Nike, Volvo, Target and Jaguar.

Unn Swanström – UX Designer at Doberman

Unn is an appreciated speaker and organiser of the meetup “Designers i Stockholm”. She likes human-friendly tech and loves horses. She was nominated IT Woman of the Year in 2015 and thinks technology should work for people, not the other way around.

Angela Tillman Sperandio – Co-Founder, Hall of Femmes

HoF aims to highlight the work of women in art direction and design. The project was founded in 2009 by Samira Bouabana and Angela Tillman Sperandio. It includes lectures, exhibitions, interviews, podcasts and the publication of the Hall of Femmes book series, each book portraying a designer and her work through in-depth interviews and previously unpublished images

Jonas Pettersson – CEO / Co-Founder, Form Us With Love

With Form Us With Love celebrating 10 years, the studio looks back at a decade of hands on work with some of the most influential brands and companies in Scandinavian and international design.

Jonas Pettersson co-founded the studio with John Löfgren and Petrus Palmér shortly after graduating from university. Today he acts as Form Us With Love’s primary business-orientated design strategist and is heavily engaged with the studio’s venture projects; sharing unique knowledge of design and its business to emerging brands and industry leaders.

About Design Sweden

Don’t think of Design Sweden as an organisation. Think of us as a confidant. A silent ambassador that works on your behalf, providing advice, steering debate, lobbying for change. Helping shape better conditions for working as a designer.

For over half a century Design Sweden has been an axis for Swedish designers. However a whole lot has changed since Rune Monö, Carl-Axel Acking and Sigvard Bernadotte chaired the organisation in the 50’s and 60’s. The world has evolved in disruptive ways and design as discipline has developed to reflect advances in new technology and organisational practises. We have gone from confining design to the industrial space to considering it as an all-encompassing process and culture, with an ever-growing amount of job variations. Today, design is present in all companies and organisations and is an unquestioned cornerstone for all start-ups and new initiatives. From its unique vantage point – exploring and analysing emerging behavioural patterns and cultural shifts – design plays a vital part in shaping our surroundings.

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