Designers

Stefan Borselius

Stefan Borselius, born 1974 in Malmö. Educated at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. He attended Carl Malmstens school and Steneby school, and studied furniture carpentry and design.

Thomas Bernstrand

Konsthögskolan, Stockholm 2005-2006 | Konstfack, Crafts and Design, Stockholm 1994-1999 | Denmarks Designskole, Industrial design, Copenhagen 1996 | Inchbald School of Design, London 1988-1989

Ola Giertz

Ola Giertz graduated from Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies in 2010 and soon afterwards set up his own studio in Helsingborg, Sweden. He might seem a minimalist in his approach, but he is all intent on playfulness and having nature as a big inspiration.

Johan Ansander

Once born and raised in Gothenburg, Johan Ansander is now firmly based in Stockholm. Maximus, his very first project for Blå Station is also his master degree assignment at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Adam Goodrum

Hailing from a beachside suburb in Perth, Australia, Adam Goodrum grew up in a backyard making culture. He toyed with the idea of becoming an artist as a youngster, but soon enough embarked on a design career studying Industrial Design at the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney.

Andreas Sture, August Hugoson and Kristofer Jonsson, present and former industrial designers at White, all prefer wood and a fully sustainable approach to design.

Jonathan Hultgren

Even before finishing his master in Spatial Design at Konstfack, the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Jonathan Hultgren makes his debut as a furniture designer with The Princess, a meticulously finished indoor seat. He began his studies at HDK, the Academy of Art and Design at the University of Gothenburg, and then enjoyed an internship at the Danish architect studio Norrøn as well as Wingårdhs in Sweden.

CMP Design

The Italian design trio CMP Design have left Milano for Como in order to get some perspective and creative distance from the chaotic design capital of the world.

Marcel Sigel

When Australian Marcel Sigel was named Best Young Designer by Wallpaper in 2004, he was just starting out with the multidisciplinary Zuii design studio in Melbourne. Nowadays Marcel is based in London, but frequently works in Sydney too.

Alberdi & Maggio

Formerly co-founders of Outofstock, Gustavo Maggio and Sebastian Alberdi now run independent design studios, one
in Singapore and one in Barcelona.

Stone Designs

Stone Designs is the story of two creators (Cutu Mazuelos 1973 and Eva Prego 1974), and their career spanning over twenty-years.

David Ericsson

David doesn’t go for simple slogans like “less is more”; instead he claims design has to be obvious. That might imply a certain love for an Italian master like Enzo Mari, but also for bespoke furniture from all around the world.

Fredrik Paulsen

With a broad education ranging from the Beckmans College of Design, an internship at IKEA, to his MA at the Royal College of Art in London, Fredrik is truly interdisciplinary, and wants design to reflect our contemporary world, and doesn’t want to draw any boundaries to other cultural expressions like art, fashion, and music.

Luka Stepan

Luka Stepan continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.

Gabriel Tan

Gabriel Tan Studio is a design practice working across the borders of craft, culture and technology. Exploring new ways to interpret luxury and break archetypes, the studio works on product design and creative direction for international clients including Blå Station.

o4i

o4i design studio was founded in 2005 by MFA Senior Design Partners Henrik Kjellberg and Jon Lindström, who first met while studying at Konstfack University College of Arts Craft and Design in Stockholm, Sweden 1996.

’Outofstock’ Designgroup

The multi-cultural design collective was born out of a fortuitous meeting in Stockholm, hence the name Outofstock.

Tomoyuki Matsuoka

Tomoyuki Matsuoka, born 1970 in Mie, Japan. Educated at Chiba University in Japan, industrial design, and Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole in Copenhagen, architecture.

Osko + Deichmann

Osko + Deichmann; Blasius Osko, born 1975 in Danzig and Oliver Deichmann, born 1975 in Stuttgart. Educated at UDK, previously HDK, University of Fine Arts in Berlin where they studied industrial design and got to know each other.

Fredrik Mattson

Fredrik Mattson, born 1973 in Malmö. Educated at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. He attended Steneby school and studied furniture carpentry and design.

Jonas Forsman

Jonas Forsman, born 1979 in Växjö. Educated as a civil engineer in technical design at Chalmers tekniska högskola in Gothenburg, and studied furniture design at Steneby school. Lectures at Chalmers and at the University of Skövde.

Börge Lindau

Börge Lindau (1932–1999) born in Åhus, qualified at what was then the Swedish Society of Arts and Crafts in Gothenburg and became one of the country’s most recognised designers. Börge formed Blå Station in 1986.

Johan Lindau

Johan Lindau, born 1963 in Helsingborg. Born and bred in a home of designers. Thereafter educated, qualified and established in the design industry. Johan is Blå Station’s design manager and CEO.

Christine Schwarzer

Christine Schwarzer, born 1970 in Copenhagen. Educated as a designer at Denmarks Designskole in Copenhagen and at The University of Art and Design in Helsinki.

Vardag

Vardag, Lotta Josefsson, born 1968 in Lund, and Annette Petersson, born 1969 in Gothenburg. Educated at the University College for Design and Handicraft in Gothenburg.

Cate & Nelson

Cate Högdahl, born 1978 in Strängnäs, Sweden and Nelson Ruiz-Acal, born 1983 in Seville, Spain. Educated at Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid, where they first met.

Mia Cullin

Mia Cullin was born 1970 in Lund. After studies in Sweden, Italy and Denmark, she received her degree from the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.

Mia Lagerman

Born in Stockholm in 1964, but currently living in Copenhagen from where she runs her own design studio. Studied at the University College of Arts in Stockholm and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Iskos-Berlin

The design team Iskos-Berlin was founded in 2010 in Copenhagen by the two established designers Aleksej Iskos, born in 1965 in Kharkiv, and Boris Berlin, born in 1953 in St. Petersburg.

Staffan Holm

Born in Lidköping in 1977. Graduated from HDK – the School of Design and Crafts – at the University of Gothenburg in 2008.

Peter Molin

Peter Molin. Born in 1962 in Kristianstad, Sweden. After three years studying Wood Science and Engineering in Osby in the south of Sweden, Peter spent a couple of months as a trainee with Börge Lindau at Blå Station in Åhus.

Christian Göbel

Christian Göbel, born 1972 in Sindelfingen (near Stuttgart). Educated at the University of Technology Stuttgart, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and University of Art and Design Helsinki (now called Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture).

Mika Tolvanen

Mika Tolvanen. Born in 1975.

Hertel & Klarhoefer

Peter Christian Hertel, born in Wolfsburg 1968. Sebastian Klarhoefer, born in Berlin 1966.

Peter Brandt

Peter Brandt, born 1959 in Stockholm. Educated at Kungliga Konsthögskolan, the Konstfack University College of Arts in Stockholm, Crafts and Design, and Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole in Cophenhagen.