Designers

With innovative solutions and flawless design our talented in-house team creates products to meet customer requirements and market demands.

Curious to see which awards we have won? We’ve gathered them all here.

Superlab

Superlab is an experimental design studio that operates at the intersection of research, science, new technologies and human values. By mixing science with a curious approach, they strive to create synergies. The team consists of professionals with different backgrounds and personalities. Their approach is based on the realisation that the best innovations come from daring to explore odd ideas, bringing together different disciplines and testing new concepts.

Over the past decade, Superlab has consistently deepened its knowledge by carefully studying research reports, following trends and conducting different types of studies. They have analysed data from social phenomena, visited prominent companies and gathered information from various relevant sources to gain a deeper understanding of the interplay between the psychological, physiological and digital world of our time. Their latest work, the book ‘Disruptive Future’, is a product of their desire to share the lessons they have learnt along the way.

In an exciting collaboration with Glimåkra, they worked in a typical ‘Superlab’ approach, where research was the basis for the design process. One of the interesting investigations was to study how artificial nature affects the human mind and recovery. It is well known that people benefit from spending time in and experiencing nature. But it turned out that the brain also reacts positively to artificial nature and produces a similar calming effect. The result of their work was the product ‘Jungle Wall’, which addresses the needs of people in artificial environments where we spend more and more time. It creates a sense of naturalness and offers an acoustic environment that promotes well-being.

The collaboration with Glimåkra has been characterised by humility and respect for each other’s deep knowledge in different fields. Together we have been able to capitalise on our unique experiences to create something completely new and exciting. Being part of this shared journey has been both inspiring and rewarding.

Brad Ascalon

Brad Ascalon’s eponymous award-winning studio was founded in 2006. The multidisciplinary designer specializes in furniture for the contract, hospitality, and residential markets, as well as lighting, packaging, and other consumer products. With a reductive approach to his craft, Ascalon believes in uncomplicated and rational design and manages to find the perfect balance of form, function, and concept. Through this approach, coupled with a strong understanding of strategy-driven design opportunities for his clients, Ascalon is widely regarded as one of his generation’s leading American design voices.

Stone Designs

Stone is a mulit-disciplinary study which develops interior design and product projects through a perspective that makes them unique. Its main asset is its human factor. Stone makes projects for and because of the people. Cutting-edge projects; for nearly 25 years, we have always focused on the same objective: to help each other be happier day after day. Because at Stone nothing comes before the idea and the people. At Stone, we speak of nothing beyond life experience. An extremely basic idea that many have forgotten.

Kauppi & Kauppi

Kauppi & Kauppi is a designer duo with roots in the very north and south of Sweden. Johan & Nina have both earned their MFA degree at the Academy of Design & Crafts at The University of Gothenburg. In 2016 they established the shared design studio in Sweden, after living several years in New York and Frankfurt. The studio approaches design in all scales, from spatial projects to tactile objects in the hand’s scale. The studio´s design philosophy is identified by a search for a pure and restrained design, celebrating the added values that makes a project unique and genuine. The inspiration is often found in the contrasts, between north and south and in the dynamic between tranquil nature and pulsing cityscapes. Kauppi & Kauppi has attracted international attention through publications and several design awards such as Swedish Design Awards, Archiproduct Design Award, Muuuz International Design Awards and three German Design Award Gold, to mention some of their honorable highlights.

Tim Alpen

Tim Alpen started his education within design at various craft schools in Sweden but completed his education within furniture design at Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies. After the studies, he started Tim Alpen Design in Stockholm. Today, Tim Alpen Design is a company that works within furniture design, product design and graphic design. Today Tim Alpen Design collaborates with several different companies within various product areas, materials and techniques.

Bertil Harström

Architect SIR/MSA Bertil Harström has collaborated with Glimakra since 1994 and the result is a series of products most of which, like Natura, Nopiano, Wannabetree and Ziggy, are still in production. The latest products Sabine and Global Local Bertil developed in collaboration with the colleague Johan Kauppi. A side from design Bertil today work with development projects in the tourism industry where Treehotel has become an international success. ArcticBath, also in collaboration with Johan Kauppi, is another example of a unique design work in the northern rural areas of Sweden.

Maria Grönberg

Maria Grönberg is the designer behind the wall absorbent Ocean.

Tom Stepp

Tom Stepp MAA MDD is the designer behind the coatrack Klods Hans, the wardrobe Rock ‘n Roll and the display cabinet Link. Tom is an architect at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and winner of several awards. He works with a number of Danish and international companies, known for their exclusive design and good quality.

Fredrik Mattson

Fredrik Mattson is the designer behind the Ablis shelving system. Fredrik has been running his own design studio on Södermalm in Stockholm for several years. The studio designs for several Swedish and international companies.

When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time with his family. He has four children and a beloved wife, so there is always something to do!

Another passion is running. Preferably long distance races like the Marathon. The passion for Marathon is also visible in the way the studio works.

We don’t give up, we don’t take shortcuts or quick rushes. Things are allowed to take time in the studio, we should always be satisfied and proud of our result.