Björn Kusoffsky

Björn Kusoffsky

FOUNDER & CEO

Stockholm Design Lab

Stockholm, Sweden

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Björn Kusoffsky is the CEO/Founder and leads all Creative work at Stockholm Design Lab. The multidisciplinary studio is one of Europe’s most highly respected design companies. Founded in 1998 the concept and goal of Stockholm Design Lab is to be an important platform for the creation of quality design that matters and makes a difference.

His work work is simple, innovative and powerful. Ranging from fashion, wetwipes, titlesequences, websites, artbooks, aircraft livery, advanced packaging projects, cosmetic fragrance and wine packaging to retail environments, logos and graphics, brand repositioning and corporate identity programs for international clients including IKEA, SAS, Volvo, H&M, Scandinavian Airlines, Absolut Vodka, Moderna Museet (Sweden), Ustra Stadtbahn (Germany), Hyundai Card (Korea), The Coca Cola Company (USA), Askul (Japan) and for the 53rd International Art Exhibition in Venice (Italy).

Björn Kusoffsky is represented in the design collection of the National Museum of Art, Stockholm and Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

Björn has received more than hundred awards including 2 Gold Cannes Design Lion, Gold Eurobest, Gold Asia Design Awards , Red Dot and 5 golden eggs Swedish Advertising Association Awards.

He has has been invited to chair and serve on the jury panel at various national and international competitions, such as the One Show, Cannes Lions, Dubai Lynx and HKDA Asia Design Awards.

His work has been exhibited in Tokyo, Berlin, Moscow, London, New York, Zacatecas, Helsinki, Köln and Stockholm.

TALK TOPIC

How Pop Art has influenced his work from the concept development of the exclusive record sleeve by Andy Warhol from his time as a pop artist to the graphic simplicity of IKEA.


3 NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS

Speaker Project

IKEA food packaging

Speaker Project

Askul packaging

Speaker Project

2010 Biennale di Venezia identity

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Roanne Adams / Justin Ahrens / Keira Alexandra / Eli Altman / Jim Bull / Jim Coudal / Mario Eskenazi / Bob Faust / Dawn Hancock / Mark Kingsley / Jennifer Kinon / Björn Kusoffsky / Jonathan Lee / Bobby C. Martin Jr. / Dave Mason / Sebastian Padilla / Jefferson Perky / Sol Sender / Adrian Shaughnessy / Alisa Wolfson / Lance Wyman

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