Date of birth: May 26, 1978
Place of birth: New Glasgow, Canada
Citizenship: Swedish/Canadian

Education and qualifications

Present time 2003-2006 Furniture Design Program, Carl Malmsten CTD Linköpings University, Stockholm, Sweden

Jan.-May 2005 Industrial Design Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Sept,-May, 2002-2003 Grebbestad Folkhögkola, Sweden. Furniture carpeting

Aug,-May 2001-2002 Grimslöv Folkhögskola, Sweden. Crafts & design in wood & metal

Jan.-May 2000 Université de Chambery, France. French studies

Exhibitions

May 2005 The Wood Coop, Vancouver BC, Canada

February 2002-2006 Stockholm Furniture Fair, Sweden

April 2002 Svenssons in Lammhult

Summer 2002 Gallery Hyttstigen, Ängelholm, Sweden

Work experience

Nov-Jan 2005-2006 The Home Merchant, Singapore/Java. Contracted Furniture Designer

Summer 2004- Started own business & clothing & acessories brand “Gilla Mig”

Languages

Fluent Swedish, English and some French

Skills:

Areas of Experience:
Environmental, Exhibition, Furniture, Product and Toy Design

Computer:
- Photoshop CS2
- Illustrator CS2
- InDesign CS2
- Solid Works CAD 2006
- Freehand
- Microsoft Office

Prototype Experience:
Wood, Metal, Molding/Casting, Scale Exhibit Models, Fabric/Sewing, Paper

Soft Skills:
Strong general knowledge, team spirit, good communication skills, high motivation
and willingness to learn and work hard, flexibility, humor, spontaneous

Other Experiences and Activities:
- Textile Printmaking
- sports ( Kite surf, snow-& wakeboard, hiking, running)
- fashion
- travelling- getting to know new cultures and lifestyles
- to have fun in every way

What I love about design:
Mind opening creativity, optimizing form and function.
Having ingenious new ideas and the faculty to translate it into real products,
working as well with creative as with people from marketing or goods transport…
Form follows function!

What I hate about design:
Sometimes people just do styling without having any advantages in function…
superficiality and sometimes the competition of individuals.