WORK EXPERIENCE

2014 : 2013
CPH House of Food, version 2.0 EAT™, compostable lunch box for school usage, bagasse, DK

2013 : 2012
Revolution Foods, Project Manager and Packaging Designer. Creating new meal experience and design strategies.
Designing school meal packaging reinforcing Revolution Foods brand and saving client $650.000 annually on compostable packaging and labor, A+CPET and bagasse, US

Revolution Foods, consumer packaged goods and user experience displays, mixed materials, US

2010
VADVAD Industrial Design establishes studio in San Francisco, US

The Danish Art Workshop, 3D print and packaging experiments, artist in residence, DK

2009 : 2010
CPH House of Food, design of compostable lunch box for preschool usage, DK

Leonardo GmbH, home ware, sculptural figurines and marketing material, glass, DE

Sagaform AB, The City, design & concept, stoneware, SE

ASA Selection GmbH,11 am. BRUNCH™, table ware, design & concept, stoneware, DE

CPH House of Food, EAT™, design of biodegradable lunch box for school usage, bagasse, DK

2008
Villeroy & Boch AG, table ware, design and concept development, porcelain; DE

F&H A/S, CYLINDA™, tumbler set, concept & design, glass, DK

Fairview International Co. Taiwan, tea set, concept & design, porcelain, TW

2009 : 2006
Mepal Rosti / F&H A/S, Hot ware, concept & design, porcelain, NL

L´Oréal / Copenhagen Company, merchandise and packaging design, paperboard, DK

2006
Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH, Germany, design and concept development, porcelain, DE

Danish Commerce & Services, “The Advisory Prize 2006”, wood and acrylic, DK

2009 : 2005
Great Place to Work Institute Europe, “Great Place to Work Award”, wood and porcelain, DK

DOT, Designers of Today, showroom for UNICEF, management & design, mixed materials, DK

2004
Danish Commerce & Services, “The Advisory Prize 2004”, wood and porcelain, DK

Århus Academy of the Arts, teaching sculptural form, DK

2005 : 2003
PAPCoRN, compostable tableware, design, testing, branding and marketing, bio-plastics, DK

1998
VADVAD Industrial Design established alongside running ceramic studio, DK

2001 : 1998
Living of Scandinavia, wooden household ware, concept & design, DK

F&H A/S, SUM™, concept, brand and design for the young metropolitan generation. Multiple ranges of products for living, dining, cooking, teamwork, 6 designers, DK

1995
Assisting sculptor, potter & painter Robin Welch, UK

EDUCATION

2005
Internationalization and professionalization, International Centre for Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability, (ICIS), DK

1998
The Design School, Kolding, graduated at the Sculpture Department, DK

1997
Institut für Künstlerische Keramik, guest student, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany

1995 : 1992
The Design School, Kolding, Department for Ceramic and Glass, DK

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010
Denmark by Design, Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009
Cité du design, Saint Étienne, France

Buckminster Fuller, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

2008
Environmental design, Consulate General of Denmark, Shanghai

Growing materials, Expovia, VIA, Paris, France

2007
The Danish Gift, Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Nordic Modernism, Design & Craft, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art & Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan

Coffee & Cake, Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark

HauteGreen, ICFF, New York, USA

2006
Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk og Design, Kolding, Denmark

Massive Change, Bruce Mau Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Use it!, Expo 2005, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan & The Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

2005
RAW : The next generation, ICFF, New York, USA

Super Danes, Danish Culture Festival, Toronto, Canada

2004
New Scandinavian Design, travelling show, USA & Canada

Nordic Cool, Hot Women Designers, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA

Biomaterials, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan

PRIZES & NOMINATIONS

2004
Metropolis Magazine Design Award, RAW, nominated, New York, USA

2003
Danish Innovation & Design Prize 2003, ID-Forum, Horsens, nominated

Danish Design Award, 2003, Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen, nominated

2001
Design Spot Prize, Formland Fair, Herning

Picnic, 3rd. prize, The State Fund for the Arts and Trapholt Art Museum

PUBLICATIONS

2010
Design responsable, Édition de La Martiniére, France

2008
Do Good Design: How Designers Can Save the World, New Riders, Canada

2007
Smart Materials, Birkhäuser, Basel, CH

2006
Vækstfonden, Investment Company, Venture report, “Danish Design – A good investment”, Copenhagen, DK

Innovation, Systime, Århus, DK

2005
Exciting new in plastics, Thames & Hudson, London, GB

Experimental EcoDesign, RotoVision, Hove East Sussex, GB

2004
New Scandinavian Design, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, USA

GRANTS

2010
The Danish Art Workshop (Statens Værksteder for Kunst)

2003 + 2004 + 2010
Otto Bruuns Industrifond

2000 + 2010
Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæums Fond af 1968

2005
Danish Crafts

1999 + 2000
The States Funds for the Arts, grant for entrepreneurs, 2 years