Designers

	Johan Berhin Johan Berhin is the designer of the series ‘C’ from Berhin Studios, but he is also the father of a number of industrial designs through the years. He has an engineering and industrial background and got his design education at the TU Delft in Holland, and at Domus Academy in Milano. His industrial experience has given him good knowledge of manufacturing, but has also fed a need to make things better – to find ways of manufacturing closer to nature – a way of thinking that forms the base of Green Furniture Sweden.
	Johanna Hansson Johanna Hansson graduated in 2008 from the Production and Design school in Malmö. She has also undergone training in furniture and interior decoration in Florence, Italy. She worked as a designer at Berhin Studios until spring 2011. The ’Twin C’ table and the ’Flour Fellow’ hemp sack are Johanna’s first Green Furniture Sweden products.
	Johanna Landin Johanna Landin, designer of “Fiction”, is currently living in Stockholm where she is getting her master degree in interior architecture at Konstfack. Previosly, she has a bachelor degree in architecture from Chalmers University and studied design at HDK in Göteborg. She likes to work with everything from architecture to furniture design and was also one of the founders of the architecture magazine 4 ARK. Her work has been shown in the Green House at Stockholm Furniture Fair and at DMY Youngsters in Berlin.
	AnnSofie Lennstrand Hallberg Ann-Sofie Lennstrand Hallberg, the artist behind the print "Gecco", was born in Stockholm but grew up in Falsterbo, where she still resides today. Images, colors and patterns have always interested her, and she often expresses her creativity through the use of a wide range of media and materials. After her education, which focused on drawing, painting and layout, Ann-Sofie spent the next ten years as a graphic designer. Recently she also went through a crafts training program. She was the founder of "Ateljé Axplock", an enterprise focusing on artistic expression and the creative process in its many incarnations.
	Barbro Wesslander Barbro Wesslander, the artist behind the print "Sommaräng" (summer meadow), was educated at Beckman’s Formlinje in Stockholm 1992-95, and she has also gone through a textile education program. She resides in Stockholm where she has worked as a freelance designer creating textile products and items for among others Collection Pascale, IKEA, Rörstrand and Åhléns. A long partnership with BodaNova has resulted in a large number of glass ranges utilizing a number of decoration techniques. Barbro also undertakes design projects together with Pia Amsell through their joint design studio Amsell Wesslander.
	Carina Niber Carina Nibér, the artist behind the print "Kyssen" (the kiss), was born in Malmö but spent parts of her youth in the Middle-East. She spent the years between 1984 and 1986 at the “’L’ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne” in Paris, France. After another year in the USA, she moved back to Malmö where she spent the next ten years working in marketing and design. However, Carina felt that this did not give her space to fully channel her ideas. She took up painting in 1998, after she was requested to create an exhibit.Today, the artist keeps a studio at Ribersborg in Malmö, where she prefers to work with oil paint on large canvas. She has held a number of exhibitions at various galleries and enterprises around the country.
	Liv Andersson Liv Andersson finished her Master of Industrial Design at Lund School of Design in 2008, and got a scholarship from The Region of Scania (Region Skånes designstipendium) for her graduation project on biodegradable caskets, “Dust to dust”. In 2009 she received second prize in the Green Furniture Award. Liv likes to dig into, for her, unexplored areas. But you can notice a “green thread” through her work as she wants to aim at, the unfortunately somewhat drained but evident term; environmentally sustainable products or services. Liv aims at using as few materials and production methods as possible. She wants to bring research and design closer together.
	Peter Schumacher Peter Schumacher, designer of “Leaf Lamp”, studied Architecture at the University of Adelaide and Industrial Design at the University of South Australia. After graduation he worked for a number of manufacturing companies and design consultancies in Sydney and Adelaide. In 1999 he took up a lecturing position in the Design school at the University of South Australia where he is currently the program director for the Industrial Design degree. Between teaching and studying for his PhD on pictorial assembly instructions he designs and builds furniture exploring materials, processes and construction techniques. In 2002 he received a Bronze leaf in the International Furniture Design Competition in Asahikawa, Japan for ‘Flight screen’ and was shortlisted in the 2005 competition. His furniture work has been exhibited in Adelaide, Milan and Matra Herford, Germany.
	Amy Hunting Amy Hunting, designer of “BlockShelf”, is a Norwegian furniture designer and illustrator currently based in London. After studying furniture design at Denmark’s Design School in Copenhagen she started working for Established & Sons in the production and product development department. Early 2009 she began working full time on her own furniture and freelance illustrations from her studio in East London. She co-curated and organized 'Norwegian Prototypes', a group exhibition of New Norwegian Design during London Design Festival 09.
	Rimgaile Samsonite Rimgaile Samsonite, designer of “Sheep”, is specializing in interior, furniture and product design. She has graduated from Ingvar Kamprad Design Center at Lund University, Industrial design program. Rimgaile has also undergone interior and furniture design education at Vilnius Art Academy. In 2008, she was awarded the ‘Finalist award’ in PIEp Engineering Creativity Challenge in Stockholm. In 2009, she exhibited at ‘If concept awards 2009’ exhibition in Hannover. Now she lives and works in Malmö at her own interior and furniture design company Manö studio.
	Kazuko Okamoto Kazuko Okamoto, designer of Coffee Cubes, born in Chiba, Japan has a degree from Tokyo’s ICS College of Arts in 1998. After working in Japan for 14 years as a designer, she moved to Milan, Italy were she’s currently working as a freelance furniture and product designer. In 2010 she visited Berhin Studios, and designed the modular sofa system “Coffee Cubes”, now included in the Green Furniture Sweden Collection.
	Maria Westerberg Maria Westerberg graduated in 2008 from Konstfack’s Interior Architecture and Furniture design. Since then she has made a recycle interior collection for the store Indiska, made conceptual installations in fridges for a landscape architect office in Berlin, started her own design/interior studio in Stockholm, are attending exhibitions with her aware, expressive and playful designs, and hosting a Swedish TV show for children with the concept of making new things from old toys. Significant of her work is organic shapes, using materials in a new context and often very colorful. Her most famous work, featured in almost every Swedish magazine and also in the international press, is "T-shirt Chair" the winner of Green Furniture Award 2011, now in production by Green Furniture Sweden.
	La Mamba Studio La Mamba Studio, designer of “Twin”, is based in Valencia, Spain, and is a group of 6 young designers from different origins who emerged after finishing a master degree together in Valencia. With several national and international awards, they have been participating in trade shows around the world such as Milan, Stockholm, Valencia Furniture Fairs or INDEX in Dubai. Their work focuses basically on human experience behavior, concretely on the understanding of the recent ways of interacting between people and objects to create new forms and proposals in the world of furniture. Friendly objects, the imagination of new situations, useful products...they are the main features of their willingness.
	Peter Mäkelä Peter Mäkelä, designer of “Love Connection”, is a passionate designer whitin the fields of furniture, product and graphic design, and runs his own design business; Paziano Design Studio since 2005. Between the years of 2006-2010 he ran the design/art gallery Paziano Expo. He released his first two collections in 2010, Crop Carpets Collection and Pride Collection - which he got awarded the RFSL Honour Prize for the same year. 2009 he won prize for his concept piece Angel Chair at Bolia Design Awards - this concept piece was displayed at the Länsmuseum of Västernorrland together with the legend Nisse Strinning exhibition in 2011. He has several wallpaper and pattern designs on the market. To share his passion for design he was active Board member of Svensk Form for several years. And has more than 10 years of experience as a Art/Creative Director from advertising agencies around Sweden.
	Jan Lampei Jan Lampei finished his master degree of industrial design at Lund´s University in 2011. Many of his latter design projects resulted in pieces of furniture with clever technical twists. Sustainability, innovation and user friendliness are design values that interests him very much. "Jar Lamp", the winner of Green Furniture Award 2012, is his first product in production and is part of Green Furniture Sweden's collection. Since graduation Jan has started an own company and is involved in various design projects.
	Tomás Schön Tomás Schön, designer of “A-board”, Argentina-born, currently living in Italy where he graduated from the Free University of Bolzano, Design and Arts. Always interested in finding solutions, curious and fascinated seeks inspiration from everything, in particular from the nature which is a really useful reference for forms, colors, materials and ideas. In continuous experimentation in music, video, graphic and product design. Since 2010 a member of ADI (Industrial Design Association).
	Silvia Rottenberger Silvia Rottenberger, designer of “Hangaround House”, graduated in 2000 from the Bauhaus- University in Weimar/Germany with a diploma in Fine Arts. Coming from the artistic conception, her path led her via working with stage design, to the applied arts. By working as interior designer she was inspired to work on furniture projects for serial production. In 2008 she founded her own studio „andere räume“// interior + furniture design in Berlin, were she is putting up eclectic furniture designs with a focus on an object character in symbiosis with functionality.