Erik Björk Portfolio by Erik Björk

ERIK BJÖRK INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Presentation

Erik Björk Industrial Design is a small independent design company based in Stockholm, Sweden. My mission is to design innovative and sustainable products for companies with the aim to improve their business. Through a wide network including, graphic designers, textile designers, architects, animators and engineers, we can handle just about any project and deliver complete solutions making business more efficient.

Pluto

Pendant luminaire consisting of aluminium, acryl and steel wire. The aluminium plates reflects the light into the acryl which projects it out towards the surrounding. The luminiaire can be produced in various shapes and sizes.

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Lättvik

In collaboration with Ludvig Witte

The starting point in the project was to make a new product out of aluminium. We choose to design a modern folding chair, possible to use outdoors as well as indoors. Due to it´s construction Lättvik is far more compact than traditional folding chairs making it possible to store inside a standard kitchen cabinet. The seat and the back are made out of extruded aluminium profiles making it possible to produce the chair in large volumes. Lättvik is published in the brochure Aluminium design 2004.

Skansens Guerezor

Client: Skansen, in collaboration with: Mattias Karlsson

Outdoor cage, breaking up the cube. To break up the strict angular and repiterate architecture, we choose to cut a hole in the wall and let the cage hang out from the wall. This would not only save space and money but also make the border between indoor and outdoor environment more transparent. The visitor would not anylonger have to go inside to find the guerezas but see them outside showing there are more to see inside.

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Transforming toys Client: Brio, Proventus

TRANSFORMER, a shape that changes character When looking at the traditional BRIO range of toys they all have one thing in common, when the child reach a certain age the customers have to start collecting a new range of toys. Everytime they come to that position there is a risk they choose a different brand. Brio toys are so high quality they survives in generations.

BRIO Baby & Preschool Toys

Based on those two facts my conclusion was, why not make a vertical line instead with toys that grows with the children. The result became the start of a family of toys all using interchangable parts making possible to give old toys new life with e.g. a new motorized chassi. In the end all of the toys in the transformer line make one big family that plays with each other.

BRIO Wooden Railway

BRIO Transformer

BRIO Builder System BRIO Life BRIO Games

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Transforming toys Client: Brio, Proventus

Prototype © ERIK BJÖRK INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Roddargatan 8, SE-11620 Stockholm +46 (0) 739876645 info@erikbjork.com

Under construction

In collaboration with Our Demand

The booth which caught our attetion above all was Our Demand. It is an organization founded last year for students of Swedish art schools, such as Beckmans School of Design and Konstfack, supporting them and sending them to the world.This was the first time for them to join the fair, but exhibited high quality art works. +81 plus Column

Design and execution of the stand in collaboration with Our Demand at Future Design Days 2004. Future Design Days was given the grand prix prize at the EIBTM Awards in Barcelona. The event was praised as exceptional and imaginative by the jury. The EIBTM Awards are the most prestigious and global award in the meeting industry.

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Sthlm furniture fair 2005 Group project

Design and execution of the Malmsten CTD stand at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2005

Barça

Barça is a flexible seating system. From the three basic modules it´s possible to add, not just more seating modules but also a table and a lamp. All components are possible to take apart and the upholstery is designed to be washable and possible to replace.

Barça

STOL

The chair should invite to a comfortable experience and get the user to feel taken care of. It should be a chair which with a good treatment should last for a long time, a chair that age with digninty. The seat, back, spine and support can all be dissasembled making it possible to clean, replace parts or upholster the chair. From a technincal viewpoint I have focused to make use of the modern possibilites in cnc machines. Making it possible to get a shape looking partly hand crafted yet still modern. This to get a chair that feels exclusive but still is rational to produce.

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STOL

Elis

In collaboration with Massproductions

DINING IN 60 SECONDS? © ERIK BJÖRK INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Roddargatan 8, SE-11620 Stockholm +46 (0) 739876645 info@erikbjork.com

Elis

In collaboration with Massproductions

The Ellan chair designed by Chris Martin/Massproductions was introduced in the IKEA PS Collection 2005. As a fictitious project Massproductions asked me to design a table for the chair. My aim with the table was to give it a classic shape easy to recognize. At the same time make it unique and give it a completely new construction. The table consists of 6 different parts which assembles whitout the use of tools. The support construction is self interlocking just like the chair. The tabletop can be turned around making it possible to have two diffenrent sufaces. The whole support is made of a recycled wood fiber composite and the tabletop of high pressure laminate. By changing the length of the crossmember and the whith of the tabletop the table can be produced in different sizes using the same legs.

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UNI

In collaboration with Beckers industrial coating

UNI

In collaboration with Beckers industrial coating

Fire was one of the first sources of light that were harnessed by man. In 1878 Joseph Wilson Swan and in 1879 Thomas Alva Edison invented the first light bulb. Since then electric light has taken many different shapes, still the classic light bulb is the most commonly used. The Uni lamp might not change our life the way the light bulb did but hopefully make it a little bit brighter. The Uni lamp is as its name intends universal. Use it as you want as a reading lamp, uplight, spotlight or diffused. The Uni lamp will take any light bulb with a standard E27 socket. Uni is coated with a special rubber like coating which makes it suitable even for the bathroom or the garden.

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Recircle

Recycling paper is a daily task in the modern office. For some reason a lot of other things than paper tends to end up in the waste paper bin.

Recircle

The aim with Recircle is to make waste paper recycling so easy you don´t even have to think about it. The upholstered lid/seat makes it natural to not throw things such as chewing gums and food packages. The extra a handle in the bottom gives an ergonomic grip when it´s time to empty the basket. In the same time you get a practical stool for unexpected guests, all for the purpose of making time at the office easier.

Syskon

Just like siblings the two lamps grows from the same base but turns into two different characters.

Syskon

Made from bent metal tubes Syskon can easily be produced in a variety of sizes. The globe light could be placed on a table or hooked up on the wall.

Sticka

Sticka är en modern flexibel sittplats för utomhusbruk. Tanken med formen är att den inte ska vara så låst som traditionella parkbänkar. Formen talar inte om för användaren från vilket håll man sitter och gör det även möjligt att sätta sig på toppen av den avkapade konen. De bärande konerna kan även användas som rygg/armstöd eller som avställningsyta.

Sticka

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Material Utgångsmaterialet är aluminium- eller stålplåt som laser alternativt vattenskärs. därefter bockas den och svetsas eller nitas. De två konerna förbinds med två trästycken och kan förankras i marken med en gjuten fot av aluminium- alternativt betong. I tuffa miljöer kan även trädelarna ersättas med strängpressad aluminium.

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Koncept Målet med Sticka är att ta fram en produkt anpassad för svensk tillverkningsindustri. En produkt som enkelt kan anpassas efter miljö och behov. Totalt består Sticka av 3 olika delar där varje del används två gånger för att skapa en bänk. I och med att sitsen är det enda som förbinder de två konerna kan längden på bänken lätt anpassas både i fabrik eller på plats vid montering.

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This drawing is property of Erik Björk and is covered by industrial and intellectual property rights and should, whithout written consent from Erik Björk, in no way be copied, reproduced or communicated or otherwise used for any other purpose other than that which has been agreed.

Konerna är stapelbara, där varje kon bygger 5 cm detta ger fördelar både vid lagring och transport.

About Erik Björk was born in Stockholm, Sweden 1978. After two years of metal- and woodwork at Nyckelviksskolan he studied furniture design at Carl Malmsten CTD (University of Linköping) from which he graduated in 2006. He has worked as assistant for Mikael Löfström and later for Massproductions (Magnus Elebäck, Chris Martin). In november 2006 he set up his own design studio in Stockholm, Sweden working as a freelance designer as well as a teacher. Today he works with clients such as IKEA of Sweden and MIND as well as a consultant for Massproduction and Mårten Cyrén.

Curriculum Vitae Clients: 2007- 2007 2007- 2007 2006-2007 2006-2007 2006 2006-

MIND AB Bengt Kjällgren Nyckelviksskolan Mårten Cyrén IKEA of Sweden Mass Productions Rudecksskolan Mass Productions

Work: 2006 Mass Productions 2005 Mass Productions 2002-2005 Löfström Arkitektkontor 2002-2003 Nyckelviksskolan Education: 2003-2006 Carl Malmsten CTD, Liu 2001-2002 Nyckelviksskolan 2000-2001 Nyckelviksskolan 2000 Formverkstan/Folkuniversitetet 2000 Bild och Formstudion 1999 Capellagården Exhibition: 2007 2006 2005 2004 2004

Design Non Stop, Telefonfabriken Stockholm Furniture Fair Stockholm Furniture Fair Future Design Days Stockholm Furniture Fair

Complete set of dining furniture. Wall and pendant luminaries Guest teacher with workshop Leksak. Chef´s knives for IKEA. Designer in project for IKEA PS. Involved as designer in a number of projects for IKEA. Fittings for photo equipment. Freelance designer Involved as designer in a number of projects for IKEA and projects for Paco Capdell, Effezeta and Hafa. Trainee involved in projects for IKEA. Assistant Teacher assistant Bachelor degree in furniture design v/ Leó Jóhannsson Metal design and Craft v/ Lena Bergestad-Jonsson Woodwork and design v/ Kristoffer Jeglinski and Pelle Lindqvist Course in cabinetmaking v/ Lars Andersson Drawing and Paintingi v/ Peder Duke and Andreas Brimberg Course in wood handicraft v/ Lars Rosenberg Showing Syskon and Upp Upp Ner Showing UNI and STOL Exibition design and showing Barça Exibition design and showing Koncept 44 Exibition design and showing Lugnet