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Björn Dahlström
Born 1957 in Stockholm
Member of Swedish Industrial Designers.

Working with graphic and product design in the industrial and furniture sector. Began in mid 1970s with animation and graphics for film and TV- productions. From 78 employd as artdirector and graphic designer in an advertising agency working mainly with printed design.
  Started his own company 1982 concentrating on graphic design for clients like Ericsson, Scania, Atlas Copco etc. Today 60 percent of of the work concists of industrial design, among the clients is Primus (torch and soldering eqipment), Atlas Copco (products for the building industry), Aqua Play (toys and systems for waterplay), Playsam (woodentoys), Gewa (electronic handicap aid), Skeppshult (bicycles), Hackman (cookware) etc.
  Björn Dahlström has during the 90s successfully started several furniture projects, main client in this sector is Cbi interior (member of the Swecode-group).
  Björn Dahlström has also produced exhibition design for several of the abow mentioned clients. Since last year he is also teaching at Beckmans School of Design.


Awards

Exelent Swedish Design Award
1991, 1992, 1993X2, 1994X2, 1995, 1996, 1997X2, 1998X2
Furniture of the year (Sköna Hem. Design magazine) 1995
Plus Design. Germany 1996 (Primus blow-torch)
Design prize. Exelent Swedish Design 1996
(Bench, Zoltan Mobile Milano)
Design prize. Exelent Swedish Design 1997
(Motordriven breaker. Atlas Copco)
Honorable Mention 1998
(Hackman Cookwave)

Exhibitions
La Fabola Swedese 1991. Triennale Milano.
Basic & Beautiful 1992. Swedish architecture and design.
Swedish Design Exhibition 1992. Stockholm Furniture fair.
From Dreams to Reality 1993. Baltic Scandinavian
Crafts and Design Exhibition.
Swezia Luz de Inspiratión 1993. Stockholm.
Thema Domus 1993. Frankfurt.
Exhibition with glass-artist Carina Seth-Andersson.
The Volvo Showroom Stockholm 1996.
Not so simple 1996. Köln, New York. 1997 London.
Design Nordic Way 1997. Kalmar Castle.
DesignX2. Kalmar Art Museum.
Stolar Talar 1997. Art Academy Stockholm.
Puls Young Swedish Design 1997. Bauhaus Archive Berlin.
Puls 1998. St Petersburg, Moscov.
Forum för Form 1998. Temporary Design Museum Stockholm.

Represented
Rööhska Museet. Gothenburg.
Victoria and Albert Museum. London