Niklas Hessman

If you read my last blog post you seen a bunch of structural designs I did at Smurfit Kappa. One of them were a 6-pack golfball package. For that I also designed some graphics and created a high quality mockup with black and white ink printed right on corrugated board. This mockup was exhibited at the fair Anuga in Cologne 2011 but got stolen. These things just happen when you least expect it, but i thought the whole thing was very funny. Maybe we’ll see the package on the chinese market in a near future, it’s funny, you’ll never know.

The whole idea I came up to then was to create a concept of balls being given away for free back to the sponsor after being played by a professional at a big golf tournament. Then the golfballs are being sold wrapped up by a signed organic packaging. All benefits are then going back and being invested in junior golfers all around the globe.

This whole idea never ended up in my portfolio, cause of being stolen. But maybe for example Titleist might see this blog post and then start up the idea. Then I did my part as a volunteer of a good cause, just for free. Karma is always good.

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As a new member and admin of Vikunja Street Team it is my duty to promote the band. Why not do this via my website and blog. Vikunja are also close friends of mine so I’ll do this with pleasure. They are now in the middle of a launch and promotion after recorded an E.P with producer/songwriter Mats Valentin! Valentin who’s wide range, working with artists from Kelly Clarkson & Westlife to the danish elektropop/rock band Carpark North.
Later on this winter I’ll design a concept design of a cover to this E.P, I’d retouched and edited some photo’s taken by photographer Jesper Petersson. The picture on the right is a sneak peek of that. This is turning out great so look forward to see this in my portfolio later on.

Vikunja also toured with Roxette late last year and played both in Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm and in Malmö Arena. In other words an upcoming band with great ambitions.

Check out Vikunja’s Facebook and push the “like”-button now.

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Now are the new Ahlgrens Bilar box out in stores, that I layouted the graphics for at my previous workplacement at Smurfit Kappa Sweden. Nothing extra ordinary but I’m glad to se it out in almost every grocery store in this country!

One more thing!
At the beginning of this new year, Krönleins Bryggeri are also coming out with some new display boxes and shelf to held their sodas, beer and bottled water. Here I designed an Upper Case letter K, to promote Krönleins in a new interresting way. I almost act as an Art Director at a design agency, kind of, unusual as an intern at a corrugated board manufacturer. But a salesmen at Smurfit Kappa managed to pitch the idea for Krönleins and they liked it!
I’ll try to get a photo of this to post when I see those displays in store.

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In november I’m moving to Stockholm to do my work placement for the third time, this is also the last one before my graduation in March 2012. This time I’m going to spend 4 months at THIS WAY UP, a design bureau in Stockholm. I really like the type of clients they work for.

I made a visit last week and I so liked the place and atmosphere there. This will be a very interesting and exciting time in my career and life.

www.thiswayup.se

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Our school Broby Grafiska has partnered with Beckmans College of Design for a packaging project. I have worked with Arthur Röing Baer. This is his concept, I ‘m only behind some packaging structural design and engineering.

Interesting to see how students from this kind of well known design schools think. They are more like artists with odd ideas and different thinking, they are not so commercially oriented as I am. Personally I think you have to ensure both good marketing and aiming at the right target group to make great visual communication. In the end money does matter.

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This is one of those things I did at my recent Work Placement at Smurfit Kappa. I designed the layouts on a new box for Ahlgrens bilar, the customer approved my PDF and the box is now being mass-produced out in the factory. Where I’m now also going to do some weeks summer job.

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There have not been much bloging lately. Spending my time at the fullest on my second Work Placement.
This time I’m at Smurfit Kappa Sweden, a packaging company outside Halmstad. I’ve spent 8 weeks at their design center, next 4 weeks with CAD and constructual design.

I’m also planning to spend my third Work Placement in Stockholm. 4 months living in the big Capital, looking forward to that! A bureau this time…

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Spendt whole evening and afternoon in the photo studio at school, 8 hours straight. Jacob, Fanny, Tobias and I had a great time together.

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