Niklas Hessman

Hello all,

Now you can let me design your company’s packagings. I mostly work with swedish companies. You’ll find my new business called Hessman Design at it’s brand new website www.hessmandesign.com

— Read more

Like you have been reading before, I designed this capital K concept for Krönleins Brewery. Last easter they used the yellow one, now it’s time for christmas and their julmust.

— Read more

As you already know, if you read my blog, I’m a Structural Designer at Pronord in Halmstad. This means I spend alot of time engineering on solutions for packagings, often special made.
Trying to explain that in words can be hard so I posted a picture on a packaging I made recently for a moving company. This box is made of both plywood, corrugated board and foam. Not to forget some glue and staples. It aimes to ship chrystal chandeliers.

If you understand swedish you can go visit Pronord’s own website and blog over at www.pronord.se

— Read more

I have forgot to blog about this. Krönleins, a brewery company here i Halmstad, decided to update their displays. To do this they turned directly to the manufacturer of the displays, Smurfit Kappa, that also have a graphic design department. At that time I was an intern at that department and got to be the Art Director for this project.
I designed a koncept regarding a capital K, symbolising Krönleins. I also came up with some ideas on design elements that can be changed in colors. This regarding if it’s Christmas time, Easter or Summer. Just change the color (printing flexo klichés) to red when it’s Christmas for example.

The picture in this post was taken in stores on a display around Easter.

— Read more

Since the middle of April 2012 I’m employed as a Structural Designer and Seller at Pronord AB in Halmstad, Sweden.

The company Pronord AB designs and sells custom packagings of wooden and corrugated board, also pallets, to manufacturing industries. I’m becoming the pro and head of the corrugated board department.

This will be a very rewarding time in my career as a packaging designer.

— Read more

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.

Click read more to see the structural design and graphics down below.

— Read more

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.

— Read more

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.

— Read more