2021 – Present

Creative Director,

EY Doberman Oslo

Doberman.co

For the past five years I've had the pleasure of establishing EY Doberman's Oslo office as creative director. As a creative lead, while being hands-on in projects, my main responsibilities has been assuring quality of deliverables, team culture, and recruitment. As one of the founders, I also contributed to strategic business development, proposal writing, and assembling cross-disciplinary teams for complex product deliveries. The primary project focus has been developing new digital business ventures.

2008 – 2013

Partner & designer

NODE Berlin/Oslo

nodeberlin.com

I joined Anders Hofgaard, Serge Rompza and Andreas Skilhagen as co-founder of Node's Oslo office and as a designer in 2008. The office was, and still is, highly specialized in contemporary graphic design- challenging the status quo and developing highly avant garde visual expressions for international institutions within the arts. We worked with established institutions such as Haus der kultur der welt, Office for contemporary arts (OCA), Stiftung Baauhaus Dessau to name a few.

2018 – 2021

Manager Digital

Snøhetta

Snohetta.com

I joined the established architecture- and design office Snøhetta in 2018, as manager of their new digital design department, bringing a new offering to already established brand in the world of architecture. My main responsibilities was acquiring new business, quality of deliverables, team culture, and recruitment, aswell as hands on project work. Split 50/50. We worked with a broad range of international clients on digital product and service design, e-commerce, and brand identity design.

2002 – 2003

Designer

QUA Associates, Amsterdam

I joined QuA associates in Amsterdam after my studies at Hyper Island as a graphic designer. As a combined architecture- and design office I worked on a wide range of spatial experience projects and visual identities. Pon Caterpillar and Batavus- if you are into the dutch bike scene, was some of our biggest clients.

2013 – 2018

Head of Design

Netlife

Netlife.com

As Head of Design in Netlife I led a department of 30 designers across product (UI/UX) and brand. With its legacy of being a UX-first design agency, my time was split between hands on client projects, primarily focused on creating user-centric websites and services to strategic business development, assuring quality of deliverables, team culture, and recruitment.

2001 – 2002

Internship design

Syrup NYC

As a part of the Hyper Island internship programme I had the privilege of living the dream at an early age (19), living-and working in New York. I was working at brand design studio Syrup (later Kokoro moi), where my days was spent sketching visual concepts and ideas for actual clients, in between getting coffee for everyone. A wonderful year!