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INFORMATION ABOUT JAN!
ABOUT ME:

I was born in Västerås, Sweden, in the summer of 1979. After a quick detour abroad in the US and Denmark, my family and I moved back to Sweden and settled down in Gothenburg on the west coast.

I started racing mountainbikes at age 14 and became fairly succesful in the downhill discipline of the sport, winning the silver medal at the swedish championships in 1995. After a couple of bad crashes I lost my teenage sense of immortality and switched over to cross country mountainbike racing. I still enjoy the occasional training ride, but do not have the time nor the level of fitness to race anymore.

After a mandatory stint as a medic and grunt in the swedish army I went to art school in 2001, focusing on painting and sculpture. Being the son of a printer/photograper inevitably lead me into the realm of the design of graphics. I got accepted to the design program at HDK - School of Design & Crafts at Goteborg University, where I in 2004 earned my BFA as a designer/visual communicator.

Struggling to find a decent job in Gothenburg I spent my first year out of school doing freelance work and applying for a Fulbright Grant to study graphic design in the US. Early 2005 I was notified that I had been accepted as a Grantee.

I chose to study at the 2D Design program at Cranbrook Academy of Art, under the guidence of designer-in-residence Elliott Earls. During my time at Cranbrook I have been developing type, designing patterns and making illustrations. My focus has been on combining these three elements in a three dimensional product or installation, with the goal of creating a richer user-viewer-experience and getting my work off the wall.