TOMAS JOHANSSON

Designer
A collection of some of my work

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C.V.
Tomas Johansson
Fgelbacksgatan 35
217 44 Malm
Sweden
Born in Uppsala, Sweden, 19820110
Phone: +4673-923 96 72
E-mail: tomaserikaxeljohansson@gmail.com

2004-2009
2006-2007 sept-jan
2003-2004 aug-jun
2003 jan-may
2002 feb-may
1998-2001

2015 jan-current
2009 nov-2014

Education:
Industrial design, Masters program, Lund University
Exchange studies at KHB Berlin,
Preparatory industrial design school in Hllefors academic year
Art School Uppsala konstskola (Folkuniversitetet), 320 h
Spanish studies in Granada, Spain, four months
High school, Science and media (Lundellska skolan, Uppsala)
Work experience:
Senior designer at OPO Design Sweden
Eyewear designer at OPO Design Sweden.
www.opo.se
A brief summary of my work at OPO Design Sweden AB:
Responsability of the design, development, quality and production of the in-house brands and the licenses in the portfolio
of OPO Design Sweden.
The in-house are defined in style, target group and price segmentation. My role is to make sure that all collections have the
products with its correct criterias in time and requested quality to meet the need of our customers.
For the license brands: WESC, Kalevala jewlery, Hello Kitty and The non-violence movment are my with the same above
requirments. For these brands I also keep the creative contacts to make sure that the licens owner are satisfied.
To all collections I am responsible for the supplier contacts in China and the POS-material.
Cooperations: KQ x EL BOCHO is a collaboration with the Berlin based German street artist EL BOCHO. In this project the
artist came up with patterns for printing while I designed the frames and made sure the product came to the market.
ALTEWAISAOME by KunoQvist Eyewear was a project together with the Malm-based fashion designer duo
ALTEWAISAOME. Based on their SS 13 collection we developed matching sunglasses.

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2009 jun-jul

Interior lamp designer at ALC New Dehli, India. I helped the company to design products for a their showroom to appeal to
European and American customers.
Sigga Heimisdottir 0704401469

2008 jan-jun

Industrial design intern at CBD A/S in Copenhagen. (Now Attention A/S). As an intern at a designconsultancy I was engaged in
various design projects on different levels, like; idea generation, concept phase, research phase, modelling and more.
www.attention-group.com

2007 jun-aug

Design of a loudspeaker
Shape Audio AB, Luciano Danonna +46705292270
Exhibitions:
SILMO 2012, -13 Paris International Optical fair
OPTI 2011, -12, -14 Munich Optical Fair.
MIDO 2010, -11, -12 Milano International Optical fair
Stockholm furniture fair, February 2008, Fruit collector and Two in a row.
Designmai Berlin, May 2007, Minimal surfaces
Form och Design Center Malm, May 2006, LED-desklamp.
Recognition: IF-design 2008. Shortlisted in IF concept award with the Fruit collector and the Two In A Row boat concept.
Software: Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign), Alias Studio Tools 13, Rinoceros 4.0, V-ray for Rhino, Hypershoot.
Languages: Swedish native, English fluently, Spanish and German basic
Please contact me for up to date telefon numbers to employers and other references!

EYEWEAR
In-house brands, cooperations and licenses

KunoQvist a collection of expressive

characters and strong colors. Use of
patterns color and texture makes this
collection unique.

Qvist minimalism and light weight is the

key design elements in this collection, but
not without details that makes it pop out.
The designs are mostly in titanium and
beta-titanium for the light weight and
verstile qualitys.

KunoQvist Trof eyewear in exclusive

natural materials such as buffalo horn and
ebony wood. Retro inspired design and
classical shapes.
In this collection we made in only 100 pcs
per color per model. All individually
numbered.

KQ x El Bocho is a cooperation with the

german streetartist El Bocho. Based on
his view on his working envirnoment as
an street artist in Berlin we develop the
concepts. He made the artwork and I
designed the eyewear and the patterns
to fit with the project.

ALTEWAISAOME by KunoQvist Eyewear was a project in cooperation with the Malm-based fashion designer duo
ALTEWAISAOME. Based on their SS 13 collection we developed matching sunglasses. I made the refiend design and
made sure they were able to be produced. Pictures below is from the SS 13 runway in end of August 2012 in Stockholm

Street fashion eyewear in contemporary

retroshapes adapting to the WeSC brand
DNA of the intellectual slacker.

Eyewear for the Finnish classical jewelry

brand Kalevala. I designed frames with a
clear link to the original jewelry.

A pick of POS-material and cases that I have designed during my time with OPO Design Sweden.

BEFORE EYEWEAR
Smaller projects and design school

INDIAN Summer
In 2009 I made a project work in New Delhi, India. Were me and a colleague helped a lamp company to redesign and fill their showroom with lamps suited for the American and
European market. The aim was to make prototypes for the full range, children to grandparents, from country style to modern design. It was a fantastic experience were I had to
take a lot of responsibility to succeed.

CARIBOU A sustainable snowmobile concept

Diploma project
Supervised by Prof. Claus-Christian
Eckhart and Charlotte Sjdell
Semester 10, 2009

Sketch process Caribou

Shape ideation I

Shape ideation II

Shape ideation III

Shape ideation IV

Shape ideation V

Shape ideation VI

I wanted the project to display a possible vision of the future of transport

in winter environment with sustainability in focus. Snowmobiles mostly run
with oil smoking two stroke engines which pollute the environment. Smell,
noise, high toxic output and bad fuel economy. Can it be solved with alternative sources of energy? How will an alternative source of energy change the
conditions for the product?
Winter tourists are very concerned about the environment and how the

climate change will affect their winter mountain experience. The target group
of my concept wants to get the most out of the mountain experience but
they dont go cross country and they dont want to buy or rent an environmentally unfriendly snowmobile that disturbs both humans and animals.
The snowmobiles of today are usually conceived as aggressive, powerful and
intimidating for unfamiliar users. The snowmobiles have much more in common with motorcycles than they have with mountains.

Scale model 1:5

SHAPE AUDIO Luxury stereo speaker

I designed the Shape Audio speaker together with Lucianno Dannona during 2007. I 3D-modelled the first version of the speaker and
the ready product is close to were I left the project. The speaker is casted in brass and gives an outstanding stereo sound from one unit.
It is sold at the very high end of the market. for more info please see www.shapeaudio.com.
Pic from the magazine RUM

TWO IN A ROW Rowing boat

In this project we aimed to design a hybrid boat
with the leisure capabilities of a traditional rowing
boat, but with its rowing efficiency derived from
the modern speed rower.
Exhibited at Stockholm furniture fair 2008.
Two in a row
Resource project.
Supervised by Olof Kolte.
Semester 7, 2007,
Designed together with KarlJohan Hjerling and Tomas
Ekstrm

The seat slides on the rail, as the boat

is rown. This allows the rower to utilize
the power in her legs as well as her
arms, giving the boat a higher speed,
and a longer range.

At the tail of the boat, the gunwale sweeps out. This part has been designed
for multiple usage. The holes in it enable the fastening of fishing rods, and
the handle in between them is used to carry the boat on land.

The holes are also used to fasten a swim ladder. The ladder is collapsible and easy to stow away when not used. While climbing the ladder
from the sea, the handle in the gunwale Is becomes the final step or
grip.

MINIMAL Surfaces + Objects

Designmai is a annual design fair in Berlin, this years theme was digitalability
and our approach was how to design objects in 3d-softwares without letting the
programs set the borders of the design. Our tool to create this kind of objects was
minimal surfaces. Mathematical created surfaces that prior only appeared in the
math labs or in is purest forms in the nature as soap bubbles etc.
The Cheng-Gackstatter surface of fifth order creates two inner volumes. I found
this surface suitable as an Chandelier. It is equipped with two low energy 16 watt
tubes. The light sources can be individually dimmed to achieve desired light levels.
The Chandelier can be moulded in parts and then assembled.
Exhibited during Designmai in Berlin may 2007.
Chandelier
Minimal surfaces + Objects
Designmai Berlin
Supervised by Andreas Hopf
Outside Curriculum,
Semester 6, 2007

TYCHO A lunar surface navigation tool

Take device from docking

station on the leg

Push
button 1 to use startrac
Tycho
STAR design
for project.
positioning
Supervised by Per Liljekvist.
Semester 9, 2008
Designed together with Oskar
Daniel

Brief: Create a portable navigational

tool to be used by astronauts on the
lunar surface.
Fully functional without any
infrastructure

12
12

12

Take device from docking

Push button 1 to use startracker
Accelerometer
continously
update
Push button 1 to update
station on the leg
for positioning
your changes in position, but will
positioning accuracy
gradually lose accuracy.

12
12

Inside the
habitat

Planning of
the EVA route
is made on a
laptop

The mission data is

Use 1: Log site

Use 2: Moving
to site
Accelerometer continously
update
your changes in position, but will
gradually lose accuracy.
Use 3: Emer12

Push button 1 to update

positioning accuracy

12
+

12

Take device from

Aim device at
the sky and press

Push Next Waypoint

button until the desired
waypoint (or the habitat/rover) appears on

log

Programming

12

An interesting
geological site is
found.

Take device
from the leg
docking sta-

Aim device at the

sky and press but-

12

Push Log button to log

position, or if a rock
sample is taken, push the

Use 4: Lost
?

Accelerometers
will continously
update your
position, but will

12

Aim device at
the sky and
press button 1
to update your

Place the device in the

chest holder and walk
with the map always visible, or place the device

hard to reach

joint areas

used for suit control

and mission checklists

joint area

Foam mockup evaluation of the design

hard to reach

55 mm

Tool fastening possibilities

135 mm

170 mm

Interface

Direction arrows

Info

Topographic illustration
Scale

Induction charging / bluetooth

Next way point button

Log position,
with or w/o
Accuracy level
Current way point
symbol

Emergency solar cells

Map zoom

Photo trigger
Distance and estimated time to hab.

Battery indicator Distance and estimated

time to way point

Life size model

Tycho in action
The two directional arrows can be used
to find a target for the heading.
Just aim Tycho at any star, and it will
calculate your position. The tool can
be attached to the chest of the suit
using a dove tail fixture.

The position on screen turns with you

Thank you for your time!

TOMAS JOHANSSON
tomaserikaxeljohansson@gmail.com
tel. 0046739239672
Fgelbacksgatan 35
217 44 Malm
Sweden