Howdy! Good evening!

This will be just a quick, pictureless, blog entry, to get this thing going. A lot of other things are happening right now in my life, so the blogging thing will need to be efficient to work out. Anyway, I’m going to dedicate this inaugural post to give some tips and head-ups of things worth looking at. Also, perhaps, a presentation of some sort could be adequate.

In short, I, Erik, am a 23 year old guy studying the Industrial Design Engineering Masters programme on KTH. I’ve been a journalist and illustrator (to some extent, besides the studies) since 2005, and been running my own business since 2008. In 2013 i started my second company, together with some friends, and as of today we’re just about to launch a Kickstarter campaign, independent to this course. (More on that later on.)

Anyway, I’d like to give some tips and head-ups on different things to have a look at the oncoming days. (And today, but that’s a bit late now, though…)

Earlier tonight, of interest to all you (at least remotely) into design, the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design (Svensk Form) held an evening event at Berns in Stockholm. The event was of a japanese type called PechaKucha, including a larger numer of short, 20 min, speeches. The speakers included Sara Lundkvist, designer, nominee Ung Svensk Form 2014/2015, Mathilda Tham, Professor in Design, Linnaeus University and Johan Molin, CEO Falu Rödfärg, to mention a few. There were also free beer, if that interest you more. 🙂

Also opening it’s gates today were the Swedish Furniture Fair at the Stockholm International Fairs and Congress Centre (Stockholmsmässan). The fair exhibits some great scandinavian design, which every so often is a great opportunity for start-up-business inspiration aswell, and will be open until saturday. I’ll try to swing by on friday or saturday.

On thursday, the fifth of February, the Moment fair (the labour market fair of the machine design section of KTH) is to be held in Nymble. The fair will, amongst other companies, include a stand from KTH Innovation, who act as a helping hand to many start-ups. (Also come by and say hi to me, as I will act as the company host for KTH Innovation, and thus have a limited time to attend that day’s lecture. 🙁 )

Next week, on wednesday the eleventh of February, a start-up meeting called Uppstart will be held in the castle of Uppsala (my hometown). Several of my friends (amongst others Fredrik, the chairman of Entrepreneurs Academy) will attend, and so will probably I. And why not some of you? The tickets are free of charge. The train ride, though, takes approximately one hour (one-way).

So, this became a bit longer than I expected. Duh. But nice to get things going at least. I’ll try to write the next entry shorter.

Erik

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