Fashion, film, books, apps & advertising... oh and interiors! And art!
As an artist, I'm represented in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia and have painted and exhibited work in NY, LA, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Bangkok, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, London, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stavanger & Stockholm. A small selection of my artistic shenanigans can be found here.

Although I'm originally from Sweden, curiosity has had me living nearly half my life abroad. In Melbourne I wrote a book about the local street art scene, in Amsterdam I designed clothes and in New York I art directed a film for ABC News, nominated for an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic & Artistic Design".

In Montreal I was creative lead on the 2009 global brand campaign for Adidas Originals, which not only set the tone for their advertising for the following four years but also got spoofed by the Simpsons.

In 2009 my magically beautiful and all around awesome daughter was born. A year later, we took off for new adventures, settling at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in Boulder, CO. Here I worked as Sr. Designer for CP+B, working on the rebranding of Jello among other things.

From Boulder, we went around the globe to Beijing, China, where I worked as creative lead on the 2013 BMW brand campaign, for the Chinese market. A campaign of which Yang Kequan, Executive Editor of Shanghai Business Daily, wrote; "Chinese ethnic culture has now proudly become part of the global DNA of BMW".

During 2014 I focused mainly on spatial design, creating the concept and designing the interiors and furniture for the Beijing restaurant Charcoal, which also houses the micro brewery Arrow Factory Brewing. I also designed two more locations for Arrow Factory Brewing in Beijing, a taproom and a restaurant. In addition to this I designed the shared Beijing offices for German advertising agency Serviceplan and MCON.

In 2015 I moved to Shanghai to head the design department for Anomaly and since 2017 I work under my own burning umbrella.

I enjoy collaboration, sharing, pushing and pulling at ideas to find their essence. I value honesty, passion and simplicity. I'm friends with both order and chaos but prefer chaos in the process and order in the result.

Feel free to get in touch! As long as it's fun and creative I'm always interested. So just drop me a line and we'll see where that leads. Sound cool?
Sweet!

carl.nyman [at] hyperisland.se