Jonas von Stedingk operates individually or as a collaborative practice. Since leaving Grimshaw Architects in 2008, he has worked as a Senior Designer (see CV) and Consultant (see consultant CV). He engages with other like-minded designers and experts in their field to provide made-to-measure teams for each type of project, as well as consulting for a number of clients. Jonas has collaborated with architects, designers, engineers, clean energy developers, universities, fashion designers and more.
He can supply tender-ready information packages and supports procurement processes when required. The designs can be relied upon to be highly manufacturable and cost efficient, minimising design changes during technical development. He can provide strategic guidance and innovation support in a variety of different design fields.
Services provided
Design for the public realm and transit environments
Lighting, shelters, signage, information displays, benches, drinking fountains, litter bins, bollards, cycle racks – you name it.
User and operator journeys
Conceiving seamless user-journeys through transit systems and public spaces, integrating all touchpoints using a Service Design approach to optimise the experience of users, operators and all stakeholders, as well as supplying the design of the touchpoints or experiential elements.
Cultural resonance
Incorporating research-based cultural drivers – subtly and where appropriate – making the solution as resonant as possible with users through cultural rootedness.
Telling the story
‘Telling the story’ of your digital or physical product – and how it is experienced by users – is a fundamental communication tool. This can then be expressed through text, graphics or moving image for internal, fund-raising or media purposes.
Innovation and R&D support
Assisting new product development with user-experience perspectives and research, working upstream right from Ideation and R&D.
Strategic design and consulting
Finding the best development routes from scope definition to project structuring, cultural research, the development of design guidelines, as well as providing design input at all Technology Readiness Levels.
How we work
We all have our favourite objects that make us smile when we use them, or bring an overall experience that is just right. Human beings connect to their objects, tools, habitats, to information and communication not only through all their senses, but also with their minds, emotions, rational and irrational, with their spirits. Our minds then somehow orchestrate all this into an experience. Objects and their functions carry a multitude of messages which will engage all these different facets of our being.
When these messages are too many, disarticulated, artificially clamouring for attention rather than offering a coordinated clarity and meaning, they become irrelevant clutter.
Each new object, function or experience worth making has its own natural and beautiful solution waiting to be discovered.
Jonas von Stedingk
Jonas von Stedingk is an award winning designer who established his practice in 2009 after many years leading projects at the industrial design unit of Grimshaw Architects (in his capacity as Project Leader at Billings Jackson Design, the company that until 2007 ran the unit for Grimshaw). Working within a large-scale architectural practice has meant integrating highly skilled teams, while acquiring a wide knowledge base.
Awarded projects
led by
Jonas von Stedingk
Downtown Doha Street Furniture Design Competition, Winner.
2012
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Good Design Award – NYC Street Furniture
2007
New York City Art Commission, Award for Excellence in Design – NYC Street Furniture
2006
Red Dot Award Product Design – Light Switch Range
2003
Red Dot Award – Light Switch Range
2002
Design Week Award, shortlisted best Industrial Product Design – Building Controls
2002
AIT Innovation Award Architecture and Technology – Building Controls
2002
Waterstone Dissertation Award – ‘Design and Semiotics’
2000
Porada Actus (Italy/Japan) Design Award – Residential Furniture
2000
Herman Miller UK Design Award – Office Furniture
1999
Clients
Whether directly or subcontracted, we have had the pleasure of working for the following companies:
Msheireb Properties, Qatar
New Works Ltd.
AECOM
HPI – Steripen
Aerogenerator Projects Ltd
Cubic Corporation
Camu Morrisson
Sustainable Aviation Fund
IKEA Systems
Hildebrand
Nur Energie
So…? Fragrances
Dublin Metro North
Cemusa
UN Capital Master Plan
IOC Lema
Albanian Republic
Airspan
BAA
iGuzzini
London School of Economics
Times Square Alliance
Herman Miller
Poltrona Frau
Wind Power
Spencer Street Train Station, Melbourne
City and Harbour of Las Palmas
Spinlock
Mabeg Interiors
Absolut Vodka
Merten
Royal College of Art
Ferrograph
Burri
Zumtobel Group
What clients say
“Jonas can empathise with various end users in complex environments, [as] on a transportation project where we attempted to introduce new ticketing media such as biometrics. He was able to work at the intersection of R&D, engineering and design which is a very critical skill in driving user-centric products and solutions.”
Niosha Khayani
Director of Innovation at Cubic Corporation
“Jonas’ design sensibilities for creating not only stunningly beautiful objects but also objects that work well and perform their function is a combination of skills not often seen.”
Peter B. Lau
Senior Manager Design & Delivery – Msheireb Properties – Downtown Doha, Qatar (2010-2015)
“Jonas is a clear thought leader on how design can and will be part of changing our route towards more sustainable solutions.”
Dariush Ghatan
Co-Founder and Partner at Pivot