Block Zero
Senior Visual Designer (2023 –)
As a senior visual designer at Block Zero, my role involves leading design projects from concept to delivery. I collaborate with teams to craft visually engaging experiences across mediums, ensuring alignment with client goals and brand identity.
My responsibilities include user research and testing, sketching and prototyping, UI design, handover to developers, as well as client and stakeholder communication.
Poetic Collective
Co-founder / Designer / Developer (2013 – 2022)
Poetic Collective is today one of the biggest skateboarding businesses based in Sweden. Founded in 2013 by me and my brother Tom Botwid, it combines influences from the art world with a Scandinavian design language to create a new kind of skateboard brand identity.
My roles have been many, from designing the visual identity and filming skateboarding, to developing both customer facing and b2b webshops as well as working with factories to bring product designs from prototyping all the way through production and delivery.
BUFF Filmfestival Malmö
Senior Visual Designer (2021 and 2022)
- Complete redesign of the festivals visual identity and web platform UI.
- Print design for festival catalog and posters
- Promotional video production
Please Don’t Leave Me
Founder – Designer – Developer / 2020 – 2021
Started in 2020, Please Don’t Leave Me is a clothing brand making everyday wears made in Europe from 100% recycled materials.
I sourced materials and manufacturing partners, as well as created and implemented the visual design language in both digital platforms as well as physical products.
Norrsken Foundation
Videographer – Designer – Developer / 2017 – 2018
At Norrsken I acted as an inhouse content producer, switching between making videos and conducting interviews and photographing, to designing and developing integrations with event management systems with visitor-facing online platforms.
Selection of freelance work
Artists Book Archive Malmö
Photography / UI design / Development (2021)
Photography, design and development of an art archive at artistsbooksarchivemalmo.se
BRUXX Arkitektur
Developer / Motion design (2022)
New site development and logo animation at bruxx.se.
Emerging
Designer / Developer (2022)
Design and development of the company portfolio at emerging.earth.
Bronx Wheels
Designer (2021)
Logo redesign and wheel collection design
First Skate Shop
Designer (2021)
Logo design
Vans skateboarding
Music production (2020)
Original music production for the Vans Scandinavia video Nordic Light.
Smörgåsboard Skate Film Festival
Web Developer (2020)
Development of festival website at smorgasboard.se.
Regionmuseet i Kristianstad
Videographer (2019)
Documentary film about Stockholm Skate Nation for the traveling exhibition Skate 2019
Skate Nation
Designer / Developer (2020)
Redesign and development of the skate nation website at skatenation.se.
Videographer (2020)
Filming and editing of Skate Nation campaign video for more inclusive skateboarding
Side projects
Alla Känner Alla
In the city of Malmö, I, together with fellow filmmaker Peter Johansson, set out to document some of the people we all seem to know about, but never got to know. The project, Alla Känner Alla, ended up as a small video portrait catalog of some of the city’s unsung heroes.
Click here to save the world
Developed in response to the refugee crisis first hitting Europe in 2015, “Click here to save the world” is a different take on a donation campaign. After its launch, the website received an incredible amount of visitors and as well interest from press, as from the UNHCR.
What should I call my…
One of the trickiest parts of starting something new is figuring our what to call it. What should I call my is a typography tool that quickly lets you try out naming ideas to get a feel for what works.
Education
Hyper Island
2015 – 2017
Digital Media Creative
Nyckelviksskolan
2014 – 2015
Graphic Design