This year's rising star in the design sky is Beckmansalumn Jonatan Nilsson

"A fearless shaper"

He is recognised for his experimental, exploratory and questioning designs. "Boundless imagination combined with innovation and humour in everything from furniture to packaging design - this year's star is a fearless creator of form," the jury writes.

Jonatan Nilsson's 2017 thesis from Product design , Concretely Happy, explored concrete as a material and the figurative narrative of neoclassicism. It received a lot of attention and led to a scholarship at The Glass Factory in Småland. There he developed the Shifting Shape glass series, which is characteristic of his way of working; artisanal, with new approaches and with a sense of the non-perfect. 

- I wanted to create shapes that can be changed so that something exciting is happening all the time without having to make new, expensive moulds," he tells Elle Decoration.

He therefore developed his own method, using a proprietary metal construction and interchangeable, quick-fit wooden moulds. The moulds can be changed at the same time as the glass is blown, and no two objects are the same.

Winner of "Home gadget of the year"

In addition to the Elle Decoration award, the magazine Rum recently named Jonathan's vases from the "Shifting Shapes" series "Home Goods of the Year".