Graduate awarded Svenskt Tenn's Design Scholarship
- I am developing a wood composite containing wood from spruce bark beetle-infested spruce for 3D printing. Using this material, I have designed and produced a collection of furniture, inspired by the patterns that the spruce bark beetle digs under the bark of the spruce. Partly to show alternative uses for this damaged wood, but also to use design as a means to highlight and communicate the problem of spruce bark beetles," says Simon Mattisson, designer.
About the Swedish Tenn Design Scholarship
The Swedish Tenn Design Scholarship is awarded annually to one of the graduating students at Beckmans College of Design's Design Line whose work has met the criteria for long-term, quality and good product design. The scholarship includes a prize of SEK 20,000 and the opportunity to showcase their work at Svenskt Tenn. Inaddition, the scholarship holder will spend two weeks in a guest apartment at the Swedish Institute in Paris, furnished by Swedish Tenn.
The motivation for this year's prize winner reads: "As a designer, we think it is both visionary and sustainable to address an environmental problem, develop a completely new material and then create objects through 3D printing in an aesthetically elaborate way. The fact that the objects are also beautiful and well designed makes Simon Mattisson and his project Granland a worthy scholarship recipient in 2022."
Granland will be on display in Svenskt Tenn's store at Strandvägen 5 in Stockholm from September 2-11, 2022.
Simon Mattisson's degree project here: https://2022.beckmans.college/product design /simon-mattisson
