Closure & Scholarships 2024
Beckman's Scholarship, Fashion
Scholarship of SEK 10,000
Jens Nilsson for the Solid Air collection
"With a mature eye and an ambitious mind, you explore new techniques and constructive methods with precision. Inquisitive and curious, you carefully take on new materials and create meaningful meetings where movement, geometry and emotion sensitively emerge in a personal expression."
ASFB & NK Young Talent Award
Rasmus Georgiadis for the collection A Flourishing Confluence
The young designers of tomorrow are honoured with the NK Young Talent Award. The winner will be honored with an exhibition in Ljusgården at NK Stockholm and will also be visible in both NK's shop windows and digital channels.
"Being daring and pushing the boundaries is not always easy and will always be met with resistance. But with an undeniably eye-catching presentation and sense of a natural flow of shapes, this student's love for couture has inspired and reminded many of us of what fashion is all about fundamentally with its strong impression that can leave you relieved that the last genius is not yet born. Congratulations to Rasmus Georgiadis, winner of this year's NK Young Talent Award."
H&M
Emma Carling for the collection Remsan
SEK15.000
"Well executed concept of a strong, contemporary femininity with clear flirtations to Vivienne Westwood and the punk era. The whole concept is "fashion forward" without compromising the quality and craftmanship in the making. A playful and strong collection!"
Pierre Westerholm for the JEKBEJT collection
SEK12.000
"An outstanding cool, effortless, new version of streetwear. Approachable yet innovative with a good eye for detailing silhouettes and colours."
Jens Nilsson for the Solid Air collection
SEK10.000
"Throughout a well executed concept all the way from idea to craftsmanship in the making of the garments, colour coordination to styling, it all comes together beautifully."
Honorable H&M
Rasmus Georgiadis for the collection A Flourishing Confluence
"The craftmanship and forms holds high international standards. A beautiful, very feminine and sensual Iris van Herpen inspired couture collection. Your collection is representative as a sign of the times!"
Beckman's scholarship, Product Design
Scholarship of SEK 5,000 each
Tove Östlund for the project Back to Basics
"With a forehead and drive that never gives up, for a project that is far from galleries and design shops. Who instead curiously and honestly take an interest in a topic that can be helpful to many. Through a process that invites and allows the user to be involved in influencing and designing the product"
Maja Berthin Tingström for the RÅ project
"In a time of wear and tear and "fixed design", this year's (second) design scholarship goes to a product that can be inherited by generations. In a material that otherwise all too often goes straight into the garbage. A product to live on and with that instills a calm as well as playfulness and invites you to let your imagination wander away and see both meadows and cloudscapes."
Svenskt Tenn's design scholarship
The scholarship is based on the three criteria Quality, Long-term and Good product design and involves SEK 20,000 + two weeks of accommodation in the guest apartment at the Swedish Institute in Paris that is decorated by Svenskt Tenn. In addition, the degree project will be shown at Svenskt Tenn in the autumn of 2024.
Svea Tisell for the Reverie project
Estrid Ericson, who founded Svenskt Tenn exactly 100 years ago, began collaborating with the Austrian architect Josef Frank in 1934. Together, they created the interior design philosophy that Svenskt Tenn still works from. An interior design philosophy that always puts people in focus, where comfort and well-being are the most important keywords.
Josef Frank said, for example, that steel pipes, from which much furniture was made in the 1920s/1930s, were cold and far from human and comfortable. According to Frank, steel pipes were not good for anything at all, you can't even burn with it. Throughout history, furniture has by definition been made of hard solid materials, wood, metal, even concrete that has then been decorated or covered with something soft that meets people.
This year's Svenskt Tenn scholarship recipient has explored a technology that we see as visionary and that changes perspectives and creates a new type of convenience. Svea Tisell has created a piece of furniture by weaving it three-dimensionally. A comfortable armchair has come to life by diligently weaving a 2.5 km long line. Svea's armchair shows that there are other ways to create furniture than the classic ones. An incredibly exciting experiment created through a well-thought-out manufacturing method. The Reverie armchair may not be the most practical given its weight, but we would like to see Svea continue to develop the technology to create new unexpected furniture."
Artists' Collective Workshop
Edward Weinhofer for the project Average Ages
The Artists' Collective Workshop's degree scholarship is awarded annually to a newly graduated visual or design artist from each of Beckmans, Konstfack and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Crafts and Design. Academy of Fine Arts. The scholarship holders are awarded a free one-year guest membership and workshop time corresponding to a value of SEK 5,000.
Formex
Chatrine Schumacher for the C/O project
Scholarship that means an opportunity to exhibit at Formex in August and there make contacts and meet the press.
"This year's Formex scholarship 2024 goes to a project that is based on the personal and self-experienced. In a time where stress and mental illness are on the rise, products for contemplation are needed, but which are also a hint that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel."
Beckmans Scholarship, Artistic Design
Oscar Hagberg for the project Boys
The scholarship is awarded to a student who, during their education and in their degree project, has developed their interest and ability for artistic processes and expressions. The scholarship involves a three-week work stay at Villa San Michele on Capri.
"In a complex web of interviews, texts, images, dance, video and objects, you seek in an exploratory and problematizing process to create a space for dialogue and reflection on how we can understand and reconsider today's images of masculinity and masculinity in a still unequal society."
Beckmans Scholarship, Visual Communication
Salmah Jumbe
For a degree project with a clear direction, carried out with deep respect and with a strong sense of responsibility for one's own position. A project in which film, textile craftsmanship and journalistic work – through an autobiographical lens – become visual communication that touches on women's independence and professional pride. "Everybody knows that we will keep playing." The first scholarship for VK teachers in 2024 goes to Salmah Jumbe's project A Different Mind Is a Problem.
Linnea Arminda Birkelund
What are we looking at? A work of art; an installation of film, sound, light and discomfort that becomes visual communication about darkness and light, about the familiar and the unfamiliar. This project is a hymn to the headstrong, the brave, the unique, and a manifestation of a realized vision. The club culture has taken its natural place at the design school. The second scholarship for VK teachers in 2024 goes to Linnea Arminda Birkelund's project Juxtaposed.
Pubication scholarships from the publisher Volante
Seven book scholarships for:
Caroline Hallersjö, Greta Gustafsson, Jonas Hemlin, Mauritz Larsson, Klara Viridén, Oscar Hagberg and Ludwig Wänelöf.
Promotion of the Graphic Professions (GYF)
Klara Viridén receives this year's scholarship for the project USE ME.
GYF chooses among the degree projects from all over Sweden's programmes with a focus on graphic arts product design. For the second year in a row, they have stuck to a project from Beckmans. Diplomas and money will be handed over in a ceremony in the autumn.
EY Doberman Scholarship
Mauritz Larsson for the project BESTFRIENDS4EVER
"A work that, with its vulnerability, process and astonishing craftsmanship, gives us goosebumps. By being deeply personal, the scholarship recipient gets us to talk about relationships and friendship, while at the same time shedding light on contemporary problems of voluntary and unconditional loneliness. A warm story, baked in cold metal and raw exquisite design choices. We can't tear ourselves away from BESTFRIENDS4EVER."
Essen International Diversity Scholarship
To encourage diversity, Essen International has established a scholarship of SEK 25,000, open to all students on the visual communication program with non-Nordic origin to apply. This year, the scholarship went to a student who is in the second year of the program.
Read more about the scholarship here