Beckman's glass fellow 2020 appointed by Svenskt Tenn

In the annual collaborative course with Svenskt Tenn, second-year students at Product design have the opportunity to explore glass design. Their assignment has been to create a product or product series on the theme of "The table setting" and this year the course resulted in 13 different glass products. The scholarship from Svenskt Tenn gives the student 4 hours in the glassworks to continue developing their product. 

Jury's motivation

Swedish Tenn's glass scholarship 2020 to Ida Simma:
Sometimes when we see a product, we feel that it is completely obvious and could be displayed in the store immediately. Ida Simma's glass bowl Hilla, is such a product. The bowl feels both familiar and yet innovative, it has an elegance and an obviousness in its product design that makes you just want to put it on a table and fill it with fruit or salad. There is a challenge in maintaining the fragile expression of the bowl while ensuring that the edge can withstand everyday use as Ida has intended, but we are convinced that it can be solved and that Hilla has the potential to become a classic in Svenskt Tenn's range, both in terms of cost and aesthetics.

Honorary mention 1:
To familiarize yourself with our range and both find a gap, a missing product and to dive into both functionality and trends based on this hatch is an extremely good way to create a product for which there may be room. To then design a product that is both perceived as classic and as innovative is worth rewarding and we think Dana Ferrazzini has done that with her dessert bowl Quenelle. The dish definitely has the potential to develop into a real product, either at Svenskt Tenn and in other contexts.   

Honorable mention 2:
Working with a design process is like a journey where you don't really know the final destination when you start. When you start the journey and have done solid research and created a nice storytelling, you still don't really know how it will get out into the production. To then be open and responsive to change and find new approaches indicates both maturity and courage. Fanny Axnér's journey with the glass Sphere has been exciting to follow and the end result has been two very beautiful drink glasses that can absolutely be included in Svenskt Tenn's range as perfect gifts for those who have everything.

About the course "The Mission"

"This is the first course during the programme where the form students will relate to a specific company. It is also the first course where they cannot manufacture their own things but need to communicate with another occupational group, i.e. the glassblowers. So it's really an exercise in collaboration, both against a company and against the glassblowers and the challenge of communicating their sketch models," says Peter Nylander, course coordinator at Beckmans.

The course began with a study trip in Småland when the students got to visit Skruf's glassworks and The Glass Factory in Boda. Guest teachers have been artist Simon Klenell and guest critic was designer Carina Seth Andersson. Simon Klenell, Rasmus Nossbring, and Chien-Kuang Liu at Sthlm Glas in Gustavsberg have inflated the prototypes. Participants in the course have also been Erik Björk, adjunct, and Bertil Nordahl, photographer.