02.12.2024

We’re glad to announce that our senior designer Matilda Gysing is part of the jury in Design of the Month Award in Resumé. Gysing has a long background in branding and packaging design and will serve the jury during 2024.

12.20.2023

We’re ending a great year with some lovely news. "A Lovely Atmosphere" – our sustainable packaging collaboration with GBGT Box – lands a first place in the quarterly Design of the Month by Swedish magazine Resumé.

12.19.2023

Martin Bergström, our Design Director, sums up the year of Swedish design in his last chronicle as jury president at Resumé. We’re looking forward to an impactful 2024.

12.04.2023

We have designed the annual book for the Swedish Association for Art – a complete monograph of artist Jenny Källman. The book – Ghost Hunting – features photographs, stills from film and installation images from Källman's over 20 years of artistry.

11.19.2023

Monocle features our brand and packaging design for Candour in their latest weekend edition. Founders Kat Mayhew and Guada Oliver talks about canned wine and breaking down the intimidating or snobby stereotypes associated with wine.

11.13.2023

Anders Bollman, Brand Strategist at Bedow, and Maria Iversén, Marketing Manager at GBGT Box discuss the ecological footprint in the packaging industry. GBGT Box’s measured the footprint of all material and manufacturing of our new designs.

06.27.2023

Swee Kombucha has been awarded the finest prize there is in food and beverage design: the Grand Prix in the 2023 FAB Awards. Apart from that Swee Kombucha also received a prestigious Gold Award in the category Packaging Design. FAB Awards is an annual award show in London, recognising outstanding creative work from over sixty countries.

05.30.2023

Our design for Swee Kombucha had three chances of winning in D&AD Awards in London last week. It ended up with two shortlists and one wooden pencil in the categories packaging design, new branding schemes and logotype.

04.26.2023

The record sleeve design for Folke Nikanor’s album Främmande has been awarded the two most prestigious typography awards there is: Type Directors Club, Tokyo and Type Directors Club, New York. Can you discover the hidden letters on the cover?

03.24.2023

Our brand strategist Anders Bollman is interviewed in the podcast Fluid Friday about the importance of differentiation in branding.

03.07.2023

We’re glad to announce that we’re partnering up with Coop Trading in Denmark to redesign over 3,500 units for their private brand Coop. The first designs will roll out during the autumn of 2023 and will continue over the coming years in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.

02.09.2023

Resumé Magazine interviews Perniclas Bedow about the branding of Neko Health – the new health-tech brainchild of entrepreneur Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify founder Daniel Ek.

01.27.2023

We are pleased to announce that Martin Bergström, our Design Director, will be heading as the chairman of Resumés jury for their Design of the Month Award. Fifty-two creatives have been selected to join the jury for the Campaign of the Month 2023.

06.15.2022

We are looking for an Account Manager to join our team of thinkers and makers in Stockholm. A friendly person who can help us be great in everything from managing projects to handle new and existing clients.

05.18.2022

The May issue of influential Italian architecture and design magazine Domus is not only dedicated to Herzog de Meuron’s epic work, they also have a lovely write-up by Francesco Franchi on our packaging design for Swee Kombucha.

04.26.2022

Bedow is featured in the latest issue of Slanted Magazine. The issue, totally dedicated to Stockholm and its creative scene, also features Teenage Engineering, Acne, Stockholm Design Lab, among others. The magazine is supported by a number of video interviews in the link below.

20.04.2022

Perniclas Bedow is invited to have a talk in Amsterdam on June 15th, 2022. The event First Round is hosted by Under Consideration and feature six local speakers and six international speakers from around Europe. All presentations will be in English and tickets can be bought on the link below.

08.04.2022

British creative resource It’s Nice That features our packaging design for Georgian kombucha brewery Swee Kombucha. Read about the project and how the defrag process of Windows 95 was an inspirational source to the final outcome.

03.01.2022

The best branding work for 2021 has been selected by American branding resource Brand New. Our project for Jaktar is listed in three categories: Best Wordmark, Best Colour and Best Photography.

16.11.2021

The prestigious Polar Music Prize was assigned a new visual identity pinned under the concept of Celebrating Music, Uniting Cultures. The logotype was redesigned, the colours and typography was updated and a visual element was designed. All to ensure improved legibility on all devices. Read more about the work in the review by Under Consideration, Brand New.

15.11.2021

Thinking & Making is a series of talks hosted by design studio Bedow. The first design talk was recorded October 29th, 2021. Kanon Foundry talks about variable type. You’ll find out what C3PO and Swiss train clocks have in common with the Bedow typefaces and how you create randomness by OpenType coding.

08.10.2021

The studio is growing. As the given next step after assigning the studio board, three new co-workers has joined the Bedow team; two designers and a design director.

06.09.2021

By embracing the Italian origin of pasta as well as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, a new packaging design was created for Coop’s pasta line. Magazine CAP&Design, interviews Anders Bollman about the design and the core of a modular grid system with Fibonacci’s harmonious proportions

01.06.2021

In episode 27 of Brand New’s podcast Follow Up, Armin Vit interviews Creative Director Perniclas Bedow and Jaktar founder Igor Melnikov about the process of developing a completely new brand from scratch. The project spanned over two years and the conversation covers the naming process, the logotype and the brand identity as a whole.

01.06.2021

Anders Bollman shares his thoughts on the new identity of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The opinion piece reflects upon how the new visual approach affects the qualitative cultural scene.

19.05.2021

The packaging design for gin distillery Monachus was awarded a merit in the ADC Awards. The contribution revolves around labels that take one of five shapes: the Bora wind, the waves, the salt in sea and air, a pebble from the shore, and a pine cone from the hills.

30.03.2021

The creative work of the Jaktar identity is reviewed by Under Consideration, Brand New: “I really like this, not just as a visually satisfying feast but also for the identity’s ability to perfectly reflect the persona of the boat which is a combination of luxury, ruggedness, and functionality”, writes design critic Armin Vit.

09.03.2021

Resumé writes about the new board of branding studio Bedow. The board, consisting of well-known names from the industry, will develop the studio’s offer with strategic guidance.

14.01.2021

Opinion piece by Perniclas Bedow as a response to Resumé’s new award category for ideas. What’s really the essence of an idea – how might it be defined?

15.03.2020

The latest issue of House & Garden features the Bedow kitchen design. Our project is from 2015, but has recently popped up in several international design magazines. This time on the theme “Design ideas for colourful kitchens”.

04.08.2020

Our Brand Strategist Anders Bollman is one of the international creatives that are invited to judge this year’s Young Guns by the The One Club for Creativity.

07.04.2019

Perniclas Bedow will have a talk at the Screen 2019 exhibition on April 10th, 2019. Screen is an annual poster competition for design and art school students. This year’s exhibition is hosted by Forsbergs’ School and the event starts at 5 pm in their gallery at Brännkyrkagatan 98.

23.12.2018

For the third year in a row Bedow is ranked as the best design studio of the year by British design resource BP&O. This year in good company with Pentagram, Commission, Spy and Studio fnt.

25.05.2018

Monocle magazine features our packaging design for German brewery St Erhard. The series of three beers which experimental typography takes inspiration from the Bauhaus movement can be found on page 235 in the Inventory section.

05.03.2018

Our Creative Director Perniclas Bedow will be joining this year’s ADC Awards jury – judging the best Brand/Communication Design work worldwide. It’s the 97th ADC Awards, hosted by the Art Directors Club and The One Club, and the judging will take place in the Dominican Republic.

04.03.2018

This year’s studio trip went to Basel, Switzerland. Besides from visiting the Vitra Museum and some great art exhibitions the highlight of the trip was when we took a detour to France to visit Le Corbusier’s Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.

28.09.2017

The Swedish Embassy in Russia invited Perniclas Bedow to Moscow last week to talk about the studio’s work at the opening of United Notions’ poster exhibition. The exhibition takes place at the Theatre of Nations and is running until October 8th.

08.06.2017

For ages we’ve been waiting for an in-depth conversation on our profession: graphic design and branding. But good things never came for those who waited, so we decided to start something ourselves. In the podcast Grafisk Design, Perniclas Bedow interviews some of the most prominent Swedish designers of today.

31.05.2017

Perniclas Bedow was one of four international speakers at the European Design Awards in Porto last week. The talk, Playful Is the New Serious, approaches humour as an important ingredient in graphic design and branding.

28.11.2016

Our packaging design for Biggans böcklingpastej is featured in the 97th issue of the international lifestyle magazine Monocle. Read about it on page 242 in the Inventory section.

05.01.2016

Iceland Design and Architecture have invited Perniclas Bedow to have a talk in Reykjavik on January 14th. The talk, Playful Is the New Serious, will be held at 12 pm at the Alvar Aalto designed Nordic House. The event is open for public and the admission is free.

24.08.2015

British design magazine Icon asked us to redesign something that we thought could be improved. With a planet increasingly filled with waste and where forests disappears at an ever faster pace, we thought we could redesign something that at least does not contribute to this deterioration. Read how a redesign of Jan Tschischold’s classic Penguin Composition Rules could save over 200,000 trees a year.

04.12.2014

Last week we came back full of inspiration from our annual studio trip, this year we were in Tokyo. The photo is taken in one of the film sets from Michel Gondry’s exhibition Around Michel Gondry’s World at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiba Park, Tokyo.

28.03.2014

Washington Post’s reporter Max Ehrenfreund reached out to write about our world map in his section Know More. Trivia: the map was designed in 2008 for Erik Penser Bank and contains around 3,000 coins from all continents. The coins were bought on Ebay over a period of one month. Two years after the project all coins were stolen during a burglary in our studio.

17.12.2012

Wallpaper magazine’s December issue features our collaboration with Danish brewery Mikkeller. The project elaborates with temperature where Mikkel Borg Bjergsø interprets the four seasons through beer styles and Bedow interprets the seasons through design where heat sensitive ink changes the label motif.

21.05.2012

Dutch fashion magazine Fantastic Man features our shoehorn Index in their Daily Recommendations. As frequent readers of Fantastic Man we’re extremely proud when they say our design “is so incredibly minimalist that it borders to monastic”.