The 2019 Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair opened in February this year in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s one of the most important arenas for global furniture and interior design brands. Thus a very important arena for one of my startups BAUX. When me and my co-founders started
BEU Watches is finally live. When I first dreamt of BEU two and a half years ago it wasn’t yet a watch, but a manifesto I had written and pinned to my wall. It finally put into words a very simple but profound message that’s been
Some of you reading this know me. Some of you don’t. Few people actually know me well enough to know how I live my life so I thought I’d share some of my daily routines. I get up early 365 a year. A couple years ago a good
About 8 years ago I first met Daniel Stridsberg. At the time up and coming designer at digital producer Britny. We hooked up and started doing projects together. Daniel as a wild yet into details pixel loving designer and me as Creative Director and Art
Branding is like raising a child. You've gotta have a clear vision of where you're aiming yet tackle to new situations every day. Adopt to the changes in the world. Have tons of fun but never at the expense of your vision or values. Every
When you are tired - run. When you are scared - charge. When you are exhausted - boost When you fail - fail again. When you fail - try harder. When you worry - care less. When others worry - don't care at all. Live.
The other day I wrote quite a long post on the future of integrated communication from a digital perspective. I stressed the fact that in order for your brand to create and maintain strongs brand in the future you've gotta provide people with true values
After creating a new brand and design platform for Kinnarps, one of the worlds finest workspace solutions brands I was asked if I wanted to design and then lead the implementation of the Kinnarps Stockholm Furniture & Light 2017 stand. This is the short story
Just say the word - Viral - and brand owners go bananas. It’s what you want. Communication spread all over the world without a penny in media spend. It sounds so easy but in fact, not that many videos circles the globe every year. Let me
When you seek to brand a company, product or service you always start with the reason for being. In the same way you should always look for your reason for being when you think about your next chapter in life. Not which company you aim
The other day I read a great post by Joshua Porter on the Principles of Product Design. It's an area that I'm very fond of and the post by Joshua was spot on. Then as I'm a fan of Dieter Rams and his Ten Principles
People struggle to get ahead of people. In sports, at work, in business, in school and everywhere else. But don't bother. Life isn't about winning or getting ahead of people. Life is about evolving and getting better at things, not in comparison of others but in
You have something called the Internet in your pocket and inside your computer. Through this fantastic invention you can reach anyone anywhere in the world whenever you want. If you got a dream to do something, produce something and create something that makes a change
Today I've been in Amsterdam delivering a keynote at the Google Partner Summit at the Kromhouthal venue. Google asked me to get on stage and deliver my thoughts on how one should brand it's agency in the future. As always I don't belive in quick fixes. I delivered a
This post is probably most stupid post one can write since CEO’s and board members seems to have decided to stay behind with the dinosaurs while the rest of us look for new ground where we can thrive and prosper. Basically on average they read
Swedens leading property company Vasakronan decided to explore how the office space will look in the future. What role will the workplace play in the future and how will it change due to digitalisation and the behavioural changes in its wake? These were questions they asked Karim
As I travel the world both in business and for pleasure I end up speaking about ideas. People who have ideas, want ideas, heard an idea or would like to have an idea. These conversations gives me so much energy. People all over the world
About five years ago I launched new process that could help brands and companies to break out of their stand still and also help me in creating the right climate for change in the projects I work with. I call this process The Ronnestam Prototyping Process. The Ronnestam Prototyping Process The
A brand I haven't created or believe in. I did however shoot the photo on a cemetery on Ireland not far from my favorite surfing spot. I've had the privilege of being involved in many different brand projects that have resulted in logos, graphical guidelines, advertising, POS, digital platforms, interior decoration, products, organisational impacts
We're in the midst of a paradigm shift. In Sweden and around the world advertising agencies are fighting over clients. As I'm meeting brands both in- and outside Sweden I'm often approached by major brand owners asking me which agency I would recommend. Most of
As we launched the BAUX Acoustic 3D Pixel we ticked another box at BAUX, the company I launched in 2014 together with four other brilliant minds. From the start we've set out to create a sustainable global design brand set out to rejuvenate the construction industry. Friends of
We all know how what an iceberg looks like. As you approach it it looks fairly small, it's easy to get an idea of the size, the shape and dimensions of it. However, we all know that underneath that surface the total mass of the iceberg
Populism in politics is just as bad as populism in branding. Let your brand activities constantly reflect your brand vision, values and platform - not how you temporarily think you can win new prospects and please existing ones.
You might have seen the post I've written about prototyping. An innovation process I've developed in order to help global brands understand their future needs and based on that map out strategies to move them into the future business landscape. It's part strategy, part creative
About a year ago in February 2014 one of my entrepreneurial creations was introduced. Upon my initiative, me, Fredrik Franzon, and the founding partners of design studio Form Us With Love; Jonas Pettersson, John Löfgren and Petrus Palmér founded a company called BAUX. Our idea was
Today at 14:00 CEST one of the worlds most challenging adventures and sport events starts - The Volvo Ocean Race, and I'm really proud to be a part of it. In the end of 2013 I was asked to deliver the global brand platform and creative direction for,
Mentawai is considered one of the worlds best places to surf. Earlier this year in February I had the privilege to spend two weeks there at a surf camp called Pit Stop Hills. This first class camp run by Paul Clark and his fiancé Megan
Jag hade för ett tag sedan förmånen att sitta ned och diskutera framtidens skola med Karin Nygårds. Karin rankades 2014 av Computer Sweden som en av Sveriges mäktigaste IT-kvinnor (39), blev bland annat vald till årets punkare i skolan 2014 och var en av dem
The one thing that should direct all your branding activities is exactly that. Make people smile or cry, crying as in touching someones heart. To many communication activities go by without anyone caring for them or the product they communicate. Here are 7 quick ones on branding: Create products or
Almost two years ago I had a very nice lunch with Petrus Palmér. Petrus has together with Jonas Pettersson and John Löfgren founded the world famous design agency Form Us With Love. As we're enjoying our food Petrus tells me about one of the products
