Lisa Bygdén is a freelance graphic designer from Umeå in northern Sweden. Since graduating from Berghs School of Communication in 2013, she has specialized in book cover design and has also taken on projects in packaging design, visual identity, illustration, photo editing, and web design. This site showcases a curated collection of self-initiated work and visual artifacts, each created to enchant the rhythms of everyday life.
Based in Malmö; occasionally working from Umeå, Stockholm, and Copenhagen.
CURRENT CLIENTS
Graphic designer at BON (Bygdén och Nyström) Arkitekturateljé, and book cover designer for Saga Egmont, producing approximately 250 audiobook and e-book covers annually.
EDUCATION
BERGHS SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Typography, Art Direction, Illustration, Concept development, Book design, Motion design, Editorial design, Packaging, Branding, Design History, Visual culture, etc.
2007-2008
UMEÅ KONSTSKOLA
ART
Drawing, Painting, Sculpture & Space, Digital techniques, Life Drawing, Art History and Art Theory, Photography, Performance, Animation, Comics, Screen printing & Etching, etc.
2015-2017
MALMÖ UNIVERSITY
Additional courses were taken at the Malmö University as complement to the Berghs Diploma for a bachelor’s degree with a major in Graphic Design.
2019 Bachelor’s thesis, 15 ECTS
2017 Research Practices: Theory and Method, 15 ECTS
2017 Design Perspective, 7,5 ECTS
2016 Graphic design I+II, 30 ECTS
2016 Visual Communication: The Research Field & Visual Analysis, 15 ECTS
2015 Interaction and design, 7,5 ECTS
WORKSHOPS
2016 Chinese Calligraphy and Typographic Images, a collaboration between Hong Kong Design Institute, Royal Danish Academy and Malmö University
2015 Drawing type – Ludvig Grandin, Malmö University
2015 Photography – Mattias Klum
INTERNSHIPS
2012 Familjen Pangea, Stockholm [1 month]
2010 Internship Fallon, Minneapolis [1 month]
2009 Internship Fallon, Minneapolis [2 months]
AWARDS
Winning photograph "Människan och havet", Svenska Dagbladet (2012)
Winning design Opera scholarship diploma, Barbro Saléns stiftelse (2011)
Scholarship, Gyllene Snittet, FRI Reklambyrå (2007)