Thomas Kurppa

Kurppa Hosk, Stockholm
Chief Creative Officer

Thomas is co-founder and the Chief Creative Officer of Kurppa Hosk. He began his career as a producer of electronic music in the early 90’s. He started a number of small labels where he produced underground music and designed album covers.

Thomas received his professional training at Forsberg School of Design in Stockholm. In the late 90’s he moved to London to work at Wallpaper* Magazine as a designer. Returning to Sweden, he joined Stockholm Design Lab as a Senior Designer 2002, where he was deeply involved in successful projects for IKEA, Scandinavian Airlines and Stadium, among others. In 2009, he co-founded Kurppa Hosk.

Thomas has won numerous prizes, among them Merit Awards, a Distinction Award from the Art Directors Club in New York, Tokyo TDC and the Swedish Golden Egg Award.

Kurppa Hosk is a diverse team of design thinkers and design doers. We collaborate with brave organizations – from early stage start-ups, to some of the world’s most admired companies. We use business, brand and experience design to inform and inspire meaningful progression. We do this through Business Artistry- an approach that combines commercial and behavioral research, insight and analysis with boldness, beauty, technology and meticulous craftsmanship.

Because we strongly believe that magic happens on the interface between the linear and non-linear, the rational and irrational, realism and intuition. We also believe in meaningful work and meaningful relationships.

We’re guided by our values grit, transparency, karma and essentialism. From our studios in Stockholm and New York, we design across industries, markets, cultures, platforms, channels and technologies.

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