Jacob Åström
Founder, Creative Director, Art Director, Dear Future, Stockholm, Sweden
Jacob has been working with brands and organisations such as Spotify, Kommunal, JC Jeans & Clothes and Climate Reality Project, as well as self-initiated projects. Founder and Creative Director of Noko Jeans, he and his team made jeans in North Korea for, as he puts it, “the first, and quite possibly last, time ever”. As a former Consulting Art Director/Digital Strategist, he worked with agencies such as Wednesday London, Frankenstein and Great Works, and brands such as SJ, The Royal Opera, Malibu Rum, Beijing8 and others.
As a teacher and lecturer, he held courses, workshops and lectures at the esteemed Swedish colleges Beckmans College of Design, Berghs School of Communication and Hyper Island. His self-initiated projects include A Comic Monthly, acomicmonthly.com, a free monthly comic book optimized for computers and handheld devices, Donate Dot Com, donatedotcom.com, an initiative to make Japan earthquake and tsunami relief more widespread, Kom igen Lena, komigenlena.nu, a grass-roots initiative for eco- and gender equality focused politician Lena Sommestad and more.
He received awards at Cannes Lions, Guldägget, New York Festivals, London International Awards, Eurobest, Epica, Cresta, Webby Awards and Guldeken. < <
Digital PR Lab: The One That Got Away
