Eriks DesignBuss

Who says designers have to work in brick-and-mortar offices?

"I wanted to explore my role as a designer,
travel and find clients."

Not Swedish design graduate Erik Olovsson, who is currently travelling around Sweden in a refitted camper van, going by the name of Eriks DesignBuss, whilst working for a variety of different clients. 

Olovsson explains "Maybe the local pizzeria needs help with new menus, the dentist a new business card, the local gallery a better logo, or the farmer a new sign… It is rare that a designer gets a deeper insight into a client’s business these days. It’s easy to hang around at the office and surf design blogs instead of finding inspiration in real life. Technology means we don't leave the office, we have Skype meetings and email contact instead of conversation around a coffee and a face to face contact. I wanted to change this.”

Eriks DesignBuss acts as a mobile studio and even contains its own print shop and photo studio.

Olovsson’s whereabouts and itinerary can be followed on his website.

Thanks to Pad19 for the information and research for this article.