David Carlson

Portrait of David Carlson

David Carlson, founder of David Report, has been working with design as a competitive weapon for twenty years. With design as an added value David helps his assigners create attractive brands ready for the challenges of the future. His assigners include Absolut, Level Vodka and Sony Ericsson to mention a few.

David Carlson is an entrepreneur with a strong moving spirit. He is also the founder of the furniture brand David Design, the lifestyle shop Carlson Ahnell and the knowledge company Designboost. Another project David is involved in is Likemind coffee mornings which he runs in Malmö.

He is regularly invited as speaker and panel member at conferences in Sweden and abroad. His lectures covers trends concerning design, entrepreneurship, communication and brand development. He is every now and then commissioned as moderator and writes chronicles and debate articles. He edits and make the graphic design for a nature preservation organisation magazine.

David Carlson is enjoying the relaxed life in the small beach community Falsterbo with perfect infrastructure in the heart of the expansive Öresund region in the southernmost part of Sweden. One of his big private interests is music. His musical story started as DJ back in the late 70th’s playing Rose Royce and Curtis Mayfield 45´s. He has also been playing guitar in different groups over the last 20 years (he was signed by EMI in the 80’s…). Over the last years David Carlson has released three compilation CD´s on Swedish, French and Japanese labels. He is also involved in advisory boards at a Montessori school, a college, a nature preservation organisation and an urban environment group. Over the years he has been interviewed numerous times in global media including magazines, TV and radio. In the late seventies he won the Swedish track and fields junior championship in hurdle race.

Homepage: http://www.davidcarlson.se.

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