Clarity, Consistency, & Quality.

Arvid is an industrial designer and a brand strategist. He has designed dozens of award winning products for startups and Fortune 500 companies in a variety of categories: consumer electronics, home appliances, medical devices, furniture, packaging, architectural elements, and luxury goods, as well as digital experiences like websites, apps, animations, and interfaces. He currently works at GE Appliances in Louisville, Kentucky.

Arvid has extensive experience in corporate design strategy, working for over a decade as a visual brand language specialist for billion dollar brands such as GE Appliances, National Instruments, Pampers,  and Amgen. Arvid’s design and brand work has been recognized with multiple awards, including three International Design Excellence Awards.

Arvid is driven by a simple design philosophy: to create and visualize new ideas in service of larger ideals, to communicate with clarity and compassion, and to uphold the highest standards of professional ethics and craftsmanship. Arvid sees life as beautiful, people as fundamentally good, and design as the primary means of communicating the ideas and values of a culture. Ultimately, design principles like clarity, consistency, and quality aren't luxuries, they are human needs.

Outside of the studio, Arvid enjoys reading about history & philosophy, pruning bonsai trees, and playing chess. He is also an enthusiastic collector of watches, writing instruments, playing cards, teapots, and design books.


Recognition

Award
For
Year
VBL
 - National Instruments
2023


Employment History / 2014-Present

General Electric Appliances (GEA) - Louisville, KY.

Senior Industrial Designer

, 2022-Present
-Lead designer for Profile's next generation VBL
-Developed GEA’s luxury bands (Monogram & Café)
-Lead designer for Bodewell detergents
-Created VBL documents, concept designs, spec. documents, and prototypes.
-In charge of implementing Accessible Design across GEA's House of Brands.
-Conducted customer research & interviews.
-Assisted c-suite with long term planning (concept visualization & infographics)
-Designed & installed industry show booths.
-Developed touchpoint and CMF for the Café brand.
Minimal Inc. (MNML) - Chicago, IL.

Senior Designer

, 2019-2022
Staff Designer, 2017-2018
Design Intern, 2016
- Responsible for leading projects and managing product development timelines.
- Developed award winning products: IDEA Gold (Turf) and IDEA Silver (Wellbeings)
- Built 3D models and assemblies in SolidWorks & Modo.
- Produced renders and animations using Keyshot, V-Ray, and Octane.
- Created UI/UX wireframes, information architectures, and interactive mockups for consumer electronics and medical devices.
- Mentored junior designers; provided design guidance, training plans, & project briefing.
- Built pitch decks and client presentations.
- Wrote and laid out complex documents: product catalogs, 100+ page Visual Brand Language documents, and infographics.
- Produced Sketches and storyboards (hand & digital).
WellBeings, LLC. (MNML) - Chicago, IL.

Staff Designer & Photographer

, 2018-2019
- Created a suite of product photographs for the brand website and assisted with web design.
- Designed the 2019 Product Catalog and additional marketing material.
- Produced photorealistic renders using Octane and Keyshot.
- Assisted with packaging design, copy, and layout for the inhaler.
Michael Graves Architecture and Design (MGA&D) - Princeton, NJ.

Design Intern

, 2015
- Nominated by Donald Strum, Principal Designer, for the 2016 Cooperative Education Award and won.
- Produced SolidWorks assemblies, spec. packets, and production drawings.
- Sketched new concepts, developed existing products, and built models.
- Maintained 3D printers, assisted video production, made packaging mockups.
Westphal College Hybrid Making Lab (Drexel) - Philadelphia, PA.

Lab Assistant

, 2014
- Maintained Objet Alaris 3D printers.
- Managed appointment scheduling and handled shop payments.
- In charge of laser cutters, machine tools, lab computers, and shop inventory.
- Opened and closed the shop, monitored student safety.
Motorcycle History and Design - Philadelphia, PA.

Teacher's Assistant

, 2014  (3 months)
- In charge of integrating the class' ideas into one design for development.
- Modeled multiple fully detailed motorcycles in SolidWorks.
- 3D printed scale models which were displayed in the College art gallery for over a year.
- Created renders in Keyshot and presentation boards for the school engineering competition.
Westphal College Product Design Lab - Philadelphia, PA.

Shop Assistant

, 2014  (3 months)
- Opened and closed the shop, monitored students to ensuring safe machine use.
- Maintained shop & machine cleanliness.
- Managed the tool room, check in/out process, handled payments for materials.
- Created safety information sheets and stickers to promote safe machine use.

Order.

The world is noisy — a reflection of our collective thought process. For designers, this chaos is difficult to live in. Designers seek to bring structure and purpose to their surroundings. In an attempt to understand the overwhelming complexity of the material world, they recreate it piece by piece according to their spiritual ideal. The creative soul, guided by the conscious and subconscious forces of reason and intuition, is compelled to answer two fundamental questions: "Why?" and "How?" For Arvid, the "Why" is: Life is beautiful, and to fully connect with it, one must observe and create. The "How" is: through clarity, consistency, and quality.
Philosophy

Arvid is a student of Objectivism,

the philosophy of Ayn Rand. The principles of objectivity & rationality direct his approach to life and design. The logical result is a respect for the individual & for beauty.


  • Metaphysics
    The Primacy of Existence (Reality exists independently of human consciousness).
  • Epistemology
    Reason & Logic (as man's only means of cognition).
  • Ethics
    Ethical Egoism (Rational self interest).
  • Politics
    Individual rights (Property, Speech) & Free Markets (Laissez-Faire Capitalism).
  • Aesthetics
    Romantic Realism (Art that celebrates human existence, with the individual as Hero).
 
Basic
Intermediate
Advanced
Computer Modeling
 
SolidWorks
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Fusion
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Modo
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Houdini
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UI/UX
 
Figma
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Webflow
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3D Rendering
 
Keyshot
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Octane
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V-Ray
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2D Rendering
 
Hand sketching
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Vizcom
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Adobe Suite
 
Photoshop (PS)
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Illustrator (AI)
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InDesign (ID)
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Experience Design (XD)
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Video Editing
 
Final Cut Pro X
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Premier Pro
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iMovie
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Productivity
 
Notion
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G-Suite
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Keynote
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Excel
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Miro
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Dropbox
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