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Fjord Kitchen London: The Value of Design

May 4th 2012

On the 26th April, we held a Fjord Kitchen event at our London studio where we discussed the value to businesses of design and user experience.

Fjord Kitchen Helsinki: Product is the New Marketing

April 17th 2012

We run 'Fjord Kitchen' events in every Fjord office around the world.

Brand Perfect San Francisco

March 16th 2012

Save the Dates – May 7 & 8, 2012. San Francisco is the Next Stop on the Brand Perfect Tour

Join Fjord at MWC

February 17th 2012

Fjord will be at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona showcasing our design and innovation.

Cut&Paste takes Helsinki by storm!

February 15th 2012

Saturday February 4th, the city of Helsinki played host to a Cut&Paste tournament for the first time thanks to Fjord, PLATOON and World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.

Cut&Paste comes to Helsinki!

January 9th 2012

As part of the World Design Capital 2012 activity, Cut&Paste are running a tournament in Helsinki on February 4th, in association with Fjord and Platoon.

World Design Capital Helsinki 2012

January 4th 2012

The Fjord designed mobile service launched today!

Fjord Taps Publicis EVP Hyo Young Yeon to Lead US

November 23rd 2011

Executive will join as President for Fjord US

Fjord and Nokia at FICOD

November 21st 2011

FICOD, one of Spain's biggest digital events, is happening in Madrid this week, 22nd - 24th.

Brand Perfect Tour 2011

October 20th 2011

Calling all brand owners, agencies and developers!

Fjord Berlin Hosts Another Jam!

October 20th 2011

From October 28-30 Fjord will host the Global Sustainability Jam in Berlin. For the event local hubs all over the globe will work on the same challenge for 48 hours.

We are ten

October 10th 2011

Today marks ten years of Fjord, we are celebrating our first decade of defining digital innovation.

Fjord hires Flirtomatic's Mark Curtis

October 3rd 2011

Fjord founder Curtis re-joins to take up role of Chief Client Officer

Fjord Opens in San Francisco

September 23rd 2011

Design Consultancy Brings Unparalleled Mobile Experience to the West Coast

Fjord Announces World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Partnership

September 9th 2011

Yesterday, World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 announced Fjord as a new partner.

Introducing 'Conversations'

September 8th 2011

Conversations is a new blog by the people who work at Fjord, or as we like to say, Fjordians. Have a look at it to learn more about life and work at Fjord.

Fjord Kitchen New York

June 9th 2011

The most interesting party conversations are in the kitchen. Fjord is pleased to invite you into our ‘kitchen’ for discussion and debate about the state of transformation in financial services.

Christian Lindholm on Bloomberg TV

June 6th 2011

Fjord's Christian Lindholm appeared on Bloomberg TV to talk about the subject of Nokia and Microsoft.

Fjord Kitchen goes DMY

May 27th 2011

As an ‘appetizer’ to the international design festival DMY, Fjord Berlin will open its doors on Wednesday June 1st 2011 from 17:00 – 19.30. The DMY festival begins the same evening.

Fjord plans Stockholm launch

March 30th 2011

Growing digital design consultancy Fjord announced today in Dagens Media it is to open an office in Stockholm and is currently recruiting a team to work on projects with major clients such as Bonnier.

Fjord’s Olof Schybergson to present at Handelsblatt’s ‘Strategic IT Management’

January 24th 2011

On Tuesday 25th Olof will present at the conference on the topic of ‘Next Generation Devices for Next Generation Users’.

What happened in 2010?

January 5th 2011

Fjord’s 2010 Trends had some stand out accuracy.

Green Meets Digital at the Cross Innovation Academy

December 12th 2010

As part of our on-going relationship, Fjord joined the Cross Innovation Academy for an inspiring round of interdisciplinary exchange and lively discussion this time on the key subject of "Green meets Digital".

Fjord is confirmed as the fastest growing service design consultancy in the UK and EMEA

December 5th 2010

Today, Fjord was ranked as the 29th fastest growing company in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100. This confirms Fjord’s position as the fastest growing service design consultancy in the UK and EMEA.

Fjord Kitchen Extended: Liquid Media Discoveries

December 2nd 2010

The next Fjord Kitchen Extended on January 20th, 2011 is for people interested in media discovery and distribution in the digital age. We will bring together some brilliant minds of the broadcasting industry to openly discuss the future of Liquid Media discovery across all screens.

Fjord is the fastest growing service design agency in EMEA

November 26th 2010

Fjord was ranked as the 164th fastest growing technology company in the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA and 28th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 UK, making it the fastest growing service design agency in EMEA.

Fjord in PAGE magazine

November 24th 2010

PAGE, Germany’s renowned magazine for design, advertising and media, featured a five-page story on Fjord in its 12/2010 print issue.

Fjord demonstrating innovation at Ficod in Madrid

November 15th 2010

Fjord is co-presenting with Sagem a case study in Android user experience innovation and optimization on the second day of Ficod 2010 in Madrid.

Designing for new mobility by Christian Lindholm

November 12th 2010

Fjord's Christian Lindholm spoke about designing for new mobility at Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco.

Fjord impresses the Open Mobile Summit San Francisco audience with visual notetaking

November 9th 2010

Fjord is working with the Open Mobile Summit to capture the inspiring talks for the Post Conference Conversation in an innovative way.

Open Mobile Summit San Francisco November 8 -10

November 8th 2010

The Open Mobile Summit San Francisco brings together 500 industry leaders to talk about the future of mobile. Fjord Insight & Research team will be there to capture the inspiring conversations.

Service Design as a driver for designing the most innovative mobile applications

November 3rd 2010

Fjord’s Daniel Harris gave a presentation about Service Design at Mobile Apps World that was held in London on 19th - 20th October.

Fjord participates in Smarcos project to improve the usability of interconnected embedded system

November 3rd 2010

Smarcos is a EU run project focusing on the interusability of interconnected embedded systems.

Christian Lindholm in Talouselämä

November 1st 2010

On October 21st, Fjord's Christian Lindholm was quoted in the leading Finnish business magazine, Talouselämä, about the role of mobile operating systems.

Mobilize 2010: Touch Has Won the Interface War

October 18th 2010

Fjord’s Christian Lindholm speaking about how touch interface has taken over the mobile interface.

Fjord at TEDxCHANGE in Madrid

October 18th 2010

Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and TED co-hosted TEDxChange on 20th September 2010 in Madrid. The goal of the event was to reflect on the progress made against the Millennium Development Goals.

Fjord at iStrategy in London

October 5th 2010

Olof Schybergson presenting Fjord’s take on TV & Video marketing.

Fjord at UX Brighton 2010

September 13th 2010

Fjord’s Claire Rowland is talking about Psychology of Design at UX Brighton 2010 on Monday 13th September.

Fjord at IBC Amsterdam

September 8th 2010

Fjord’s Eberhard Frank and Katri Harra-Salonen will be attending the IBC trade show in Amsterdam from Thursday, September 9th until Tuesday, September 14th.

Flirtomatic No1 Mobile Dating Site in the US

September 7th 2010

Flirtomatic’s success continues with summer heating up mobile dating.

PechaKucha Night in Helsinki

September 1st 2010

Fjord participating in Helsinki Design Week’s PechaKucha Night.

Open Studio at Fjord Helsinki

August 31st 2010

Fjord Helsinki is hosting an Open Studio on Thursday 2nd September.

Fjord @ IFA Berlin

August 31st 2010

Fjord’s Eberhard Frank will be attending the IFA trade show in Berlin from Friday, September 3th until Wednesday, September 8th.

Data Journalism Meet-Up in Berlin

August 24th 2010

On 1st September, Fjord Berlin will be hosting the first Web of Data meetup in Berlin.

Fjord featured in PAGE magazine

August 10th 2010

Fjord team members Louisa Heinrich and Norbert Kurz were recently interviewed by PAGE magazine in Germany. To read the full article in German, please see this September’s print edition.

More thoughts from TED Global 2010

August 6th 2010

Year on year TED provides awesome content. The TED Talks, which are recorded lectures, have racked up over 300M views through online streaming. Each talk provides the viewer with glimpses of genius, insight or inspiration – often in areas unexplored by mainstream science or contrary to conventional thought.

Hunting the Killer App for Apple's iPad - Businessweek

July 23rd 2010

Fjord’s Christian Lindholm writes for Business Week on the search for the elusive killer iPad app. Christian argues that this holy grail could be realised through the delivery of a personal ‘information dashboard’ that could transform the way we manage our information.

Cross Innovation Academy - Bonn

July 23rd 2010

At the recent Cross Innovation Academy in Bonn I held a keynote presentation on the topic From mobile device to mobility. The key theme was to encourage a broadening of focus for mobile – from a narrow focus on mobile devices to a broader focus on our increasingly mobile and connected lifestyle. Mobile devices naturally play important roles in our daily life, but if we create services only for the small portable screens we will be missing a trick, and we will unnecessarily restrict the impact of these solutions.

Day 3 - Christian Lindholm at TED Global 2010, Oxford UK

July 16th 2010

This revolution will be shared.
There has been much written in the last year about the so-called 'children of cyberspace,' and in particular about how technology is shaping the life-experiences and life-chances of today’s youth in a way that seemed previously inconceivable.

Day 2 - Christian Lindholm at TED Global 2010, Oxford UK

July 15th 2010

Public awareness of data visualisation has been steadily growing over the past 18 months. This has been driven in part by the infographic phenomenon. Social media has increased our ability to share data visualisation content globally. With the help of influential champions of the technique such as Mashable, Good.is and the Guardian newspaper, data visualisation has become one of the defining trends of the social media age.