karlssonwilker inc.
Left to Right: Sandra Shizuka, Jeremy St Quentin, Brigitte Hoefler, Megan Elevado, Hjalti Karlsson, Jan Wilker Photography by Ella Smolarz
About
Studio Size
Small (1-5)
Year founded
2000
Borough
Manhattan
Studio Bio/Philosophy
karlssonwilker is the design studio of Icelander Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker from Germany, located in NYC. They have won less than a thousand awards and their work has appeared in more than one design publication. They frequently lecture on design around the world and continue to challenge boundaries on behalf of their clients.
The Team
karlssonwilker inc. has 4 people. Of those, 2 are studio heads.
60% of studios are small-sized (1-5 people).
Gender Breakdown
50% male
50% female
Studio Disciplines
Breakdown of Work
Primary Specialties
- Art Direction (58)
- Books (52)
- Branding & Identity (77)
- Editorial/Publication Design (51)
- Environmental Design (38)
- Exhibition Design (33)
- Experience Design (33)
- Information Graphics (41)
- Interaction Design (36)
- Motion (29)
- Print (75)
- Product (23)
- Typeface Design (25)
- Web Design (59)
Clients’ Industries
- Education (40)
- Fashion (45)
- Local & community organizations (41)
- Media & Publishing (58)
- Music (28)
- Products (32)
- Restaurants & Food (29)
- Retail (43)
- Technology (37)
- The Arts/Cultural Institutions (71)
- Transportation (9)
karlssonwilker inc.’s Clients
- Adobe (3)
- Bloomberg Business Week
- Capitol Records (2)
- Creative Time (3)
- Guggenheim Museum (4)
- Interactive Africa
- MINI/BMW
- Museum of Modern Art (6)
- Museum of the Moving Image
- Nintendo
- Puma (2)
- The New York Times (12)
- Time Magazine (7)
- Vitra
- Wolf-Gordon Inc.
Hjalti Karlsson, Partner
Demographics
From Reykjavík , 101, Iceland, now lives in Upper Upper East Side, 96 Street, New York, New York.
Previous Design Employment
Board Member on Professional Design Organizations
- Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) — 4 years
Jan Wilker, Partner
Demographics
From Ulm, Germany, now lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York.
Previous Design Employment
Teaching Design
- School of Visual Arts — 1.5 years
- Parsons The New School for Design — 5 years
- Cooper Union — years
Board Member on Professional Design Organizations
- Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) — 4 years