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With a career that began as a professional athlete before pivoting into entrepreneurship, Oliver Hildebrandt has established himself as one of Sweden's most recognised company builders within tech and finance. Through a series of successful ventures spanning fintech, data-driven lending and growth capital, he has built a reputation for turning ambitious ideas into scalable businesses. Oliver co-founded Gärde Design in 2021, bringing that same entrepreneurial rigour and long-term thinking to building brands that last.

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With 14+ years of experience, Christoffer brings deep typographic knowledge and excellence across branding, digital design, logotype design, and systems thinking, the core competencies behind the quality and authority of our identities. His seniority and passion for craft, paired with digital design and interaction, make him the natural design director to lead the agency's deliveries in Marcus's absence.

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Jonas brings a rare combination of development and design expertise, backed by 12+ years of experience as both a backend and frontend developer. In 2015, he worked alongside Marcus Gärde on Nordea's visual identity and digital design system. His technical curiosity and ability to bridge design with emerging technology keep pushing our work forward.

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Anette oversees structure, coordination, and quality across our deliveries, and supports new business initiatives and financial planning. She built her track record as a successful project leader on large visual identity rebrands such as Nordea and SAS, working alongside Marcus and Jonas at Bold Scandinavia. At our studio, she makes sure every delivery stays on schedule and true to brief and client expectations.

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Paola brings strong academic grounding in UI/UX alongside proven creative excellence, recognized with awards already during her studies. Designing and building complex component libraries in Figma, and crafting user-friendly interfaces, is her passion. At Gärde Design, she was lead designer for the implementation of Maurten's digital products. Her loyalty, resilience, and commitment to solving complex challenges, regardless of time constraints, are critical to delivery and quality.

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Lova combines a background in frontend development with design and prompt engineering, helping the studio stay aligned with rapidly emerging prompt-driven and AI-influenced design environments. As the digital designer supporting Paola and Jonas, she helps build extensive component libraries and genuinely user-friendly experiences, and is equally skilled in branding and digital design.

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Anders is our senior type designer. He spent several years at Familjen Pangea, later Kid Collective, drawing typefaces for brands as different as Vattenfall and AIK, work that taught him to move quickly between distinct aesthetics while meeting each brand's technical and functional demands. At Gärde Design he carries the type work from first sketch to finished family, which lets the rest of the studio stay on brand and strategy and lets us deliver bespoke type at a level and pace few studios our size can.

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Lina joins Gärde Design straight from the Master Type Design programme at ECAL in Lausanne, where her thesis on italics stood out for its craft, precision and the curiosity behind it. Specialised in font production, systemisation and conceptual approaches to typography, she works across both the studio and Gärde Design Foundry, helping us push the quality and ambition of our typefaces while strengthening the craftsmanship and experimentation at the heart of everything we do.

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With 25+ years of experience, Andreas brings deep expertise in brand platforms, creative concepts and communication strategy, built through two decades working with brands like Ikea, Audi and Fjällräven. His seniority and strategic clarity, paired with a strong creative instinct, make him the natural brand strategist to lay the foundation for the studio's identities, ensuring every design starts from a clear idea of what the brand stands for.