We are Eskild Hansen.
Design by people.
For people.
An international, multidisciplinary design studio
We’re a Scandinavian design studio that believes the best products emerge where craftsmanship, technology, and human-centered thinking come together. From our studio in Copenhagen, we help ambitious companies transform complex ideas into products that people love to use.
Our international team brings together designers from different countries, cultures, and disciplines. These perspectives strengthen our Scandinavian foundation and help us create work for people and businesses far beyond Denmark.
Copenhagen is part of how we think
Our home is a historic three-storey design building in Copenhagen. It gives us space to think, draw, build, test and bring teams together around the work. The studio includes areas for model-making, prototyping and UX work, allowing ideas to move quickly between conversation, screen and physical form.
Copenhagen’s design tradition is present in our attention to simplicity, function, materials and everyday life. Our international team adds different perspectives to that foundation, helping us create work for people and businesses far beyond Denmark.
Design runs through our story
Eskild Hansen is a third-generation industrial designer who grew up surrounded by design and architecture. Before founding the studio in 2014, he studied in Denmark and held international design leadership roles, including Global Director of Design at Coloplast and Head of Cisco’s European Design Center.
That background shaped a studio that treats design as both a craft and a shared responsibility. We care about the quality of the idea, the smallest detail and what it takes to bring the work into the world.
Eskild Hansen - Founder
What makes us special to work with
We listen before we define the answer. Every project begins with its own ambitions, people and practical realities, so we shape the process around the challenge rather than applying a fixed formula.
As the work develops, we collaborate directly with founders, designers, engineers and decision-makers. Ideas are shared early, constraints are discussed openly and responsibility is held together.
Complex technologies rarely arrive as simple design problems. We take time to understand the people, systems, business needs and production realities behind them, then identify what truly needs to be clear.
Simplicity does not mean removing what matters. It means giving complexity a useful structure, making difficult decisions understandable and shaping products and experiences that feel intuitive without losing the intelligence behind them.
A concept is only the beginning. We use sketches, models, prototypes and testing to learn how an idea behaves, where it needs to improve and what it will take to make it real.
We stay close through development, engineering and manufacturing, working with the people responsible for implementation. By resolving materials, construction, interaction and detail along the way, we help the strongest part of the original idea survive in the finished experience.
Technology is material for design
Technology has always been part of our design culture. We are drawn to ambitious technologies and the new possibilities they create, looking beyond what they can do to understand how they should work, feel and fit into everyday life.
Across physical products, digital experiences and brands, we give new capabilities a clear and useful form. The result is technology that feels human, coherent and ready for the real world.
Creativity, amplified by AI
AI is changing how ideas are explored, visualised and brought to life. We use it across concept development, visual storytelling and prototyping to move from possibility to something tangible faster.
Technology only becomes valuable when it is guided by people. A clear brief, a strong design system, craft and designer judgment determine what deserves to move forward. For us, AI does not replace creativity. It gives creative minds more room to imagine, test and make.
Awards
14 international design awards since 2011 including a Red Dot: Best of the Best and 10 Red Dot Design Awards. Recognition that spans over a decade of consistent work.
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Red Dot Best of the Best
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PRISM Award
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Red Dot Design Award
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Cellerant Best of Class
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iF Product Design
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