Lundgren+Lindqvist created a series of posters celebrating the launch of the Polestar 4. The project highlights the car’s design philosophy through refined compositions and a focus on materiality and production craft.
Lundgren+Lindqvist created a meticulously crafted publication for Polestar 4, exploring the car’s design and innovation through layered materials and precise production. The book uses multiple paper stocks, transparency, and overlapping compositions to create a tactile and dynamic reading experience that mirrors Polestar’s attention to detail.
Forsman & Bodenfors launched Polestar’s U.S. debut with the bold 'No Compromises' Super Bowl campaign. By rejecting industry clichés and directly positioning against Tesla, the ad introduced Polestar as a confident, values-driven alternative in the electric vehicle market. The campaign achieved massive engagement, outperforming most Super Bowl ads and sparking viral conversation online.
Forsman & Bodenfors created a stripped-down campaign for Polestar that transformed 400 out-of-home columns into electric batteries. The concept visually expressed the brand’s core values of electricity and minimalism, appealing to a design-conscious and selective audience.
Stockholm Design Lab partnered with Polestar to define and evolve its holistic brand identity as an independent electric performance car manufacturer. The collaboration encompassed visual identity, digital presence, events, retail, and motion design, creating a refined and cohesive experience that reflects Polestar’s progressive and sustainable vision.
In this Take Five interview, Stockholm Design Lab creative director Frans Enmark discusses his music-driven route into graphic design and the studio's belief in intuition, clarity, strategy and meticulous craft. Enmark explains how SDL develops simple ideas, protects what matters under deadline pressure, and creates long-term work for clients including Polestar, Moderna Museet, the Nobel Prize and Sigma. He also previews his POV Budapest 2026 talk on how an identity acts as well as looks.
The Brand Identity interviews London-based designer Sthuthi Ramesh about her experiences freelancing at leading studios like Pentagram and Made Thought, her advocacy for more inclusive and supportive environments for creative mothers, and her co-founding of Nicety Materials, a digital library for physical materials. She discusses the challenges of permalancing, the impact of the pandemic, and her passion for sustainability and diversity in design.