Andreas Markdalen Art Director & Visual Designer   Based in Milan, Italy Principal Designer at frog   Founder of Youth Projects and The Visual Design Dept.   Send an e-mail + 39 346 894 00 79   Follow on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn

Multi-disciplinary Swedish Art Director and Visual Designer based in Milan, Italy. Principal designer at frog. Sara's husband and Julian's daddy. Born 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden. Got a B.A. Degree from London College of Communication in 2004. Worked at ALU in Bassano, Italy from 2004 to 2005, at Pod1 in London from 2005 to 2007 and at de-construct in London from 2007 to 2009. Have been at frog since then. Shortlisted for the 2007 YDA Young Designer Award for his work on web-sites for UNIQLO and Matches Fashion. Previously awarded by the Royal College of Art in London, Computer Arts Magazine UK and New Media Age U.K. During the past years I've had the priviliege to work with clients like Swisscom, Vogue Italia, GQ, Disney, EMI, Telecom Italia, Orange, France Telecom, Technogym, Panasonic, Adidas, Chivas Regal, UNIQLO, Virgin Holidays.           The Visual Design Dept. A blog created to showcase the ideas, techniques and insights on the topic of visual communication design and visual design craft.   Visual Design Craftsmanship Short video for the frog "Centres of passion" initiative launched in September 2011. Talking briefly about the discipline and its' craft.   Youth Projects Tumblr Daily feed of inspiration, a collection of images, animations and videos I come across. Most images are published without context or credits.   A World of Tweets frog technologist Carlo Zapponi asked if I could support with some design for his beautiful Canvas/HTML5 visualisation of global tweets. I could indeed.