Signe Persson Melin

Signe has a wealth of experience after 50 years in the ceramics industry, designing for companies like Höganäs keramik, Kosta Boda, Boda Nova, Rörstrand and Svenskt Tenn, but also in the fields of metal and glass, as well as many public artworks. Signe’s breakthrough as a designer came at the legendary modernist H55-exhibition (Hälsingborgsutställningen 1955). In 1985, she became Sweden’s first professor of Glass & Ceramics design at Konstfack, the University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, and has taught many of the young designers that now work with design brands in Stockholm. Signe has her own studio in the city of Malmö in southern Sweden.