Hans Ehrich

He mixed his studies with trainee periods at Italian car producers in Milan and Turin, where he, among others, met Giorgetto Giugiaro, who asked him to join the recently established Italdesign company.

The result of the studies in Turin was a large number of car design projects, among those a “Two door Sports Coupé” and a “2,5 Litre Gran Turismo Convertible”.

Ehrich's and Lindhé's car existed only as a mock up, but the information about it was spread worldwide by a Swedish news agency.

In the following year, the future partner Tom Ahlström designed a complete furniture collection in plastic as his examination subject at Konstfack.

[6] The dish washing brush and the queue ticket dispenser, the folding stool, together with several more creations from A&E Design are part of the permanent collection of the Nationalmuseum.

The worldwide successes have led to the nomination of Hans Ehrich as a member of the jury of the “red dot design award” since 2002.

[8] In 2022, Hans Ehrich founded the "Foundation for Industrial Design", which has the task of rewarding a young, promising industrialdesign student with a scholarship and a diploma.