One of Sweden's most important postwar designers, Lindberg created whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines during a long career with the Gustavsberg pottery factory.

Lindberg studied painting at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (now Konsfack).

[2][3] From this period until he left Gustavsberg in 1980, he designed individual ceramic items, as well as factory produced ranges and lines of dinnerware.

[1] He died from a myocardial infarction on 7 April 1982, in San Felice Circeo, Italy.

[5] His work was featured in a posthumous exhibition at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, from 11 May 2006 to 25 February 2007.