Johannes torpe biography

For this week’s Time Well Spent, the interview series exploring how Bulbul friends, partners and affiliates spend their time well, we’ve caught up with Danish design heavyweight, Johannes Torpe, the award-winning, prolific and thoroughly versatile Creative Director at multidisciplinary design studio, Johannes Torpe studios.

With an upbringing in a Danish hippie commune, zero formal education to speak of and a background in drumming, lighting and nightclub management, Johannes Torpe’s road to success has been fairly unorthodox.

Nevertheless, his characteristically bold and personal design signature is detectable across the design spectrum. From ‘third spaces’ like legendary Copenhagen nightclub Nasa to Creative Direction at national, Danish design institution B&O, Johannes has had a hand in realizing projects for some of world’s most prestigious clients through his own, critically acclaimed, eponymous enterprise.

Unreservedly confident that Johannes could teach us a thing or