Career
Atlason’s career as a designer started at ten years old winning an essay competition for the Icelandic Ministry of Welfare, which resulted in an ad campaign and a slogan “Your teeth, Your choice”. This ad campaign which was featured on buses all over Reykjavik and was used as an example in parliamentary discussions about healthcare in Iceland. After living for some time in Copenhagen and two years in Paris studying at the Sorbonne and Parsons Paris, he moved to New York to pursue a degree in Industrial Design at Parsons the New School for Design completing his degree in 2001.
Shortly before graduating from Parsons, IKEA produced his “TUNO” clock for their 2002 Personal Collection.
After working for Boym Partners for a year and later becoming the director of product design for G2 Worldwide, Atlason left to start his own design practice in 2004. Since founding his namesake studio, ATLASON in 2004, he has gone on collaborate with a variety of companies.
His professional projects are produced by major international manufacturers, which include a bath collection for Canadian brand Umbra, floor mats for their more upscale Umbra Shift, a condiment holder for Museum of Modern Art, lighting for Artecnica, and packing for Microsoft brands Xbox and Zune. In addition to running his own studio, Atlason was hired as an adjunct lecturer at Parsons the New School for Design in 2014.
His work has been published in various books and periodicals, with the most notable being The Design Encyclopedia a book published by the Museum of Modern Art, The International Design Year Book 18 edited by famed designer Karim Rashid, and On the Cutting Edge: Design in Iceland a book on Icelandic design curated by German design and art historian and curator Klaus Klemp.
Several publications have also featured his work, among them Metropolis, I.D., Core77, Design Milk, Dwell, Wallpaper, Blueprint, The New York Times,Azure, and Christian Broadcasting Network weekly, Dagens Nyheter, Morgunblaðið, House Beautiful, Interior Design, Gearculture, Nordic Design, and Interni among others 2001 Public life, Private Realm, Parsons School of Design
2001 and 2002 In Transit 1 & 2, Terminal Store, New York
2002 Make Room, Salone Satellite, Salone del Mobile, Milan. 2013 Artecnica, ICFF, New York
2014 Umbra Shift, ICFF, New New York
