Rybakken started Studio Daniel Rybakken in 2008 in Sweden and has since then become one of Scandinavias most highly awarded and internationally acclaimed designers. He has worked with leading furniture companies such as Luceplan (Italy), Artek (Finland), Vitra (Switzerland), Karimoku (Japan) and HAY (Danmark), and on industrial design with companies like Panasonic (Japan), Givenchy (LVMH, France) and has Art Director for Interior and Exterior Illumination Concepts for Volvo and Polestar (Sweden).
In 2014 Rybakken became the first Scandinavian designer to receive the Compasso d’Oro; Italias oldest and most prestigious design award (he received his second Compasso d’Oro in 2016).
In 2015 Wallpaper* Magazine selected Rybakken to the “top 20 designers in the world under the age of 40” and in 2017 he was the recipient of the worlds largest design prize; the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize in Sweden.
