Touchdown in San Francisco

Above
A View from Above
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2 min readSep 24, 2019

Starting this month we’re setting up shop in San Francisco to work even closer with our clients and some of the most progressive people, thoughts and brands around.

Innovation hubs are popping up all over the world but there is no question that San Francisco still is the center of gravity for the future of tech and design. With an endless demand for innovation Above is now breaking new ground on the mission to help the bold unfold tomorrow.

Picture from one of the first Bay Area assignments for the team. Feeding the souls with some early morning surf before the workday

Since 2011 we’ve been working extensively with clients in the Bay Area on product design, strategic definition and experience prototyping of groundbreaking hardware and software experiences. Our Scandinavian point of view has engaged clients such as Google, Facebook and Sonos and we’re thrilled about what’s next.

The iconic and award-winning Cone from San Francisco start-up Aether Things.

We see a heavily growing appetite for our cross-functional creative offering. In 2019 our international engagements will stand for over 35% of the turnover and going into 2020. We will continue to explore new ways of building and expanding global partnerships over all continents.

The launch of Facebook Surround 360 x24 and x6 at the 2016 F8 conference.

Our ambition is to deliver value for our clients as well as create an exciting work environment for our team, seamlessly connecting our Sweden based creative teams, with our exciting and future clients in the Bay Area and US west coast.

“With our local Bay Area presence we will further smoothen collaborations, with main client contacts working in the same timezone and also significantly cutting down on the number of cross-Atlantic flights, creating a more longterm sustainable way of working in all aspects“ says Above CEO Claes Lundin.

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