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Niels Thejls

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This article is about the designer. For the navigation that grows legs, see Spider Navigation.

Niels Thejls
Niels Thejls
Born1997
OccupationDesigner
EmployerSpring/Summer (2026–present)
EducationDanmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole (BA)
Københavns Erhvervsakademi (AP)
AwardsGraphite Pencil, D&AD New Blood Awards
Websitenielsthejls.com

Niels Thejls (born 1997) is a computational expressionist and designer working across identity, interaction and print. Since 2026 Thejls has been a junior designer at Spring/Summer, a Copenhagen digital studio.

Selected projects include the website for Dzidra, a café on Nørrebro;[1] the campaign site for the Hempel Foundation's Biodiversity Hotspots;[2] and Save the Tomato, a 2026 campaign site and game for the IKEA Foundation.[3] Thejls received a Graphite Pencil at the D&AD New Blood Awards for The Green Hand.[4]

Career

  • 2026–present: Junior Designer, Spring/Summer
  • 2026: Internship, Re-Public
  • 2025–present: Freelance, Stupid Studio
  • 2024–25: Internship, Stupid Studio
  • 2022: Internship, Dwarf

Education

  • 2025: Scholarship, Digital Publishing, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • 2022–25: BA, Interactive Design, Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole
  • 2021: Minor, Transmedia Design, Fontys Academy for Creative Industries
  • 2020–22: AP, Entrepreneurship & Design, Københavns Erhvervsakademi

Selected clients

Dzidra

Website, 2026. Role: Design, Development.

Website build for Dzidra, cafe on Nørrebro. Built around its superior taste in music[citation needed], the site incorporates an API so what plays is always visible.[1]

Biodiversity Hotspots

Hempel Foundation, 2026. Role: Website development, Print. Made at Spring/Summer.

Campaign site and visual identity for the first update of the Biodiversity Hotspots framework in 25 years, inviting people to question it, challenge it and contribute to it.[2]

  • Biodiversity Hotspots
  • Biodiversity Hotspots

IKEA Foundation

Website, campaign site & game, 2026. Role: Site population, Design implementation. Made at Stupid Studio.

The IKEA Foundation's new website, and Save the Tomato, its 2026 campaign site and game. It shows how smallholder farmers cut food waste and emissions, told through one tomato's journey from soil to market.[6][7][3]

  • IKEA Foundation

Selected works

Spider Navigation

Digital exploration, 2026. Role: Design, Development.

A digital exploration of interactivity. Navigation as a web of strings that grows legs and walks wherever you click. Click inside the panel to try it.

  • Spider Navigation

Choke Enough

Custom CD, two copies made, 2026.[5]

  • Choke Enough
  • Choke Enough
  • Choke Enough

Portfolio Print 05

Print series, square, 2026.

  • Portfolio Print 05

Object/Enabled/Drive

Exploration, analog textures, 2026.

An exploration using old, misdeveloped textures from my analog camera. Three digital forms set against the colour casts, light leaks and grain of film that went wrong.

  • Object/Enabled/Drive
  • Object/Enabled/Drive
  • Object/Enabled/Drive

Recognition

Websites

References

  1. ^ “Dzidra”. dzidra.dk.
  2. ^ “Biodiversity Hotspots”. lookagainhotspots.com.
  3. ^ “Save the Tomato”. savethetomato.ikeafoundation.org.
  4. ^ “The Green Hand”. dandad.org.
  5. ^ “Choke Enough”. oklou.bandcamp.com.
  6. ^ “IKEA Foundation”. ikeafoundation.org.
  7. ^ “IKEA Foundation”. ikeafoundation.org.

Categories: 1997 births · Living people · Designers

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