About · Jakob Dahlin
Jakob Dahlin is a designer, design engineer, architectural photographer, and artist. Across each discipline, the work is grounded in the same pursuit: making structure visible and atmosphere tangible.
A connected trajectory
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Visual foundations
Graphic design established an early discipline around typography, hierarchy, proportion, and the exact relationship between an image and its context. Web design carried those principles into a medium that had to respond—to screens, to people, and to changing information.
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Design engineering
The work expanded from designing individual pages to building the systems behind them. Product thinking, interface design, and front-end engineering became one connected practice: translating visual intent into responsive, durable digital experiences without losing the precision of the original idea.
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Architectural photography
Architectural photography brought the same attention to structure into physical space. Since 2010, Jakob has photographed landmark buildings, private residences, commercial developments, hotels, and public environments—primarily in New York, with assignments across the United States and Europe.
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Studio practice
Alongside commissioned photography, a parallel body of code-based artwork developed quietly over a ten-year span. What began as an ongoing investigation into color, rhythm, and light has grown into an extension of the architectural practice: still and moving work composed for the proportions, atmosphere, and material character of a space.
Architecture through a camera
The photographic work moves between exact documentation and lived atmosphere. It has encompassed celebrated New York landmarks, new residential towers, private interiors, commercial spaces, and the public realm—images made to clarify architectural intent while preserving the feeling of being there.
Empire State Building
A competition-finalist photograph was selected for display in the observatory lobby—placing an image of the city inside one of its most recognized landmarks.
Million Dollar Listing New York
Architectural and real-estate photography has appeared on Bravo’s series, bringing the work into a nationally viewed presentation of New York property and design.
International reach
Selected photography has been offered through IKEA’s global retail platform, extending work rooted in architecture into homes far beyond the places where it was made.
The work beneath the surface
The artwork is not a departure from the architectural practice. It is its abstract counterpart: a way to work directly with scale, cadence, luminosity, and movement. Collection pieces exist as physical works, while commissions can be developed in direct response to a building and its interior life.
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