Jonas Johansson (b. 1987) is a designer, artist and educator from Glommen, Halland. He studied graphic design in Norrköping, Reims, and Stockholm, and has worked at design studios in Tokyo, Montreal, London and Munich. He taught at Beckmans (2017–2025) and Hyper Island (2014–2022).
Jonas runs the artist residency Visualia and Nordic Audiovisual Artists, plans courses at Svenska Tecknare, creates events with PLX and Lumen Project, collaborates with the lighting collective Svartljus, and co-founded Dome Dreaming, the Nordics' first fulldome film festival.
He shares his studio with SMASH and Rose Hallgren.
Vi kommer i fred
In Kungsträdgården, facing the Royal Castle, a screen pulled everyone who walked past into an alien invasion of Stockholm.
Made with Smash Studio to launch TV4's sci-fi drama "Vi kommer i fred". A single-camera totem stood in Kungsträdgården, facing the Royal Castle across the water, and dropped whoever walked by straight into the show's opening scene, a huge alien craft breaking through the clouds over the city.
I did the real-time integration and the on-site install, getting the live camera feed placed into the scene and mapped onto the totem, then calibrated on location.
Behind it, the whole invasion ran live in Resolume, mapped onto the live camera feed so anyone who stepped up landed inside the shot. Two versions of the scene, one for day and one for night, swapped on a timer to match the light, and it ran around the clock for two weeks.
