Tor Rauden Källstigen — Past & Present Works
Brief introduction to current commitments & locations. Please click an area of interest to learn more.
In the time span of about a decade, I've spend a fairly great amount of energy to make great things happen. The reason: to open people's eyes to stuff that deserves it. Regardless of whether it is strange Korean pants, a tech invention in the making, or that esoteric tweepop band.
By applying the experience of creating mind-blowing and boggling ideas, and the understanding of how to execute them in the proper manner — I've landed a bunch of things on planet earth. Some of the projects run by myself and friends. Others by companies, where I've taken the role of an external consultant. Both of the scenarios driven by the interest in learning more.
The primary common denominators are concept creation, strategy — In combination with a deep fascination of technology and the www.
Following as below: web-presence — & recent work, made in collaboration with clever friends and co-workers. Now and then, some projects related to previous employments on the multi awarded digital/pr-agencies Dist, Farfar, Jung Relations and Great Works.
Berlin Office
Boddinstraße 17/1
12053 Berlin, Germany
+49 176 39665972
berlin@torrauden.com
Stockholm Office
Åsögatan 176, 116 32
Stockholm, Sweden
+46 (0) 73 689 86 56
stockholm@torrauden.com
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Youtube channel.
Vimeo page.
Almost all of the streets of the North Korean capital Pyongyang lack lighting in the evening and all appear deserted. At least at first sight. After a while, dark contours emerge in the streets – people walking home, quietly talking, smoking.
Since the city itself barely exude any light, the stars shine brighter here than in any other place in the world. The biggest garment company in the country said no to working with us. The biggest mining company said yes.
Welcome to Maneuvers In The Dark, the first chapter of Noko Jeans. Two and a half years in the making, here they are: the first 1100 jeans made in North Korea. Two models available — the Kara slim fit and Oke loose fit.
Made together with Jacob Åström, Jakob Ohlsson and a lot of totally amazing people.
»Loopcam lets you create and share loops in an instant. Send them to friends, family and acquaintances on Twitter & Facebook. Get world wide fame by publishing your loops to our collaborative gallery at Loopc.am.«
The animated GIF is an image format more than 20 years old, and it's still loved by people all over the internet. We created a tool for people to animate loops in a new and exciting way. The result: Loopcam. A super simple stop motion animator.
When launched, it was just a matter of days before hundreds of thousands people visited Loopc.am. At the same time we passed Photoshop on the App Store charts. To promote our most talented users, a Favorites section was established.
Me and Leo first met in rhetoric class and quickly discovered a similar taste in music, and a shared love for Giorgio Moroder, futuristic trains and machines that goes beep.
After moving into the same apartment complex sweet noises emerged, echoing over the hills of Ersta. The project soon came to be known as Boeoes Kaelstigen, preferably pronounced /ˈbʌs ˈtʃɛlstɨɡɛn/.
Some years later, the back catalogue is featuring EP's as well as indie-to-mainstream remixes. The music has been endorsed by minister Leif Pagrotsky and electronic icons such as Laurent Garnier, Michael Mayer and Özgur Can. The melodramatic melodies later took us all over the world, including Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Paris.
Our debut album Tanum Teleport was released in winter '10, and got nominated to a Swedish Grammy and was on Swedish National Radio rotation. This full length record featued collaborations with London's Sound of Arrows and Sweden's MF/MB, all reincarnated in a futuristic environment.
A dumpling restaurant chain is coming to town. And it's currently in beta!
Beijing8 is a dumplings & tea restaurant in the making. Currently in open beta form, where we try and experiment our way to perfection. No invite necessary, just drop by at Kocksgatan 52, Stockholm. And it's opening soon!
We call it beta because that is what it is: the foundation and basic idea is in place (a slice of modern China through dumplings & tea), but we're still working out all the details.
The first official – 1.0 as it were – Beijing8 restaurant will open at a so far undisclosed location in the coming months.
Together with Jacob/Jakob & Dr. Einar we've launched the first tiny portion of the digital platform that is coming soon — on WWW, mobile and motion video. 
Software invention that enhances silly conversations.
Emoji (絵文字) is the Japanese term for the 461 picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese wireless messages and webpages. Originally meaning pictograph, the word literally means e "picture" + moji "letter" — Wikipedia
These icons has been incredibly loved on the iOS platforms such as iPhone & iPad, however, they weren't present in the popular chat client iChat.
Enter: Emojify! Me and Mr. Einar Andersson developed a plugin which finally welcomed them into MacOS.
This project was first launched under the name Emoji for iChat and recieved lots of media attention in America, Japan and The Internet.
»I'd like to add: On behalf of everyone here, thank you! Our life is complete again.«
— Employee at Tekserve Apple Specialist in New York.
Online downloading service, and art experiment — manned with real human beings.
Mysterious artist Rich Shapero was going to launch his album in Scandinavia. Rich wanted only the right people to get captured by his melodramatic songs.
When entering the site you'll automatically get a queue number. When it's your turn, you get to talk to someone at the Order Desk — live. And after answering a few questions, you got one selected song — chosen for your personality type — for free.
Two people were working in the order desk for several weeks. The interest was huge and The Human Order desk became very popular among the people on 4chan.org — the world's biggest & most hectic forum. The forum people loved the order desk, they made their own fan posters and waited for hours in the queue.
The Human Order Desk became internet culture, or a Meme, as they say.
My involvement was in the form of an art director, and the site was made with the amazing people at Dist, during the time I worked there.
»Tor is one of the most curiosity-driven people you can ever find. Whatever Tor needs to know, he'll find out in a couple of days. In this ever-changing, fast-paced world where everything is changing quickly, this quality is the only certainty« — Viktor Bolin, Strategic Account Director at Britny.
»Tor is the type of guy you want to work with. Despite his age he's acomplished more than many. As they say on Ebay: "A++"!« — Adam Lundberg, Assistant Librarian at City Library of Malmö.