We are a nordic cross-disciplinary team of designers, architects and culture professionals. Get in touch!
Office
Contact
Urgent.Agency A/S
Struenseegade 15A, 3rd floor
DK-2200, Copenhagen N
Get directions
hello@urgent.agency
Business Requests
Mads Quistgaard, CEO & Design Director
mq@urgent.agency
+45 26 70 06 07
Internships
We do not have any open positions at the moment, but we are always interested to hear from talented designers and architects.
Please send portfolio to
hello@urgent.agency
Team
Mads Quistgaard
CEO & Design Director
Mads is a specialist in connecting design practice and strategy and has been driving a broad range of design and branding projects for clients including d’Angleterre, Novo Nordisk, The Danish Parliament, Tate Modern, Bang & Olufsen, Arla and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. He has 15 years of professional experience, including 3 as Creative Director at Kontrapunkt.
Emilie Holm Sandholdt
COO & Project Manager
Emilie translates creative visions into well executed strategies through proces leadership, pro-active stakeholder management and a user-centric approach. She draws from competencies within business development, cultural analysis and design methodology. Emilie has an International Diploma in Project Management from UC Berkeley, a MA in Design Management and a B.Sc in Urban Planning and Communication. She has previously worked with agencies like Kontrapunkt and Tackle Studio.
Johanne Mortensen
Senior Strategist
Johanne’s strategic work covers branding processes, concept development and communication – all tied together by a no-nonsense attitude and a creative way with words. She has an MA in Modern Culture and Communication and a background in project and campaign management. Johanne is also our resident film geek and an unapologetic lover of country music.
Ricky Storm Braskov
Senior Analyst & Project Manager
Ricky is a culture analyst and concept developer with a special love for cities, urban spaces and the people who inhabit them. At Urgent, he works with user involvement, analysis and strategy with an innovative and cross-disciplinary approach. Ricky has an MA in Communication and a background as a curator and cultural entrepreneur. At Urgent, we are in awe of his pet project Øen, where he manages to pull of the coolest of events.
Michaela Pihl Olsen
Senior Architect and Wayfinding Lead
Michaela has a multidisciplinary approach to her work merging architecture, graphic design and wayfinding to create meaningful solutions for spaces and brands. She has an MA in architecture with a strong focus on type and wayfinding and has previously worked at Kontrapunkt and Duncan McCauley in Berlin. Michaela speaks many languages which is a killer combination with her uncanny nose for fine wine and her own private wine collection.
Benjamin Wernery
Senior Graphic Designer
Benjamin is a multidisciplinary graphic designer with extensive experience in bridging the disciplines of research, design and finish. He holds a BA and MA in Communication Design, and has a background as photographer and cinematographer. Benjamin specializes in visual storytelling and cultivates this talent with his passion project Plethora Magazine.
Mads Christian Sandholm
Graphic Designer
Mads enjoys working on conceptually strong identity design, editorial design, and branding. Mads has been part of the Urgent Agency team since 2015 and pursues his interest in a broad range of projects merging graphic design with culture design. He has an MA in Communication Design.
Cecilie Kirkeskov Knudsen
Graphic- & Type Designer
Cecilie holds a BA in Graphic Design and an MA in Design with a focus on Type and Wayfinding. Cecilie has a passion for printed and digital projects within the cultural field, and applies an investigative and analytical approach to her interest areas of typography, type design, identity design, branding and editorial design.
Birk Marcus Hansen
Senior Graphic Designer
With a passion for graphic design and video art, Birk has worked in a wide range of cross-disciplinary settings, including exhibitions and stage productions. He has a constant itch to challenge the established paradigms within visual communication and keeps track of technological advances and geopolitics. His work often takes on a playful or even speculative approach as he tweaks and investigates, combines and challenges key concepts, ideas and trends in contemporary society.
Tao Kitamoto
Developer & Graphic Designer
Tao is a graphic designer by training and digital designer by learning. He finds motivation and meaning in mixing the tangible world and digital space. Despite his title, he enjoys working with analog media and has experience working with photography, illustrations, and printed matter. His play on visual connotations is especially seen in his artistic side project, the online curation Decapitate Animals, which he started in 2009. Tao holds an MA in Graphic Communication Design and a BA in Visual Communication.
Osvald Landmark
Graphic Designer
Osvald is a versatile graphic designer and thrives in the boarderland between analogue and digital matter within illustration, typography and animation. By understanding and interpreting his surroundings backed up by solid visual abilities, Osvald excels at telling stories visually – always with design and content in cohesion.
Su Yu
Business Developer
Su Yu is a business developer with a strong design background. She holds a BA and MA in industrial design and has become a specialist in understanding and communicating design in different cultural contexts. With many years of experience in design agencies and associations, she always keeps her eye on the creative ball while helping clients achieve the best value possible.
Cajus Møller
Accountant
Cajus takes care of Urgent.Agency’s accounting. He has been Christian’s go-to man since before they invented the financial crisis. Cajus graces Urgent.Agency with his company twice a week. When Cajus is not whipping our business into shape, he whips everything else into shape: his garden, his building projects and himself. Good thing he is a former Danish champion of Half Marathon!
Rasmus Hetoft Hansen
Graphic Designer
Christian Pagh
Special Advisor
Christian is a specialist in the interaction between culture, architecture and urban planning with substantial experience in turning site-specific qualities into creative and value-adding design solutions. Christian has been in charge of a variety of planning projects with cities, companies and organizations. Clients include Carlsberg, Microsoft, Volkswagen, Solstra Capital, BIG and the City of Cph.
We are a nordic cross-disciplinary team of designers, architects and culture professionals. Get in touch!
Office
Contact
Urgent.Agency A/S
Struenseegade 15A, 3rd floor
DK-2200, Copenhagen N
Get directions
hello@urgent.agency
Business Requests
Mads Quistgaard, CEO & Design Director
mq@urgent.agency
+45 26 70 06 07
Internships
We do not have any open positions at the moment, but we are always interested to hear from talented designers and architects.
Please send portfolio to
hello@urgent.agency
Team
Mads Quistgaard
CEO & Design Director
Mads is a specialist in connecting design practice and strategy and has been driving a broad range of design and branding projects for clients including d’Angleterre, Novo Nordisk, The Danish Parliament, Tate Modern, Bang & Olufsen, Arla and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. He has 15 years of professional experience, including 3 as Creative Director at Kontrapunkt.
Christian Pagh
Special Advisor
Christian is a specialist in the interaction between culture, architecture and urban planning with substantial experience in turning site-specific qualities into creative and value-adding design solutions. Christian has been in charge of a variety of planning projects with cities, companies and organizations. Clients include Carlsberg, Microsoft, Volkswagen, Solstra Capital, BIG and the City of Cph.
Emilie Holm Sandholdt
COO & Project Manager
Emilie translates creative visions into well executed strategies through proces leadership, pro-active stakeholder management and a user-centric approach. She draws from competencies within business development, cultural analysis and design methodology. Emilie has an International Diploma in Project Management from UC Berkeley, a MA in Design Management and a B.Sc in Urban Planning and Communication. She has previously worked with agencies like Kontrapunkt and Tackle Studio.
Johanne Mortensen
Senior Strategist
Johanne’s strategic work covers branding processes, concept development and communication – all tied together by a no-nonsense attitude and a creative way with words. She has an MA in Modern Culture and Communication and a background in project and campaign management. Johanne is also our resident film geek and an unapologetic lover of country music.
Michaela Pihl Olsen
Senior Architect and Wayfinding Lead
Michaela has a multidisciplinary approach to her work merging architecture, graphic design and wayfinding to create meaningful solutions for spaces and brands. She has an MA in architecture with a strong focus on type and wayfinding and has previously worked at Kontrapunkt and Duncan McCauley in Berlin. Michaela speaks many languages which is a killer combination with her uncanny nose for fine wine and her own private wine collection.
Benjamin Wernery
Senior Graphic Designer
Benjamin is a multidisciplinary graphic designer with extensive experience in bridging the disciplines of research, design and finish. He holds a BA and MA in Communication Design, and has a background as photographer and cinematographer. Benjamin specializes in visual storytelling and cultivates this talent with his passion project Plethora Magazine.
Ricky Storm Braskov
Senior Analyst & Project Manager
Ricky is a culture analyst and concept developer with a special love for cities, urban spaces and the people who inhabit them. At Urgent, he works with user involvement, analysis and strategy with an innovative and cross-disciplinary approach. Ricky has an MA in Communication and a background as a curator and cultural entrepreneur. At Urgent, we are in awe of his pet project Øen, where he manages to pull of the coolest of events.
Cecilie Kirkeskov Knudsen
Graphic- & Type Designer
Cecilie holds a BA in Graphic Design and an MA in Design with a focus on Type and Wayfinding. Cecilie has a passion for printed and digital projects within the cultural field, and applies an investigative and analytical approach to her interest areas of typography, type design, identity design, branding and editorial design.
Mads Christian Sandholm
Graphic Designer
Mads enjoys working on conceptually strong identity design, editorial design, and branding. Mads has been part of the Urgent Agency team since 2015 and pursues his interest in a broad range of projects merging graphic design with culture design. He has an MA in Communication Design.
Birk Marcus Hansen
Senior Graphic Designer
With a passion for graphic design and video art, Birk has worked in a wide range of cross-disciplinary settings, including exhibitions and stage productions. He has a constant itch to challenge the established paradigms within visual communication and keeps track of technological advances and geopolitics. His work often takes on a playful or even speculative approach as he tweaks and investigates, combines and challenges key concepts, ideas and trends in contemporary society.
Su Yu
Business Developer
Su Yu is a business developer with a strong design background. She holds a BA and MA in industrial design and has become a specialist in understanding and communicating design in different cultural contexts. With many years of experience in design agencies and associations, she always keeps her eye on the creative ball while helping clients achieve the best value possible.
Cajus Møller
Accountant
Cajus takes care of Urgent.Agency’s accounting. He has been Christian’s go-to man since before they invented the financial crisis. Cajus graces Urgent.Agency with his company twice a week. When Cajus is not whipping our business into shape, he whips everything else into shape: his garden, his building projects and himself. Good thing he is a former Danish champion of Half Marathon!
Osvald Landmark
Graphic Designer
Osvald is a versatile graphic designer and thrives in the boarderland between analogue and digital matter within illustration, typography and animation. By understanding and interpreting his surroundings backed up by solid visual abilities, Osvald excels at telling stories visually – always with design and content in cohesion.
Tao Kitamoto
Developer & Graphic Designer
Tao is a graphic designer by training and digital designer by learning. He finds motivation and meaning in mixing the tangible world and digital space. Despite his title, he enjoys working with analog media and has experience working with photography, illustrations, and printed matter. His play on visual connotations is especially seen in his artistic side project, the online curation Decapitate Animals, which he started in 2009. Tao holds an MA in Graphic Communication Design and a BA in Visual Communication.