Melissa Lindqvist

Melissa Lindqvist

Creative copywriter in the Netherlands

About

A creative copywriter, brand strategist and editor with 8+ years experience in the cultural field, design, sport, fashion and emerging tech. I love to research and concept strategically sound ideas and write meaningful narratives.

I’m not afraid of using parentheses or puns.

This cv intentionally leaves out my turbulent philosopher alter-ego.

Projects

2023

The crypto wallet that'll take you places

Writing

2023

Automated warehouses run by robots, what's not to like?

2022

Create space for the things that matter. Meet Pio, your automated warehouse.

2022

We've been working on something special: Eternal Blauw, a limited-edition denim series created out of unused premium denim from our past collections. Each of the ten styles has been creatively upcycled into something unique, made with our free-spirited attitude and Amsterdams Blauw denim expertise you know and love.

2022

Introducing the brand's limited-edition Born to Love bag made in collaboration with their friends at Studio189, an artisan-produced fashion lifestyle brand and social enterprise based in New York (USA) and Accra (Ghana). They support community-led projects primarily in West Africa and act as a platform to help promote and curate African fashion internationally.

2021

Together with The Knitwit Stable we've created a unique wool cardigan, designed in Amsterdam and knitted just around the corner, using only Dutch wool. Wear it over anything and everything – from now until forever. Read on to find out more about our collaboration.

2018

If we were able to biologically enhance the fragrance emitted from our bodies, what could be the consequences for our everyday existence? Our skin sweating cosmetics, turning into a perfume atomiser. The explicit separation between 'technology' (when regarded as something nonhuman) and the 'human' body is becoming increasingly vague.

2018

Zoo's (a.k.a Cathy Davies) 10-day performance 'Curdle' set free an investigation into the possibilities and experiences of feeding and lactating outside of cultural norms.

2018

Wearing bodily fluids, which often possess complex emotional and visceral entanglements, on the “outside” of our body is a brutal attack on our culturally conditioned aversions to fluids and body boundaries.

2017

Vegetal-beings are the most abundant form of ‘nonhuman’ entities that humans encounter, more abundant than nonhuman animals, microbes and fungi, yet it is commonplace to exclude the vegetal from our system. Underscoring this research is the move away from thinking about plants as simple and passive entities, who possess a lesser status than humans on this earth.

Awards

2023

For the Pio website, we designed and built an accessible system keeping simplicity and inclusivity at the forefront of our design principles. To make it relevant and appealing to a wide variety of businesses, we combined an open and proactive narrative with a clean identity.

The new website has a modular design made for an intuitive user experience fully adapted for the site to grow. Art direction, copywriting and specially commissioned illustrations and CG visuals were essential in bringing it all to life.

Features

2023

Work Experience

2024 — Now
2022 — 2024
Amsterdam

Lead copy, brand strategy and UX writer on client projects – both established and emerging brands – involving deep collaboration with brand designers, product designers, art directors, developers + others.

2021 — 2022
Amsterdam

Led copy within the Global Brand Marketing team. Involved in heavy creative collaboration and briefing for the creative team with very quick turnaround, and directly reviewing creative work across the whole organisation. Responsible for establishing the new brand tone of voice and creation of guidelines.

2018 — 2021
Hilversum

As part of the EMEA Comms team, my responsibilities included content creation, copywriting/editing and management of the editorial calendar for the internal site, UX writing in-app, comms strategy, as well as external comms and events e.g. pitches to Nike News, press releases and briefings for external contractors i.e. filmmakers, photographers, videographers. I also mentored multiple interns within the comms team and was the comms lead for the Women of EMEA network.

2018 — 2018
Amsterdam

I was part of the programme and projects team, researching different areas of design and art to pitch new projects for Mediamatic. Responsible for the creation of essays and articles for the website and editing of all written work, as well as creation of social content and interviews with artists and designers.

2016 — 2018
Amsterdam

I freelanced at this non-profit cultural organisation which promotes the contemporary art scene in Amsterdam, culminating in an annual Amsterdam Art Weekend – a festival across multiple artist-run project spaces, residencies, commercial museums and galleries across Amsterdam. I started out as a marketing and comms coordinator (as an intern) and evolved to focus on leading all content creation and copywriting for the website, and curation and creation of marketing collateral e.g. OOH print and digital ads, social ads, press releases, press toolkits, short films etc. I also took on the role of social media manager, leading the social content strategy for Amsterdam Art Weekend for several years.

2018 — 2018
Amsterdam

Worked on brand copy across the whole organisation/part of the first team of copywriters at Ace & Tate – we shaped the new brand voice and created the familiar, witty personality that's still relevant now. Everyday work included integrated campaigns, CRM, UX, social and paid media.

2018 — 2018
Amsterdam

Copy editor for multiple issues of the architectural, design and cultural theory magazine: Volume. Deep collaboration with artists, designers, architects and theorists to turn complex thoughts and globally significant topics into well written articles.

Education

2015 — 2017
Leiden, NL

Explored developments in art within the broad context of visual culture and theory, from the social and political to the natural sciences and globalisation.

2011 — 2014

Contact

Teams

Past
Bakken & Bæck