Teit has worked in a broad field of design, from buildings and street furniture down to coins and stamps.
After graduating from the school of architecture of the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he joined the office of architect Arne Jacobsen until Jacobsen’s death in 1971. During this period, he took part in the design of Cylinda-line tableware and was responsible for the design of Vola tap and the new Royal Danish Embassy in London.
Afterward, he became a partner in Dissing+Weitling architects until 2003, when he established the office Weylandt Design.His clientele includes clients such as Novo Nordisk, Louis Poulsen, Philips, Vola, Lindberg, The Danish Parliament, Danmarks Nationalbank, Post Danmark, DSB and Aarhus University.
Teit has received a vast number of awards, such as the 1st prize of Japanese Good Design Grand Prize Award, two German iF-Prizes, the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage, some Danish ID-Prizes and a shared IG-Prize. In 2016, Teit received the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal, an award granted by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for excellence in the fields of applied art and industrial design.