What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
We think it was the need of creating something new, something that masses of people will use and feel happy and comfortable with it in the daily life routine.
Where did you study design?
We both finished the Academy of Fine Arts in ?ód?
What was the first thing you designed?
Dorota – my first project which was produced was a set of upholstered
furniture. This was the first time in my life when I came across production process problems like creating on the basis on manufactory’s technologies and specific project assumptions. Designing in collage was something completely different.
Sylwia – The first thing I designed was a project of food packing useful during a journey. It was a very conceptional project but I was really satisfied with it. Prototyping and putting on production related problems appeared first in my career during my diploma project of ply elastic modul furniture.
How do you define good design?
To us good design is that which responses its function. We don’t like items in which their form overtakes their functionality.
What would you be if not a designer?
Dorota – maybe an architect or engineer, maybe chef. For sure I’d be someone who creates new things and has the ability to share them with others. That is the kind of work which gives the ability to take up new challenges and a kind of freedom.
Sylwia – I always wanted to be a painter. And I feel that this dream of mine is coming true – maybe in a slightly different form.
Which design of yours are you most proud of and why?
I think we’re most proud of our little furniture collection, KOKO. It was only us who found the producer, set the production process and promoted it. This is like our own, little child to us.
Anything in your career you wish you’d done differently?
We’d wish to design something really small, almost invisible if you look at it without concentrating, but something you could find anywhere around the world, like the sewing needle or a bottle cap.
Which designers do you most admire?
I really admire Alvar Aalto. I’m delighted with simplicity of his solutions and the care of details – in his architectural work as well as in his furniture designs.
Which product do you wish you’d designed/do you think is an example of good design?
We enjoy rather simple solutions. Alvar Aalto’s stool no. 60 or Ant Arne Jakobsen’s chair. A simple, maybe even obvious design solution and perfect materials usage. And easiness in production which also is a big advantage. We don’t want to design expensive products for wealthy people. Design also is mass production which enables products to be used by mass users.
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