Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Mark

What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I’ve been drawing and expressing myself through art for as long as I can remember, so it was a natural progression for me to continue as an adult. I’ve always loved the home and the design items we choose to fill our homes with, for practicality or just beauty. Since coming to London, with so many parks and gardens, I’ve become fascinated by nature. My work is about “bringing the outdoors inside”.
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Tags: Camilla Meijer, Charles and Ray Eames., Charley Harper
Posted in Interviews and Q&A's, New Talent
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by Mark

What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I wanted to find a job implying a great part of creativity, and at the same time, I was fascinated by the industrial world! If you add up these two considerations, you obtain designer, but it took me a couple of years before finding out this answer.
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Tags: Belgian Design, François Azambourg, Konstantin Grcic, Raphael Charles, Saint-Luc Tournai
Posted in Design, Interviews and Q&A's
Posted on December 8th, 2009 by Mark

What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I don’t know that I did in the first place, I’ve always enjoyed creating things and have been curious as to how things are put together. I think I stumbled onto this career path.
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Tags: hans j. wegner, northumbria university, Shay Alkalay
Posted in Design, Interviews and Q&A's, New Talent, Product
Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by Mark

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.
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Tags: Alvar Aalto
Posted in Interviews and Q&A's
Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Mark

1. What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
Since I was very young, I have always loved drawing and making things. It’s my instinctive way of expression. After leaving college I became an illustrator, then I trained as a tattoo artist and now I am a designer.
2. Where did you study design?
I studied Furniture and Product design at London Metropolitan University. I had some really inspiring lecturers – most notably, Tomoko Azumi, William Warren and Jane Atfield
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Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Mark

What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I feel I was born a designer, the challenge is to produce what comes to mind so that the process of creation fuels the next design, its a cathartic, self perpetuating cycle.
Where did you study design?
I studied fine art at Chelsea College of Art&Design and Horology at The Jewellery school, UCE. It is the fusion of the 3 disiplines, Fine art, Design and Horology that is responsible for the hybrid vigour seen in my work
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Tags: Anish Kapoor, Chelsea College of Art&Design, Cornilia Parker, Design and Horology, Fine art, Horology, Paul Beckett, Steve McQueen, The Jewellery school, UCE
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Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Mark

What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
As a teenager I was stuck in a boring school that feeded me latin and mathematics and all other boring kinds of classes, and from the moment I had the possibility to for the first time choose what I wanted to do with my life, I swore to god it had to be something enjoyable and exciting. I didn’t want to just stuff my head with boring theory’s, I wanted to do something with my hands, create things. After a school visit, where I saw all these students doing there own thing in a very free way, it was clear that this was what I wanted to do.
Where did you study design?
St.Lukas Hogeschool Brussels (interior design) and Design Academy Eindhoven (industrial design)
What was the first thing you designed?
That was even before my studies; a big wooden book rack, unstable and ugly as hell, but that was the first thing.
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Tags: Belgian Design, belgium design, Bouroullec, Brussels design, Grcic
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