Hella Jongerius: Misfit is a detailed survey of the work of Dutch product designer Hella Jongerius (b. 1963). Jongerius studied Industrial Design at the Eindhoven Design Academy and graduated in 1993. She came to prominence very soon after graduating, with a series of her designs being produced by the influential Dutch conceptual design collective Droog Design. She started her own design company, Jongeriuslab, in 1993 in Rotterdam, and in 2008 moved to Berlin. She has collaborated with many prestigious manufacturers, including Vitra, Royal Tichelaar Makkum and Swarovski, and her work is held in the collections of MoMA, the Stedelijk Museum and the Design Museum in London, amongst many others. Jongerius designs a range of products, including furniture, lighting, textiles and glassware but has a particular interest in ceramics. Her work combines the traditional with the contemporary, she is interested in new technologies and processes, and in older techniques. An extreme example of this is her ‘Red White Vase’, the shape is based upon an amalgamation of medieval pottery shards, glued together to form an archetype, put into serial production, and decorated with a type of paint usually used to paint car bodies. Jongerius is also fascinated by the value of the individual character and qualities that objects can assume, and in how individuality can be incorporated into manufactured products. For example her ‘B-Set’ of porcelain crockery, produced for Royal Tichelaar Makkum since 1997, is fired at too high a temperature during the manufacturing process, ensuring that the clay deforms slightly and giving each set a completely unique shape.
Louise Schouwenberg is a Dutch writer and curator. She writes for several international magazines, has contributed to a large number of books on design and curated a number of art and design exhibitions. In 2010 she was appointed Associate Professor of Design Theory (Lector) and head of the Masters department for Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. Schouwenberg has a...
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- "More than ever, design has become a thinking profession because there is a large demand for creative intelligence, which is more directly related to the creative process. Science and design have grown closer to one another, and that tendency will only increase in the future...... I make objects and "
- "I dont regard consumerism as the biggest problem, but a consumerism that loses sight of any notion of urgency and relevance. That is where the responsibility of designers lies... you can decide to reflect on the relevance of the design profession."
- "Like any other profession, design has a pyramidal structure, board at the base and narrow at the top, with many designers at the bottom and only a few who come up with high-quality...Thousands of designers have jumped on the bandwagon resulting in more design couses, magazines, blogs and labels. All"
- "I wanted to translate that potential which I didn't see in the finished products, but did see in the workshops, into new designs. that meant that I have to show the viewer the production process. 看到上釉的工人的practice plates, I tranlated that concept into a kind of system. I indicated a basic layout on e"
- "natually plays an essential role. A team needs a fitter, someone who gives direction, who makes decisions on the basis of a specific vision... Products now arise through close collaboration with both the designers from my own team and the experts who have been working for years within a particular c"
- "value of handicrafts lies primarily in the impossibility of producing perfect products. the function of design lies mainly in its communicative strength...Modernists...every detail of their products communicated the fact that they existed thanks to technological innovation and the industrial process"