25 June 2013
LUC AARTS
Born 1989 in Renkum, the Netherlands. Luc was an intern at OAT Amsterdam from
September to December 2012 and had an extra training Artisanal Shoe Making at
the Dutch health Tec Academy Utrecht.
Contact and
information:www.lucaarts.nl info@lucaarts.nl
Focus
Combining traditional
types of shoes and shoe construction with unconventional materials, iconic
elements and printing techniques, I aim for something new in shoe design. I
like the world of tradition and social hierarchies to merge with the world of
urban life, contemporary hybridity and transgression. I design to twist
accepted images and create a new and appealing look for commercial purposes.
ROBBIN BAAS
Born 1986 in Emmen, the Netherlands. Robbin was an intern
at Lotty Lindeman Eindhoven from September to December 2012.
Contact and information: robbinbaas@gmail.com / www.robbinbaas.com
Contact and information: robbinbaas@gmail.com / www.robbinbaas.com
Focus
My designs answer the human need for animal company in
urban settings. They open the way for the cohabitation of city dwellers with
threatened or underestimated spies such as bees, butterflies, redworms and
sparrows. Some of my designs are useful to man, such as my beehive and compost
factory. All designs offer animals a place to dwell and thrive near people
without unnecessary burdens on the environment.
MIEKE BILLEKENS
Born 1987 in Maasbree, the Netherlands. Mieke was an intern at Floris
Hovers from September to December 2012
Contact and information: info@miekebillekens.nl / www.miekebillekens.nl
Contact and information: info@miekebillekens.nl / www.miekebillekens.nl
Focus
I like to play with standard ideas about objects, their seemingly
objective function, the principles that organize their storage and display, and
their role in our daily routines and social behaviour. My approach may seem
ironic. Nonetheless my aim is to rethink items in order to enhance their
functionality, appeal and their ability to answer our needs and desires.
LIEKE BREKELMANS & JULIA LEITMEYER
Lieke
Brekelmans, born 1989 in Venray, the Netherlands, was an intern at Ontwerplabel
Vij5 Eindhoven from September to December 2012. Julia Leitmeyer, born 1988 in
Speyer, Germany, was an intern at Studio Sybrandy Amsterdam and NEPCO Factory
of Doubt Amsterdamfrom September to December 2012
Contact and information: www.brekelenstrekel.nl
/ www.brekelenstrekel.com
/ info@brekelenstrekel.nl
/ info@brekelenstrekel.com
Focus
Boredom,
hurt, mischief, quarrels and disruption are repressed in today’s risk evading
and process obsessed society. This means children and adults no longer learn to
deal with taking risks and the feelings that come along with failure such as
anger, frustration, emptiness, dissension and pain. Moreover, we no longer
learn and take advantage of the liberating and creative force of these so
called ‘negative’ experiences and emotions. Our mission as designers is to turn
this around by way of an appealing set of tools. We design to challenge, infect
and liberate.
NIENKE VAN DEE
Born 1990 in Heerewaarden, the Netherlands.
Nienke was an intern at Ecco Leather from September to December 2012 and had an extra training Artisanal Shoe Making at the
Dutch Health Tec Academy.
Contact and
information: info@nienkevandee.com / www.nienkevandee.com
Focus
My finals collection is a research project on new forms for
women’s shoes. It is based on visualisations of a future in which space travel
is a common practice. Space age visualization as a genre has its roots in
modernist tradition – take for example the work of fashion designer André
Courrège – but is still very much alive today. After collecting and studying
this kind of image material my next step was to translate certain of its
characteristics into a set of constructions, materials and ways of detailing
for women’s shoes.
ANGELA DONKERS
Born 1987
in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. Angela was an intern at Ontwerplabel Vij5
from September to December 2011
Focus
I’m
fascinated by the flexibility and colours of toys and their ability to
transform and change the atmosphere of any setting. Why are these stimulating
characteristics and qualities limited to toys? It’s my aim to transfer them to
furniture in general and make our homes more colourful.
MAAIKE FECKEN
Born 1991 in Huissen,the Netherlands. Maaike
was an intern at Ontwerpduo Eindhoven from August to December 2012.
Contact and information: info@maaikefecken.nl
/ www.maaikefecken.nl
Focus
My ideal world will not be guided by concepts of tomorrow, profits and
deadlines. In this world there is plenty of time to escape the rush of everyday
life. As a designer my focus lies between product and
food design: the grey area surrounding the kitchen as we know it nowadays.My products should offer people the means to grow, pick and catch some
of the things they cook and eat. By that I hope to give them the opportunity to
actually see, feel and smell the things they put in their mouth, to enjoy and
admire it’s growth, scent, shape, colour and living beauty. Along the way
people who use my products will notice that being active in gathering their own
ingredients can be great fun. Complete autonomy is unattainable and undesirable
for the majority of us. Yet a little ‘do it yourself primitivism’ from time to
time could be beneficent for all.
JORIS DE GROOT
Born 1988
in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Joris was an intern at Chris Kabel Rotterdam from
September to December 2012
Focus
Techniques,
for construction and production, are my starting point. It’s my interest in
techniques that brought me to plunge myself into knotting and twining during
the first years of mu studies in Arnhem. The same interest is at the root of my
project to use existing industrial techniques and unused industrial capacity to
create new products.
JULIETTE HUYGEN
Born 1990
in Willemstad, Curaçao. Juliette was an intern at Onomatopee
Eindhoven and Jantje Fleischhut, Amsterdam from September to December 2012
Focus
Positioning
myself as a design anthropologist of sorts I focus on the way design could play
a role in discussions on social and moral issues. I have a special interest in
rituals, tradition and the interplay of generally accepted ideas and personal
experience. Research on theory, literature and media discussions is an
essential part of my design strategy. My products tell their stories via a combination of word, illustration and product visions. They should
provide different perspectives and trigger discussions. Exaggeration, symbolism
and irony are my tools to incite peopleto establish their own point of view.
ANNA KOBIEROWSKA
Born 1985 in Tuchola, Poland. Anna was an
intern at Scholten& Baijngs from September to December 2012
Contact and information: info@quandandquandt.com / www.quandtandquandt.com
Contact and information: info@quandandquandt.com / www.quandtandquandt.com
Focus
I’m interested in accessories that enrich
and intensify moments of leisure. The need for such products seems obvious.
Pleasant idleness is under pressure. As it is, our lives seem overwhelmingly busy,
hectic and noisy. My designs are aimed to address this situation. They’re meant
to contribute to what we all need, yet mostly must do without: the enjoyment of
silence, rest, intimacy and seclusion, sunlight and the open air. They should be
helpful in what Italians call ‘dolce far niente’, the art of doing nothing and a
state of mind that is vital for physical and mental recovery and creative
thinking.
STAS KOKKE
Born 1989 in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Stas was an intern at Joris Laarman Lab
Amsterdam from September to December 2012.
Contact
and information: minifest@staskokkel.nl
/ www.minifest.nl
Focus
Inspired by small festivals and the Dutch
do it yourself party scene my designs enable the use of relatively cheap and
easy accessible items such as umbrella’s and beer crates for social purposes.
FLOOR NIJDEKEN
Born 1981
in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Floor was an intern at the Bas Kosters Studio
from July to December 2012.
Contact and information: info@floornijdeken.nl / www.floornijdeken.nl
Contact and information: info@floornijdeken.nl / www.floornijdeken.nl
Focus
My design
projects intend to redress social relationships. My main focus lies in
activating and mobilising people. I design the conditions in which social
structures can grow and bloom, and the initiative of users is stimulated.
People working and living together can develop undesirable habits and routines
resulting in indifference, anger, resentment and aversion. With myself as an
intermediary and my projects as a medium, I let participants find out that
working together can stimulate or create mutual trust, understanding and
positive energy, things that are vital to the wellbeing of families,
organisations and businesses.
ROOS SANDERS
Born 1990 in Zutphen,the Netherlands. Roos
was an intern at Jorine Arnhem from September to December 2012.
Contact and information: roossanders@gmail.com / www.roossanders.nl
Contact and information: roossanders@gmail.com / www.roossanders.nl
Focus
I create interior accessories to bond with.
Their unwieldiness and the signs of seemingly human imperfections they carry bring home the fact they are not
just blank objects. Appealing and repellent at the same time they invite you to
consider their embarrassing presence as part of who you are.
ANNE VAANDRAGER
Born 1989 in Deventer, the Netherlands. Anne was an intern at Pauline van Dongen from
September to December 2012 and had an extra training
Artisanal Shoe Making at the Dutch Health Tec Academy Utrecht.
Focus
I’m interested in accessories and shoes. You can see
accessories as something added to the body yet apart from it, but I like to
conceive them as an extension of the body, forming together with the body a
third, new and hybrid entity. My research was on ways to extend my body with all
kinds of objects and devices to find such new hybrid forms and on ways to
transfer bodily characteristics on objects and materials. The results were
starting points for shoe designs that try to break away from accepted standards
defining beauty and the abhorrent.
NIENKE VOORINTHOLT
Born 1984 in Stadskanaal, the Netherlands.
Nienke was an intern at Ontwerpduo
Eindhoven from august to December 2011.
Contact and information:
info@nienkevoorintholt.nl / www.nienkevoorintholt.nl
Focus
In my
work I focus on products that stimulate and
intensify interaction with our environment. In my
graduation collection I focussed on our natural environment. What people
do, roaming the countryside, seems to be not very different from what
their prehistoric ancestors did. They ferret about, picking up stones, flowers
and leaves, sometimes taking them home. The former need to survive by
the fruits of hunting and
JUDITH WEHMEYER ON THE DEPARTMENT’S EDUCATIONAL MISSION
Judith Wehmeyer was appointed head of the
Product Design department at ArtEZ Academy in Arnhem in 2012. She is
co-directing studio BoomWehmeyer, teaches on topics of Design Consciousness in
the department and is engaged in the international debate on design education
and how design could be practiced.
‘The Product Design Department values
ambition, craftsmanship and know-how. Being a successful student to us means
making the field of design your own, reinterpreting existing ideas and
standards. We ask our students to foster an inquisitive attitude, a workshop
mentality and a critical view on the world.
THE DEPARTMENT: TEACHERS, STAFF, EXTERNAL EXAMINATORS AND MORE
Head of department: Judith Wehmeyer
Coördination:
Sander Luske
Teachers
GROOTE SOCIËTEIT STIPENDIUM 2013
De Groote
Sociëteit, an Arnhem Gentlemen’s club, in collaboration with the department of
Product Design Arnhem, annually grants a prize of €4000,- to one of the graduates of the
department. The Groote Sociëteit Stipendium supports young and gifted
graduates that combine conceptual innovation and idealism with practical entrepreneurship.
The stipendium is meant to realize plans and projects by ways of coaching,
learning and financial support. Plans
and projects can be related with the field of professional design in its
width: accessories, interior, social
research, public space, scenario development and material innovation. The
amount of € 4000, - can be spent on the development of new work, research, the
costs of prototypes and projects at home or abroad.
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