Ik pak je in, Ilvy Jacobs, ArtEZ
The Product Design course at ARTEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem covers a wide range of options for students, from fashion and fashion accessories, through to jewellery, interior objects and furniture. ARTS THREAD visited the end of year show set up in an old factory and marvelled at graduating projects of the product designers.
Ilvy Jacobs has a love for paper and cardboard; the way it folds, creases and easily moulds from 2D to 3D fascinates her. Ik pak je in is her translation of designing bags based around the opposing concepts of throwaway materials and sustainability.
Tegendraads, Eveline van Basten, ArtEZ
Eveline van Basten also produced bags. Backpacks. For her project Tegendraads she took existing designs as a starting point and literally turned them inside out. The result is very raw – and yet stylish-looking – backpacks.
Moya Pravda, Anna Korshun, ArtEZ
Anna Korshun, who is raised under a communistic regime, comments with her Moya Pravda shoe collection on the individualistic society we live in today. She does so by removing all ornaments, seams and laces; basically, everything is produced as one piece.
Elastic Minds, Imme van der Haak, ArtEZ
Elastic Minds, a project by Imme van der Haak, questions the definition of ‘normal’. With photographs, video and products such as Siamese socks, this designer makes transformations to the human body a reality and comments on the existing idea of beauty.
Jennifer Foster, ArtEZ
Poetic is a good description Jennifer Foster’s luxury, yet comfortable clothes with laser details for embroideries, patterns and knitwear.
Tableau vivant, Nina Sajet, ArtEZ
Nina Sajet wants to invite (or suck) visitors into her fantasy world. In her poetic project Tableau vivant, it is possible to transform cages into decorative rings, birds into pipes and sprouts into pearls.
Everyday Growing, Juliette Warmenhoven, ArtEZ
Everyday Growing is the title of Juliette Warmenhoven’s project. For most people it’s how a plants flourishes that counts, but for this designer it’s all about the organic growth processes and her presentation is poetic.
Revised Crafts, Sjoerd Vroonland, ArtEZ
Sjoerd Vroonland is inspired by industrial craftsmanship from the early nineteenth and twentieth century. Revised Crafts is a furniture collection, where ethics, techniques, design and comfort come together in, for instance, a clothing hanger made from bronze beads.
