Product Design/2012/35 min/Reel № 12.001
ByPiet Hein Eek
Piet Hein Eek on respecting material, technique and craftsmanship
I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012
A close reading, kept within reach.
Piet Hein Eek takes product design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Netherlands in 2012, the conversation is grounded in Piet's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Piet Hein Eek is devoted to creating products with a special attention to detail and quality.
About the speaker
Piet Hein Eek
Eindhoven/Netherlands
Piet Hein Eek has been using scraps of wood to create distinctive furniture pieces since long before sustainability became the designer buzzword it is today.
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