Scholten & Baijings at Design Indaba Conference 2015. Image: Jonx Pillemer.

Product Design/2014/23 min/Reel № 14.001

ByScholten & Baijings

Scholten & Baijings on thinking in colour

A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Scholten & Baijings 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 2014, the conversation is grounded in Scholten'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.

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Stefan Scholten talks about the design philosophy behind the Amsterdam-based firm he runs with his wife, Scholten & Baijings.

Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings. Image: Freudenthal/Verhagen

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Scholten & Baijings

Amsterdam/Netherlands

Dutch design duo Scholten & Baijings’ interior products are typified by distinctly subtle use of form and colour.