Studio Banana TV interviews Dutch up-and-coming designer Pieke Bergmans.
Pieke Bergmans is a young product designer from the Netherlands. She has studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven and the Royal College of Art, London. She works on a large variety of projects around the globe. Her favorite modus operandi is to alter existing production processes to come to new forms and functions.
Diversity is one of her significant trademarks. She finds inspiration and opportunity in each industry and in every different material. In cooperation with factories, Pieke explores the possibilities of their production facilities, and manipulates them. The goal is to make ‘personalized mass production’ where irregularities are ruled in.
“No two people are the same, and neither are two of the hairs that grow on your head. I wish our products were a bit more like this as well. The next step in mass production could be controlled imperfect production, for interesting, personal objects.”
A central theme in Pieke’s work is the virus. It binds the many disciplines and materials with which she creates products and works of art. Pieke’s products are called viruses, due to their natural forms and the way they come to life. Manipulating standard production processes is by all means viral behaviour. In general mass production, a single form is endlessly and perfectly multiplied like a healthy cell. As she allows room for change, Pieke aims to create processes in which products are never completely the same. Like a virus, her products change and adapt to various conditions, disrupting common ideas and the predictable evolution of form and design.
Pieke Bergmans works with a wide range of materials and has no preference for the use of them. Whether working with porcelain, plastic or glass, she always creates objects that are of a pure and natural beauty.
Interview by Studio Banana TV. Translation by Andy Marlow.
