Interview with Bram Kerkhofs
Designer Interview
27 February 2013
I am trained as a jewellery designer and always liked the concepts in art, jewellery and design. Thats why I always search for an extra benefit in the things I design. Mostly this benefit is situated in the use of the product.
Bram Kerkhofs Design Studio produces, communicates and distributes his own products. It is settled in Leuven, Belgium. The Design Studio is part of Stadsgasten, a collective of creative organisations and companies.
Designing is a way to offer solutions to a problem. Parallel, a design is a way to give insight intp concepts like form and technique to the public.
The complexity of lighting fixtures in which the design has to meet more needs satisfy more.
The techniques I use rest on gravity and friction.
When I am working concentrated over a longer period.
The form in function of the technique
gratification
Giving an answer to a problem, a concrete situation or need.
The application, the form and the quality.
Helping the public to give answers and solutions to a specific need.
Giving the public insight to the concepts of form and technique.
Giving the public insight to the concepts of form and technique.
The design field will evolve into many directions. One is designing peer to peer. An other is open source designing, ...
My last exhibition was as a participant in Set off. A group exhibition in an old factory in Leuven. I showed a various installation of 7 of the same lightning fixtures in an orderly and a disorderly composition.