The design industry is "slow, boring and bullshit" says Hella Jongerius in Dezeen's latest podcast
Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with a conversation with Dutch industrial designer Hella Jongerius, who explains how she grew up on a tomato farm and discovered her creative ability when she took an evening course in carpentry.
Listen to the episode below or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts to catch the whole series.
In the Face to Face series, Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs sits down with leading architects and designers to discuss their lives and careers.
Known for her work with textiles and colour, Jongerius recently turned the Lafayette Anticipations foundation in Paris into a giant loom. Photo: Roel van Tour
She initially rejected attempts to persuade her to pursue such stereotypical activities. "A teacher once told me 'you have to do something with textiles' and I was not interested at all," she remembered in the interview. "I thought they had pushed me in the female corner but in the end I knew my talents were in that direction."
She studied creative therapy but abandoned her course, instead taking an evening class in carpentry and discovering a talent for it. She decided to go to design school but was initially rejected by Design Academy Eindhoven for being "too technical".
Designing for Vitra and KLM
She was eventually accepted and graduated from the academy in the early 1990s. She then became part of Droog, a highly influential design collective started by Gijs Bakker a...
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