These Product Design graduates were selected by Arnhemse Nieuwe

The six Arnhemse Nieuwe designers showcase the diversity and originality of work emerging from ArtEZ. Three of them graduated from the Product Design bachelor’s programme at ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design Arnhem. We highlight their work here and link to the interviews by OPA, written by Nicole Beaujean (in Dutch).

In her graduation project On Eyelevel, Anna explores how the world is designed around an assumed average body size. Drawing on her own experience, she questions why objects and spaces so rarely take differences in height and perspective into account.

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Four years ago, Wout moved from North Holland to Arnhem to study Product Design. He was looking for a programme where making and doing take centre stage, and he found that at ArtEZ.

'I had actually applied to the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. But during my internship, a supervisor said: take a look at Arnhem as well. The programme in Rotterdam turned out to be much more conceptual, while I’m more focused on making and doing. And that happens far more here in Arnhem.'

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With Heet Onder Je Voeten, Lotte makes climate change tangible. She translates complex data and invisible systems into accessible objects and experiences.

'During my studies, I realised that I only truly understand data, stories and systems when I translate them into images, objects and movement. This personal way of learning and understanding grew into my design method. Within it, research and design strengthen one another.'

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