In 1996, in the first book about Tjok Dessauvage, I published the text 'A poem in matter'. A somewhat hermetic title, but one that still describes the feeling I get from his work. Not mystical thoughts, but thoughts about poetry, about beauty, about respect for tradition...
About four years ago the chances of you having heard of the firm Wolters would have been pretty small, unless you were in the traffic safety and road construction business. But no doubt you have seen some of the products made by this nearly 30-year old company. Wolters makes footpath posts...
Pieter De Smul is a final-year student (Master Industrial Design Engineer) at the PIH Department of the University College of West Flanders in Kortrijk. His ambitions lie in designing, and specifically his preference here falls on running through the design cycle from start to finish: from...
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