I am an observer of the world and its inhabitants. I translate the code of the every day and derive from it, objects that challenge ordinary perceptions about the way we experience our environment. The objects that I create are made for people, derived from people, and are imbued with significance and personality.
The objects that we interact with are so very important. In essence, the things that we choose to surround ourselves with are what create or strengthen our individual identities. Designers are empowered to create the ideas and aesthetics that define how we live today. Design is an arena of the greater art world that has the ability to touch all people. Not just those who choose to pay the fee and walk through the doors of the museum. Design can change lives, or at the very least, enhance life.
It has become apparent to me in the past couple decades that the United States is no longer revered as an innovative force in the field of product design for the home as it once was. The United States was once home to some of the most influential and revolutionary creative minds in the world. At that time, American designers and manufacturers alike pushed boundaries of what was previously thought possible and introduced ambitious work that forever changed our ideas about modern living. With that being said, I am interested in the reanimation and advancement of the American design initiative.
Somehow we must breath life into our domestic design manufacturers and in order for that to happen we have to create innovative work which ignores ordinary perceptions of typological designed objects. We have to once again explore new ideas, concepts, materials and processes and stop pandering over “form and function” and any other mid-century paradigm for that matter. In this new design era, we have to produce objects based on new criteria. Design is an art. If we create thought, emotion, take risks and inspire creativity in a way that is simple and sustainable, design is successful. I am interested in the unconventional solutions to conventional problems. I am concerned with the conceptualization and development of objects that will create wonderment and irrepressible contentment. Design will save the world and the people in it.
Steven Haulenbeek
- Patents pending
The objects that we interact with are so very important. In essence, the things that we choose to surround ourselves with are what create or strengthen our individual identities. Designers are empowered to create the ideas and aesthetics that define how we live today. Design is an arena of the greater art world that has the ability to touch all people. Not just those who choose to pay the fee and walk through the doors of the museum. Design can change lives, or at the very least, enhance life.
It has become apparent to me in the past couple decades that the United States is no longer revered as an innovative force in the field of product design for the home as it once was. The United States was once home to some of the most influential and revolutionary creative minds in the world. At that time, American designers and manufacturers alike pushed boundaries of what was previously thought possible and introduced ambitious work that forever changed our ideas about modern living. With that being said, I am interested in the reanimation and advancement of the American design initiative.
Somehow we must breath life into our domestic design manufacturers and in order for that to happen we have to create innovative work which ignores ordinary perceptions of typological designed objects. We have to once again explore new ideas, concepts, materials and processes and stop pandering over “form and function” and any other mid-century paradigm for that matter. In this new design era, we have to produce objects based on new criteria. Design is an art. If we create thought, emotion, take risks and inspire creativity in a way that is simple and sustainable, design is successful. I am interested in the unconventional solutions to conventional problems. I am concerned with the conceptualization and development of objects that will create wonderment and irrepressible contentment. Design will save the world and the people in it.
Steven Haulenbeek
- Patents pending
