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After studying at the Technical University of Delft for two years, Frank Tjepkema graduated in 1996 from the Design Academy Eindhoven. Following this he obtained an MA degree in 1998 from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.

Since 2003, 5.5 designers have established an enviable reputation, being awarded the Grand Prix de la Création by the Paris City Council after just three years of business. Far from focusing only on shaping objects, 5.5 designers enforce a conceptual rigour that sees them permanently question their design status.

Tomas Kral completed his Masters in Luxury Design at ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2009. The Slovakian-born, Swiss-based product designer has since opened his own studio and finds inspiration by observing people’s needs and everyday situations with humour and distance.

Christien Meindertsma graduated from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 2003. Exploring products and raw materials in unusually thoughtful ways, her work aims to regain an understanding of processes that have become so distant in industrialisation.

Brazilian designer Marcelo Rosenbaum sees the house as an element capable of increasing the self-esteem of the Brazilian people, as a place where personal memory and cultural roots have a prominent place, and as a place to include one’s own history.

The collaboration between brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec is a permanent dialogue nourished by their differing personalities and shared perfectionism.

Since graduating from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem in 1991 and the Royal College of Art in London in 1995, Ineke Hans’s work has evolved in many ways, acquiring the identity most clearly of a designer, with the impulses of a sculptor and the industrial experience needed to define products with a commercial life.
 

Dutch product designer Tord Boontje first studied industrial design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven before completing his Masters at the Royal College of Art in London. He founded Studio Tord Boontje in London in 1996, before relocating to France in 2005.

Born in 1964, Marti Guixé is a Catalonian designer living in Barcelona and Berlin. He graduated in interior design from Elisava in Barcelona in 1985 and studied industrial design at Scuola Polytecnica di Design di Milano in 1986.

Heath Nash holds a BA in Fine Art (sculpture) from the University of Cape Town. He was the Elle Decoration SA designer and lighting designer of the year in 2005/6, and won the title of British Council South African Creative Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.