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is intrigued by tiny revolutions, ideas that put well-known rituals in a
different light, ideas as modest as putting the strings on the side of shoes
instead of on top. And he is interested in designing products with consideration
for their contextual implications. He has proved that beauty can make an
important contribution to a windmill's performance in relation to the landscape.
And he once designed a transformer kiosk using Catholicism as a metaphor.
He is stubborn and unique in Dutch design circles. Huibert Groenendijk considers
himself a hard-core industrial designer. Like many designers he starts new
projects himself, but Groenendijk is special in that he successfully initiates
developments in complex areas, like the markets for windmills and plastic
marking buoys. For the latter he even decided to become a producer and founded
the new company Protonna. Although the typical Rotterdam emphasis in the
wide range of his creations is clearly on products that have to do with
wind and water- he recently designed a high-speed and attractive water taxi-
he does all kinds of projects. These include a very successful safety seat
for children, a plastic pissoir, as well as an ergonomic fishing rod, a
telephone, a degradable coffin and recently a large floating multi-rotor
windmill for use at sea. In this illustrated monograph Groenendijk demonstrates
that there is always room for improvement by design. |