Thoughtful designer who uses raw materials
Young designer Christien Meindertsma started her own studio, Flocks, after graduating the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Meindertsma explores products and raw materials in unusually thoughtful ways. For her first book, Checked Baggage (2004), Meindertsma purchased a container filled with a week’s worth of objects confiscated at security checkpoints in Schiphol Airport after 9/11. She meticulously categorized all 3267 items and photographed them on a white seamless background. Meindertsma’s second book, PIG 05049 (2007), is an extensive collection of photographic images that documents an astounding array of products that different parts of an anonymous pig called 05049 could support. With this book, Meindertsma reveals lines that link raw materials with producers, products and consumers that have become so invisible in an increasingly globalized world.
Currently Meindertsma is in the race for the Rotterdam Design Prize 2009.
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