FRANK TJEPKEMA - BRANDED SOUL (new title : Bling Bling)
With this cruciform pendant, constructed from layers of overlapping logos,
designer Frank Tjepkema has given visual shape to contemporary people's
most important passion - shopping, which is now pursued on Sundays with
a similar devotion to that displayed by earlier generations of churchgoers.
Frank Tjepkema was born in Geneva in 1970. He studied at the Design
Academy in Eindhoven and the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, where he completed
second stage Free Design. He works as a designer in Amsterdam and has lectured
in conceptual design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven since 1999.
2001: nominated for Rotterdam Design Prize.
Tjepkema has produced designs and products for Oilily, Present Time, Pirelli,
Droog Design, O'Neill Europe, Kessels Kramer, Randstad Uitzendbureaus, Rado
and Swatch Group.
Noteworthy designs for Droog Design: Artificial Bloom Construction Set (1996),
Artificial Plant (1996) and Do Create, Do Break, Kessels Kramer (2000).
Solo exhibition: Intangible Need, Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam.
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