"I have always wanted to become a designer, but decided to study something ‘useful’ first. In the back of my head I had the idea that if I would win the lottery I would go to art school. After working for ten years in strategic jobs, I did not win the lottery, but went to study design after all. It was an eye-opener.
I take a lighthearted approach toward designing products. I like my designs to tell a story, to refer to many areas of our lives. It is the process of coming up with new ideas that I like most. Designing for me is creating things that seem obvious, but that no one has thought of before. Whether the end result is a high end object, or a hand-crafted piece, matters less to me."
Marianne van Ooij [oy] is a Brooklyn based Dutch designer who works in a variety of disciplines, including textiles, furniture design and ceramics.
Marianne is trained as an industrial designer at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague in The Netherlands and at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She also holds a Master’s Degree in psychology.
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