2017 – now
Product Designer
Batavus
The long one. Bicycles, year on year, for a brand that has been building them in Friesland since 1904.
Industrial designer
Marten Hiemstra
Nine years drawing bicycles at Batavus in Heerenveen. Before that Sparta, Good Hotel Group, VanBerlo, and two years at sea.
01 / What he makes
A bicycle is a hard object to design well. It has to be light and it has to be trusted, and every single part of it is visible.
02 / The path
01/06
2016 – 2017
Product Designer
Sparta Fietsen
Bachelor thesis, carried out inside the company rather than beside it.
2016
Product & Interior Designer
Good Hotel Group
Six months of internship on the other side of the world, designing the rooms people sleep in.
2015 – 2016
Product Designer
VanBerlo
Five months of internship at one of the best known design studios in the Netherlands.
2013
Animation, Video, Graphic Design
Plaza XL
Moving image and print, before the work turned fully three dimensional.
2010 – 2012
Seaman
GBA Ships e.V.
Fireman, team leader, coxswain. Twenty three countries. The chapter that came before design.
03 / Awards
January 2014
Best Product + Best Presentation
Project Fittnestuin
IPO Zwolle
March 2013
Best Product
Project Cardboard Chair
IPO Zwolle
November 2012
Green Dot
Project Toaster
IPO Zwolle · Product design, outstanding initiatives
All three through Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim.
04 / Before design
Logos Hope
GBA Ships e.V. · January 2010 to February 2012
Jamaica
01/23
- Fireman
- Team leader
- Coxswain
The ship stayed in a port for weeks at a time and opened its gangway to a floating book fair, crewed by four hundred volunteers from across the world. He was one of them for two years and two months.
05 / Say hello
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