At Opera Lounge in Barcelona you can discover the winning design from the 3rd edition of TALENT’S MANIFESTO identified by a “call for young designers under 30”. Outdoor and public spaces this the theme evoking “Inspired in Barcelona: in&out” the event which brought Catalan design to Milan Design Week 2017 for the first time. The young Dutch designer, now based in Brooklyn, New York, Christian Heikoop is the winner of Talent’s Manifesto #3 with the outdoor project ‘Concave’ family hammered from a single steel tube. In search for away to interconnect a single material with itself, Heikoop discovered thatby gradually hammering metal tubes flat toward the end, they can be inserted inanother tubes void. Creating a new construction language solely using a standardindustrial steel tube. Christian Heikoop stated: “My design work is driven by exploring the grey area between different design fields; crossing borders by merging graphic, product, interior and fashion skills. Creating an unique product and graphic design language – pushing limits and looking beyond current boundaries. I believe that new aesthetics, shapes, feelings and products can surprisingly derive from innovation, techniques and methods – adding something unpredictable and exciting.” Highly motivated the designer has a diverse design educational background including the Design Academy Eindhoven. Using skills acquired from his study and work experience, Christian Heikoop explores the nowness and the newness; inspiring, exploring and stretching boarders of industry.
