About Me

I trained as a product designer at Artez, the Netherlands (BA) and at the Royal College of Art London (MA), where I specialized in footwear design. I’m currently setting up my own shoe label. In my work I introduce forms, a wide variety of materials and ways of construction, which are mostly used in other design fields, in order to break down preconceptions we have about shoes and their meaning. By designing objects that ignore or criticize conventions, one can liberate design and make the product world less generic.

Member Since

Apr 21, 2006

Sites

• Marloes ten Bhömer

What is the next…

Purchase you’ll make?

Bus ticket.

Trend in design?

Hopefully we get rid of nostalgic aesthetics and bad humor in design. I need to stop laughing.

Car you’d like to own?

A white Lamborghini Countach.

Big step you’d like to make?

Give the go-ahead for production….

Fad that will fade?

Enthusiasm for TV made celebrities.

Vacation you’ll take?

Barcelona.

Thing you’re going to fight for?

My work.

Secret that’s going to leak?

Haven’t heard.

Hollywood blockbuster going to be about?

I am not good at those.

Life you’ll lead?

Something to keep quiet about.

Fountain of youth?

Can’t wait to have beautiful long gray hair.

Book you’ll read?

Crash by J.G. Ballard

Thing that will change the world?

The vast accessibility to people’s specific and previously private fantasies.

Guilty-pleasure food in which you’ll indulge?

Never feel guilty.

Person to whom you’ll say, “I love you”?

The person I love.