DESIGNHEADS: Ingemar
What’s design got to do with it?
June 18, 2022
DESIGNHEADS is an interview series profiling the next generation of designers, tastemakers, and creatives *shaking up* the design world.
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Name: Ingemar
Age: 26
Location: New York, NY
Instagram: @middle_child_middle
Website: ingemarhk.com
Are you a designer? Why or why not?
Yes, I see myself as a designer because I love the process of an object being “born.”
One word to describe your take on design:
Sympathetic
The last thing you made:
The Popsicle Chair
The next thing you want to make:
A canvas laminated etagere or bookshelf
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A designed object you adore:
Pierre Grosjean’s Children’s Desk Chair / Amlash Bull Vessel
A designed object you can’t stand the sight of:
Industrial pipe furniture
A moment of pure creative joy:
When I find myself dancing while setting up a table saw.
When we say “designing the future,” what comes to mind?
Creating objects with permanence - so that time can make sense of them, and we can revisit our motivations and aspirations as the world/environment changes around us.
If you could show your work to anyone in the world, who would it be?
Todd Oldham
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Your aesthetic embodied as a...
sound: cartoon blinking
color: peach
texture: corduroy
Your *grail*: if you could own one iconic design work, what would it be?
Perfect condition Volvo 240
What’s next for you?
Starting a residency this summer and developing a fully conceived line of furniture!
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