smow Blog Interview: Patrick Frey - I find it unashamed that the furniture industry isn't prepared to pay young designers a discretionary payment for developing a project
...When we spoke with designer Patrick Frey in context of our #campustour, the plan was quite simply to discuss contemporary design education; however, the natural flow of the conversation took us in a raft of interesting directions, including his experiences as a freelance designer, the question of development payments in the furniture industry and the background to his and Markus Boge's joint diploma project, a project in many regards personified by the tables Kant and Marketing... But Markus and I wanted to focus on everyday objects, the title of our Diploma theses was Arbeitsbasis, and the question posed was what is required in the contemporary work place and can we develop minimal, clever solutions, and then the tables Kant and Marketing arose with their unfamiliar character smow Blog: And did that go down well in such a heavy duty, industrial, environment?...
