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Product designer Frederike Top has a thing for light. She is fascinated both by the shape of lamps but also their ability to change a room through reflection. Top became known for her typical Dutch design called “flown up”, a lamp that looks as if it had been on a bike while the wind was blowing against it. Frederike Top was recently named one of the best 40 designers under 40 of Europe.
Frederike Top with the “flown up” lamp -
Fotograaf: Roos Kroes
Company name:
Frederike Top.
Company founding date:
03-2007.
Place of business:
Amsterdam.
Name of founder:
Frederike Top.
Age of founder:
28 (birth: 06-05-1981).
About the company:
Frederike Top is a product designer based in Amsterdam, her work includes interior products as well as public space projects. Except producing collections under her own name, several of Frederikes’ designs are being produced by international labels like Dark, Zuiver and Wever & Ducré.
Frederike is seized by the elusive nature of light, and plays endlessly with the experience of it. From the source of light, its shadow, its color and its brightness, she tries to create a site-specific atmosphere in the spaces she designs for. Often her designs consist of subtle, small interventions that have a major impact.
Products of her hand have an extra dimension, little surprises that will only be discovered when they are used.
Current project:
Lampdesign for the Rabobank Utrecht, a wall-covering for the Dutch Design Hotel Artemis in Amsterdam, design for the public space which I’m developing in collaboration with Wijkwiskunde for Woonbedrijf, Eindhoven.
Source of inspiration:
Little discoveries in everyday things.
My big idea:
Make my profession from doing things I like the most.
Favourite tools:
My Iphone (happy as a child..!) and my gas burners and heating tools.
Favourite website:
www.blublu.org
www.unurth.com
www.petercallesen.com
www.design.nl
www.designboom.com
www.youtube.com
www.wikipedia.nl
etc etc....
Hobby:
Live music and my collection pop-up books.
Best advice I ever received:
Think of what you really reeaaally want and then go for it.
Biggest blunder:
I forget blunders immediately.
Secret admiration:
ehm... I like to wear sport socks?
Biggest threat for your company:
Time.
Tips for professional colleagues:
Think of what you really reeaaally want and then go for it.
As an ambassador of Amsterdam, I would...
Create more, bigger and cheaper accommodations to work ánd live.
Company website:
www.frederiketop.nl
Company email address:
Social media:
www.facebook.com/people/Frederike-Top/668471559
nl.linkedin.com/in/frederiketop