Astrum People

Luiz De Basto is a professional yacht designer. Today he shared with us very useful information about yacht design. It will be interested for both beginners and professionals. Luiz De Basto was born in Angola and spent his childhood there. With the war his family moved to Brazil where he went to college and got [...]

Christien Starkenburg was born in 1966. She is an interior designer and art director of interior shop, which is the family business of Jan de Jong Interieur (Leeuwarden, the Netherlands) that was founded in 1899. Christien has been always fascinated by utilities as tools, machines, industrial steps and stairs, trolleys etc… This is no wonder, being [...]

Jory Brigham is a creative and innovative designer who lives in San Luis Obispo, California. Jory is a very talented designer who created a unique collection of furniture that takes your breath away.  Each and every single piece is crafted by hand. Jory uses only organic wood materials for it, which are growing in nature. [...]

Michael Schougaard Svane is a designer with fresh and minimalistic look at things. He was actively engaged into a design education and had high expectations for the future. After writing his thesis and graduating with top marks in product design, Michael decided to obtain a Bachelor Degree of Industrial Design, Furniture. It was a pleasure for us to take an interview with Michael Schougaard Svane and we are [...]

Liviu Tudoran is 21 year old student with a strong passion to automotive design. He studies at IED Turin, Transportation design faculty (2nd year). He gained an experience in various fields such as interior/product design and concept art. Liviu is always open to learn more and develop skills in different design areas. To our opinion [...]

Have you ever seen the collection of clothes made of recyclable materials?! In this interview Russian designer Arthur Brazhe is going to tell our readers what has inspired him to make such innovative masterpieces. Arthur was born in the town of Kapustin Yar-1 (the Astrakhan region, Russia) in the family of serviceman. In 1990 his [...]

Piergil (Pierre-Gilles Fourquié) is a designer who was born in 1979 in Paris (France). He studied at ENSAAMA (Olivier de Serres) school of Art and Design in Paris (1999-2001) for a first graduation. He graduated with honours in the BIAD (Birmingham institute of Art and design) in England in 2002 (BA in industrial/product design). It was a pleasure for us to [...]

Oscar Diaz Oscar Diaz is a designer who currently lives and creates his contemporary products in London. His work is not defined by a style, but rather by a way of understanding, exploring and questioning objects, while considering their context  and the cultural associations embedded on them. Recently we met with Oscar who told us [...]

Vivian Chiu has recently graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in the Furniture Design department. She was born in Los Angeles and raised in Hong Kong. Vivian was constantly surrounded by a busy urban landscape and learned to appreciate simple forms and organic materials. Despite Vivian’s age, she has already attracted an attention [...]

Anastasia Maltseva is a young designer of clothes who lives and works in Ukraine. She is a purpose driven person and perfectionist by nature. Every item, created by her hands, is stylish, eccentric and puzzling. What is the puzzle? And what is a key to its understanding? Anastasia will tell our readers in her exclusive [...]