 Watertaxi Rotterdam  Maxi-cosi
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Industrieel ontwerper Huibert Groenendijk
He
has proved that beauty can contribute to a windmill’s acceptance in the
energy production world. And he once designed a transformer kiosk using
Catholicism as a metaphor. He is stubborn and unique in Dutch design
circles. Huibert Groenendijk considers himself a hard-core industrial
designer. Like many of his colleagues he starts new projects himself,
but Groenendijk is special in that he successfully initiates
developments in complex areas, like the market for windmills and
plastic marking buoys. For the latter he even decided to become a
producer himself and founded the Protonna company.
Groenendijk
works in the port city of Rotterdam and the emphasis in the wide range
of his creations is clearly on products that have to do with wind and
water – he has designed an attractive high-speed water taxi. Yet he
does all kinds of projects. These have included a highly successfully
safety seat for children, a plastic pissoir, an ergonomic fishing rod,
a telephone, a degradable coffin and a large floating multi-rotor
windmill for use at sea.
(Bron: “Down to design” by Huibert Groenendijk)
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