When I think of ceramic design, I think of Dutch Design, Scandinavian Design or more in general modern industrial design. But modern ceramic design is much more than that. Design is comprehensive and modern is not an invention of the 20th century. Modern design is as old as humanity itself.

In this part of the world you need to dig more then 7,500 years in the past to find design pottery; the Linear Pottery Culture. Typical are the serried  band decorations that are scratched in the outer walls of the earthenware. With this, the Younger Stone Age (Neolithic) was inaugurated in Europe .

But for me this is a very outdated design, I  don’t want anything to do with that. As a contemporary world citizen, I prefer to be inspired by modern funnelbeaker ceramics….

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