Object Design: Combine Material, Form, and Narrative
About Me
A course by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez , Designer
About the video: About Me
Overview
“To begin, I will share my journey with you. I will tell you about my studies and also introduce you to some of my past and recent projects.”
In this video lesson Jean-Baptiste Fastrez addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Object Design: Combine Material, Form, and Narrative. Break the rules of design by experimenting with materials and shapes to look beyond how objects are used and allow them to transmit real emotions.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, I'm Jean-Baptiste Fastrez, welcome to my course. I am a product designer. I founded my studio in 2012 and since 2019, I set up my business in Biarritz, on the Basque coast. I graduated in 2010 from ENSCI Les Ateliers, a design school in Paris. I don't particularly come from a family of artists, because my parents were in law. We didn't talk about art and culture at home, but my father made models and collected comics. I don't know where my taste for artistic practice comes from, I never asked myself the question. It came naturally from my childhood. When I passed my bacc...”
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Course summary for: Object Design: Combine Material, Form, and Narrative
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Category
Design -
Software
Adobe InDesign, KeyShot, Rhino -
Areas
Furniture Design & Making, Product Design

Jean-Baptiste Fastrez
A course by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez
After studying at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, Jean-Baptiste Fastrez spent some time working for the Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec studio. In 2010, he won the Design Parade competition at Villa Noailles and created his own studio a year later.
Since then, he has worked for several brands and editors such as Moustache, Manufacture de Sèvres, Kvadrat, and Tai Ping. His work has received numerous awards and some of his pieces have been included in the permanent collections at the Centre Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
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