Maria Kazimierczak

Product Designer

Maria Kazimierczak was born and raised in the Silesia region of Poland, but currently study and most of the year, is in Ireland. She is a product designer who is designing across the spectrum of objects beyond their function and bringing beauty to everyday use.

In her projects she frequently reaches to inspirations related to water, aquatic creatures and sailing. Movement, liquidity and experimentation are prominent elements of her design journey. She loves to design pieces that are not stiff and static but require finesse and change, grow, evolve, such as the lakes and their biospheres. Her research focuses on bridging the gap between beauty, usability and sustainably within design related to the water.

“The Flux” collection that she develops within a Lakescape project, takes its name from motion of constant change, and the flow of water/fabric.
“With change nothing is ever perfectly the same” – she says - and as such this name fit perfectly to the wearables collection. The change also is present in the environment which we begin to influence, crafting sustainable future. Flow and change - these two form the future of sustainable practices by our European Lakes.

For the Flux project she will be working with old, discarded sails, as well as natural fibers and pigments. The natural dyes and fibers will be used to create graphics representative of the lakes on the sewn garments and the stiffer, more structural sailcloth will bring back the element of circularity and life by the water.