Designer, Ceramicist
JULEN USSIA
Bask Country, Spain
“Ceramicist story”
There is an evident interdisciplinary approach to his work that comes surely from his academic background. He studied Fine Arts and the, after taking up ceramics as a product-design undergraduate in Barcelona, returned to his hometown of Bilbao to pursue a graduate degree called “Master in Ceramics: Art and Function,” which was focused on the experimental gray area between art and design.
Ceramicist quote
“my research lab has got the aim of proposing new hypotheses and possibilities in furniture”
Julen Ussia, designer & ceramicist
THE PROCESS
Julen Ussia calls for a playful act, an interaction with the objects that implies also the application our problem-solving skills as well as a great dose of intuition of how objects and materials interact together. The Spanish designer doesn’t even provide an ultimate function for what he creates: he investigates the very usability of shapes, how material relates to each other and with gravity and tensions.
