To mark the tenth anniversary of Z33 in 2011, 13 artists who had once had a solo exhibition in the Belgian contemporary art centre were invited to make a limited edition of a product or artwork for inclusion in an art box. Studio Job designed a tea towel with motifs taken from its earlier Industry furniture collection. The pattern features nuclear power stations, electricity pylons, cogs and gasmasks.
In 2000, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel (both graduates of the Design Academy Eindhoven) founded Studio Job, currently one of the Netherlands’ most in-demand design studios. Studio Job produces one-off furniture and interior objects for private clients, companies and museums, and has its own exhibition space in Antwerp. The duo’s style is highly expressive. They often tell a story of good and evil with graphics, symbols, pictures and drawings. They have designed for Swarovski, Barneys, Land Rover, Alessi, Moooi and Pepsi. They were also behind the now famous ‘Insects’ pattern, which appears on tea towels and plaids for the label ‘by TextielMuseum’.
