Marije Vogelzang

After graduating from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 2000, Vogelzang moved beyond traditional food styling to develop her vision to create designs based on the verb “to eat” and became the first in the world “eating designer.” She started a catering business (now a restaurant, called Proef) in 2004 in Rotterdam and expanded to Amsterdam in 2006. In 2010 she started Studio Marije Vogelzang, a small firm that works with the food industry to create eating-based art installations, designs and develops restaurant concepts, long-term medical projects for hospitals and various social projects for clients around the world. Vogelzang frequently lectures internationally about her work and vision, showing the potential of a new approach to the act of eating and a new approach to design.