Zoltán Toka

Zoltán Toka

I am characterized by playfulness and sensitivity to the world surrounding us; as a designer I accommodate myself to the constantly changing requirements and to the developments of technology. My everyday work typically  includes a search for solutions, a fulfilment of market needs, competition, learning and teaching, combined together as it were to strengthen one another. The most important aspects in designing my objects are ergonomics, utility, communication, exterior „tension”, and the unity of these qualities, which makes these pieces represent more than what they actually are, providing them with higher aesthetic value. Design is for all, thus a design object is not necessarily a luxury product; it might as well be an object created for mass-production, something hardly even recognized in everyday usage but still affecting our visual environment and so representing value. Design, in a broader sense, is not merely about objects or about shaping the environment, it is more about strategy, analyis and process. This idea is present in my whole work, unique objects as well as jewellery, both in the process of designing and realisation. In creating objects it is my cardinal view that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.