The Designers: Studio Dumbar’s Stan Haanappel on learning motion and why good design takes time

The Designers delves deep into the world’s leading design studios through a series of in-depth conversations with the individuals that make them tick. For number eleven in the series, we spoke to Stan Haanappel of Rotterdam-based Studio Dumbar. EM: Hey Stan. How’s life? SH: Happy, sad, optimistic and stressed out at the same time! The strict measures because of COVID in daily life does affect me quite a lot. Especially not being able to work in the studio together with the rest of the Studio Dumbar team makes me quite sad. I really miss the atmosphere, the jokes, the beers and of course mostly the people a lot. Definitely can’t wait for things to go back to normal again and to be reunited (physically). On the other end in my free time, I do have a good replacement to try and forget all the things that aren’t allowed at the moment. I fill my free time in renovating my new (really old) house that my girlfriend and I bought three months ago.