For me, the best designer is a ‘poetic moralist’ who reflects social developments in the profession and the importance of the expressive object in relation to the industrial product. I would be very pleased if design would adopt a new designation. ‘Post Craft’ refers to a movement which is open to intimate intuition and to external influences or inspiration from other disciplines. These influences would then be directly translated into various three-dimensional, material objects. Unlike traditional crafts and traditional production methods, ‘Post Craft’ would reflect a desire for ‘de-production’: an alternative minimalism which does not reduce the product itself, but the numbers of the product. 

Can the designer wrest himself free of industry and functionalism without losing sight of his profession? Design is originally a form of applied art or ‘intimate architecture’, the main difference being that the designer is no scientist, but an aristocrat among craftsmen, as it were: a higher rank of a lower order.

– Job Smeets, December 2001