[ CREATIVE MINDS: OMEGA ARCHITECTS ]
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e go with our creativity. We don’t sleep
look. “My background is in creating products so I like
that much. We wake up and we tend to write down
working with shipyards but I can’t deny that the artistic,
things. My sketchbook is always with me.” This is how
intuitive aspect is probably the most interesting part of
Frank Laupman, one of the most prolific and best-known
our work,” he says.
yacht designers around today, describes the process of his
Laupman studied architecture at the Technical University
extraordinary creative flair. Designs from the Dutch-born
in Eindhoven. He was influenced by the New York Five,
Laupman, founder of Omega Architects, grace several
who championed architectural modernism, and, among
fleets of yachts, notably Dutch yard Heesen for whom
others, the German-born industrial designer Luigi Colani,
he has designed over 100 yachts, as well as Mulder, Alia
whose biodynamic rounded forms astounded the world.
Yachts and ICT Yachts in Turkey and Italian yard CRN.
Upon graduation, he worked for Heesen as an in-house
His designs are a clear statement and his style tends
designer and manager for 10 years. He then founded
to focus on a clean-cut, dynamic, sporty profile but he
Omega Architects in 1995 and has never looked back.
succeeds in creating both a signature style and a custom
In the past 20 years his designs have won numerous
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