We have something in common with Bianca Enthoven so it is easy for me to write about her. We both are a big fun of the sea but the reason is different. She grew up beside the seaside and I come from a country where is no sea so it is always something miraculous for me.

Bianca is the third young graphic designer who I want to introduce to you. She also just graduated and together with ‘The Curtain Girl’ (Laura) they already founded their own graphic design company. (Their website is: www.roquefort-ontwerpers.nl)

What are the talking slippers? These are bridges between the sea and people. In the past doctors discovered that the sea water cures lots of health problems and quite often they ordered for their patients to be beside the sea and swim in it. Nowadays we have hundreds of medicines and other artificial methods to cure ourselves so people forget that the sea is not only fun but also healthy. In our age we have also a big problem called stress. Everybody runs, full of work and things to do what brought the stress in our life. The sea is just perfect against the stress but people do not have enough attention to recognise this.
Bianca had an idea to make an artistic product, which transmits information about the sea and also addresses people’s attention to the sea and on the other hand it is something what people use on the seaside. This is how the ‘Talking Slippers’ were born.

Bianca splited the good effects of the sea for five categories and made images on a slipper for all of them. The first is the minerals in the water what are different than minerals are in any other kind of water. The fresh and salty air what is good for our lungs. The active life what you can have beside or in the sea, water sport or other games with the waves or the sand that not only children can enjoy.

The sun what is healthy anyway but beside the water is stronger because of the reflections so it gives you D vitamin and happiness. And the fifth one is the relaxation. The sound of the waves and seagulls, the view of the huge water, collecting shells or building sand castle is so relaxing that you forget easily all of your work and family problems….

What is the conclusion? Let’s follow Bianca’s slippers…. Step for! Step for! Step for! Step for! See you on the seaside!