Rietveld Landscape’s Vacant NL installation, exhibited at the 2010 Venice International Architecture Exhibition, presents a persuasive, inspiring…
Rietveld Landscape’s Vacant NL installation, exhibited at the 2010 Venice International Architecture Exhibition, presents a persuasive, inspiring view on the temporary repurposing of governmental and public buildings. In a single stroke, the designers make visible the quantity and diversity of available spaces, in a fascinating, enchanting way. All that emptiness cries out for creative entrepreneurship.
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The quality and variety of Vlaamsch Broodhuys’s bread remind you how rewarding life can be. Roels has…
The quality and variety of Vlaamsch Broodhuys’s bread remind you how rewarding life can be. Roels has cleverly rolled out a whole shop formula centred entirely around bread without compromising on quality or attention to the product. The Vlaamsch Broodhuys is a place to take time out and an anti-consumerist statement.
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The Microscopic Opera installation makes minuscule organisms visible and gives each one its own sound. It’s a marvelous…
The Microscopic Opera installation makes minuscule organisms visible and gives each one its own sound. It’s a marvelous example of an exciting collaboration between science, design and art. The work allows the viewer/listener to enter the living environment of microscopic worms. Munnik renders the invisible visible and poses questions about how we engage with the natural world and about our position as human beings.
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The atelier, the shop and the closet: within this magic triangle, Van Heist seeks and finds fashion’s…
The atelier, the shop and the closet: within this magic triangle, Van Heist seeks and finds fashion’s nuances. Hellofashion is an ongoing investigation into the ideal wardrobe, which Van Heist conducts in her own eccentric yet well-founded way. Introspection, playfulness and evolution combine to result in a highly successful total design from the heart. This fashion collection for all seasons radiates fun and virtuosity.
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The industrial perfection of the MyAmbiance LED bulb is impressive. But its real beauty resides in its…
The industrial perfection of the MyAmbiance LED bulb is impressive. But its real beauty resides in its effect on the environment and consumer behaviour. With its higher price tag, this super-efficient, ultra-long-life LED bulb will give any consumer a new appreciation of the value of light. It’s a marvellous example of how ethical parameters set by government can interact with mass production principles to result in a great product.
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Piet Hein Eek’s new production location, which he calls “the factory”, manifests his intention not only to…
Piet Hein Eek’s new production location, which he calls “the factory”, manifests his intention not only to design and produce objects but to give the whole trajectory a characteristic public dimension. With his ability to direct the design process all the way from the germ of an idea through the encounter between product and user while providing it with a context, Eek occupies a unique position in the Netherlands. The factory is Eek’s ultimate design to date.
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Bart Hess is a designer for tomorrow. He combines fashion, textiles, video art and photography in a…
Bart Hess is a designer for tomorrow. He combines fashion, textiles, video art and photography in a surrealist manner. A bit of plastic begins to move, and watery slime becomes the fabric of a dress for Lady Gaga. With his fascination for the human body and the manipulation thereof, Hess influences other designers and pushes the boundaries of the textile design profession.
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The TouchDoc Money & Speed is the first iPad documentary to make complex processes and data understandable…
The TouchDoc Money & Speed is the first iPad documentary to make complex processes and data understandable in a cogent way. Its interface design is effective and gives users a new way of exploring information. Catalogtree has not only done pioneering work but has set a high bar for future TouchDocs with this design.
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For years, Waag Society has been the chief proponent of open design in the Netherlands. The organisation…
For years, Waag Society has been the chief proponent of open design in the Netherlands. The organisation plays a pioneering role, identifying, studying and fostering possibilities by initiating projects such as the Open Design Lab and making possible places like Fablab Amsterdam and the Dialogue Café. Waag Society helps people to imagine new possibilities in design, manufacturing and the use of objects. Sharing information and data means sharing culture. Open design is the future!
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Ester van de Wiel has expanded the notion of the designer’s role by setting herself up as…
Ester van de Wiel has expanded the notion of the designer’s role by setting herself up as a project initiator and curator. On the basis of extensive preliminary studies, she designs frameworks for interventions in public space and invites designers and artists to respond within their parameters. Through this method of working, she inhabits an in-between position as a designer and creates space for an essential deepening of the design profession.
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Hans Gremmen’s books and projects are compelling because of their keen sense of contemporary developments in photography….
Hans Gremmen’s books and projects are compelling because of their keen sense of contemporary developments in photography. For instance, he made The Mother Road, a film about Route 66, out of a sequence of Google Street View images. Gremmen’s designs are of a high quality, clear and effective. He is continuing the Dutch tradition of the photo book but taking it a step further.
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Through the Freehouse project, Jeanne van Heeswijk has made the residents and businesspeople of Rotterdam’s Afrikaanderwijk aware…
Through the Freehouse project, Jeanne van Heeswijk has made the residents and businesspeople of Rotterdam’s Afrikaanderwijk aware of their neighbourhood’s cultural wealth and economic potential. She has come up with an intelligent way of getting them excited about working together on events and products that represent the local culture. The Markt van Morgen (Market of Tomorrow) is now well known, and Rotterdam has gained another world-class destination.
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These two newspapers have distinct ways of communicating news and yet clearly make up a single portfolio….
These two newspapers have distinct ways of communicating news and yet clearly make up a single portfolio. Day after day, both NRC Handelsblad and NRC Next succeed in boiling down complex information without compromising on nuance. In design as well as writing, quality comes first. These two distinctive, inquisitive papers show respect for their readers. All this in a disposable product!
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Bergmans’s clever work seems to have been created in passing, by intuition and on impulse, while in reality it is the result of keen observation and structured experimentation.
Blub – the name is as distinctive as Pieke Bergmans’s lighting objects themselves. A new population of rudimentary creatures with their own distinctive character seems suddenly – blub! – to take over the room. Bergmans’s clever work seems to have been created in passing, by intuition and on impulse, while in reality it is the result of keen observation and structured experimentation.
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Rogier van der Heide is a lighting designer whose creativity knows no bounds. Working in partnership with…
Rogier van der Heide is a lighting designer whose creativity knows no bounds. Working in partnership with others, he achieves breathtaking results. His luminous costumes stole the show at the Black Eyed Peas’ Paris concert, and his lighting added an extra dimension to Zaha Hadid’s Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi. Van der Heide makes use of the latest techniques, but always in a subtle manner and in combination with craftsmanship and a fine sense of design.
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The Brompton design district is always a wonderful area in the west of London to catch up…
The Brompton design district is always a wonderful area in the west of London to catch up with some of the RCA graduates of yesteryear. Most of the exhibits are held in empty basements around the area’s tube station. One of the organizers is Henny van Nistelrooy, who made this city his own after leaving the Netherlands to study abroad. Each of the Ground floor arrangement band’s exhibitors projects reflects the true spirit of each designer and their context in design.
The main intention was to consider the works on show as speculative reviews of objects both significant and mundane that propose new narratives for the old and familiar.
In this exhibition curated by Study O portable, the idea of imitation is explored through several projects created especially for the London Design week. The main intention was to consider the works on show as speculative reviews of objects both significant and mundane that propose new narratives for the old and familiar. Being a part of the London Design Festival places the exhibition within a bigger context of contemporary design and the object culture that surrounds us.
www.methodsofimitation.com
What happens when you take 10 designers based in London and you leave them for one week…
What happens when you take 10 designers based in London and you leave them for one week inside an empty furniture factory in the Dutch countryside?
Arco presented the result of a weeklong workshop in the netherlands. The designers were challenged to create something out of wood that is completely different from the products in the existing collection. Even though the designers usually work individually, as a group they really bring out the best in each other.
more info on www.okaystudio.org/arcookay
Enlightened waste showcases the work of Thierry Jeannot and Gisela Stiegler. Both artists use waste packaging material…
Enlightened waste showcases the work of Thierry Jeannot and Gisela Stiegler. Both artists use waste packaging material to create unique light sculptures. By re-staging our unwanted material the designers demonstrate pure and genuine upcycling, reminding us to value and respect our resources and look at the possibilities for raw material afresh.
www.marionfriedmann.com
As part of the London Design festival the Vyner studio hosted the Barcelona meets London exhibition in the east of the town.
As part of the London Design festival the Vyner studio hosted the Barcelona meets London exhibition in the east of the town.
