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Dutch designers at London Fashion Week

Fashion design

We catch up with Dutch design on show at London Fashion Week

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square³ angle: the transformation

Fashion design

Showing as part of Fashion Scout, a hothouse for new talent based at Freemasons’ Hall, Covent Garden, Hellen van Rees brings us her new autumn/winter 2013/14 collection under the enigmatic title ‘square³ angle: the...

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Inside OBJECT Rotterdam

Exhibitions / Product design

Organized at a new location, the first stand-alone edition of OBJECT Rotterdam was a huge success. The fair attracted over 5.000 visitors. During four days the NAi/The New Institute became the epicenter of design...

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From Trash to Treasure

Product design

Studio Oooms is known for its quirky yet functional product designs and now has ventured East to Jakarta, Indonesia where an entirely new collection has been created from trash.

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Is Dutch Design Education on a Dead-end Track?

Product design

Dutch design education needs to go back to its roots. It needs to stop celebrating the designer and instead focus again on the design itself as well as the user, says design critic Timo de Rijk this week in a fierce...

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Home is Where the Heart Is

Product design

Being an immigrant is one of life’s necessities for Amsterdam based Japanese designer Sayaka Abe. Her current project with artist collective Home-Work explores her life as an immigrant.

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Smart Replicas

Product design

Can you turn cultural heritage into new design? Studio Maaike Roozenburg is replicating pre-industrial objects and enhancing them with innovative technology with fascinating results.

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Q & A at the Stedelijk

Product design

Nearing the end of its first incarnation the Stedelijk Museum's Q&A design booth almost never made it onto the exhibition floor. Funding shortages were overcome, however, and the interactive communication...

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Jean Paul Gaultier at the Kunsthal

Fashion design / Exhibitions

The famous French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier is in Rotterdam. He arrived on Wednesday 6 February in a special 'Gaultier' edition of the Thalys at Rotterdam Central Station. Gaultier is visiting the city in...