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Newsletter #135


Newsletter #135

This week, we see which global issues were tackled in this year's Good 50x70 poster competition, look at an intriguing way to personalise fashion via an ink-bleeding necklace and the classic tailored white shirt gets an oversized makeover courtesy of Viktor & Rolf. With the sad passing of Aldo Van den Nieuwelaar, we talk to his long-time foe and friend Harm Scheltens about the great designer's contribution to Dutch design and just why they spent most of their professional relationship in court.


The Millimetre Fucker

The Millimetre Fucker

Brilliant but tortured, Aldo van den Nieuwelaar, one of Holland’s great modernists, has died at the age of 65.  His was a passionate life devoted to social design, ideas and fighting for what he believed in – a fight...

Represent

Represent

The new book Represent Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum describes the last 15 years of the Netherlands' oldest company which developed from respected Frisian earthenware factory to one of the world's most renowned design...

2010: Good50x70

2010: Good50x70

Protection of whales and tigers, a call to fight all mafia, the right of HIV-infected people to travel freely. Social communication design contest Good50x70, which asks designers to create posters for NGOs, presents...

Kiki and Joost at Menu 2010

Kiki and Joost at Menu 2010

This year’s Menu (travelling culture) festival hosts a number of food-related events, including a mobile kitchen by Joost van Bleiswijk and seed nursery by Kiki van Eijk.

Pseudomorphs

Pseudomorphs

Recently shown at Vienna Fashion Week Anouk Wipprecht’s latest creation Pseudomorphs features a pneumatically controlled neckpiece that bleeds ink onto a dress.

Shirt Symphony by Viktor & Rolf

Shirt Symphony by Viktor & Rolf

Theatrical bridal pieces marked the dramatic finale to the latest collection by Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren which took the classic white tailored shirt to new heights.

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