Articles
DDD - A New Way To Navigate a City
Rietveld graduate Stefanija Najdovska plans to have as many Walkits as possible around Amsterdam during Dutch Design Double. The palm-sized navigational gadget puts the analogue back in city travel allowing users to be spontaneous without getting lost.
TechnoCRAFT curated by Yves Béhar
Official entitled "TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of Individuality," this exhibition explores the disappearing boundaries between designer and consumer, focusing particularly on the intersection between technology and craft.
Naturally False
Els Woldhek has developed a collection of furniture and jewellery made from copper plating in which the material and technique is completely left to its own devices.
Arnhem product design graduates 2010: Outstanding
At this year's ArtEZ product design graduation exhibition, we see investigative collections that are convincing, well-resolved and professional. Projects like these that gave the goosebumps, are a rarity.
The common sense of Ineke Hans
Giving a glimpse into her thoughts, MIND-SETS places Ineke Hans' designs in a broader context of historical and contemporary objects collected from museums in Arnhem and the designer's home and studio.
2010 DAE Master graduates
Design Academy Master graduates unveiled their final works including a fungi-infused burial system and a co-creation tool that allows consumers to help design their own product.
Why Open Design?
While using open source methods in software circles is commonplace, in design, it's not quite so open. It's still a relatively foreign concept for designers to, well, openly share their knowledge/creativity and the blueprints of their designs. So what's in it for the designer?
Fabrication Laboratory
The exhibition FULL PRINTE3D showcases innovations in 3D digital fabrication technologies including Dutch contributions of the first fully rapid manufactured shoe, a 3D printed dress and printed necklace based around ball-joints.
Upbeat but underwhelming
Despite its most impressive program to date and a healthy increase in sales, the content of this year's Design Miami/ Basel was slightly underwhelming - even with 40,000 bees in attendance.
DMY 2010 highlights
Highlights from this year's DMY Design Festival, which was held in the former Tempelhof airport, included experimental materials from Temporary Collective Arnhem and the elegant centerpieces of DMY Award winners Daphna Issacs and Laurens Manders.
Agenda
- DNKTNK
ArtFort Asperen / Acquoy - TechnoCRAFT
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts / San Francisco - Saved by Droog
Centraal Museum / Utrecht - Domesticity/ Vegetables
Zuiderzeemuseum / Enkhuizen
Selection:
- Dutch Design Double 2010
- Milan 2010
- Design.nl 100th Issue Favourites
- Dutch Design Week '09
- Dutch Design Double 2009
- Salone 2009
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2009
- Going Out
- Graphic Design Festival 2008
- Dutch Design Week 2008
- Retail Therapy - Where to buy Dutch design
- FreeDesigndom 2008
- Design.nl Milan favourites
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2008
- Design.nl Tokyo favourites
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