Articles
Natural Colours
The latest issue of Bloom magazine puts the spotlight on natural colour where artists and designers are re-entering the territory of dyeing naturally with plants, flowers, bark, minerals and even insects.
Marcel Wanders for KLM
From March 2011 KLM World Business Class customers will be eating from designer tableware, courtesy of Marcel Wanders.
A living bathroom
Cracked tiles, crooked pipes and a wash table with curved branches for legs all feature in this bathroom restoration by Bo Reudler Studio.
The Colourless Dutch
On a recent trip to the Netherlands, a group of Indian designers saw the best of what’s happening now. They loved what they saw, but agreed that colour was the missing element in Dutch design.
Living the American Dream
Three Dutch-born US-based designers Maaike Evers, Jan Habraken, and Alissia Melka-Teichroew compare the ups and downs of working in the two countries, where the biggest differences concern the business of design.
The Book of Job
Lavishly designed, printed and packaged, the first monograph of Dutch/Belgian design duo Studio Job is soon about to hit a bookstore near you.
Pheasant
How about a pair of wearable birds? Well, try these on for size because Roswitha van Rijn's Pheasant boots certainly live up to their name.
Graphic design for culture at Pompidou Centre
Paris-based Dutch graphic designers Atelier ter Bekke & Behage led a discussion at the Pompidou Centre about their work in the public cultural sector in France and about cultivating a successful relationship between designer and client.
What is a Cabinet?
Recent Design Academy graduate Paul Heijnen has removed all artifice to craft a cabinet from birchwood using a modular system that could work in a variety of materials and products.
No Clothes For One Whole Year
For the next twelve months, and as part of the Free Fashion Challenge, twenty seven fashion addicts from across the globe will stop buying clothes. We check in with participant Suzanne van Heerde.
Agenda
- Born Digital
TETEM / Enschede - Winde Rienstra, Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion
Centraal Museum / Utrecht - Turkish Red
Audax Textielmuseum / Tilburg - All in one carpet from Gafsa region (Tunisia) at Hôtel Droog
Hotel Droog / Amsterdam - Het Oog Wil Ook Wat
Yksi Expo / Eindhoven
Selection:
- Amsterdam Fashion Week 2013
- Dutch Design Week 2012
- Milan 2012
- Amsterdam Fashion Week 2012
- Dutch Design Week 2011
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2010
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2011
- Dutch Design Week 2010
- Dutch Design Double 2010
- Milan 2010
- Design.nl 100th Issue Favourites
- Dutch Design Week 2009
- Dutch Design Double 2009
- Milan 2009
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2009
- Going Out - Restaurants, bars, cafes, clubs and hotels
- Graphic Design Festival 2008
- Dutch Design Week 2008
- Retail Therapy - Where to buy Dutch design
- FreeDesigndom 2008
- Milan 2008
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2008
- Design.nl Tokyo favourites

