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Newsletter #128

Continuing our fashion focus, we give a sneak peek of G-Star’s new RAW Sustainable collection, check out what happens when architects and fashion designers work together and we see how the crime scene inspired the best Dutch fashion graduate of 2010. This is our last newsletter for the summer, we will r...

Newsletter #127

Fashion happenings fall into our radar this week: Amsterdam International Fashion Week got off to a flying start with Iris van Herpen wowing audiences again, this time with her crystallized creations. Antoine Peters decides to fuse fashion with music and in Paris, Jan Taminiau dazzles during Haute Couture Wee...

Newsletter #126

Fashion and design graduates take the spotlight this week as we continue our reviews of Dutch graduation shows. ArtEZ Arnhem is a particular highlight and we announce the top 14 fashion graduates in The Netherlands who will compete for the top prize in the annual Lichting show. In celebration of the upcoming ...

Newsletter #125

Digital design takes precedence this week as delve into an exhibition showcasing conceptual products made using 3D digital manufacturing techniques and we try to answer some of the doubts that designers might have about Open Design. Also, we examine a new Master course that hopes to generate more critical thi...

Newsletter #124

Renovations, refurbishments and reconversions this week: a museum about an English icon, a cramped Amsterdam apartment and a 62-metre long barge. Also, the Dutch graduation season is upon us, and this week we list the various final exhibitions and presentations happening around The Netherlands. Keep an eye ou...

Newsletter #123

Plenty of food for thought this week. Recently in The Netherlands for the 6th Premsela lecture, Nancy Etcoff argues for the psychological essentialness of beauty and how fashion and science should be fused. Arnhem graduates reinterpret everyday materials to create exquisite objects and we see what happens whe...

Newsletter #122

In this week’s newsletter, we look at experimental projects that take us into the future of design. Interactive Smart Textiles intersect the boundaries between art, fashion and technology, Philips Design’s new exploratory Design Probe aims to reconnect our bodies with the natural environment and a...

Newsletter #121

Europe takes the spotlight this week. Design Den Haag puts the focus on the possible visual identity of a European police force, contemporary design takes over a countryside castle in the UK, Dutch designers will be strongly represented at DMY Design Festival Berlin and we announce the Dutch winners of the Eu...

Newsletter #120

A packed newsletter this week presenting developments in design thinking and the Dutch design industry. The graphic design exhibition DECODING explores user-generated design, Maarten Baas' new collection questions limited edition pieces in relation to the production process and Gionata Gatto puts the conc...

Newsletter #119

This week, social and humanitarian design takes precedence in the exhibition Why Design Now? as part of the design Triennial at New York's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Zach Lieberman, a keynote speaker at the Graphic Design Festival Breda, speaks about the EyeWriter, an open source eye-tracki...