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Newsletter #242

This week on Design.nl. Publisher and founder of PINC, Peter van Lindonk, has passed away. His widow, Nelleke van Lindonk, plans to continue on with her husband's work. We visit the Hand Made exhibition at museum Boijmans van Beuningen and speak with its curator Mienke Simon Thomas. Also thi...

Newsletter #241

This week on Design.nl another tsunami has struck Dutch design education. This time at ArtEZ where the entire Board of Governors (responsible for running the school) have been asked to leave. We take a look at the Dutch designers presenting at PFW and check in with windmill designer Merel Karhof. We also...

Newsletter #240

This week Design.nl speaks briefly to Massoud Hassani to learn that he does not want to participate in the debate his object "Mine Kafon" has generated over Dutch design education. "I am not interested," he says. Also, Pastoe celebrates one century of furniture design and Li Ed...

Newsletter #239

This week on Design.nl we revisit the debate on design education sparked last week by Timo de Rijk's fierce assault in NRC Handelsblad. Responses are calm and even cerebral, but many agree there is a problem in design education. We also report from London Fashion Week where the exhibition High Fa...

Newsletter #238

This week on Design.nl Timo de Rijk frazzled design temperaments again by publishing a condemnation of Dutch design education. Too much self-congratulatory navel gazing for its own good. Stay tuned next week for industry reactions. We're back in Asia to find out what pro...

Newsletter #237

This week on Design.nl with the opening of Object Rotterdam this week, we speak with Maaike Roozenburg about her Smart Replicas project. The first smart prototypes are being exhibited before the full show opens in May this year at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. Werkplaats Typografie is part of the LA Art ...

Newsletter #236

This week on Design.nl Bas van Beek is yet again making irreverent waves with BASNEY, his Disney tea-sets which have already been bought by the Stedelijk Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. We take a look at the last show of...

Newsletter #235

This week on Design.nl it's Amsterdam Fashion Week again and we have been out finding the hottest fashion stories around including the latest catwalk show by Collectie Arnhem and by Borre's very first gallery show. We peep inside "The Politics of Things: What Art and Design do in Democracy",...

Newsletter #234

This week on Design.nl we speak with two recent Design Academy Eindhoven graduates whose projects straddle the art/design demarcation. In both cases the design focus becomes mostly about using communication for social effect. We take a trip to Cologne where Dutch designers Pepe Heykoop, Jacob de Baan and many...

Newsletter #233

After a small break over the holiday period Design.nl is back in full force to bring you the latest Dutch design news. This week we speak to KABK-graduate Evelien van Pruissen who is set to conquer Paris with her innovative menswear designs later this month and we hear once more from DAE graduat...

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