Newsletter #66
Our attention focuses to the ins and outs of limited edition design this week. The design-art debate gets off on a fiery foot with an interview with designer Bas van Beek, continues with the book review of Limited Edition and concludes with the annual art fair in Maastricht TEFAF which incorporated design for the first time this year. Also don't miss the second part of our interview with Li Edelkoort.
The Bad Boy of Dutch Design Lets Loose
Bas van Beek, one of Dutch design’s harshest critics, calls the current state of the industry “a circus,” and “a petit bourgeois farce.” Elitist and anti-democratic, he labels most people involved a moron or an idiot...
Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament
On 2 April 2009, 16 designers will battle it out live on stage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam for the Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament. Design.nl is giving away tickets so read on to find out more!
Design now included in TEFAF
For the first time, twentieth century design will be included in one of the world's most prestigious art fairs, Tefaf in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Design.nl chats with local dealer, Frans Leidelmeyer.
"My work could become more dangerous..."
In the second half of our interview with Li Edelkoort, we talk about Africa, why grey is the new black and how Dutch design will ride through the crisis.
Nothing: cardboard office interior
Joost van Bleiswijk takes his 'No Screw, No Glue' technique to a completely different scale by creating the interior of an advertising agency completely out of cardboard.
Limited Edition - Prototypes, One-offs and Design Art Furniture
The art and business of limited edition design is documented in the new book 'Limited Edition'. The market is growing out of control but one thing's certain: the term 'Design Art' has got to go.
'Left and Right' campaign for ASICS SportStyle
Three Dutch illustrations feature in Amsterdam Worldwide's new campaign for the Japanese footwear brand that poses, ‘What’s a left without a right?’
Drawn From Clay
The geography of the Noordoostpolder region of the Netherlands has been captured in the hand-made clay vessels designed by Atelier NL currently on show at Gallery Libby Sellers in London.
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