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Vacant NL
At first glance, the interior of the Dutch pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale seems like a whole lot of nothing. But venture upstairs, and an entire hidden vacant city awaits…
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.
Building an Intellectual Framework for Design
A new Master course at the Vrije University in Amsterdam hopes to generate more critical thinking in the world of design. It already exists in art and architecture, but what design needs is more focused discourse on the broader issues driving and informing what is being produced today.
Droog al Arab
Recently in Dubai, Droog presented the outcome of their first Lab project, Droog al Arab, an online platform for collaborative creation and development envisioned by Jurgen Bey and Saskia van Drimmelen.
New Philips Design Probe
Light, Air, Sound and Body: the new Philips Design Probe Metamorphosis demonstrates how we have become detached from nature and the effect it has on our sensory experience and lifestyle.
Philips Design Probe: Self Health
We give you a sneak peek into Philips Design's latest Design Probe, Self Health, which examines health and reconnection with the body.
Design as Infrastructure
Design as infrastructure not superstructure, the permanence of design and internationality of Dutch design: some of the observations of Slovenian graphic designer Ranko Novak who recently visited The Netherlands as part of Premsela’s International Visitors’ Programme.
Jurgen Bey New Director of the Sandberg Institute
Over the last year design education in Holland has undergone some dramatic changes all established to ensure that graduates come out of schools with the sort of knowledge that the evolving design industry now demands. The latest announcement is that leading Dutch designer Jurgen Bey will assume directorship of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam from September of this year.
Plans for Supermaker Axed
A bad economy, politics and poor timing are being blamed for the cancellation of Supermaker – the planned follow up to Platform21 in Amsterdam, which was scheduled to open this May.
Agenda
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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